Blues players often fall back into patterns: I always say that playing the blues isn’t about scales, such as the minor pentatonic scale, the blues scale, the Mixolydian mode and what have you.

Experienced players may recognise these scenarios: 1. You’re stuck in a “Pentatonic Blues Scale Rut” – scale mode helps you explore new phrases between root notes. 2. You’re a song writer who only ...

This feel primarily comes from the three different minor-key modes the track bridges by inverting a pentatonic blues scale made up of the basic notes we’d find in most 12-bar blues songs. But it’s ...

Hell awaits your forearm in this punishing tutorial in the late Hanneman's style, but it will soon whip your downpicking and tapping skills into shape ...

The main scales of choice are their corresponding major and minor pentatonics, some blues scale (the minor pentatonic with the flattened 5th added). Most of the examples have a dominant 7 tonality.

The cascading tones of the descending E minor pentatonic scale reveal a classic motif, reminiscent of early guitar hero Link Wray.

Obviously, the guitar amp a busker uses for improvising on the pentatonic blues scale vastly differs from that of a studio session player or even a live performer playing indoors.

So, it was about the sound of the Don Grosh? Something we guitarists typically do while playing a new instrument is to noodle about with a minor pentatonic blues kind of thing. On this guitar it ...