GUITAR WITH A BROADWAY PRO

Happy New Year 2026! It’s going to be a swingin’ great year. I haven’t knocked out a post in a while, and what better way to start than in the new year with some Hendrix. One of the most effective ways to approach Jimi Hendrix’s Little Wing is through pentatonics. While the tune offers plenty of harmonic color, its largely diatonic nature makes it an ideal progression for learning how scales relate directly to chords. The first step is identifying which pentatonic scales work

I recently wrote a solo etude over the chord changes to West Coast Blues by the great Wes Montgomery. This is an exercise that uses the Bebop Scale and the musical devices that often accompany it. Can you spot occurrences of the Dominant Bebop Scale, a Minor Bebop Scale,, the Bebop Lick, Enclosures, Deflections, Chromatic Approaches, and Altered Tones? While the scale provides the harmonic foundation, the other items create musical excitement. Hope you enjoy learning this one