First, I’m sliding up to those intervals that actually form part of the D shape, then playing around adding a sus4 and linking this with shapes 2 and 3 of the A major pentatonic.

These are the notes of the A minor pentatonic scale. As with any scale, it pays to learn it in as many fretboard positions as possible. Obviously, if you transpose a scale to a new key, you get a new ...

It's billed as jazz, but it begins like opera — filler in Madame Butterfly, perhaps, with that rich soprano tone; the slow French horn obbligato; those pseudo-Japanese pentatonic intervals.

Dorian notes This lick looks like the A minor pentatonic scale plus major 6th and major 9th intervals (the 7th fret of the second and first strings respectively). These two notes lend a jazzy Dorian ...

Now, Deborah Ross and colleagues from DukeUniversity have found the answer. These musical intervals actually reflect the sounds of our own speech, and are hidden in the vowels we use.

McCoy's approach, his strategy, his solution, was to alter his playing so that the harmony he played was based on “perfect" intervals-4ths and 5ths-and yes, in this most sophisticated of musics, the ...

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 ...