This is a great scale to add flavour and mystique to your Aeolian (minor scale) soloing. The Hungarian Gypsy is our next minor scale and is very dark sounding, with its formula of R-2-b3-#4-5-b6-7.

The pentatonic scale is the guitarist's friend! (Image credit: Future) Tons of great guitar players - including Angus Young, Eric Clapton and Zakk Wylde – use the pentatonic scale as the main ...

Eddie Van Halen has written his own share of classic guitar pieces, but he's only inherited it from this living legend of the fretboard.

Pentatonic scales, the basic building blocks of blues-based guitar soloing, are predominant here, but Eddie transforms them via an array of techniques that became signature parts of the Van Halen ...