Pentatonic Scales

Expand Your Guitar Soloing Vocabulary With Pentatonic Scale Licks

One of the most important tasks that you face as an improvising guitarist is to massively expand your soloing vocabulary. And a great way of doing that is by memorizing new guitar licks on a regular basis.
In this guitar scale lesson we’ll look at two cool sounding licks that make use of the following two […]

Improving Your Pentatonic Scale Chops

A fantastic way of improving your pentatonic scale chops is to master the same exercise using different guitar techniques. By experimenting with different techniques you improve your pentatonic chops in a very creative way. It also helps to improve your versatility as a guitarist. The more techniques you master the better! Let’s take a look at […]

A Very Cool Pentatonic Guitar Scale: The In-Sen Scale

Most guitar players who have been playing lead guitar for a while have come across these two pentatonic scales…

Major Pentatonic Scale
Minor Pentatonic Scale

These are both extremely useful scales for many styles of guitar playing. And they are definitely the pentatonic scales that I recommend learning and mastering first. But did you realize that there are many […]

Pentatonic Scales - Gaining Technical Mastery By Experimenting With Different Techniques

This guitar lesson will really help build your pentatonic scales technique! And why is that important? Well…here are a couple of reasons off the top of my head…

Pentatonic guitar scales are some of the most common guitar scales used to play guitar solos. So by building your pentatonic scales technique, you’ll also be improving your ability to improvise […]

Mastering The Minor Pentatonic Scale Using Melodic Patterns

In this guitar lesson we take a look at a very powerful way of mastering the minor pentatonic scale…melodic patterns! We’ll do that by taking a look at two really useful scale exercises. Before we get started, if you don’t know what the minor pentatonic scale is, be sure to read this article on pentatonic guitar […]

Conquering The Major Pentatonic Scale

In this article we take a look at a really useful fingering for the major pentatonic scale. As I mentioned in an earlier article on pentatonic guitar scales, the major pentatonic scale is a vital scale to master. There are probably thousands of rock, blues, jazz and fusion guitar solos that use it…so learn the stuff in this […]

Understanding Pentatonic Guitar Scales

In this article we take a quick look at two of the most widespread and important pentatonic guitar scales. It is essential that you learn to master them. But before we look at them…what the heck is a pentatonic scale anyway?
Simply put, pentatonic scales are five-note scales. Anytime a scale has five notes it can […]