E Minor Pentatonic — Bass (4-String)

The E Minor 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.

Gritty, bluesy, and direct — five notes with no half steps, so each one lands with attitude over a minor or dominant chord. The sound of rock and blues lead playing.

Heard in: Blues, rock, hard rock, metal, funk, and soul solos — the first scale most lead players learn and the one they never leave.

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.