Using Pentatonic Scales - Bass Lesson with Scott Devine (L#50)

[@GreetTheSacredCow]

You have such a gift for teaching. Never condescending, overly complicated or showing off... just the nuts and bolts. Hats off to you, bud.

[@patrickballentine573]

that bass is gorgeous.

[@FrancisStrange]

Ahhhh finally I've found someone teaching bass online in a simple, slow manner! Thank you!

[@devinebass]

Hey man thanks for tuning in! In all honesty there are SO many approaches and none of them are wrong... just different... and some work better in different situations. So... I'd try and get a few different approaches, that way you'll give your self more options when you're playing. S

[@Elundis]

I love the tone you get from them black nylon tapewound gloves.

[@dancassidy7471]

Yea me too that is all I use

[@markmcgarry6147]

Scott, you are such an intelligent guy. thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with the world.

[@BIGSABMUSIC]

i love it when he goes in on 2:37- 2:41

[@devinebass]

@Warfender Hey man thanks for checking out the lesson. The chords are not diatonic... meaning they don't all fall within one key center. To get really specific the chords are - Am7, Bbmaj7#11, Cmaj7. The corresponding modes would be A Aeolian, Bb Lydian and C Ionian. Saying that, if you're practicing the pentatonic scales over these chords you don't have to think like that. Hope that helps mate. Scott.

[@nathanbautista4546]

scott you are good teacher, thank you for your videos , your vids inspired me alot and it brings me back the passion and desire to play and to learn more in playing bass.,,,God bless you... I WANNA PLAY BASS AS GOOD AS YOU...

[@zacsin4178]

Great musician and teacher! Thanks!

[@thruthewall]

nice one as always scott

[@bobbyshabangu]

I was gona give up on the bass , but you've just rekindled my interest again , thanks ma man !

[@akneegrowsdickshitte9349]

I was asked to join a pretty good local band after hearing me demo a bass in a music store. Thats after a week of owning one thanks to these videos. Thanks man, keep em coming

[@hahabass]

Not to mention the crystal-clear instruction.

[@SSNene1]

great lesson...thank you

[@Phalanx23]

Another cool lesson. Thanks, bro

[@TrunkFullOFunk]

As always great job and very inspirational. P.S. - Safety first! replace the battery in your smoke alarm, it keeps beeping ;)

[@jeanmarienoe]

thanks great lesson.jm

[@davidvincent1911]

Good lesson. Thanks

[@thomcosta4082]

Great lessons Scott! I have always used pentatonic scales having a blues approach but have never thought of pentatonic major scales! I usually find the chord root and test the third if the flatted third works I play minor pentatonic runs if it doesn't then I play major scale style runs but it never occurred to me to play pentatonic major scales really cool like I said love your lessons thanks again!

[@dbman305]

Super tutorial ... I get so much benefit ... God Bless you...

[@RCROX]

Thanks for these video lessons, Scott!...I've ascertained a lot of crucial information about bass guitar from them and I believe it has substantially improved my playing...I thank you very much for sharing your adroit knowledge of this instrument and I hope to learn more from you in the future!...

[@RibhuChoudhuri]

you are a suberb bassist and teacher :)

[@emmanuelarrey9887]

Ur the best LOVE ur teaching.

[@MrSacman88]

It's hilarious how many people commenting think you wear the gloves to prevent sweat and to get "that great tone" - and want to know where they can buy some. Regardless - a great lesson! A little bit of overdoing the "shake" but spot on accuracy. Chord tones, arpeggios, and pentatonics have completely changed my playing for the best.

[@mixxmaster80]

Very cool!

[@nankinlongfield]

right to the guts of how to potentially use the pentatonics. thanks Scott.

[@KlevonOfJesup]

@Ingratil The scale degrees of the major pentatonic are 1-2-3-5-6 while the scale degrees of the minor pentatonic are 1-b3-4-5-b7, but you'll find the exact same notes in say C maj as you do in its relative minor Ami.

[@dytakeda]

I just got back from walking around my house trying to find the smoke detector that needed a new battery! LOL

[@RoyTheRuler]

You need a new battery on your fire alarm!

[@azteknomco2432]

+Roy Thomson Hell, i thought it was mine, so i got up and changed the battery. Now i see this. lol !

[@denbotrexwell]

I was thinking the same thing. Hahahaha!

[@KvltSlaw]

I dont even have a fire alarm, and I went to check mine

[@OgTitouan]

When it does that you have to click on the button on the top of it in a certain pattern to make it stop :p

[@cassivellaunushonestus4927]

It caught me too. Then while holding the battery in my had I heard the beep and thought, Scott you shit!

[@rifloez]

great vid.

[@JermaineMorganBass]

Nice lesson and playing bro!

[@neveiza]

HI MAN!!! I LEARN A LOT OF TIPS AND TECHNIQUE FROM YOU...

[@eliseusantos1835]

E ao mano blz sou aqui do Brasil curto suas aulas msm nao entendo o ingles mas observo suas escalas e o modo quevc ensina muito boa suas aulas e muito aproveitativa mas um inscrito abraço que Deus te abençoe Paz!!!!

[@kanjutv3114]

Good teacher

[@KimSE4]

Damn you Scott Devine I've just checked the whole of my house from ground floor to the loft trying to find which smoke alarm needs a new battery!!!

[@devinebass]

@hahabass Great stuff man! Glad it's doing the job I wanted it too ;)

[@stevev1170]

you are great mate thanks

[@WURUSAN]

thank you Scott... such a great teacher

[@AccousticProductions]

these lessons would make so much more sense if i had ever taken formal lessons

[@argylechic]

and it made me look at mine... glad i read this before i actually got up.

[@daprofemusicstickers]

Nice tone

[@cronicasnefianas]

Man, I know it's not as great an accomplishment as playing jazz heads, but these pentatonics really give me a hell of a kick everytime I try them. They sound so bluesy and intense, don't know why...

[@tommills2266]

Awesome mate cheers :)

[@MGKibria0]

great stuff...

[@Lngmar1]

Yes, I understood it some time earlier

[@SanAndreas091]

so basically you use pentatonic scales to help make licks or can you expand/mix it with other scales to make root notes/licks with it?

[@morenoh149]

I'm a noob. But its seems like the pentatonic makes the ear want to keep listening for a resolution. So its good for licks (improvising, fills) and good choosing a next root when jamming.

[@Warfender]

@devinebass Not diatonic is what I was presuming, but just wanted to make sure, as I was confused if it was around a single key center. Very cool lesson. I do something similar to this, but in Diatonic more like you later lesson doing a penatonic each side of C for 3 postitions. I have one also for all five pentatonic shapes in the mode postions. I like this one as it breaks me out of my normal practice rutine!!!!

[@ZioGigietto]

@TwinMillMC Yeah, that's amazing.

[@maxuhan1357]

your bass and lines are breathing in your hands))!!!even in simple lines the sound so alive))

[@doctorhugocat]

I just took down every smoke alarm in my house.....then read the comments. LOLOL great video though!!

[@Flopvloger1990]

One love

[@neriaguilar4764]

So youd do the individual pentatonic scales for each respective chords? Not just staying on the Am pentatonic?

[@theothertroll]

I prefer the genandtonic scales.

[@archieblaster]

that lick at 2:05 and 2:36

[@arunbassist]

My best online GURU

[@ZioGigietto]

You may answered to this question but I'm new to your amazing videos :) I would like to know why you have gloves while playing and how they can help in playing. Thanks for your videos, I'm learning so much stuff :D

[@ryandyc]

Hey, anyone have advice for transitioning from upright bass to electric bass? I played 6 years of upright, i just bought a fender jazz bass, and now I'm going to start that.

[@dancassidy7471]

I'd say watch your back. When I play out a 4 hr gig my left neck scapula kills.I have to sit in a tall bar level chair to ease the pain

[@dougiemunro]

do i get what your saying,... No but its fantastic to listen to

[@kevinisaacgarcia5535]

Your scale consist of 7 notes, the 2 3 and 6 are minors. If you're playing the C major, Dm Em and Am are your minors.

[@devinebass]

@TwinMillMC Oops ;)

[@TheKille22]

dude, awesome videos! I've learned a lot! I really have to ask, what's up with the gloves?

[@natefontana617]

He has a condition called dystonia

[@drewjames9910]

Hi Scott. I have a friend who plays guitar and he has the same problem that Ettiene Mbappe has. He rots all his strings within a week of playing due to his acidic sweat. He was very relieved when i told him about the glove you have. Could you tell me exactly what brand the glove is and where to get it? thanks a lot. and by the way i watch your videos and learn a lot. you are awesome.

[@tomastorevillas5175]

I like

[@miguelmellizo5748]

I want to see some tabs

[@musiq21]

Thnx for the lesson, Scott...btw, what Brand and model of bass guitar is that ??

[@Jay-jp4nv]

yeah I just don't get why he doesn't let you know what frets he using. It would take maybe 2 seconds and really help out beginners who don't know the fingerboard by heart yet

[@thomasmarcotte270]

Jay get gud

[@yaribins5754]

Looking back after a year do you still feel the same or are you glad you figured it out on your own and eventually got better bcuz of it

[@DustyTwoShoes]

3 years later, anything change?

[@maxuhan1357]

your methods and appproach Much more usefully than MarloweDK)

[@Boxoz]

That wink left me feeling slightly violated..

[@Lolatone74]

Lampshade looks like a little sailor's hat:-)

[@TrunkFullOFunk]

@ZioGigietto mate, check out his website, he explains it there.

[@chirikin1]

soy nuevo subcritor

[@Ingratil]

Im sorry if you did explain this but i just dont understand why when u do the minor A pentatonic you do A -C -D-E-G-A? I though you had to skip the 4th and the 7th right? But from what i know your skipping the 2nd and the 6th why is that? Help anyone?

[@t3mors]

Hey Scott. Thanks for the video, man. A question regarding using either the major or minor pentatonic scale. Do you play either one depending on the chord? When you were doing a run in Am, were you doing the A minor pentatonic, since the chord is a minor chord? And, the B Major pentatonic when doin a run on the BbMajor, and so on...

[@apostalicminds315]

Hello I tried to do that run when you went down the neck how did you connect that. Run

[@VicTheMonster]

nothing! Keep playing! you'll get better! :D

[@devinebass]

@666patrickbateman666 Lol... it's my fire alarm running out of batteries ;)

[@acrawfordsaid]

really good stuff - some feedback, why is the camera so far away from the action and why oh why are you wearing gloves that hide your fingers ? i've seen a few vids that i need a zoom to see the frak'n bass

[@fabiofd82]

belo baixo, pra que essa luva preta ???

[@garrycrawford6967]

Needs more cowbell

[@HomeBuyersofOhio]

hahaha.....

[@RobiRoadkill]

BEEP!

[@DrumSolVanIsle]

Same root/ chords as 'Jesse' by Mother Earth [Acid Jazz], or thereabouts.?

[@Sindig0]

Thank you--that was winding me right up.

[@TwinMillMC]

@ZioGigietto He has a skin condition on his hands, that's why he wears gloves. He's actually even more of an amazing player to be able to play this well while wearing gloves.

[@Warfender]

Nice lesson, but I'm a little confused. What modes are you playing in? Your Am,Bb,C progression I don't follow. Are you playing Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian progression? The pentatoninc scale fingering is different than the Aeolian you show and the Mixolydian is different than the Ionian you showed. So I don't follow the chord progression verse fingering, Please, can you clarrify is you are just doing some arbitrary progression and fingering here.

[@BIGSABMUSIC]

What kind of strings should i use if im playing smooth jazz or r&b ?...i wanted to get a set of flat wound strings...i have round wound strings but they sound too bright for that smooth sound im looking for , i bout the round wounds cause they were cheap .

[@jannielieben9576]

roundwounds are fine for smooth jazz ..

[@Lngmar1]

Guys, maybe i'm just stupid, but i was defeated in trying to find tabs and notes of that video on scottsbasslessons(point)com. Could you post me straight link to them? Thank you. English is not my foreign language.

[@smotmanttb]

LOL , I'm running around my basement looking for the smoke detector and its yours lol

[@aliozgurarslan]

I spot a Markbass LM III.

[@HTHCLLC]

ROFLMAO, Running around my house, looking for the smoke detector that has a dead battery. Guess I wont find it.....its at your house......Says allot for my JBL's really sounded like it was here.....GJ Scott, thanks for the lessons.

[@ThreeCrowns]

Why was A played as minor and B and C played as major?

[@Zloben]

Because he's playing in the key of F major/D minor.

[@dokgu]

Are bass runs the same as bass fills? I thought this was called a fill to be honest.

[@germanvarelamuller]

what s up with the gloves man? cold?

[@rallyrockss]

This is still confusing especially when you talk about the A minor scale

[@johankiwii]

Better than MarloweDK :)

[@manictiger]

It sounds like it wants to join in, hehe.

[@steadyrudemusic]

you're an awesome bassist, but why do you where gloves?

[@BobbyChounramany]

whats with the gloves?

[@theojansen7541]

Helemaal okay

[@jetrobenaya1035]

☺🤓

[@VinnieCamaro]

It's an A Phrygian chord progression.....

[@cspensacola]

TYPE OF BASS IS THAT???