Breaking these well-known chord shapes down into single notes or triads creates a road map for experimentation, improvisation and an escape route from cliched licks ...

The Mixolydian mode adds two notes to the major pentatonic scale: the 4th and the minor 7th. The minor 7th is a crucial note creating the ‘devil’s interval’ when played against the major 3rd. From ...

The C major and A minor pentatonic scales are essentially the same – they just start on different root notes (black dots). Our short U2 -style progression alternates between C and Am chords. Not ...