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 ...

The chords have a dark and unsettling sound, and we can include both an E minor and an Em7b5 chord from its chord family. It ...

As players it’s worth having some of these chords at our disposal to further broaden our own musical horizons. A solid ...

Many guitar styles are influenced by blues, and, here in our country style lick, we’re using that old blues idea of playing pentatonic scales over a 7th chord (A7). Of course, we’re stepping outside ...