Guitar Fills With E Minor Pentatonic

E Minor Pentatonic runs 5 notes to the octave. Below it is laid onto this chair's EADGBE fretboard with every E marked, because what a fill needs mid-song is not the pattern — it is where the root is when the chord changes under it.

Gritty, bluesy, and direct — five notes with no half steps, so each one lands with attitude over a minor or dominant chord. The sound of rock and blues lead playing.

Heard in: Blues, rock, hard rock, metal, funk, and soul solos — the first scale most lead players learn and the one they never leave.

A guitar fill is a flatpicked line, and it lives closest to the vocal melody of any chair in the arrangement — the scale is what fills the bar where the melody is only a long note.

Play it slowly against the audio until the shape stops being a shape, then take it to a song in E and let the melody pick its own notes out of it.