When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Stuart Ryan It contains just five notes and yet the minor pentatonic scale has been ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The minor and major pentatonic scales are well known and generally quite easy to remember. Shown ...

Our example uses string bends between D and E in bar 1, G and A in bar 2 and a high C to D bend in bar 3. If you want to make up your own solos using the minor pentatonic scale, these are the easiest ...

Figure 1 illustrates the solo: bars 1 and 2 are based on the G minor pentatonic scale (G, Bb, C, D, F) and the G blues scale (G, Bb, C, Db, D, F) with the additional inclusion of the 6th ...

The shapes, both major and minor ... deviated from the pentatonic pattern because I’m thinking about how I might embellish a G chord, rather than playing notes from a scale.

and this can be combined with the E minor pentatonic scale (E-G-A-B-D) to create one big hybrid scale. Furthermore, the chromatic tones can be used to link the notes of the E7 chord (E-G#-B-D ...