E Major Pentatonic — Bass (4-String)

The E Major Pentatonic scale runs 5 notes per octave in the pentatonic family. Below it sits on the Bass (4-String)'s EADG strings with every root marked, because a bassist reads a scale map as a set of targets around the root, not a row of dots.

Open, sunny, and hard to play wrong — with no half steps there is nothing to clash, so every note sits comfortably over a major chord. Warm, folksy, and singable.

Heard in: Country, bluegrass, folk, gospel, Southern rock, and countless pop hooks — from "Amazing Grace" to "My Girl".

In fourths tuning every pattern is movable: learn the shape once, one finger per fret, and it works from any root on the EADG neck.

Walk it slowly against the audio, land each root on a downbeat, then take it to the progressions in E and let the scale turn into lines.