Jonny Buckland has created many melodic guitar riffs for Coldplay. This first example shows how he might use the minor pentatonic scale with added reverb and delay to forge a great guitar hook.

This time, I’d like to demonstrate a soloing approach over this rhythm part, using both major and minor pentatonic ... by broadening your melodic palette to major pentatonic as well as the ...

Traditionally, melodic phrases have favoured small interval ... Example 5Here’s an A minor pentatonic idea using a descending lick on the first and the third strings. Intervallic lines such ...