Steely Dan is a band who have never been afraid to go against the grain. This applies to their guitar solos, as they had a specific approach to writing them.
The Canadian maestro is your instructor today, and for this lesson you're going to be digging deep for some Texas sizzle and red-hot pentatonic turnarounds ...
He improvised by dancing around the pentatonic scale and came out with an unmatched stage presence ... that anyone can come down here if they’ve got a song’, so we went into the studio and did a song, ...
I am sitting cross legged on a bright yellow sun lounger, acoustic guitar in hand ... barre chords and the pentatonic scale, I now find myself on my first guitarists’ retreat.