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In my opinion, the minor pentatonic scale is the most important scale that you need to master for rock guitar. Why? Because there is an absolutely vast number of rock guitar licks that use it. I personally can ' t imagine trying to improvise in a rock style without inserting at least a few tasty game minor pentatonic ideas into my solos. :-) Even though the pentatonic minor scale is really vital opener, it's often surprising to me that some rock guitarists don't take the time to explore it fully. They just learn the five two-note-per-string box patterns, and don't move beyond them. While the traditional methods of playing the pentatonic minor scale are fantastic, and you shouldn't learn them with definitely, I thought it would be fun in this guitar lesson to show you another approach to playing this wonderful scale. So let's jump right in and s take a look at it. Probably the best way of explaining this method of fingering is with a specific example. So let ' s work out a fingering for the unison D Minor Pentatonic scale. Dm Pentatonic Scale: Scale Degrees and Note Names
Now that we've chosen a scale now, let's create a minor pentatonic fingering by unison join together only two fingerings. For this example we'll be Fingering Fingering 2 1 and join together. Minor Pentatonic Fingering 1 and 2
It would be a great idea to play through both of these fingerings now. Once you've done that, then check out "the unison fingering would look. Dm Pentatonic: Unison Fingering
You'll be wondering why l I call this a unison fingering. Well, to answer that we need to take a closer look at the fingering. Minor Pentatonic Fingering Unison 1: Explanation One
If you were to play through the first four notes of the unison fingering shown above, then you would need to do the following. Play the 10th fret on the E-string thick. Play the 13th fret on the E-string thick. Play the 15th fret on the E-string thick. Play the 10th fret on the A string. I recommend playing through these four notes now. If you do that, then you'll notice that the third and fourth notes you play are exactly the same pitch. (This is why I've drawn an arrow on the diagram the fretboard between those two notes). In music, two notes that are exactly the same pitch are referred to as a unison interval. If you were to continue playing through the fingering, then this happens each time unison interval there is a string change. Here's the same scale fingering with all the intervals shown unison with arrows. Minor Pentatonic Fingering Unison 1: Explanation Two
I must admit that I don't particularly like the sound of the fingering when it's played just as a scale. (The unisons sound weird to me-especially when the scale is played at slow speeds fingering). For this reason and I don't play with light to the fingering in a straight up-and-down fashion. Instead, what I like to do is use the unison fingering as a tool for coming up with new minor pentatonic licks. So let ' s take a look at an example lick that is based around the fingering that we've just talked about. D Minor Pentatonic Lick-Example:
Hopefully you can see from this example, that lick the unison makes it easy fingering to play musical ideas that wouldn ' t be possible using traditional minor pentatonic fingerings. Although you don't need to learn the lick, it would be a really good idea to analyze it so that you can see how I've used the notes from the unison fingering. Once you've done this, you could then try coming up with some monster pentatonic licks of your own! :-) I hope you enjoyed this guitar lesson. If you invest some serious time into learning and experimenting with what we've just talked about, I have no doubt that it will open you up to many new soloing possibilities. Have fun with this stuff! About the Author:Craig Bassett is a professional electric guitar teacher living in Melbourne, Australia. If you enjoyed this lesson, then be sure to subscribe to his newsletter is now training hard rock guitar. 
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