How Do You Trickle Down The Pentatonic Scale On Bass Guitar?
The pentatonic scale is the most common one in most genres of popular music and is so named because it consists of five notes in each octave (“penta” is Latin for five). The following steps will show how to trickle down the pentatonic scale on a bass guitar. Study the structure of the pentatonic scale. It may start with any note which tells you the key of the scale and ascends as follows: three steps, two steps, two steps, three steps and two steps to complete the octave. Note that 3+2+2+3+2=12 and there are 12 steps in an octave. Look at the notes in the pentatonic scale for the key of C. Using the pattern given in Step 1, these notes are C, E flat, F, G, B flat and C again for the octave. Begin at the top note of the pentatonic scale. In this example, start with the ring finger fretting the G string at the fifth fret (C). Pluck the G string, remove the ring finger and use the index finger on the third fret before plucking the G string again (B flat). Now play the third string (D in s
