Andy James - Pentatonic Shred Lick 4 - With FREE TAB - Guitar Interactive Magazine 

Blake Webber Hi, Blake :-) He's stealing notes from dorian...specifically the natural 2 and 6 scale degrees. That's where the F# and the C# come from. With regards to the alleged A# in the notated version in the link...I'd say that should probably be respelled as it's enharmonic equivalent if we were to be 100% theoretically accurate about things but considering the context and purpose of the notation I don't think anyone really cares. It's a really common rock and blues guitar technique to steal these notes. Wylde, Dimebag, Hendrix, Clapton, John5, the list goes on forever...are all examples of players who use this technique. Give it a try in your own licks! It's super fun :-D Have a great day!

E obviously

The C# is from something called E dorian. A dorian scale is just a minor scale, but with a raised 6th degree. So E dorian would be E F# G A B C# D. A dorian scale basically sounds a bit brighter and "jazzier" than a normal minor scale. The dorian scale is something called a *mode,* you should look into them if ur interested. Yeah you are correct, this is not fully pentatonic. But the C# is a pretty common add to pentatonic licks. Not many solos are strictly just pentatonic notes, and that sounds kinda lame after a while. You mentioned the "blue note", A#. A# and C# are both little things you can add to spice up a solo from being just pentatonic. Definetely not a note to stay on for too long, try using itas just a passing note between B and D. It can sound good on its own too, tho. If you play it on top of an A major chord, then it sounds great. In the key of E minor, an A major chord can be "borrowed" from the E dorian scale (different scales have different chords u can form, too. In this case the A major chord is built from notes of the E dorian scale, A C# E).

It also sounds great on top of just an E minor chord if you play a D just after it and take it from there

Is normal when I practice while my index finger was pain?