Originally Posted by: Julian Vickerscations for the pentatonic scale that I had never thought of before. first of all, the pentatonic scale is great starting point for creating solos. I'm sure you probably know it by now if you have been playing for 2/3 years. If you don't, there are some helpful lessons about the pentatonic scale here at guitartricks (just do a search) and at many other sites.

Take the solo from Stairway to heaven for example, that uses the A minor pentatonic scale exclusively for almost all of the solo. Learning that solo for me opened up a lot of ideas and appli