Pentatonics for your pentatonics!

With all due respect to other bass gurus on this platform, I find your teaching style to be the most compatible with how I learn. You construct these super informative videos full of warmth and patience. It's super effective and inspirational. Thank you for helping me on my bass playing journey and also for being a good person.

Rich: "Cmon now". Me: " I'm with ya brother, just give me a sec"

Man, Richie every lesson valuable... You shouldn't ask😂😂😂

Rich, I’ve been playing bass for a long time and you always give me a new way of looking at things that I think I know! Your wisdom is greatly appreciated.

This shape certainly is a whole new source of licks, BRAVO!

Thank you for all of these invaluable lessons and sharing these shapes. Feels like I'm free from a long time of being "stuck" on the fretboard. Thank you for showing me new paths! Haven't been this excited to study and practice in a long time.

Nice lesson, Brother! Thanks! I donated few Euros to support your Channel! God bless you! Greetings from Germany!

I've been playing bass for just around twenty-five years....with some periods of down time.... And for most of the time I've been playing I've made most of my lines and grooves based off of the three fret spacing.... Never really knowing what any of that meant.... But I've been pretty good at playing by ear through all this time.... I've been watching and practicing your Pentatonic videos for about the last 4 days.... And I've got to tell you that my playing skill has almost doubled just with those few videos....I can't wait to catch up on the rest of your material.....that k your for blessing us

YES. This. This is frickin cool. Rich out here with the freshest free bass lessons in the world 🌎 Thank you for sharing your wisdom and incredible perspective for everyone to absorb, it's always a pleasure learning from you, brother

We have a new box :) "BB Box" now "Brownstone Ramp"! Just like BB King made his own shape. I think Albert King also used the BB shape? Anyway you can tell I am a guitar player😂😂😂 Well done

Excellent as usual. I'll have that all night!

Excellent as always Rich! New world of ideas

Wonderful as always Rich! This is indeed a fresh new shape for me to dig in to. I will be working it into my playing, and I will think about your tutorial here when I do. Thanks SO much for your efforts, they are very much appreciated!

What a groovy sound. Thank you!

Sweet! So clear ... beautifully described!

That is sweet Rich, thank you again for sharing your time with us!

Thanks Rich, another little gem this lesson. 🙌

Once again another great lesson!

🤯Love this!

love it homie thanks so much

Very cool!

Awesome tip, thanks! 👏

Good Stuff Rich! Thanks for posting!

Awesome tips, thanks millions!

Another Great One!!! Thanks.

Thank you Mr. Brown

Wow, this is really interesting. 👍 I find thinking about Bass notes to be simple enough that I don’t rely on shapes like I would on guitar. But THIS is really really interesting. And it’s definitely a SHAPE that we can think about it in. Fascinating, unexpected, and really cool sounding. What a brilliant find! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This channel is the real deal. Fantastic content Mr. Brown !

That's cool, I'm gonna play with this. thanks!

thank you for this！！

Best deal in music lessons going! Thank you Rich!

Great teacher!

Great lessons Thank you💖 Sir 🙏

Thanks!

Thank you

I got it! Besides the tonic, the 6th is the anchor that turn the progression around towards the tonic...

Excellent, keep up the good work

Thanks for the lesson Sir Rich❤

Great lesson, Rich. Thank you for spicing up my minor pentatonic life!

Blew. My. Mind. ❤️

Thanks Mr. Brown!

I just heard Korn, their lick. The level and simplicity that you explain is awesome! thank you!

The tone of your bass sounds amazing!

Very cool, really connects the pentatonic to the ii chord and a dorian sound. Great lesson. Cheers!

Nice!! 🔥🔥🔥

Reinventing pentatonics. Can't wait to try this out.

Let's go another thing I'm going to enjoy practicing and playing around with. Come on now, keep it coming Mr Brown. 🔥🔥

Excellent Rich love you !

Thank you for this...what a rut busting lesson

I learned this originally as the koto scale (japanese scale) and then heard thundercat use it a bunch, love your videos!

Great video Rich ! First saw u on scotts bass lessons with a video about making scales sound like music . Nice to c u have ur own channel.cool stuff 🎸

So cool. Thanks Rich.

Soooo😎..... Great melodic ideas. Gonna work on it!

great awesome lesson/video even managed to incorporate a flat 5 by accident and playing around with fittted in a diminshed pattern

Very clear and concise... The sound of this scale is super amazing. Straight from Ghana I say Thank you. Mr Brownstone

Great video! Im also a fan of fretless tips and lessons!

Rich, what an awesome shape. THE RAMP minor pentatonic. You are the coolest 😎

Good stuff!

i appreciate you, rich. thanks for this.

I enjoy learning new ways of thinking about scales and all the rest. Love it ! Love it! and your HUMOUR !! just the right amount :) .. Seems though it might be the koto scale (see comment below) and not The Ramp... but I think I like your description better!

Rich you are a genius that's really smooth I can do something with that, this is Melvin Brown keep up the good lessons I like that, The Ramp.

Amazing! in spanish I would say "suena brutal". Thanks for your wisdom master Brown.

Yoooooo!!! This is heavy! 💪🏻🤯🤩

Cool video!

Hey, thanks Rich, I'll try to ramp it up. Peace and love.

🤯🤯🤯🤯 soooo good thanks Rich xx

Niiiiiice.... So simple and so GOOD!

Oh my goodness....we need more like this.💪👏👏👏

Rich, thank you for this content, I could listen to you talk and play all day man.

Just one thing to say...NICE!!!!

Thanks Rich something I’ve never seen before 🔥

Love the bass

Woooo! i got to go to the shed!!

Hey Rich, hope you are feeling better after your brush with covid, take it easy and get well

damn man!!! good class!!! thank you so much!

This minor with major 6 makes me think about Adderley's Autumn Leaves where Guaraldi vamps on a Gm6 with his left hand in the intro which gives a killer (piano) bass line. The ramp is very cool, thanks!

Amazing idea, gonna engrave it in my left hand ✋

Awesomeness, as usual Rich. Wonderful lesson. Thank you.

Gawd I love that bass. F-basses for the win! Bummer, as a Canadian I can’t buy one in my city.

I really enjoy your videos. For my learning style, a few graphics would be immensely helpful

Now I know what I’ll be doing for the next six months! ☺️

High 5 Rich!

"You know what that is"...the FUNKIEST note in the world! I yelled it before you said it, thank you sir. Intervallic exercises are paramount to unlocking the fretboard and becoming familiar with sounds and utilizing modes to the fullest, instead of just hearing the same scale from a different starting point, etc. They expedite the ability to improvise, it's like unlocking a power in a video game, it's everything...i cant tell you how much I appreciate your lessons and your attitude. God Bless!

Yes. I'm gonna work on this.

Is jazz improv class our prof called it the Japanese pentatonic scale. I found your presentation with the 3 shapes more applicable. Thanks a bunch!

thank you mr brownstone : )

Thank you 😌not complicated and useful. Can't ask for much more.

Thanks for the info Rich! It feels like a pentatonic based on the phrygian mode, in this case "A" phrygian. But I haven't sorted out why it works. I guess since the relative major is Bb, you can play a variation of the phrygian off that "A", and get those color tones, instead of the very inside sounding Locrian (relating it back to Bb)

Great job overall. Love it. Hard to follow your fingering sometimes, because you have such a fluid soft touch. It would be helpful if you used an “exaggerated” fingering for demonstration purposes and slow down a little.

Use that as a passing tone run during a III7 to ii* modulation and, with just enough chorus pedal intervention, you got Jaco at those moments he would close his eyes and sink down into better than heroin land. Remember, in Canada, they call it oatside. Therefore, we can call it anything we want. What's it a boat? or What's it, a boat? I still don't know wuhthafc they're on, but it's something and it obviously works for them. Rock on.

Your bass tone. May goodness-

How is the light so smooth in your setup?! The neck looks so shimmering.

Come on now!!! classic comment by you🎶😎

I'm really liking this one Rich. Do you know the Coltrane pentatonic scale?

Wonderful lesson again thank you is the ramp shape same shape in different keys?

Do the Ramp!

Looks like a penta scale base on the dorian mode !

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I was experimenting with a new "flavor" in the major pentatonic scale but still using the major 6? How can we spice up a maj pentatonic with a substituted note perhaps? (start our ramp at the major third instead? I guess it's a bumpy ramp on that one. And since I learned and mastered modes from you, i guess this lessons is like the second "mode of the A min pentatonic scale.