Guitar skills: let's get one thing straight – you don't need to know a lot of scales to be a good guitarist. In fact, if you've been playing for under a year you could quite safely get away with only ...

Most guitar players will be familiar with the minor pentatonic scale and will have memorised its pattern and intervals to deploy it liberally when soloing. It was probably the first scale many of us ...

What's a chord if not several notes put together? Add a few more to this number and you've got yourself a scale ... For the minor pentatonic chord shapes click here For the major pentatonic chord ...