Scales

More ways to master the fretboard through the use of the pentatonic scale.

How to expand your soloing arsenal by reworking some familiar ideas.

Sooner or later, you`ll want to make your solos more exciting. Start by making up new scale sequences.

Italian guitarist Salvatore Vecchio with a column on mixing various pentatonic scales to achieve something fresh.

Paul Nelson talks about the Ionian, or Major scale.

More creative ways to use modal pentatonics in your playing.

Constructing your own chord voicings and increasing your chord vocabulary.

Virtuoso classical guitarist and instructor Jamie Andreas answers the burning question.

Let the Sultan of String take you on the exotic scale ride of your life.

Let the Sultan of String explain the finer points of the Yona Nuki and In scales.

Use this scale to yield great sounds in jazz and ragtime, through perilous horror-film mayhem, cheese-metal and progressive rock fusion.

Let the Sultan of String blend, meld, mix and match scales, yielding a unique, exotic effect.