by You’ve probably heard of the pentatonic scale, right? You’ve probably even played it on your bass once or twice (or a couple of thousand times…)
Today, I want to share a new way of using the pentatonic scale on bass to make some super cool music.
It’s one thing to just run up and down the scale – there’s nothing wrong with that at all – but the sweet pentatonic exercise you’ll learn in this video will have you jumping around the pentatonic in a very unique way.
Doing this gives the scale a different ‘contour’ that makes it stick out from everything else you might be playing. That makes it perfect for:
- Creating fills that ‘pop’
- Adding spice and flavor to your improvisation
- Even creating new bass lines (if that’s what you want to do).
You don’t need tons of technique or loads of music theory knowledge to use it either, so check out the lesson here:
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If you need help just getting your mind and fingers around the 5 positions of the pentatonic scale, then check out this lesson:
[LESSON] ‘Hack’ The Pentatonic Scale
And download the free PDF that goes with it as well. It’ll help you memorize all the shapes and combine them all over your bass.
Good luck with the exercise and happy playing!
Cheers,
I love this pentatonic tutorial. Would be grateful if I can get the explanation in number system. And you didn’t tell us the key you played on. Thanks
Hey Umeh – I did tell the key early in the video, but if I hadn’t, how do you think you could have figured it out?