G major scale exercise #2

This time we explore 2 pentatonic scales to use when playing over a G major tonality.# 1 is a G major (the country sounding pentatonic) - same notes as E minor pentatonic , reuse your E minor pentatonic licks;-)
#2 is playing a B minor pentatonic scale, for a more jazzy sound.
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Music

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• bass
• scale
• exercise
• solo

[elistarlight1]

amazing tone. always inspiring. tell me good sir, can i get this tone from an american deluxe precision bass? i have seen so many of your videos and i just love that jazz bass tone... but i also like the precision bass tone.. would that give me what im lookin for?

Thanks again for being an inspiration! you make me want to become a better bassist every time i see and hear you play. thanks bro!

[MarloweDK]

A jazz bass for this kind of tone

[Groynkikt]

so... Why does the B minor pentatonic work with this? Is it because you're replacing B phrygian? which is a minor type of "scale" ?

[MarloweDK]

Yes, basically we can use most of the modes and scale them down to pentatonic scales. For example instead of phrygian (1, b2, b3, 4, 5, b6, b7) we simplify it to minor pentatonic (1, b3, 4, 5 ,b7) . Why? Because the pentatonic sclae is in the bassplayers "dna", its a scale most of know licks from - we have the fingering allready.

So it all about reusing the things we know to make up new and interesting lines

[jamesattard]

how do you create such a beautiful tone?

[MarloweDK]

Favor bridge p-up, down with tone (Jaco sound), korg pandora with compression, chorus and a tad reverb. No , it all in the fingers;-)

[Skybum33]

Man, you have lots of soul, lots and lots! =)

[blitzace103]

hi nice playing, can i request for the backing track of this video? choo14344@yahoo.com, thank you and Godbless

[DamonUK]

You deserve to do well Mr. DK. Beautiful playing. Wish I could do it.

[leonardommarques]

thanx man...

[guyclark1958]

you are the master bass playing at it's artist best

[kazodrummer]

incredible!!!!!!!!!!!!

[person2954]

daaaamnn i wanna learn bass too now haha

[squarcy2010]

non sei nessuno avoglia ke pubbliki video, nessun artista famoso ti prenderà a suonare

[MikeLeeColeman]

nice tone.

respect