Part of the reason guitarists love to use the minor pentatonic scale is its versatility - often you can use the scale throughout a whole song, provided the key doesn’t change. We’ve played this line ...

Our example uses string bends between D and E in bar 1, G and A in bar 2 and a high C to D bend in bar 3. If you want to make up your own solos using the minor pentatonic scale, these are the easiest ...

The shapes, both major and minor, occur in every position and key just like the pentatonic ... a scale simultaneously, so why not apply this attitude to the CAGED chord shapes and strip the C ...