You don't need to know many guitar scales to play guitar solos – but you do need to know this one. The minor pentatonic is good enough for players including Angus Young, Slash, Eric Clapton ...

For example, in bar 3 I’ve deviated from the pentatonic pattern because I’m thinking about how I might embellish a G chord, rather than playing notes from a scale. I’ve chosen the D shape in ...

The main scale of choice here is the E major pentatonic scale (E-F#-G#-A-C#) and this can be combined with the E minor pentatonic scale (E-G-A-B-D) to create one big hybrid scale. The chromatic ...