 Hi there welcome back if you've watched our part one part one was about the major scale I talked about the major scale and pretty much all the positions then this one then this one so if you haven't already do consider heading over and watching our part one and then come back to part two where I'm going to now cover the other scales the minors and a lot more scales not too many but just enough to get you started on the bass and play a variety of music like most of the music out there I would argue 95 to 96% of music out there will be on these scales the major yes very famous very popular but the other ones I'm going to share with you also equally popular right guys before we get started it'll be awesome if you could hit that subscribe button turn on the bell for regular notifications and if you'd like to consider learning the bass guitar at our school do head over to nathanielschool.com there's a form you can fill it up and we will we will coach you over a six month semester program called music method let's get cracking so again I'm going to take the key of C for simplicity and let's just look at how you can build a minor so this is where you need to ask yourself what is the difference between the major and the minor if you know the major scale then you kind of already know the minor scale you just have to modify a couple of notes so you're going to basically mess around with a few intervals with respect to the major scale to then successfully form these other scales so assuming you know the major you can now do modifications like that the minor scale which I'm going to show you first so what do we do with the minors the two more common minor scales which I'm going to show you the natural minor and the harmonic minor both of these scales are very similar they sound pensive and a little bit sad and serious but they have a couple of different use cases and a different note comparatively so to build a natural minor scale what you need to do is take the major scale which is C D E F G A B and you're going to modify or bring down by a semitone the third degree of the scale the sixth degree and the seventh degree what is the third note of C major C D E so that's going to now change itself to C D E will become E flat so C D E flat now you could play that even here if you start with your middle but I think start off with your index finger on C and it's quite easy to form that E flat right C D E flat not C D E that will make it a major third which is part of the major scale that's E flat which makes it the minor scale so let's look at the first five notes of the natural minor you'll realize that the fourth and the fifth are same as major the second is also the same as major so what changes it's just the third C D E flat F G C D E flat minor third right so to identify the shapes a bit better you can do C F B flat and you're forming all of them on the same row the same fret of the consecutive strings C F B flat that's root perfect fourth minor seventh or flat seven and then you have the other stuff on the next row which is C D G C so that's D major second G perfect five octave and then the other one will be at the three skipping two frets and then going here E flat A flat that's your minor third minor sixth minor third minor six so the whole thing is actually three lines here here and here so quite easy to play that natural minor let's do it slowly C D E flat F G E flat B flat C down C B flat E flat G F E flat D C C D E flat F G E flat B flat C C that's your minor scale very impensive and serious compared to its major counterpart minor lot more sad okay now the minor has a variation we have the harmonic minor which will be instead of that seventh you just get to your major seventh itself the seventh used in the major scale right it's a very exotic vibe and very eastern vibe you'll also find a lot of in a lot of western classical music minor that would make it natural harmonic leave the seventh alone with respect to major or as some people say raise the seventh okay so those were the minor scales so i'd like to now cover some other scales which bass players especially find very very commonly used in music those are the pentatonic scales and the pentatonic scales are five note scales there are two variants there's the major pentatonic and there's the minor pentatonic so the the system here is with the pentatonic it means five notes the major scale or the minor scale have seven notes so for a major pentatonic you knock off two notes from the major scale the parent scale and for the minor pentatonic you knock off two notes from the parent minor scale okay so if you take c major now c major scale the major pentatonic is built by knocking off the fourth degree and the seventh degree basically the degree is which add a little bit of tension and make a semitone or a short distance between notes like c d e f that's one fret away so we knock that c d e g no f so no four c d e g a no b because b and c is a half step or a fret away so we skip that c d e g c d e g a c do so this is the groove scale this is how you build your grooves on the bass or a lot of these bass instruments not just a bass guitar right you can also do the major pentatonic in a couple of shapes you can do in this way starting with the middle or with the pinky what i like to do if i like to slide between the two and the three i could play it with my index finger on c c d with my pinky slide to e and then index pinky index pretty much just the index and pinky in that position versus the other position from the middle finger major pentatonic now what about the minor pentatonic minor pentatonic basically is like playing the minor scale without the second because then it'll avoid that that that chromatic minor second interval so pump pump pump pump c e flat f g root minor third perfect fourth perfect fifth now you don't do the minor sixth instead one minor third perfect four perfect five minor seventh octave the octave doesn't add a new note it's just there is an octave it's good to go up to the octave and come back let's do that together c e flat f g b flat c octave minor seventh perfect fifth perfect fourth now both these scales the major pentatonic and the minor pentatonic can be made bluesy or just converted into their respective blues scales by doing the following for the major pentatonic you basically add the flat three into the production so you basically go instead of that what is that that's one two three flat three or you can do it here one two three flat three i like playing the blues major blues scale actually starting from the pinky so root major second normally would have played the major third but for blues okay c d e g ac which makes it pentatonic but but that makes it major blues root major second minor third major third perfect fifth major sixth that's a nice way to practice it as well try to make your own melodies from your voice and then try to match it up on the bass in the position you're on so this is the pinky position of the major blues scale you could also do it this way so let's now look at the minor blues scale and that's the last scale for this lesson that's the minor pentatonic so for the minor blues we add the tritone to find a tritone from anywhere play a note c go up the fifth g and come down slide down a fret you get this kind of very chaotic very tense sound but anyway it sounds beautiful in the blues c e flat f tritone perfect fifth minor seventh octave so pentatonic was adding that blue note or the tritone element right that's four tritone g right guys so in this chapter we've looked at the minor scales natural and harmonic minor then we've looked at the pentatonic scales major and minor and we've looked at the blues scales major blues and the minor blues in part one we looked at all about the major scale shapes positions and some songs you can also build at the end of that video so this was our two part series on how you can play scales on the bass guitar in different positions with different patterns and I've talked about all the intervals hopefully you found the lesson useful and you can use it and apply it and you become a better bass player through this lesson thanks a ton guys and before I pack up the video it'll be great if you can consider heading over to Nathaniel school of music for a lot more bass guitar lessons which are listed there or on our youtube channel all you have to do is join us hit the subscribe button do consider following us on patreon and if you'd like to learn the bass you can always fill up a form on nathanielschool.com cheers this is Jason Zach catch you in the next one