Part of the reason guitarists love to use the minor pentatonic scale is its versatility - often you can use the scale throughout a whole song, provided the key doesn’t change. We’ve played this line ...

These minor perfect cadences exist in lots of contemporary songs, such as Santana’s Smooth, The Eagles’ Hotel California, and November Rain by Guns N’ Roses. The harmonic minor scale is also ...

This is a great scale to add flavour and mystique to your Aeolian (minor scale) soloing. The Hungarian Gypsy is our next ...

This lick spans four octaves of the A minor pentatonic scale (A C D E G). Bar 1 features the same five-note scale fragment played in three different octaves, and is played with five evenly spaced ...

Minor scales and the chords derived from them are usually associated with a kind of sad or dark mood. You may have heard the phrase "blue note" that frequently characterizes blues and jazz music.