... Like take your pent. box in A (low E string A pent box scale) and starting on the D on the A string .... yea I'll just write it out, goddamn.

|--------------------------------5-6-7-6-5--------8/---
|------------------------5-6-7--------------------7/---
|-----------------5-6-7--------------------------------
|--------5-6-7-----------------------------------------
|5-6-7-------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------

That raises pretty much every note in the scale - 4th, 7th, 3rd, 5th, even the root - and goddamn my goddamn miserable life if you can't use that going on to the D chord.