Is It Worth Learning The Five Pentatonic Shapes?

[greghagger]

If you take the major pentatonic scale and start it on its different notes, you can form five different shapes. These shapes can then be used to create riffs and fills.

 

But just how useful is it for us bass players to learn these five pentatonic shapes? Can they help us or is this just another concept that has been borrowed from guitarists?

 

This is the topic of my latest YouTube lesson where I discuss this question and give you my take on whether to learn these shapes.

 

In the video I also give you clear instructions on how to play the pentatonic scale and what to use it for.

 

Free PDF containing fretboard shapes and four pentatonic licks in the video description.