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Minor pentatonic scale on bass
The minor pentatonic on bass guitar: the box on four strings, the root on the E and A strings for all twelve keys, played at a tap, MIDI and WAV to take.
In the minor pentatonic scale on bass, the top note here is A2, 110.0 Hz. Mika stops there.Tap Hear it, or tap any note on the board.
A C D E G
The notes of the A minor pentatonic scale
A C D E G
Formula: 1 ♭3 4 5 ♭7. Steps from note to note: 3 2 2 3 2 semitones (one and a half, whole, whole, one and a half, whole).
Natural A minor without its 2nd and 6th (B and F). The same five notes are the C major pentatonic scale.
The A minor pentatonic scale on bass
One position, frets 4–8, E string first: E: 5 8 (1 ♭3) · A: 5 7 (4 5) · D: 5 7 (♭7 1) · G: 5 7 (♭3 4). 0 = open string.
1 is the root. Put it on the fret the table below gives for your key and the same shape plays that key. On bass the shape sits under one hand, one finger per fret, and the octave is two strings up and two frets on.
The minor pentatonic scale in all twelve keys
| Root | Notes | Fret, low string | Octave, D string |
|---|---|---|---|
| C | C E♭ F G B♭ | 8 | 10 |
| C♯ | C♯ E F♯ G♯ B | 9 | 11 |
| D | D F G A C | 10 | 0 |
| E♭ | E♭ G♭ A♭ B♭ D♭ | 11 | 1 |
| E | E G A B D | 0 | 2 |
| F | F A♭ B♭ C E♭ | 1 | 3 |
| F♯ | F♯ A B C♯ E | 2 | 4 |
| G | G B♭ C D F | 3 | 5 |
| G♯ | G♯ B C♯ D♯ F♯ | 4 | 6 |
| A | A C D E G | 5 | 7 |
| B♭ | B♭ D♭ E♭ F A♭ | 6 | 8 |
| B | B D E F♯ A | 7 | 9 |
The bass box
On bass the minor pentatonic box is two notes per string: from A at the 5th fret, E 5 8, A 5 7, D 5 7, G 5 7. Root, ♭7 and octave give you the classic rock and funk fill; the ♭3 and 4 connect them. Keep the root on beat one and fill on beat four.
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How this page works
Hear it plays the scale up and down at 100 BPM on one of four Brumm sounds. Take it gives the same notes as a MIDI file and a WAV. − and + move the root. Every note here is computed from the formula.
Sources
Scales and modes: Open Music Theory, musictheory.net. Piano fingerings: the standard scale-book fingerings (ABRSM scale books; Hanon, The Virtuoso Pianist, part 3). Trumpet valves: the standard B♭ trumpet fingering chart (Yamaha, Bach). Hz: A4 = 440 Hz, ISO 16.
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