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

Eric Johnson's playing is inspiring but bamboozling. How does he sound so fluid? Well, Joe Bonamassa has some thoughts (and four examples) on how we can nail Johnson's style ...

Major pentatonic. While major and minor scales have seven notes, pentatonic scales have only five. Essentially a major scale minus the 4th and 7th – C D E G A – the major pentatonic is a staple of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.