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

Perhaps the most helpful aspect of this scale and its five fretboard positions is that it uses the exact same shapes as the Minor Pentatonic, based on each other’s relative Major and Minor scale.

Eric Johnson's playing is inspiring but bamboozling. How does he sound so fluid? Well, Joe Bonamassa has some thoughts (and ...

These are the notes of the A minor pentatonic scale. As with any scale, it pays to learn it in as many fretboard positions as possible. Obviously, if you transpose a scale to a new key, you get a new ...

Dorian notes This lick looks like the A minor pentatonic scale plus major 6th and major 9th intervals (the 7th fret of the second and first strings respectively). These two notes lend a jazzy Dorian ...

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 ...