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Great video. I’ve been doing this since the 70s, taught it to my students, and wondered why it isn’t taught more. The only thing I do differently is that I prefer the shift from the 1 to the 2 instead of the 2 to the 3.

Like everyone else, this simple idea has totally made my beginner/intermediate hackery so much more musical and has really opened my brain to listen more and approach things differently. Thanks a lot. Great vid.

Thanks sir, very useful!

Thanks sir, very useful!

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You need a thumb rest!

Great explanation

I really dislike how most books and tutorials of the pentatonic for guitar or bass show you the patterns and try to get you to memorize those pattern chunks. It wasnt until I started practicing them on one string and then connecting it like you've done that I really started learning scales. I think guitarists need go put mor emphasis on the intervals rather than just learning chunks and patterns.

as a beginner, I found your video easier to digest because it focuses on only one shape of pentatonic. Thank you

Great tips Steve!

Thanks for this! Very useful and well presented.

Very simple yet powerful tip, love it.

Great lesson! This really opened up my playing. I tend to move the first finger up to the second degree, rather than moving the pinky from second to third, but ill try your way as well. If you're trapped in the minor pentatonic box, this major pentatonic tip will transform your playing!

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You generally want to shift to your pointer finger going up and your pinky going down. I don’t know if that makes sense. It’s how the Simandl technique teaches it. It makes a bigger difference when you’re playing Fretless because you are more accurate with your position. It’s a good habit to develop on fretted though. You are always using your pointer finger to set your position.

Very useful. Thanks

THIS IS SO GOOD! THANK YOU!

Thank you

I recently heard the phrase "playing the dots" to describe Geezer Butler's minor pentatonic approach to Black Sabbath's bass. The brilliance of playing the pentatonic in this way is that everything is 2 frets or a string change away. I like to call it the "Pentatonic Cross" because one can imagine a + shape. If you start the pattern on the left side of the + as your root, you are playing the minor pentatonic. If you start at the top of the + as your root, it's the major pentatonic. Using the + as a scale "backbone", it is easy to take the pentatonic and add in the appropriate two notes one fret away to complete a full 7 note major or minor scale. I get way more millage playing in and around the + than I ever have using the typically major scale pattern - just as he mentions in the beginning of the video. In short, it is much easier as a beginner to start to learn the notes on neck, not get lost, and always play in key if everything is 2 frets or a string change away !

Awesome thanks - Bell hit look forward to more learning from you mate. Cheers ❤

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I move the same way on the neck. These are basic box patterns. The minor pentatonic scale, root on your fourth finger, moves the same way with the slide between the 4th and 5th scale degrees.

is this the same rule on a 5-string bassssss?

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It's amazing to me that I am just now starting to see the pentatonic taught this way. I picked this up less than a year into my 40 year career as a shitty bedroom player, but I never EVER saw it taught this way until very very recently. Also, if you know what additional notes to plug in where, and depending on where in that pattern you place the root, you can easily get the notes for any mode (major or minor) or the blues scale. Very, very simple.

Do you have any advice for taking solos like these? I’ve been working on my scales and arpeggios but can’t put together good sounding solos like this one

Plus inversions! ruclips.net/video/vYytyu9hBRk/видео.html&ab_channel=RealBassLessons

This and chromatic are used in every kind of music, if you know it or not. The major scale is rarely used, but you can combine any shapes that you like !. How awesome is that, whatever shapes or patterns you can do. I do that way of playing the scale and do almost the exact same thing as you. I play by ear though, I never read any music in my life and I basically ignore scales, I don't really need to think about it anymore. I do think about it, but it's more fluid. Kind of like singing now, I just have to find the right key. The rhythm is so important, for any song as a bassist, it's just as important as chords, scales. But really, you just need real comfort with your Bass, your fretboard. Once you can slide up a few octaves, find keys without missing, game changer. That just comes with time, like a lot of techniques. Rhythm takes a lot of time, to really get your timing down. People think they got it down, but then everything changes later on. Because they need to count more timing and rhythm, that's all. Your fret style will actually change, based on the amount of rhythm you practice, because as you improve your choices will change and always evolve. This continues on for like 20 years, more. The stuff I play now, compared to 6 years ago has completely changed. I will never stop learning new stuff, though. I will become more like a drummer, also a guitarist. Bass is half drum, half guitar and it's a bridge between instruments. Nobody really mentions this, too much anymore except drummers. If you keep this in mind, I find Bass practically plays itself. Your choices are actually slim at best, for what you need to be playing for any given song. It's a matter of how well you can play the song in your head. The drummer kind of needs you more than anyone else on the stage. Stages are not the hardest part of playing, it's practicing. Bass is maybe the hardest instrument to master. If anyone thought it was easy, your bassist sucks. Guitar has one job, Bass has two jobs. If I played guitar only, Id slay you guys after a while. I learned that stuff too fast...had to put her down cause it's distracting me. Play that thing with your wang, still sounds good or the same. Now I understand Jimi Hendrix, playing with his mouth.

That bring out the imrov in you!

Been playing bass 3.5 years. At first I learned my scales the usual way… across 3 strings. But then I realised you need to also be able to play across 2 strings, which I think is the principle he’s talking about here; The added bonus is that you get to practice shifting & moving around the fretboard more which is how you get into & out of a different register. Also, playing up & down a single string is a good way to visualise & learn the intervallic nature of a scale.

Thank you Steve! I’ll be trying this new-to-me way of playing pentatonics. Your a natural teacher. 😊

This is great information! Hard to not sound musical with this idea! Thank you for making this video 🤘🤘

This video instantly made my random pentatonic noodling sound more musical 🎉

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Good concept, but can see anything as your playing too fast and your fingers are in the way.

So good. Thank you!

Makes sense, ty ❤❤❤❤

I hear Jaco

Shift going up, ascending, with the 1st instead of the 3rd finger! Shift with the 3rd going down, descending, going down! It will be smoother!

Probably under-viewed and underrated video :-(… (?). Steve, what about the minor pentatonic (and the rest of the “normal” diatonic set of scales, speaking of alternative fingering?) :-)

The only time I anchor is for disco octaves if they are super fast. I've been doing floating for so long I pretty much can't anchor

This is great !!

Whaooo nice moves ❤❤😂

good 1

Too complicated

This is such a lightning bolt moment when you break out of the standard "scale shapes" and realise you can grab those notes elsewhere, thank you!

Only 9.9k Views?🤔Great Video.

Excellent man, really appreciate you taking the time to share 👍