When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. And if the idea of learning a scale is off-putting, step this way – we can do it through chord ...

Using the song Hymn, from my new album In a Dream, I’d like to offer the guitar solo as an example of how to effectively craft a solo to closely follow and acknowledge the chord changes. Figure 1 ...

You probably already use the minor pentatonic scale. After all, it’s almost certainly the single most used scale in rock and blues lead, and players like Angus Young, Eric Clapton and Jack Whit e all ...