Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Forget learning a million scales - here’s how to play killer bass lines with just five simple notes from the pentatonic scale.

Full Bobby McFerrin video - youtu.be/ne6tB2KiZuk

Alright LOOK, if you’re a beginner or even an intermediate bassist, you don’t need a million scales to come up with killer bass lines. All you need is the 5 simple notes of the pentatonic scale, used in all styles of music for bazillions of years.

But here’s the thing - it’s simple to learn the pentatonic scale in a few minutes and say “Muahaha, I learned the scale.” Buuuut that’s like buying a bunch of meat and veggies with no recipe and expecting to be the iron chef.

So in this video, you’ll learn:

- The 5 tasty ingredients that make up the pentatonic scale
- Stupidly simple recipes for creating great riffs
- How to master the static and shifting pentatonic shapes to navigate the fretboard like a boss
- How Rage Against The Machine used the pentatonic scale to write hit after hit
- How some of the most famous Motown bass lines only use the pentatonic scale
- How John Deacon used the ‘shifting shape’ to make Queen bass lines even sexier
- How I would give my Rock n’ Roll hall of fame speech

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