New Pentatonic Shape "The Ramp" 

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The tone of your bass sounds amazing!

Thank you Mr. Brown

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

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

Sweet! So clear ... beautifully described!

Excellent as always Rich! New world of ideas

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.

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

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!

Thanks Rich, another little gem this lesson. 🙌

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

Thanks for the lesson Sir Rich❤

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

Best deal in music lessons going! Thank you Rich!

What a groovy sound. Thank you!

Good Stuff Rich! Thanks for posting!

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! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Awesome tips, thanks millions!

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

Thanks Mr. Brown!

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

Once again another great lesson!

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

Another Great One!!! Thanks.

🤯Love this!

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

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

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

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

Great teacher!

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

Awesome tip, thanks! 👏

Great lessons Thank you💖 Sir 🙏

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

High 5 Rich!

Very cool!

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

So cool. Thanks Rich.

love it homie thanks so much

Excellent Rich love you !

Excellent, keep up the good work

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

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

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

Thanks Rich something I’ve never seen before 🔥

Thanks!

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

Niiiiiice.... So simple and so GOOD!

thank you for this！！

Woooo! i got to go to the shed!!

Nice!! 🔥🔥🔥

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

Yoooooo!!! This is heavy! 💪🏻🤯🤩

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 🎸

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.

🤯🤯🤯🤯 soooo good thanks Rich xx

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

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

Blew. My. Mind. ❤️

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!

Thank you

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

Cool video!

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

Love the bass

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

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! ☺️

Amazing idea, gonna engrave it in my left hand ✋

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!

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

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 : )

Yes. I'm gonna work on this.

Your bass tone. May goodness-

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)

"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!

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.

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

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

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.

Great lesson and shape! Just one question, as I also play a 5string, why don't you incorporate the low B string in your exercises?

Do the Ramp!

Looks like a penta scale base on the dorian mode !

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

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

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.

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