The minor pentatonic is the ultimate guitar scale, but it can get stale quickly. Here are 5 ways to get more from it By Simon Barnard published 21 February 24 Plot an escape route from your routine licks with this tab and audio lesson
Philip Sayce is a modern blues-rock master – from daredevil overbends to tremolo picking with fingers, his licks will take your pentatonic soloing to a new level By Jon Bishop published 30 October 23 Schooled in Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimi Hendrix, the Canadian Strat sage teaches you some of his most raucous licks in this exclusive lesson
Bored with pentatonics? This lesson in superimpositions will make you think again By Richard Barrett published 24 October 23 Get more out of the guitarist’s favorite scale and make it sound fresh again by learning how the notes relate to each other and their underlying chords
He’s considered one of the top blues guitarists in the world, but nobody plays pentatonics like Eric Gales – learn his tastiest licks By Andy G Jones published 16 October 23 Get to grips with the extraordinary, topsy-turvy playing style of one of the greats of modern blues-rock guitar – the player who Joe Bonamassa and many more have called the greatest
The pentatonic scale is the most important scale for guitarists – and these 40 licks will take your rock and blues chops to the next level By David Gerrish published 27 September 23 When it comes to the guitar, the pentatonic is the one scale to rule them all, and despite its ubiquity, the possibilities are limitless – as our deep dive tab and video lesson demonstrates
Add fire to your pentatonic phrasing with this lesson in Jimi Hendrix's soloing approaches By John Wheatcroft published 22 March 23 We might never reach Hendrix levels of god-like genius on the guitar, but how he phrased his leads is a lesson to us all. Here, we look at four examples that will expand your blues vocabulary
Joe Bonamassa shows you how to connect pentatonic boxes to find new musical ideas By Joe Bonamassa published 11 August 22 The latest lesson from the blues-rock maestro will open up new fretboard paths between familiar shapes and to help bust you out of a rut
How using the wrong pentatonic scale can actually sound great By Andy G Jones published 15 February 22 We all know the rules... But what if we break them a little? Some less obvious intervals will add intrigue to your solos, like Jimmy Page did on Led Zeppelin's Rock and Roll
10 ways to level up your pentatonic playing By Total Guitar editors published 29 October 21 Major and minor pentatonic scale ideas in the style of Zakk Wylde, Tom Morello, Kirk Hammett and more
How to play minor pentatonic riffs By Chris Bird published 9 January 20 Learn how to use this essential scale, with two hard-rock riff tabs and two scale shapes
Zakk Wylde's Brewtality: Pentatonics — Connecting the Dots and Climbing the Neck By Zakk Wylde published 22 January 13 Entry No. 3 from Zakk Wylde's classic Guitar World column, "Brewtality." Here, Zakk shows you how to connect scales together to climb the neck with pentatonic patterns.
