The 5 MUST KNOW Pentatonic Scale Positions

Lesson Material PDF available to download here : bit.ly/2BuByBJ
In this weeks free bass lesson we'll be looking at the 5 pentatonic positions for both the Major and Minor Pentatonic Scales. These scale patterns are an essential addition to your armoury when developing your fretboard knowledge.
With these 5 pentatonic scale patterns you'll be able to move out of the basic, single octave box patterns we all learn when we get started. Instead of playing those basic Major Pentatonic and Minor Pentatonic patterns we looked at last week, you'll be able run up and down the neck like a pro!
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Hi everyone. Remember to let me know what bands/styles you'd like to see covered in the Top 5 Riffs vids!

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[@maleknacouzi8035]

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[@brianmair1254]

I bet you could do a great job of the intro to N.I.B by Black Sabbath. It would be appropriate here as Geezer is usually all over the Pentatonic. Or anything you might favor by B.S.

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Larry Graham

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Zepplin ramble on pl

[@AnnointedOneMusic]

mark teaches very well , Out of all the videos ive search , this guy seem to have the great teaching skills, he not about showing off , he's always serious about people learning , I decided to write this comment just watching how hard he works to help others , he makes it simple and really knows music bass

[@javarjav7523]

I Remember When I Started I Couldn't Understand Anything In Your Videos, But After I've Learned A Bit Of Theory And Music Lingo, I Can Follow Along! Thank You Very Much

[@jlblues4u]

This lesson provides essential information for any bass player, regardless of style or genre. Don't forget to emphasize how important it is to land on the "one" after playing these fills.

[@jayeoladare4563]

Sir, am most grateful for these major and minor pentatonic position exercise, cos it as increase my skills and speed on the entire fret board.

[@crouchdash]

This is one of the most informative lessons I have ever watched. Kudos!

[@Huesos138]

You're a great teacher

[@richardhetherington2837]

Amazing lesson - packed full of useful content. Awesome teacher!

[@josephselkow2845]

This is so good. Thank you. This video is like 10 lessons, so much info.

[@hamkaab3634]

Great lesson, been struggling on how to expend the pentatonic. Many thanks, sir... You're the best teacher ever

[@gavinhobbs3831]

So incredibly helpful thank you Sir...

[@mustafic83]

I love your lessons and I’m no beginner but I always get something by watching your videos.

[@TalmageL-pn2pv]

There's plenty there to practice with. I still don't think I will ever be that fast, but I can still enjoy it. 😊

[@johnwisener5033]

Thankyou Mark! Really appreciate all your bass lessons. It's definitely making me a lot better. God bless ☝️🙏🫵

[@edwinengelbrecht3377]

Thanks Mark. Another great lesson. Will really help me forward/ improve

[@DanBrill]

Wow, Chris, this is a hugely useful lesson! I'm working on this and it's really helping me "see" the fretboard better all the way up and down the neck. Wish I'd thought about it this way years ago. Thanks!

[@lorenzocelata4107]

Great lesson. Exactly what I needed right now

[@chrishiggins2590]

Excellent lesson - really informative with some cool runs to play.

[@falconismbot9370]

Man this was great. I really think this helped me connect the bridge in a way I never have seen it. This video is gold.

[@edwinengelbrecht3377]

Just love any Paul McCarthy bass lines. Thanks for your great lessons.

[@patrickmcintosh3698]

Great lesson Mark. Thank you!

[@janbebe3444]

Thanks for the lessons. I should have this years ago, I am over 60 now and still learning. I think you are a great teacher and every starter on bass, starts here.

[@OlettaLiano]

Thanks Mark, awesome lesson. Working with scales like this is even more fun on a six string.

[@alanmajka8918]

I'd like to add my thanks, Mark, as you're teaching style and format fit my learning style better than any other online bass instructor.

[@norbertorocknrollbass5196]

Thanks, very good, great teacher.

[@andyestrada229]

Great Video Mark, Thanks

[@maranathanono1510]

Great lesson from a great bass player. You're awesome. Thanks talking bass

[@mikh832]

Very good lessons learning a lot thanks Mark

[@aimeyakalu5679]

Thanks for your tutorials I learned more from you than anyone else

[@quincylarsonmusic]

I've heard from Scott's Devine that really all you need to know to solo OK over a chord progress is to know the root note of the current chord, and the right pentatonic scale starting from that note. This sentiment has also been echo'd in Jeff Schneider's piano soloing video. So it's awesome to find such a practical guide from Mark on these positions.

[@gregmachado8337]

Great job explaining what to do

[@rainydayswithdogs]

Great lesson.

[@stoobzie2]

Excellent lesson

[@lokobobe3457]

Very nice lesson

[@crohnmagduru]

Thank you so much man. That helped me so f lot.

[@zac9311]

This is a really good thing to learn

[@gijazz1757]

Thanks for the great lessons Mark. I would love to see Chic and some James Brown, classic soul lines.

[@iaminbetweendays]

Thanks.

[@OlettaLiano]

Cool, pentatonic modes.

[@sexyeur]

I'm gonna have to say Zep and John Paul Jones since I was just at his Web site today wondering if he had any plans to come to the U.S. He's made of gold...so talented. You guys in the UK are lucky to have him. But I gotta think of a song for bass... Hmmm I think Good Times Bad Times is glaring at me musically. What a challenge LOL

[@TalmageL-pn2pv]

My hand is NUMB,, 😊 But I can't stop smiling , THIS,, should keep me busy for a WHILE.. but it will get my hand and fingers " wired" together..great stuff.

[@mjmorgan-maloosefingers9135]

Thanks

[@eugeneanisimov9000]

I was thinking maybe you could some of the Grand Funk Railroad stuff: Sin's A Good Man's Brother, or Paranoid, or any other GFR riff. Your lessons are top-notch as usual. Tremendously helpful!

[@Riklott1111]

Really cool

[@jamesgraham6796]

Hello TB, So each "shape" is specific to a certain part of the fret board? Thank you.

[@mitmamitmus4113]

Hi mark could you pls do the awakening by the reddings . Also some louis Johnson

[@Yuto-sk8]

Nice scales

[@markbass354]

you're making us work Mark

[@dimitrisagios8401]

Thank you very much Mark you are great teacher! PLease give us the 'Rock bottom' of UFO!!!!!!!!

[@congressbassman]

The only word I can find for this lesson is "Excellent".

[@ianharris2207]

Would be great if you could do some Stranglers riffs. Genetix would be a good one

[@Joachimskovbo]

Love your channel :) Some funny different bands with some interesting bass could be something like Tame Impala or Glass Animals

[@alanmajka8918]

Would love to see bands like Little Feat and the Meters covered

[@cvanhetkaar96]

Hi Mark, i have been watching this video a few times now, and i know it’s an oldie now, but i am still wondering if there is a reason for not including the e-string, i guess might as wel start , let’s say, for a fourth position , on G on the e-string etc. Taking the exercises partly just one octave lower ..

[@hayden2356]

Rush pleasssseee geddy is a beast. Would love for you to do yyz

[@kenbehl2659]

Nice Bass

[@koteynikoi-kotei9301]

Anything by Yes or The Who please Mark!

[@treylem3]

PLZ cover a lot of RUSH....Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, YYZ, Closer to the Heart, Working Man, all those great ones...2112 stuff would also be great. I Really like your channel, you make it easy to understand. Thank you

[@GoogleAccount-wb9lb]

I wonder what brand/gauge you have on the bass guitar?? thx

[@NoQualmsTheArtist]

The ultimate bass tone and feel for me is Pino Palladino in his Soulquarian era. So anything from D'Angelo Voodoo etc. would be amazing. Bass and guitar tutorials alway cover The Beatles etc. how about something more modern like anything Neo-Soul. There are a lot of parallels between this style and James Jamersons style so it should keep the old heads happy as well 😉

[@arthurparizi2185]

Francis Rocco Prestia please! And he's 16 notes fingerstyle funk. Thanks, Mark!

[@knawsswank5603]

Do an example of Tommy Shannon bass style lesson

[@charleskleesattel6477]

You might check the pdf of the minor pentatonic scale. Should be: C - Eb - F - G - Bb.

[@edwinengelbrecht3377]

Some Earth Wind & Fire bass lines.....

[@adamfields5770]

Does this work if you start on D?

[@haimvainer4086]

THE BEST !!!!! AAA

[@ramroid]

The one thing I'm curious about is the numbering of the positional system. Why is position 1 from the rt. 5 A string position and not the rt. 6 E string position? Simply arbitrary?

[@markrodgers2976]

Hey bro, just a thought, but it would be really helpful if when you reference a previous week's lesson, you just include a link to it. This was posted 2 years ago, and with your volume of lessons here, I know already I'll be tearing my hair out trying to find it, LOL!! Anyway, keep up the good work !

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kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmSVl4ygqL2CjKc

[@edhackett9492]

Hey Mark, excellent lesson on pentatonics. Thanks. Would love to see some top 5 walking bass riffs from modern music (Rock/Pop/Funk/Soul). For example, the main riff from Sad Old Red by Simply Red. Enjoy . . .

[@ottonelly]

Cliff Burton Bass Solo or Orion may be an interesting one.

[@talkingbasslessons]

Good idea

[@Duincyberkonijn]

Reggae it is....the band Earthkry is cool, with the number Tables Turn. Or 9 to 5.

[@X3rCobraz]

John Entwistle please! :)

[@OGGalleryCrew92]

Boris The Spider Classic

[@sexyeur]

The Lemon Song... WOW

[@arthurnorcome3967]

Am i off bass to hope for some Jackson 5? I’m still pretty much a noob at bass

[@talkingbasslessons]

Arthur Norcome Some GREAT Jacksons bass lines. Even though they are famous and singable, both I Want You Back and Blame It On The Boogie have tricky basslines with syncopated 16th notes. Getting the actual notes under the fingers is only the start.

[@leebear3494]

15:07 minor pentatonic

[@arneberg9072]

You know Mark - I'm always come back 2 you ---

[@sending2ormore45]

In case these comments are still monitored, it would be helpful if there was really a downloadable PDF. The PDF link goes to a webpage where it is embedded. It isn't downloadable which means I cannot print it without all of the other stuff on the webpage. I try to print these lessons out so I can take notes on them.

[@RodrigoOrmonde]

Rush, please :)

[@TronndoggISAWSOME]

metallica cliff stuff

[@JelloHisokaMan555]

John Entwistle

[@talkingbasslessons]

Coming soon!

[@konradsas5710]

Megadeth bass riffs, i know you want do it 😁

[@saneksin]

RUSH! RUSH! and once again... RUSH! btw, would be great to hear Yes, Kansas and Genesis too

[@talkingbasslessons]

Rush coming next week!

[@danielgagne2487]

I will be there!

[@sexyeur]

WOW but look at John Paul Jones's Ramble On... Oh I want it too!!! Please!!!!!???? LOL

[@joannmannello9158]

And you could that the Bb Major It would be Bb, C, D, F, G, Bb then C, D, F, G, Bb, C and so on.... ?

[@pe1er1]

help me out - why is not all the 4 strings part of the pattern?

[@gertyx]

So why do you need all the positions? What use are they?

[@cdool2223]

You can use these for soloing

[@gertyx]

@@cdool2223 I get that you can use the pentatonic scale for soloing but why do you need all the positions?

[@cdool2223]

@@gertyx with all the positions it makes the solo more interesting and just better in general, moving up the whole fretboard

[@ericgillin4319]

the beatles

[@Diego12U]

Primus!

[@humam3680]

You know you're amazing when you have 0 dislikes!

[@gijazz1757]

... And some Sir Paul's famous riffs...

[@JurgenKrace]

Deep Purple please... Not so much of them in KZbin. And I am not talking about Smoke on the Water. Maybe Strange Kind of Woman, Never Before, Lazy...

[@talkingbasslessons]

I was thinking more riffs, not complete songs. I ran through a load of Purple stuff yesterday. Stormbringer, Speed King and Black Night will all be in there.

[@JurgenKrace]

Nice set of songs! Though i would rather put in first place "Fireball" then. I do remember a sweet bass line there, as well as a bass solo :-) "No, No, No" from the same album would also be a nice riff/song for the video to cover. P.S. Although i don't like it anymore so much (because i played it a hell of a lot times back in my youth), Roger Glover does an interesting move (8th's triplet jazzy thing) in Smoke on the Water during a guitar solo. Perhaps worth to talk about that trick (sudden change of tempo\timing) in your future videos.

[@OlettaLiano]

Agreed, Deep Purple is awesome. When I got my bass I learned all the bass lines to their Burn and Strormbringer albums.

[@cruz.c]

good lesson but the neck strap is making me uncomfortable bc of how high it is

[@alanstjohns]

Are the "5 pentatonic positions" also called 'modes'?

[@nicholas1460]

Check 1:52

[@a-z2103]

Car Wash by Rose Royce...

[@shawnjthedrummer]

Yessssss

[@1977moonchild1]

Iron Maiden! Steve Harris 🤘

[@barks1064]

I think a light just came on. I don't know you can switch from a major to minor playing a bass beat.

[@haimvainer4086]

RUSH !!!!

[@pieceoffake7443]

15:16 😂

[@RustyFender1]

Add Neil Young stuff

[@sinecure45]

I have already messaged twice about this, but here goes again. Of course Chris Quire basslines are sheer dharma (or is it kharma?). But I would really be thrilled to see demonstrations of: early Wishbone Ash with Martin Turner (up to 1972, or the first 3 albums); failing that, Ronnie Lane of Faces in the Rod Stewart days; or even John Wetton at his best, maybe Out of the Blue with Roxy. Unfortunately all are dead except Martin Turner, and he might be hanging out in Devon. He is still tourinng! Perhaps he could make a guest appearance with you.

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Very good my friend

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12:59 Running in the 90's??