Originally posted by basics
It occurs to me that I'm becoming an 80s metalhead and I find this disturbing. Adding the pinky into play and digging the scales is all very well and all but I've gotta get back to my roots.

If your "roots" involve not using your pinky to fret notes, then your roots lie in a very sloppy, undeveloped technique with a drastically limited reach. Blues involves scales as well...to be honest, I have NO idea WHAT you're talking about here...whatsoever.