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    MINOR PENTATONIC RIFFS

    Oct 26, 2020 2 minutes
    WORDS AND LESSON BY CHRIS BIRD.

    “What’s the minor pentatonic scale?”

    This is a sequence of notes that guitarists use a lot. And we mean a lot! It appears extensively in blues, metal, jazz, and almost any pop- and rock-based styles for that matter. Greats like Angus Young and BB King – as well as more contemporary rockers like Scott Holiday,

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