Why don't you pick up your instrument and play some pentatonic scales? See how they fit with your songwriting, and note how easy it becomes to find lots of riffs or melodies when you know that the notes could be fall within the pentatonic; particularly in rock, blues, R and B, and old Negro spirituals! Unlike the major scale in music, i.e. do-re-me, etc, etc., a pentatonic scale has only five [...]