Still, we do recommend using the minor pentatonic scale as a framework. Keep the basic shape in mind and try briefly targeting the notes highlighted in green here. You’ll be hinting at the blues scale ...

Step 3: That’s too many notes, so we need to remove a couple to produce an F minor pentatonic, or five-note scale. We do this by removing the 2nd and 6th degrees of the natural minor scale. So we get ...

This time, I’d like to demonstrate a soloing approach over this rhythm part, using both major and minor pentatonic scales, as well as some chromatic notes.. Figure 1 illustrates the solo: bars 1 ...