Pentatonic Scales on Bass for Beginners

hey there friends and neighbors before we get into the lesson I just wanted to address something that happened on the channel last week I posted a video of me just playing through an idea of a tomb that I've been working on and a lot of you commented and said very kind words which I appreciate very much um but then there were all these replies to your comments from someone claiming to be me telling you to message them me on Telegram uh and then send me money through this whatever portal whatever it is I'm not on telegram I will never be on telegram I don't know what telegram is but I don't like telegram already if you see a comment from me on this channel the name of the channel will be highlighted um that's how you know it's me if you don't see that that highlighted name on this channel then it's not me and I suggest that you report those comments immediately um I'm not pleased by this it made me very angry to see these comments and it made me very angry to know that there were people out there posing as me trying to take advantage of you my friends and neighbors that's not cool that's not cool uh so anyway this rant is over let's get into the lesson thank you foreign [Music] ERS welcome back to the Brownstone thank you for being here my name is Rich Brown and today uh I wanted to talk a little bit about the pentatonic scale reason being I know I've done a few videos on the pentatonic scale all over this channel they're everywhere have a look but uh I feel like those videos kind of jump in at a certain level and I wanted to go back to the very beginning and just talk about the basics of the pentatonic scale and what I wanted to do today uh was talk to the beginners because I realized that this channel is really growing at a fantastic rate and I'm finding more and more that the majority of my friends and neighbors out there are beginners when it comes to playing this instrument now that's not to say that I'm going to neglect the intermediate and advanced players I've got a lot of stuff coming up for you guys and gals as well so in this video today what I really wanted to do was just speak to the beginners and give you all one pentatonic shape that will work for the major scale and the minor scale major pentatonic scale in the minor pentatonic scale and it's a very simple pattern and hopefully you will have it down in no time and by the by next week you'll be playing the Daylights of the pentatonic scale all right so let's get into this it's a very simple pattern and it goes like this first of all let's just talk about the scale itself if I'm thinking of the pentatonic scale then there are specific degrees of the scale that I want to Target in order to execute the scale so if I play a C major scale one two three four five six seven those are my seven notes of the scale for the pentatonic scale I'm playing the root the second note of the scale the third note of the scale I skip the fourth note and go to the fifth note of the scale and then I play the sixth note of the scale and those five notes make up the pentatonic scale the major pentatonic scale and if you can't remember that just think of the old Motown classic my girl that guitar line [Music] that's a major pentatonic scale [Music] all right so those are the those are the degrees of the scale that I'm sort of targeting in order to play the scale but now what I want to do is I want to show you a specific pattern to get you through the scale that puts the first three notes on the same string so if I'm playing a C major pentatonic scale then here's what I do I start on C at the third fret of the a string I go to the fifth fret that's the note D and then I go to the seventh fret that's the note E so you can see I'm playing basically like on the first three dots right right there on the fingerboard third fret and fifth fret seventh fret all on the a string those are my first three notes of the scale I complete the scale by playing the fifth and sixth degree of the major scale so even if you don't know what that means then check this out I play Third fret fifth fret seventh fret on the a string then I move down to the D string and I play fifth fret and seventh fret and that's it so if I'm thinking of the Frets themselves then it's three five seven five seven very simple three five seven five seven so play this play it backwards forwards and really get that pattern under your fingers because no matter where you play this pattern that's going to be a major pentatonic scale now once you have that pattern under your fingers let's examine these notes so what I've got is c d e g and a g at the fifth fret of D string a at the seventh fret of the D string [Music] so I'm ending on that note a right but check this out if I come down that same pattern [Music] but this time go down to the a from that c so there I'm sort of ending my scale pattern on the fifth fret of the E string which is a well guess what I've done I've just played a minor pentatonic scale [Music] huh pretty good right so that's just one shape that you can use [Music] for both scales major and minor pentatonic so that's pretty cool you can use that one shape for both harmonies I can get into the whole reasons uh the reasoning behind like how the a minor is the relative minor of C major and all that business but that's going to take a whole bunch of time that's probably going to be for another lesson I really just want to focus on getting the shape and the sound into your heads and under your fingers because once you realize that that shape is a major pentatonic scale then you can play that shape anywhere and no matter what note you started on that's going to be a major pentatonic scale no matter where you play it right first three notes on the same string and then the the two notes the last two notes that you've played in that three note pattern can just be copied on the next string down no matter where you play it I play three notes and then the last two notes of those three notes can be played on the same fret next string down I hope that makes sense because that's the shape right now check this out so I'm playing in C major right so I'm playing on the third fret of the a string now check this if I move down to the eighth fret of the E string that is also a c but what happens is when I play that shape one two three one two [Laughter] the next note up look at that is going to be a c which means I can play the shape again now what that means is that I now have a two octave major pentatonic scale [Music] right does that make sense all I'm doing is I'm playing the shape twice starting on this C and then starting again on the octave at the tenth fret of the D string so there's the shape one time and that leads me right into the shape one more time on the high octave so here's a little exercise that I want you to do um it's going to involve connecting those two shapes right so what we'll do is we'll play the shape one time starting on C and then I'm going to move up and play the first three notes again so here I'm at the fifth fret of the G string which is the note C which means I can start the shape again so I'm going to stop here right that note is an e at the ninth fret of the G string so when I stop there watch this I'm playing the shape and then I'm playing the first three notes of the shape now what I'm going to do is when I grab that ninth fret I'm going to come back and I'm going to play the eighth fret of the E string which is C foreign [Music] see what's happening there so I've got the shape and then the first three notes of the shape starting on the fifth fret of the G string and then I resolve that by playing the root note at the fret of the E string what's happening is I'm I'm playing the shape up to the major third right this is the node e which is the major third of C major and then when I play the root I resolve everything but because I'm playing the root here at the eighth fret of the E string and that is a c I can play the shape again [Music] and then it's octave but check this out um I'm ending on the Note a so what I'm going to do is I'm going to resolve this pattern by playing the open a so now here's the entire exercise I'm going to take it real slow and let you see what's happening here so here's the shape and then the first three notes of the shape that I resolve to see then I play the shape [Music] and then the Octave of the shape and then end with an open [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so you can see they're exactly how I'm executing the line I'm I hope I'm playing it slow enough to that so that everyone can see uh when I get to the top of that first pattern and end on the e at the ninth fret of the G string um I can either play that note with my little finger or my ring finger that allows me to play the root note C at the eighth fret of the E string either with my first finger or my second finger so here I'm going to play that note E with my little finger and then I'm going to come up with my second finger play the root note C on the E string does that all make sense I certainly hope it does I feel like this is the one thing that I didn't really address in all of my uh pentatonic videos video lessons so hopefully that'll clear up a few things for the beginners out there and set you on a path to really get familiar with this sound and this shape and then you'll also understand how it works over both of these harmonies V major and its relative minor in this case C major to a minor as we are resolving to both of those harmonies in this little exercise that we've come up with here [Music] um so let me know if that all makes sense because I really want to be able to help everyone whether you're just starting out with the base or you're a seasoned professional um I want everyone to gain something from this Channel and from these lessons hey do me a favor if you like this lesson please click the like button to let the YouTubes know that more people need to see this video 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Length: 16min 27sec (987 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 02 2022