Scales for the Bass (5-String)

Pick a root note — every pattern sits low on the fretboard, with sound.

The Bass (5-String) scale reference: choose a root and one of 24 types — common, pentatonic, blues, modal, bebop, symmetric, world — and see the pattern as it lies in BEADG, roots marked throughout.

A bassist does not run scales for their own sake: these maps exist to be broken into lines. Every pattern here is a menu of target notes around the root you are responsible for.