How to Play a Pentatonic Blues Scale on Bass Guitar

Video Transcript

"Hi! I am Carl Shepard here with expertvillage.com, we have been talking about different bass techniques. Really for the bass player in a band, a lot of where bass grooves come from is the blues and so when you are playing the blues, you are going to pick up a lot of different things that you know are definitely popular among different bass techniques. So, here is a basic bass groove in G and play the third fret of the E string and then you come up here to the fifth fret of the D string, third fret of that same string and then fifth fret of the A string, okay and for this I am using my index, my pinky, index and pinky again, okay, so the box pattern is going to stay the same for each string, the next string down you are going to go third fret A string, fifth fret G string, third fret G string, fifth fret D string, back down your root note and now we are on the D, okay and you want to play fifth fret of the A, seventh fret of your G string, fifth fret of your G string, seventh fret of your D, back down to the third fret of your A, fifth fret of your G, third fret of your G and fifth fret of your D, back down to the root after that, and now this is called a turnaround and that gets you prepared to come back to the beginning of the progression. "