Play Confident Riffs & Fills Using Simple Pentatonic Shapes – On Any Bass Line, In Any Style
Five Notes • Multiple Patterns • Infinite Riffs
A step‑by‑step video course for hobbyist bass players who want to stop guessing with scales and start creating musical lines that actually sound good.
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Jam at a local blues / rock night with confidence.
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No longer freeze when it is time to improvise a bass line or throw in a fill
- Play creative riffs and licks that sound right and hit the spot!
Lifetime access · Backing tracks · PDF booklets · 14‑day money‑back guarantee
Here’s what most bass players secretly struggle with when it comes to pentatonics…
- Sticking to the same 2 or 3 'safe' notes and hoping they work.
- Knowing the box shapes in theory but not knowing what to actually play over real songs.
- Licks sounding like they are just running through the scales.
- Getting lost when the band changes key or the groove shifts.
- Feeling like pentatonics are 'for soloists,' not for supportive, musical bass playing.
If any of that sounds familiar, Pure Pentatonics is designed specifically to fix it for you.
Hi, I’m Greg Hagger!
...pro bassist and founder of Greg’s Bass Shed. For three decades I’ve played in arenas, theatres, concert halls, and on TV and radio – and I've helped thousands of bass players reach their musical goals.
My GBS students are a mixture of late-starters, returners, hobbyists, and retired players - all who love playing bass.
My aim is to provide straight-to-the-point, no nonsense lessons and resources, giving you the real stuff that you need to improve in the most efficient way on the bass guitar.
Scott Green said...
"Pure Pentatonics is an excellent course! I can say that there are interesting and different concepts that will definitely help any bass player."
Steve Pullen said...
"Greg, thank you for a great bass course on Pentatonics! I have learned a lot which will serve me well in developing my own lines, riffs and fills. Cheers, Steve."
What is Pure Pentatonics and who is it for?
Pure Pentatonics is a 5‑module video course (around 12 minutes per lesson) that shows you exactly how to use pentatonic scales to create musical bass fills, grooves and bass lines - with backing tracks, PDF booklets and exercises to make it stick.
This course is for you if...
- You’re a hobbyist / retired bass player who wants to sound more musical without learning loads of complex theory.
- You can already play some bass lines, but your fills and solos feel random or boring and obvious.
- You like clear, structured lessons with PDFs and backing tracks you can revisit in your own time.
This course is NOT for you if…
- You’re looking for a full conservatoire‑style theory course.
- You expect overnight results without practising the simple exercises.
Course outcomes
By the end of Pure Pentatonics, you will be able to:
- Use 5 notes and a small set of pentatonic shapes to create musical fills that fit the song - instead of random runs.
- Move those shapes around the neck and change key without panicking.
- Hear which notes are 'safe,' which create tension, and how to resolve them.
- Improvise simple bass lines and licks over blues, rock, pop and more, using ideas you’ve actually practised.
- Build your own licks library and adapt it to any groove or tempo.
👇 Yes I want these skills, enrol now 👇
Module Breakdown
- Module 1 - The Pentatonic Scales & Their Shapes
- Outline: Simple one‑octave and two-octave scales to learn where the pentatonic shapes sit on the neck. Learning the 5 shapes of the pentatonic.
- Outcome: Know where to put your fingers so you’re never hunting for the 5 notes of the pentatonic scales.
- Module 2 - Relationship Between Major & Minor Pentatonics
- Outline: Learning the relationship between the major and relative minor pentatonics
- Outcome: Increasing the options of shapes to use for chord progressions.
- Module 3 - Mastering The Neck With Pentatonic Drills
- Outline: Different drills to further establish the various pentatonic shapes over the whole neck.
- Outcome: Know which notes work and sound good, anywhere on the fretboard.
- Module 4 - Pentatonics To Blues Scales
- Outline: Adding the 'blues note' to pentatonic scales.
- Outcome: Adding extra options for colour in your bass lines and fills.
- Module 5 - Using Pentatonics For Riffs & Fills
- Outline: Building riffs and creating fills
- Outcome: Putting it all together and using pentatonics to improvise, so you can walk into any jam and know what to play.”
Each module includes short video lessons (~12 minutes), PDF booklets, and backing tracks so you can hear and feel the ideas in real music.
Bonuses
Don't miss out on these bonuses that you get in this special launch deal...
✅ Two live group zoom sessions to establish what you are learning in the course.
✅ Free community area to hang and share your playing with other like-minded bass players.
Nick said...
“Greg has a wonderful way of teaching - gentle, effective, clear, and makes playing great material accessible. His approach to sharing and giving as well as the quality of his interpretations and transcriptions, cannot be beaten."
Tom said...
"I honestly don’t need to brag about Greg or his lessons. The content that is available for free speaks volumes of the time he puts into each lesson. I didn’t think there could be more to offer than what was available already. But the time put into the course is second to none."
Bob said...
“I’m 68 and only started playing bass a few years ago. Greg’s clear, structured courses and backing tracks helped me to get up at a jam night and finally improvise fills without panicking!”
Scroll down to see what you’ll learn inside Pure Pentatonics...
Here's what you get...
- Over 25 step‑by‑step video lessons (around 12 minutes each)
- PDF booklets with TAB and notation
- Backing tracks in multiple styles and tempos
- Watch on computer, tablet or phone
- Lifetime access to everything
- 14‑day money‑back guarantee
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Join Pure Pentatonics for Bass Players
- One‑time payment: $197
- Lifetime access · All future updates included
Try Pure Pentatonics for 14 days. If you feel it isn’t helping your bass playing, email me and you’ll get a full refund - no hard feelings.
FAQs
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