When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. These incredibly useful five-note scales are heavily relied upon in all genres of music, but ...

Guitar skills: We’re always harping on about the minor pentatonic scale. This essential scale is the most frequently used set of notes in rock, blues, country, metal, funk and even jazz lead guitar.

It may be the most ubiquitous scale in the world and arguably the oldest. Anywhere in the world, when someone carves a flute, plucks a string or twangs a piece of metal they inevitably stumble into ...

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo. At the World Science Festival in June, Bobby McFerrin did this ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Crossroads Guitar Festival Blues guitar wunderkind ...

Singer, songwriter and all-round clever person Bobby McFerrin is renowned for his ability to use the audience in his shows. But when he was on a rather academic-looking panel discussion entitled Notes ...

Ninebuzz Software has introduced Guitar Jam Tracks — Scale Trainer & Practice Buddy 1.0 for Mac OS X. It features five musical styles and Retina-ready graphics. Guitar Jam Tracks provides a way to ...

In the late 1930s, Charlie Christian elevated the electric guitar to an essential solo instrument, paving the way for the electric blues of T-Bone Walker and rock pioneers Chuck Berry and Scotty Moore ...