You don’t have to stick rigidly to the minor pentatonic scale - there are loads of other notes on the guitar, so go ahead and use them all! Still, we do recommend using the minor pentatonic scale as a ...

Turbo-boost your pentatonic lead playing by learning from Nuno Bettencourt, Joe Bonamassa, Jimmy Page and more ...

Having looked at the minor pentatonic scale last month, this issue we’re moving on to its close relative, the blues scale. We say ‘close relative’ because the two scales are almost identical - just ...

Example 1 . A minor pentatonic scale for 8-string guitar This is an obvious way to get acquainted with the lower strings: playing the A minor pentatonic.

An audience experiment from Bobby McFerrin raises some interesting questions about whether musical scales are something we respond to at a level even more fundamental than we know.