Pentatonic Minor scale

 Ahh yes the back bone of rock and roll the pentatonic scale. this is rock and roll people below there is a tab for you to follow but first i need to explain a few things about the pentatonic scale. Penta means 5 and in this scale there are five notes in it. essentially if you know the five notes in that key you can figure out where to play it all over the neck of the bass. but thats a bit harder to figure out especially if you don't know the names of the notes so i suggest if you don't know the notes on each fret you take a few minutes a day to try and learn them. So in order for me to make you able to play the pentatonic scale i have broken it down into 5 positions on the neck. 

     E pentatonic 1st position

G------------------------0--2-------------           

D-----------------0--2--------------------

A----------0--2---------------------------

E---0--3----------------------------------

            2nd position

G-----------------------2--4----------------

D----------------2--5-----------------------

A----------2--5-----------------------------

E---3--5------------------------------------

           3rd position

G------------------------4--7---------------

D-----------------5--7----------------------

A----------5--7-----------------------------

E---5--7------------------------------------

         4th position

G------------------------------7--9---------

D---------------------7--9------------------

A------------7--10--------------------------

E---7--10-----------------------------------

        5th position

G----------------------------------9--12-----

D-------------------------9--12--------------

A--------------10--12------------------------

E---10--12-----------------------------------

the key is to be able to fluently play the scale in all positions up and down. But let me point out a few things of importance about the pentatonic scale. Did you notice how i said before there are 5 notes in the scale? and did you also notice that there are 5 positions? thats because each position represents a note in the scale. this is mearly a way to remeber how to play the scale up and down the neck. Now remember when you practice try to stay with in that posotions your working on but when you incorporate it into your playing try to bridge the gap between each position and make it as fluent as possible.


and one last important thing this is all done in E pentatonic minor. now if your wondering how to make this sound good in a different key like A pentatonic minor all you do is move it up to the 5th fret instead of starting at open E.

for any questions feel free to email me at papabear.gmail.com