Breaking these well-known chord shapes down into single notes or triads creates a road map for experimentation, improvisation ...

Major pentatonic: adding the minor 3rd. Guaranteed to get you sounding like BB King, this lick sounds best when bending up from the second step of the major pentatonic scale. 5. Major pentatonic: ...

This lick looks like the A minor pentatonic scale plus major 6th and major 9th intervals (the 7th fret of the second and first strings respectively). These two notes lend a jazzy Dorian mode sound to ...

Jim Oblon drops some blues science, demystifying the practice of alternating between parallel minor and major pentatonics. Jim Oblon drops some blues science, ...

In bar 1, the 12-bar blues form begins, and over C7 in this example I start with a B.B. King-style lick that’s based on a combination of C major pentatonic (C, D, E, G, A) and C minor pentatonic ...