You’ll be hinting at the blues scale, the Dorian mode and the major pentatonic scale, all without straying far from the comfort of the minor pentatonic shape. If you prefer to stay ‘inside’ the scale, ...

Turbo-boost your pentatonic lead playing by learning from Nuno Bettencourt, Joe Bonamassa, Jimmy Page and more ...

Used in every style of music from blues to soul and metal, the minor pentatonic scale is one of the most common scales. Most guitarists know one easy-to-remember pentatonic scale shape, known as ...

This bad rep is entirely unjustified, however, since, regardless of whether you're a composer, songwriter, producer or DJ, shoring up your musical knowledge with a smattering of grassroots theory can ...

“I’ve been playing for seven years – but only learned the pentatonic scale three years ago!

What’s notable about the pentatonic scale is that it’s the one musical scale you can find all over the world. It’s as common as 4/4 time.

The pentatonic scale is a simple concept—just five notes (do, re, mi, so, la) we all learned as children. Yet even that tiny dose of musical knowledge is apparently too much for modern-day media.

It has long been a cliche that music is universal, but now science is proving just how deeply true the old saying really is. While scientists can't do much better than the rest of us in defining ...

An audience experiment from Bobby McFerrin raises some interesting questions about whether musical scales are something we respond to at a level even more fundamental than we know.

With enjoyment writ large on her face, Son Thi Ram, 63, says local Khmer people in this commune of the southernmost province of Ca Mau are very happy that they now have a Khmer music troupe that ...

This has all the hallmarks of '80s shred: three-notes-per-string shapes, fast legato, alternate picking and wide stretches. And all this without venturing outside the minor pentatonic scale!