Many, perhaps most, blues guitarists use the minor pentatonic scale as a starting point for solos. It’s easy to play and you get a typical blues vibe over both dominant 7th chords (C7, F7 etc) and ...

Ever since his Woodstock performance in '69, Santana has been one of the world's biggest guitar talents, with a melodic ...

This scale adds classy sounding 9th and 13th intervals to dominant 7th chords without the need to play the chords themselves. Listen to the melodic, soulful lines in Freddie King’s classic blues ...

Blues artists, even to this day, almost never think in terms of scales. What most people call the “blues scale” is a minor pentatonic scale with a flatted fifth. G minor pentatonic scale ...

BB King apologising to Bono. Blue notes. Like most blues players, King based many of his phrases and licks on the minor pentatonic scale, which is a simple “box shape” on the fingerboard that ...