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“Pentatonic ideas are always the best way to reach an audience”: Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram on why the pentatonic scale is still the GOAT
By Janelle Borg published
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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