If you play guitar and enjoy improvising, you’ve probably come across the pentatonic scale. It’s one of the first scales I learned and still one of my favorites because of how versatile it is. Once I started using the extended pentatonic scale pattern, my solos became much more fluid, and it was easier to move up and down the fretboard. The extended pentatonic pattern links together the five standard pentatonic shapes so I can play from the lowest E string all the way up to the highest frets on the guitar. This lets me break away from “boxy” licks and …
