Blues guitar wunderkind Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram has become one of the defining blues voices of his generation and is one of the leaders of the contemporary blues resurgence. His secret to a good guitar solo? The humble pentatonic scale.
“As simple as the scale is, pentatonic ideas are always the best way to reach an audience. Those tend to be the notes they feel even if they don’t even know why,” he tells Guitarist. “The secret to pentatonic playing is finding as many licks as you can.”
