Certain notes within a scale will really accentuate the character of a chord or highlight a specific sound. In the Dorian scale, the major 6th gives us a bluesy-funky sound. It's a useful exercise to ...

Inspired by legendary P-Funk guitarist Eddie Hazel, we’re playing over a funk-style backing here and targeting an F# note on the 7th fret of the second string (taken from the A Dorian scale). You have ...

You don’t have to stick rigidly to the minor pentatonic scale - there are loads of other notes on the guitar, so go ahead and use them all! Still, we do recommend using the minor pentatonic scale as a ...