Category: 5 Pentatonic Scales

Here is a video that shows the use of pentatonic scales to improvise and jam. This is a very powerful approach and can help you play along to anything by just figuring out which key you are in.

Here’s a good way to look at soloing over chords with the pentatonic scales. You’ll need to know bar chords, pentatonic scales, and understand related major / minor scales. 

Just Nick and his Youtube channel JustNickMusic are a great resource. Here’s a good example that will help you pull together bar chords, pentatonic scales, and jamming with others.

Normally the “blues” follows a well known 12 bar pattern (check it out and learn it if you haven’t already). Here’s a different version of the blues that can be fun to change things up:

This has some good tips on right hand technique.