Thrash Course with Dave Davidson of Revocation - Pentatonic Variations

The pentatonic scale is the one scale that just about every rock, metal, blues, jazz and country guitar player is well familiar with. These five-tone scales—both the minor and major forms—sound great and fall easily on the fretboard, earning them their prevalence in all popular guitar-driven musical forms. One of my favorite things to do when writing riffs or soloing is to take a pentatonic form in one key and superimpose it over another. The result is often a sound that combines the familiarity of the melodic shapes and patterns with the ambiguity or unusual harmony created by this twist on the conventional approach to using pentatonic scales.