As guitarists, we’re always looking for new sounds and inspiration, and love to explore new techniques. But if you still find yourself trapped in the confines of pentatonic and major scales, a ...

While the natural minor and other major scale modes are built on tone and semitone intervals ... the Major 7th in the key of A minor. Our A minor pentatonic and A natural minor scales by contrast ...

Obviously, if you transpose a scale to a new key, you get a new series of notes, so it’s useful to memorise the gaps between each note (aka ‘intervals’). In the minor pentatonic scale every interval .

Every player is aware of the minor pentatonic, but not everyone knows how to make the most of it. These examples – in the style of some prolific pentatonic players – will help you master the shape eve ...

Harmonic minor ... and tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - semitone - tone descending. Harmonic minors use the relative major key signature and raise the seventh note of the scale.

Listen to this audio extract to hear C Major modulating to A Minor. You can follow along with the notation below. It is common to modulate or change key ... tone different from the next. Each ...

every hesitation of the shuddering heart, breathes out of D# minor. If ghosts could speak, their speech would approximate this key.” Is it really the “saddest key”? Of course, D minor doesn ...

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Every year, the songs that become staples on the American Top 40 charts have a tone. In 2008, that tone was pure optimism, with songs like Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl” and Colbie Caillat ...

Bill Bailey, comedian and musician extraordinaire, hilariously explains his preference for the minor key in a stand-up comedy routine (watch below). Scales, which Bailey refers ... takes on the tone ...