The Major Pentatonic provides a great alternative to the standard Major scale, and is common in country, blues, and rock, through to indie and pop. Like the Minor Pentatonic, it features a five-note ...

Joe Bonamassa is one of the most successful and significant guitar players on the blues-rock scene today. If by some chance you’ve never heard him play then imagine a combination of all the finest ...

In my last column, I presented a shuffle rhythm pattern for a standard 12-bar blues in the key of G, with some inversions of dominant 7th chords that had the 3rd, 5th or 7th in the bass instead of the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. These incredibly useful five-note scales are heavily relied upon in all genres of music, but ...

Here, we’ve highlighted the root, 3rd and 5th (a mix of G, B and D notes in this case) within the larger framework of the E natural minor scale. This is a major point to grasp; many useful scale and ...