I'm a self taught player, I've been playing for many years but I don't know that much on the theory side. I found this really interesting and helpful, thank you for sharing your knowledge, it's appreciated more than you realise.

@denimdagamer5567

3 жыл бұрын

Jay Zed's Guide to Things n Stuff how many years? Because I’m a self taught player also and it’s kinda tuff

@emmander594

3 жыл бұрын

hi, I'm a self-taught too so I have a lot of problems with improving my techniques, can you guys helo me?

@marcs4091

3 жыл бұрын

@@emmander594 lol here's one that should keep you busy for the next couple years, if you can Master it you will be one of only a few. I learned this from Steve Harris I think. It's easiest to start out on OneNote. Right hand picking hand. It goes like this. Pointer finger, middle finger, ring finger, back to middle finger, repeat. If you get good at it you can do it in any order you want based on the sound you want to produce. Each finger sounds different. And you'll be faster than anybody who plays with a pick.

@jbelcher74

3 жыл бұрын

​@@marcs4091 I'm self taught to and picked up a weird habit that I still play with today. Unless I need speed I play with my right hand using thumb, pointer, middle, and ring with each getting their own string. This way my other strings are constantly muted. If I need speed then I go with the standard two pointer and middle. I might try to incorporate the technique you have shown. That seems tricky but yeah over time would become second nature.

@marcs4091

3 жыл бұрын

@@jbelcher74 yeah its definitely a little tricky. Now that I think about it I lead with my ring finger. You can start out going ring , middle, ponter, repeat Like the typical Steve Harris galloping bass line. I'm also pretty much self-taught for the most part. I think I started playing in 1990. I still got it, but it definitely gets harder the older I get. The only thing I ever really learned was the modes, the seven tone major scale. Never even really bothered with the Pentatonix. In college from time to time I would jam out with some of the school band geeks. They're always kind of dumbfounded how I could pull out of thin air somewhat complex melodies and play them over what they were playing, not knowing 1/100 of what they knew musically. The seven tone major scale was my secret weapon. Another piece of advice I would give to other bass players is, there really is no right way to play the instrument. Back in the day I heard an interview with Victor Wooten back when he used to play like he was a wizard. He said something to the extent of, as good as he is, he can let his two year old daughter play his bass and she can produce sounds out of the bass that he could never produce just by banging on it.

Printed it out and gave it a try. The 2-string groupings really show what's happening. I wish I'd had this under my fingers 40 years ago!

@mikerobinson9030

2 жыл бұрын

Don't know how U bn playin the last 40 yrs. but whatever U do Don't overthink it & don't lose Ur Feel. U never Wana sound like ur doing exercises

@weezahriah

2 жыл бұрын

I can't find where to print these?

Your ability to teach and explain things concisely is unparalleled. You are a gift to bass players who want to get better at their instrument. Thank you.

The coolest lesson ever. This gives an ocean of possibilities. Thank you Scott for such great Inspiration and structural precision layed out in no time!

Thank you Scott for breaking down your lesson so a bass playing senior citizen can follow and understand. Love U man💯😎

I learned the 5 pentatonic shapes maybe a two years ago. The hard part with them is connecting them together and moving between them. Once you do that, as long as you are fairly familiar with your intervals & major scale shapes, it all connects up nice and simply. Along the way, I also added chord tones. My next major feat will be modes. These exercises def. help someone like me.

Thank you for this excellent tutorial. I'm a lifelong bass player, always trying to learn more, you've unlocked a new tact for me with this lesson! Super stoked!

I’ve been playing guitar for more than 40 years. I’ve been playing bass like a guitar player for about 8 years. I love your instructional videos. I am beginning to play bass like a bass player now. Thank you!

Wow! I just found this channel and I am finding the dynamic charts superimposed directly below the closeup of the fretboard incredibly useful. So much easier to follow. Thank you. Subscribed.

SOLD! This lesson is gold. I literally feel like playing through this lesson and practicing has taken my playing to another level. It sounds ridiculously cliche, but it has. Thank you! Oh, and I signed up to the academy for a year. Your lessons and material are with out a doubt top notch!

That lesson was my “A-Hah” lesson! Thanks so much!

Love the 2 string groupingsfrom low to high and high to low. Makes the Pentatonic come across as a lot less "mechanical", if that makes sense. Great lesson. Thank You!

Thanks Scott. I watched your older video about these patterns the other week and then started learning the finger patterns and theory from Ariane Cap's book only 6 days ago. This week's video has given me some new ways to practise connecting the various shapes. Thanks again.

Just realized it's like playing Tetris on bass. All the shapes fit into each other, there is no tone of any shape crossing into the one before. Maybe this is super obvious to everyone, but this helped me a lot...

@oachkatzl8098

3 жыл бұрын

It's when you start recognizing those patterns, that you make progress. I have yet to learn a lot, but I am confident it will feel natural to me at some point.

@jorgelavin

3 жыл бұрын

Look for CAGED system. This is a goldmine, not just for pentatonics, but for chords too

@feloux90

3 жыл бұрын

OMG I thought I was the only one with that "visual" tetris-idea of remembering it! 😍👾

@prezooom4307

2 жыл бұрын

You have me looking Up Tetris

@greenbananas7766

2 жыл бұрын

TYVM for that old visual! LOL. Been many a yr ( okay=decades hehe) since I stood at a Tetris game! Your right. Good visual!!

Thank you so much for the scale lesson Sir! This helps me a lot as a Bass player ❤👌

Thanks Scott and SBL. Your video lessons online are really great and stimulate new ways of thinking and extending from present awareness. ☮️ & 💜 from Melbourne 🇦🇺

Yes! One of the best shifting exercises I've ever seen. To the shed!

Thanks Scott. A huge penny just dropped with this lesson. Cheers my man.

So glad you are on here doing what you do. Really enjoy watching, and learning from, your videos!

Thank you Scott another amazing lesson, loved it. The only thing you missed talking about but played it anyway was going up on one shape and coming back down on the adjacent shape. You played it but didn't mention that as a good exercise to do too. Other than that? Amazing. Good stuff!! So practical and useful. Tod

You're an excellent instructer, mate! Subscribed.

Scott always brings it! one of the very few channels to which i subscribe, and it's worth every second i spend on it.

I'll be sure to use these exercises to practice up for my next cover. Thank you Scott!!

@brendancompton5072

3 жыл бұрын

scott a legend

Scott you are such fun to listen to , makes it easy to learn from you.

Though I'm a hack bassist at best, my ex bassist, taught me the major blues scales, minor blues scales, "walking" the chord (playing the notes making up the chord), & playing octaves (when unable to figure out a tasty groove). He said almost all the songs use those scales (I call them the blues scales Major & minor, he didnt). He's actually a fabulous bassist. I found his advice was priceless, & after messing around with the scales, I figured out all kinds of tunes. Any way, that's what I learned. I like your lessons as well, but a "close up" of the shapes would be helpful, for old guys like me. I'm a guitarist of 50+ yrs, fake it on piano & bass, & can program a drum machine with the best of them. Just found you this afternoon. Cheers!

He gives up just enough information to have you intrigued but not enough to make you not want to enroll in his sbl school. Smart

@alcidek5711

3 жыл бұрын

I enrolled a few weeks ago and it's worth your while, i'm actually baffled by how much content you get for that ridiculous price and the quality of it. I understand times are tough and enrollments are not for everyone these days but I learned more with his lessons in 6 weeks than in one year in music school ... That's my honest opinion.

@creepymcpeepers

3 жыл бұрын

I enrolled also and I will tell you this I have learned more about music in the last month that I have in my entire life from any lesson in person or KZread video sbl is golden

Another great lesson - a must have - Thanks Scott

Thanks for the video. It helps alot. I downloaded it and I'm like, watching it frequently (every now and then) to memorize everything taught here. Thanks again👍

So grateful for all your lessons. Thank you!

Exactly what I needed to see, thanks!

Thank you Scott!! Was looking for some new exercises to play and this was great for my skill level (self-taught beginner of ~8 months)

Thanks man. I was up at 4 this morning practicing this before work cos it sounds so great.

Thank you Scott I will start to work on that ASAP

A great (mostly) pentatonic scale workout is the break in "Sir Duke" by Stevie Wonder. Starts at "B" on the "E" string up to "D#" on the "G" string and back down to "F#" on the "E" string.

@bachrocktheamericahatersan5799

2 жыл бұрын

Great bass on that song. A real workout.

6:37 for my routine

Just have to get it all clean and then work on speed. Fantastic lesson, Scott. Your Da Man!

Your instruction skills are impeccable

Great lesson! thank you for this.

This video gives me new idea of exercices, thx a lot!

Thanks! This was great! I will be practicing this today.

I love this lesson, I love your shirt, and I love you Scott!! Thanks for everything!!

Awesome Scott. Great exercises.

Great lesson Scott. I picked up some new practice material.

HALLELUJAH!!! I'VE SEEN THE LIGHT!!! This lesson has helped me move on to another plateau in my playing...for others out there, spend a few days on this and you too will benefit from watching this video... Thanks again Scott!

The intro gets me all the time🔥🔥 Great content

Thank you for this, helped me a lot!!!

Scott you need to talk about your rig sometime I love your tone alot

Superb Scott. Thank you 🙏

I like it. I'll put in practice. Thanks Scott

This is huge for me! I keep seeing you driving the entire neck and say to myself... Am I EVER going to get this? Thank you so much for breaking this down into bite-sized pieces. I'm hoping this is the springboard to understanding how to play the pentatonic scales on the other chords as well. Thank you SOOO much for this, Scott!

@jimidi1850

2 жыл бұрын

The base lesson itself is very useful... However the upside down graphic is not. Even if you're sitting in front of a baseplayer trying to learn what hes doing the notes do not turn upside down!!!

Nice one, thanks Scott !

Thank you so much...this is what ive been wanting to learn

That bass sounds GREAT!

Thank you. In high school (mid-1960's) I added cello preparing for being a music major. The method my teacher used was "Finger Patterns."

Love the jazz need more

Great video .Thank you. I just ordered my first bass. I will start soon as it arrives.

Thanks a lot! Gonna be super useful

Great Scott Thanks so much!

I first learned the major scale patterns, unknowing they were lined up in a grid, then I learned all major scales at one position of the neck, without learning the octaves, then I learned the pentatonic shapes, realizing they were in a grid. Then I learned intervals, then I learned the diatonic 7th arpeggios, then I learned that the major scale pattern could be put on top of the pentatonic grid, then I learned the melodic minor pattern as well on this grid. then I learned the regular arpeggios. yup. take lessons, kids. intervallic soloing I'm having my eye on now.

@yantheyam5622

2 жыл бұрын

And then

@Nomad-yn7pv

2 жыл бұрын

@@yantheyam5622 lol

This has been very, very helpful to a self taugh player as myself. Thank you so much. Will subscribe!:)

One (actually: 3) of your very best training-tips Scott! Thnx a bunch!

@Marekki2202

3 жыл бұрын

what are the others? Asking for a friend

Many thx Good lesson ☺

Great Lesson Scott. As usual 👍🇳🇱🎸Many Thanks

Hi Scott, you hit the sweetspot over here with this one! 💪

This is awesome. Thanks bud!

Watching this right before work. I can’t wait to get home and try these!

Thanks for sharing. . .

I really appreciate what you are doing sir.

What a teacher! Thanks.

Scott, I really miss these 'instructional' type of videos...although I understand why you have changed the format. Don't get me wrong, I really like the new format of videos, but thanks for throwing in this one! BASS '):

I think this is the best video for me anyway, that you've put out thus far!!!

Awesome video just what I needed to expand my playing thanks

Then try starting on the Low E and play it in a "three notes per string patern" and your there!!...that's the E minor pentatonic!!...play it assending right up to the high G (12th fret of the first string) and descending all the way back to the low E!!...pretty cool!!...

Good job. Wish i could afford your classes. Solid lessons all around. 😉👌

Thanks for the tableture boxes

Hey Scott I'm one of pentatonic player it is my culture but this was question for long time for me you help me solve it 😉 is it the same with other majors as well thank you so much I will go register in your lesson on line I love how you teach. Much respect teacher

Great approach

Thanks Scott

Amazing video and great PDF file. I was taking screenshots and scribbling down notes until I remembered.. PDF! Thanks Scott - Great content as always!

@iqi616

3 жыл бұрын

That effort wasn't wasted - those are the bits that will really stay with you.

this is so helpfull thank to you so much for this thanks sir

Thank you!

Great video. I really like that bass, too. I usually don't like distressing but that looks very cool.

Liked and subscribed already! This is so great... Thanks mate!

Priceless.cheers🍻

Awesome explanation!

good stuff mate, thanks

very good exercice scott's thank you

Thanks for the lesson 😍😍😍😘

That P bass is a great sounding bass.

The final run was something I learned a while ago on guitar and used it to help break out of the boxes and create lead ideas. I learned it in Amin but with 2 notes on the low E starting at G then 3 notes on the next string, then 2 notes, then 3 etc. and now also use the same pattern for bass lines and ideas. It's an awesome tool

one of your best lessons

Thank you very much, sir👍

Very helpful 👍🏻thank you

@devinebass

Жыл бұрын

🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

Another reet good bite size lesson - thanks!

Interesting vid. I own a Fender Rascal which I really enjoy for reasons of a high variety of tones, ease of play and portability. My Aerodyne sis my go to bass for gigging but have used my Rascal a few times with no issues at all.

Nice stuff...thanks

Hi Scott❤ you are an excellent teacher and keep up the good work 🎉

@devinebass

7 ай бұрын

🧡🧡🧡

TY sir!!

A' Very Good Lesson. .. Great Work's on Bass Concept ... Thank' s so Much Mr. Scott B. L. ... ☺😊😀/💙💙💙/👍👌👏

Great stuff!!!...