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 ...

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 ...

And if you played A C D E G, the result would be the A minor pentatonic scale. So a major pentatonic can be thought of as a major scale with the fourth and seventh degrees missing, while a minor ...

The pentatonic scale has been used many times in many ways, but Ingram insists that it's still the cornerstone of great guitar solos. The pentatonic scale has been used many times in many ways, ...

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 ...

For example, in bar 3 I’ve deviated from the pentatonic pattern because I’m thinking about how I might embellish a G chord, rather than playing notes from a scale. Example 2 I’ve chosen the ...