This allows them to play the scale at a convenient fretboard position. If, for example, you only knew how to play a minor pentatonic scale using pattern no. If you also knew how to play the pentatonic minor scale using pattern no. If you knew multiple pentatonic minor patterns then you could extend the scale to incorporate all of the fretboard.
By changing fretboard position while playing you could create fluid bass lines that went wherever your creative urge took them! Scale patterns do, however, show the root, or tonic, note of the scale.
On the bass scales chart above the root notes are depicted as the white circles. Therefore, in order to play a C major scale, you would play any of the major scale patterns shown above with the root note positioned at C note on the bass fretboard.
This means that, although learning scale patterns is the simplest way of learning scales on a bass guitar, you still have to know the notes on the fretboard. Play the scale by positioning your hand so that the root note of the scale is positioned over the desired note on the bass fretboard i. I love the fact that these scales are moveable up and down the neck.
Now if I could just figure out how to play my five string basses. Thank you so much for this chart! I lost mine somehow. Thanks for the comment! Regards, The Guitar Command Team. Thank you for your comment. The open circles are the root notes of the scale, e. Find the diagram for the scale you want to play e.
Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. No problem, hope you find them useful! Wow love it: it has really helped me and i also want to learn more Reply. Glad it helped! Thanks for your share!!
Thank you just took the bass up helpful m8 Reply. Thank you i have learn a lot Reply. Hi, Thanks for the comment! What do the open circles mean on the scale? While this is a scale study and not necessarily a music theory lesson, there are a couple of things that are beneficial for you to know: Enharmonic Equivalent: Essential the same note, usually an altered note, has two names. For example, G and Ab G sharp and A flat is the exact same note hence the name, they are harmonically equal.
The name depends on what key the scale is being played in. There is no scale step between B and C, nor between E and F. So it is extremely rare to see music that has B , Cb, E or Fb written in it. The notes are Harmonic Equivalents. Typically, musicians would call this a Db scale, because there are less notated accidentals altered tones than in the C spelling of this scale.
As its name implies, it only uses five tones. Plus, it sounds great! Use the E minor pentatonic scale when soloing over 12 Bar blues in either E major or E minor, it works equally well over both. Start with quarter notes at a moderate tempo and play the scales ascending and descending. Then try playing two eighth notes per note of the scale using alternate picking down-up , then triplets and so on. Try speeding up the tempo at bit at a time as you get more comfortable playing these scales.
And you can try slower tempos as well. Implementing these scales will help you break out of the box that so many Bassists find themselves in by merely playing patterns, such as the pentatonic box pattern. Try playing the scales a note at a time alternating octaves. Try starting on the highest note and play three notes descending, then back up one note and play another three notes descending, and so on. Try a pattern starting on the root, then playing the seventh below, back up to the root, up to the second scale step, back down to the root, back up to the second, up to the third, down to the second…and so on for an interesting building sound.
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