2 Playing outside and inside the scale

You don’t have to stick rigidly to the minor pentatonic scale – there are loads of other notes on the guitar, so go ahead and use them all! 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, the Dorian mode and the major pentatonic scale, all without straying far from the comfort of the minor pentatonic shape.