Breaking these well-known chord shapes down into single notes or triads creates a road map for experimentation, improvisation ...

Start this lick with your first finger at the 5th fret and play the 6th string, then the 4th string, skipping over the 5th string entirely. You can articulate the notes with your pick or you can use ...

Of course, we’re stepping outside of the minor pentatonic scale, too. The very first note in bar 1 is a B (suggesting the A major pentatonic scale), and the first note in bar 2 is an Eb (which appears ...

Here's a blues power-up for your fingerstyle technique, as the big man combines chicken pickin' with snappy pops on the strings ...

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 ...