The shapes, both major and minor ... deviated from the pentatonic pattern because I’m thinking about how I might embellish a G chord, rather than playing notes from a scale.

Credit: Paul Natkin/WireImage/Getty Images In my last column, I presented a shuffle rhythm pattern for a ... using both major and minor pentatonic scales, as well as some chromatic notes.

Fretboard is a GUI-based application written in Python that displays a wide range of scales, in any key or mode, across a guitar ... major/minor, melodic minor, harmonic minor, harmonic major, ...