Cacophony was an American neoclassical speed metal band featuring Marty Friedman and Jason Becker. Although Friedman and Becker were normally known for their lightning licks we will be covering a slower aspect of their harmonizing.

Minor pentatonic scale and minor triads! The idea is to practice the five different minor pentatonic boxes.

Create modern sounding chord voicings by using the minor pentatonic scale

6 licks that will improve your soloing

Let's learn some Charlie Parker / Bebop licks over a II V I progression in the key of Bb Major.

Learn 4 note minor arpeggios.

Lesson teaching tricks and tips of the modes of the melodic minor scale. Nowadays, this scale is primarily used in jazz/fusion, but some excerpts of it can be found in other styles as well, such as prog rock, country, funk, samba and others.

In this lesson we are going to learn some very useful voicings played over a funky groove in G minor. Great for Funk and any over music style!

How to combine a minor scale with a harmonic minor scale