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Here is the riff from War's "Low Rider" by bassist B.B. Dickerson. This is a simple riff that is mostly just an ascending minor pentatonic scale, but is a very distinctive a recognizable line.
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Below is the fingering for the minor pentatonic scale that is used. It is an extended scale which requires a couple of shifts. The riff itself stays on the bottom 3 strings only, but I have included the notes that would be on the first string as well.
Suggested ascending fingering
|-----|-----|--1--|-----|--3--|-----|--3--| -1st
|-----|-----|--1--|-----|--3--|-----|-----|
|--1--|-----|--3--|-----|--3--|-----|-----|
|--1--|-----|--3--|-----|-----|-----|-----| -4th
Suggested descending fingering
|-----|-----|--1--|-----|--1--|-----|--3--| -1st
|-----|-----|--1--|-----|--3--|-----|-----|
|--1--|-----|--1--|-----|--3--|-----|-----|
|--1--|-----|--3--|-----|-----|-----|-----| -4th
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