Breaking these well-known chord shapes down into single notes or triads creates a road map for experimentation, improvisation ...

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 ...

Learning the A minor pentatonic scale will really help you to craft some solos, especially when you're starting out. And, if you're able to use some string bends with the scale too, you'll be creating ...

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo. At the World Science Festival in June, Bobby McFerrin did this ...

Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the power of the pentatonic scale using audience participation at the event "Notes Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus" from the 2009 World Science Festival.

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 ...

The CAGED chord shapes can be a great way of learning the geography of the fretboard. The shapes, both major and minor, occur in every position and key just like the pentatonic boxes. In fact ...