Master the ENTIRE bass neck with only 3 SIMPLE exercises
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The pentatonic scale is awesome.
It’s the easiest way to learn how to improvise and there isn’t a bass player on earth that doesn’t use it, BUT… Do you ever feel like you’re playing the same things over and over?
In today’s lesson I’m going to show you some of my best pentatonic scale exercises to help you master the ENTIRE bass neck, so you can break free from the same old shapes that you’ve probably been using for way too long.
In this lesson you’re going to learn:
Extended pentatonic scales.
My five essential pentatonic shapes.
All about two string groupings.
And why you should be focusing on them.
As always, see you in the shed…
Scott :)
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I'm a self taught player, I've been playing for many years but I don't know that much on the theory side. I found this really interesting and helpful, thank you for sharing your knowledge, it's appreciated more than you realise.
Jay Zed's Guide to Things n Stuff how many years? Because I’m a self taught player also and it’s kinda tuff
hi, I'm a self-taught too so I have a lot of problems with improving my techniques, can you guys helo me?
@@emmander594 lol here's one that should keep you busy for the next couple years, if you can Master it you will be one of only a few. I learned this from Steve Harris I think. It's easiest to start out on OneNote. Right hand picking hand. It goes like this. Pointer finger, middle finger, ring finger, back to middle finger, repeat. If you get good at it you can do it in any order you want based on the sound you want to produce. Each finger sounds different. And you'll be faster than anybody who plays with a pick.
@@marcs4091 I'm self taught to and picked up a weird habit that I still play with today. Unless I need speed I play with my right hand using thumb, pointer, middle, and ring with each getting their own string. This way my other strings are constantly muted. If I need speed then I go with the standard two pointer and middle. I might try to incorporate the technique you have shown. That seems tricky but yeah over time would become second nature.
@@jbelcher74 yeah its definitely a little tricky. Now that I think about it I lead with my ring finger. You can start out going ring , middle, ponter, repeat Like the typical Steve Harris galloping bass line. I'm also pretty much self-taught for the most part. I think I started playing in 1990. I still got it, but it definitely gets harder the older I get. The only thing I ever really learned was the modes, the seven tone major scale. Never even really bothered with the Pentatonix. In college from time to time I would jam out with some of the school band geeks. They're always kind of dumbfounded how I could pull out of thin air somewhat complex melodies and play them over what they were playing, not knowing 1/100 of what they knew musically. The seven tone major scale was my secret weapon. Another piece of advice I would give to other bass players is, there really is no right way to play the instrument. Back in the day I heard an interview with Victor Wooten back when he used to play like he was a wizard. He said something to the extent of, as good as he is, he can let his two year old daughter play his bass and she can produce sounds out of the bass that he could never produce just by banging on it.
Scott is the best thing that has happened in the bass comunity
Yes! One of the best shifting exercises I've ever seen. To the shed!
Thanks Scott. A huge penny just dropped with this lesson. Cheers my man.
I'll be sure to use these exercises to practice up for my next cover. Thank you Scott!!
scott a legend
Your ability to teach and explain things concisely is unparalleled. You are a gift to bass players who want to get better at their instrument. Thank you.
Printed it out and gave it a try. The 2-string groupings really show what's happening. I wish I'd had this under my fingers 40 years ago!
Don't know how U bn playin the last 40 yrs. but whatever U do Don't overthink it & don't lose Ur Feel. U never Wana sound like ur doing exercises
I can't find where to print these?
Thank you. In high school (mid-1960's) I added cello preparing for being a music major. The method my teacher used was "Finger Patterns."
That lesson was my “A-Hah” lesson! Thanks so much!
The coolest lesson ever. This gives an ocean of possibilities. Thank you Scott for such great Inspiration and structural precision layed out in no time!
Amazing video and great PDF file. I was taking screenshots and scribbling down notes until I remembered.. PDF!
Thanks Scott - Great content as always!
That effort wasn't wasted - those are the bits that will really stay with you.
Your bass sound so clean!! What kind of bass is it, and what strings do you use?
its a fender custom shop reissue precision bass with the neck switched out. idk what strings he’s using
So glad you are on here doing what you do. Really enjoy watching, and learning from, your videos!
Great approach
Thanks Scott and SBL. Your video lessons online are really great and stimulate new ways of thinking and extending from present awareness.
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Hi Scott❤ you are an excellent teacher and keep up the good work 🎉
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One (actually: 3) of your very best training-tips Scott! Thnx a bunch!
what are the others? Asking for a friend
Then try starting on the Low E and play it in a "three notes per string patern" and your there!!...that's the E minor pentatonic!!...play it assending right up to the high G (12th fret of the first string) and descending all the way back to the low E!!...pretty cool!!...
Thanks for the tableture boxes
Stop your email spam. I never asked for it and it doesn't have an unsubscribe. Be responsible.
I really appreciate what you are doing sir.
Thanks for the video. It helps alot. I downloaded it and I'm like, watching it frequently (every now and then) to memorize everything taught here. Thanks again👍
Just realized it's like playing Tetris on bass. All the shapes fit into each other, there is no tone of any shape crossing into the one before. Maybe this is super obvious to everyone, but this helped me a lot...
It's when you start recognizing those patterns, that you make progress. I have yet to learn a lot, but I am confident it will feel natural to me at some point.
Look for CAGED system. This is a goldmine, not just for pentatonics, but for chords too
OMG I thought I was the only one with that "visual" tetris-idea of remembering it! 😍👾
You have me looking Up Tetris
TYVM for that old visual! LOL. Been many a yr ( okay=decades hehe) since I stood at a Tetris game! Your right. Good visual!!
So grateful for all your lessons. Thank you!
Hey Scott, what strings are those you're using? Sound like flats, but also brighter than the ones I've tried...
They might be D'Addario Chromes.
Can't answer for Scott, but you can try EB cobalt flats if you're looking for brighter tone. They're my choice.
The gloves also probably mute a bit.
Im sorry for butting in, after all, you did address your question to Scott. But if I may, Gabriel, I've been having great success with D'Addario XLR Half Rounds (ENR71). My Thunderbird is strung with Regular Light Gauge (.045 - .100) long scale strings I get old school motown tone to a snappier version of Geddy Lee's jazz bass sound. No way trebley like Marcus Miller for slapping, but I don't play that style of music with my T-bird anyway! Strictly pre - 1980s styles for that bass. And with a Boss M50B on the defretting setting and some careful eq-ing it sounds close enough to an upright bass for my needs. That said, I can dial in the opposite tones with the right settings I can get away with playing songs by YES. Not a true Rickenbacker sound, but a very close brighter, Chris Squire type tone.
Like a bass with P and J pickups to get "the best of both worlds" from one guitar (but not really 😉), so the half rounds are alike!
I hope this is info you can use, and please excuse my intrusion.
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That P bass is a great sounding bass.
I first learned the major scale patterns, unknowing they were lined up in a grid, then I learned all major scales at one position of the neck, without learning the octaves, then I learned the pentatonic shapes, realizing they were in a grid. Then I learned intervals, then I learned the diatonic 7th arpeggios, then I learned that the major scale pattern could be put on top of the pentatonic grid, then I learned the melodic minor pattern as well on this grid. then I learned the regular arpeggios. yup. take lessons, kids. intervallic soloing I'm having my eye on now.
And then
@@yantheyam5622 lol
I learned the 5 pentatonic shapes maybe a two years ago. The hard part with them is connecting them together and moving between them. Once you do that, as long as you are fairly familiar with your intervals & major scale shapes, it all connects up nice and simply. Along the way, I also added chord tones. My next major feat will be modes. These exercises def. help someone like me.
The most usefull channel for bassists
Well, one of them anyway. But it never hurts to see/listen to other teachers such as Josh Fossgreen (Bass Buzz), Mark from Talking Bass, Luke McIntosh from Become a Bassist and off course James Eager from ebassguitar.com. They all have their own way of teaching and some might suite you more than others. As do I. I see them not as competition but more complementary. But I tend to come back to Scott's shed very often and still admire the fact that he keeps pushing me to set the bar that much further every time with these kind of essential but simple trainings. He's a real gem!
Bassbuzz is more useful
Good job. Wish i could afford your classes. Solid lessons all around. 😉👌
This has been very, very helpful to a self taugh player as myself. Thank you so much. Will subscribe!:)
Awesome explanation!
very good exercice scott's thank you
Thank you Scott!! Was looking for some new exercises to play and this was great for my skill level (self-taught beginner of ~8 months)
Thanks! This was great! I will be practicing this today.
Superb Scott. Thank you 🙏
Thank you for this, helped me a lot!!!
Scott, I really miss these 'instructional' type of videos...although I understand why you have changed the format. Don't get me wrong, I really like the new format of videos, but thanks for throwing in this one! BASS '):
Exactly what I needed to see, thanks!
Hey Scottso, have you noticed too that shape 4 is shape 3 upside down and shape 5 is shape 2 upside down. Strange, huh? But very cool!
Thanks for another great lesson!
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Like chord inversions but for the pentatonic scale
@@tylerlennon9955 thank you, that's the word I was looking for..... inversions! I knew when I was writing, there was a word that would have saved me some typing but I just couldn't bring it to mind. I'll tell you man its true, when you get over 60, the mind is the first thing (you notice 😉 ) to go.
Thanks Tyler.
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This is awesome. Thanks bud!
He gives up just enough information to have you intrigued but not enough to make you not want to enroll in his sbl school. Smart
I enrolled a few weeks ago and it's worth your while, i'm actually baffled by how much content you get for that ridiculous price and the quality of it. I understand times are tough and enrollments are not for everyone these days but I learned more with his lessons in 6 weeks than in one year in music school ... That's my honest opinion.
I enrolled also and I will tell you this I have learned more about music in the last month that I have in my entire life from any lesson in person or RUclips video sbl is golden
Thank you Scott for breaking down your lesson so a bass playing senior citizen can follow and understand. Love U man💯😎
great lesson! pow!
For those with extended range basses, think of it as two sets of three frets, followed by three sets of two frets. 👍
Very informative
Thanks for the lesson 😍😍😍😘
TY sir!!
I noticed that you're playing a Fender Precision. The waist on the guitar body is higher, more toward the neck than on the Fender Jazz. To me, this makes it easier to hold on my lap. I didn't know this, and just bought a Jazz I like. I'd like to make the Jazz work for me. Comments? Thanks
New player here…and this seems like it’s very useful and all…but because your technic is soooo good..I am struggling to see what your fingers are actually doing. They just look like they’re hovering over the fretboard not moving😔.
LOL. I know right! I keep telling myself, you CAN do this ole gal! LOL. Even the greats began at "suck" before they were masters! LOL. We'll get this friend, we'll get it! Good thing I love the Blues. SLOOWWW & steady leads to nimble & quick.
good stuff mate, thanks
A great (mostly) pentatonic scale workout is the break in "Sir Duke" by Stevie Wonder. Starts at "B" on the "E" string up to "D#" on the "G" string and back down to "F#" on the "E" string.
Great bass on that song. A real workout.
i want to thank you so much for your lessons..I recently bought a bass (the instrument I started on before focusing on guitar) and I'm getting good quick because of you...fortunately I already know scales and harmony..I have one question..why the glove on the left hand?
he has a condition where his hand shakes and having something touching it seems to stop the shaking im fairly sure its a neurological thing but dont quote me on iy
I’ve been playing guitar for more than 40 years. I’ve been playing bass like a guitar player for about 8 years. I love your instructional videos. I am beginning to play bass like a bass player now. Thank you!
Liked and subscribed already! This is so great... Thanks mate!
SOLD! This lesson is gold. I literally feel like playing through this lesson and practicing has taken my playing to another level. It sounds ridiculously cliche, but it has. Thank you! Oh, and I signed up to the academy for a year. Your lessons and material are with out a doubt top notch!
So if i get this correctly on the 3rd exercice: you take One shape and slice it accross the fingerboard ?
You deserve a Nobel prize Scott
Very good video
Awesome video!
How about Minor Pentatonic? Do you have a similar video?
Maybe this is obvious to everyone else, but what is this for? Like where would you use this? I'm a beginner and I don't have any context.
It’s crazy, but I feel like I haven’t learned enough stuff yet to enroll in a course. I’m also concerned about being able to devote enough time to the playing. I’ll get there, eventually.
THWACK! (Like button slapped) Great vid!
Wow! I just found this channel and I am finding the dynamic charts superimposed directly below the closeup of the fretboard incredibly useful. So much easier to follow. Thank you. Subscribed.
You're an excellent instructer, mate! Subscribed.
Thank you Scott another amazing lesson, loved it. The only thing you missed talking about but played it anyway was going up on one shape and coming back down on the adjacent shape. You played it but didn't mention that as a good exercise to do too. Other than that? Amazing. Good stuff!! So practical and useful. Tod
that's a really great video
leaving out the 4th is like betraying my best friend...
The final run was something I learned a while ago on guitar and used it to help break out of the boxes and create lead ideas.
I learned it in Amin but with 2 notes on the low E starting at G then 3 notes on the next string, then 2 notes, then 3 etc. and now also use the same pattern for bass lines and ideas.
It's an awesome tool
HALLELUJAH!!! I'VE SEEN THE LIGHT!!!
This lesson has helped me move on to another plateau in my playing...for others out there, spend a few days on this and you too will benefit from watching this video...
Thanks again Scott!
Thank you so much for the scale lesson Sir! This helps me a lot as a Bass player ❤👌
6:37 for my routine
man so like i have a bad scar on my pinky so like ive avoided playing with my pinky since i started any advice for getting my shapes i used to make back? and tbh i find slapp easier than normal fingerstyle crazy but yea but i wanna get more technical
This is huge for me! I keep seeing you driving the entire neck and say to myself... Am I EVER going to get this? Thank you so much for breaking this down into bite-sized pieces. I'm hoping this is the springboard to understanding how to play the pentatonic scales on the other chords as well. Thank you SOOO much for this, Scott!
The base lesson itself is very useful... However the upside down graphic is not. Even if you're sitting in front of a baseplayer trying to learn what hes doing the notes do not turn upside down!!!
Scott you need to talk about your rig sometime I love your tone alot
A lot of players will want to do this same exercise with pentatonic minor as well.
2nd that
Some players may realize that when learning these patterns they are simultaneously learning the minor ones as well. :)
These patterns in G are the same as G’s relative minor - Em.
I think it's the same shapes, but in the order 5 1 2 3 4.
bro ive been playing bass and guitar for so long, like 9 years with just me and the instrument listening to songs and playing them by ear, finally i have a laptop of my own and this is just a goldmine to practice
Though I'm a hack bassist at best, my ex bassist, taught me the major blues scales, minor blues scales, "walking" the chord (playing the notes making up the chord), & playing octaves (when unable to figure out a tasty groove). He said almost all the songs use those scales (I call them the blues scales Major & minor, he didnt). He's actually a fabulous bassist. I found his advice was priceless, & after messing around with the scales, I figured out all kinds of tunes. Any way, that's what I learned. I like your lessons as well, but a "close up" of the shapes would be helpful, for old guys like me. I'm a guitarist of 50+ yrs, fake it on piano & bass, & can program a drum machine with the best of them. Just found you this afternoon. Cheers!
I got confused when he went to the 4th shape, on the D, because the 4th note in the scale is C. Is that because he said to forget the 4th and 7th in the beginning? Please help.
Yep in a Pentatonic Scale you drop what would normally be the 4th and 7th of the full scale.
So therefore the 4th note of the Pentatonic Scale is the 5th of the original scale
Great lesson I'm going to drill this in my head. How do you like that microtubes 500?
Why does he wear a glove when playing?
This guy looks like if Maynard were cool
Maynard but he’s a bass player
I love these lessons and all of Scott's lessons. I made up a catchy little "hook" that can be used to play each of the 5 pentagonic shapes. It allows you to have a little diddy in your head as you go through them. I'll be happy to send it to anyone who wants it. I'm new to youtube as a commentor and I don't know how to directly contact Scott or anyone without putting my email on the web, which of course could cause me to be flooded with junk mail..
I’d like to know your hook please
@@richieround9147 I can send you an .mp3 if you let me know your email.
@@richieround9147 I could send you a .mp3 file but I'm not sure how to contact you privately, I assume we don't want to post our email addresses or phone numbers to the public.
Love the 2 string groupingsfrom low to high and high to low. Makes the Pentatonic come across as a lot less "mechanical", if that makes sense. Great lesson. Thank You!
why do you wear a glove?
Ok, got the exercises. Now, call me stupid (I kinda am), but does this relates to playing actual songs? Another question: let's say I don't want G, I want... Bb or E or any other note. What do I do?
Once you've been through the shapes, and looked closely at the way the dots are laid out on the video, try to visualize those shapes in your head while playing them, without looking at the video or at your hands!!...visualization is the single most important thing to get that down!!...remember, the mind is quicker then the eyes!!...just saying!!...
Yes indeed. My Uncle helped me on that. STOP looking at your fingers on the fret board. Yes, you may play a wrong or sour note, but just keep going. It has really helped me as a "newbie". Mental visual!
I realize that I'm responding to an old episode, today is Jan. 3, 2022, and I have just today gotten your pentatonic scale guide and have worked through the 5 stages. My question is "now what?" How does this help? I am a new student of the bass guitar and I just don't see the benefit of learning these 5 stages of the pentatonic scale. I realize that I have missed something somewhere. Help!
Well I do so many Bass have the tutor with his base facing One Direction and diagram facing the opposite direction? It's confusing
I could be wrong, but if your root is a minor key, I think you start with the 5th shape on the root note? Then start the shape progression over? So for Major, shapes are 1,2,3,4,5 and for Minor, shapes are 5, 1, 2, 3, 4? Can anyone out there confirm or deny?
Love this channel but the way they just spout out the musical language like us beginners just know what they're saying is very confusing. Even the " beginners " videos.
Im a self taught bass player, been playing bass for years now, youtube was my teacher 🤣 i met my wall because of limited resources, although i was able to buy my bass but i play it without amplifier, what im using is an old speaker which is for mic but well 🤣 Im from Philippines 💪 i understand tablature but theories and abbreviations and stuffs, im still trying to understand it, i hope someone who can help me even with a simple bass amplifier would be appreciated
Interesting vid. I own a Fender Rascal which I really enjoy for reasons of a high variety of tones, ease of play and portability. My Aerodyne sis my go to bass for gigging but have used my Rascal a few times with no issues at all.
Where it lost me was right at the end, you did the big beautiful g run from 3rd to 12th fret, but then changed to start from 7th fret b,
Is it the same shapes as what we learnt today, meaning are we still in g ?
Or is that a change to b ??
my father just passed away he played bass his whole life I know absolutely nothing about the base, but watching you it seems like the fretboard is upside down and reversed. which obviously makes it damn near impossible to follow your quick lessons
Excellent lesson. Thank you so much. Help? This lesson is in G major right. What if I wanted it in C. Is it the same shapes?
What's up with the glove?
Bro, I love your videos but c'mon man.. a two minute introduction? Just get to the main course and skip the appetizers
Scott, First, Thank you! you have been a godsend during this COVID shut down. I'm lucky enough to be employed and working from home. I took up the Bass because there is nothing else to do! My question: You say to change your strings when they get " OLD" A fruit fly lives for 48 hours, a tortuous can live 150 years. I've been playing for maybe 3 months, How old is " OLD"?
It's an "it depends" question but basically when you're no longer getting the tone you want. One of my basses I use for bright and punchy and it's every few months to keep that "piano" sound. The other is for warm tones and it's every year or so. Some people never change their strings.
yeah sorry dude your technical specs are upside down in reverse you cannot follow along with what you are doing. I know because I