Don’t bore yourself and your audience (whoever they are) playing the same old patterns and licks!

I’m going to show you two simple ways of adding extra 🌶‘flavour’🌶 to your pentatonic licks.

You’ll be able to follow this with basic knowledge of the minor pentatonic scale, which to remind you goes

Minor Pentatonic: Root – flat 3rd – 4th – 5th – flat 7th

Cminor Pentatonic: C – Eb – F – G – Bb

These licks are all based around the Cm pentatonic ‘box’ shape, but you can apply this thinking in lots of contexts.

Step 1 – Base Lick – Cm Pentatonic Scale

Let’s start with a ‘base lick’ using only notes from the Cm pentatonic scale.