30-day guitar challenge: Used in every style of music from blues to soul and metal, the minor pentatonic scale is one of the most common scales. Most guitarists know one easy-to-remember pentatonic ...

This lick spans four octaves of the A minor pentatonic scale (A C D E G). Bar 1 features the same five-note scale fragment played in three different octaves, and is played with five evenly spaced ...

The pentatonic scale has been used many times in many ways, but Ingram insists that it's still the cornerstone of great guitar solos.

Breaking these well-known chord shapes down into single notes or triads creates a road map for experimentation, improvisation and an escape route from cliched licks ...

The Hirajoshi is our first of three Minor scales, and is a Japanese pentatonic scale with a formula of R-2-b3-5-b6. Great ...

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo. At the World Science Festival in June, Bobby McFerrin did this ...

Guitar World. How to use CAGED shapes in conjunction with pentatonic scales. Story by Richard Barrett • 7mo. T he CAGED chord shapes can be a great way of learning the geography of the fretboard.