Chords for 5 WAYS TO SOUND LIKE JACO PASTORIUS (without buying a jazz bass)

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Hey guys, what's up?
Scott Devine here from scottsbasslessons _ .com and today we're going to be doing a little
bit of a different style of video for you because I'm a huge fan of Jaco Pastorius.
_ I'm guessing you're probably the same.
If you've not heard Jaco Pastorius, guys, get on it.
One of the greatest all-time bass players, just a fantastic musician.
And today we're going to be looking at five ways to get you sounding like the man.
Okay, so number one is Jaco used generally a Fender jazz bass _ _ and with Fender jazz basses
they have two pickups.
For the most part, _ Jaco always rolled off the neck pickup and had the bridge pickup soloed.
So if you don't know what that sounds like, here's both pickups wide open and then we'll
switch to just the bridge pickup just so you can hear the difference. _ _
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as you can hear, when I solo the bridge pickup, it's a way tighter sound.
Now don't worry if you haven't got a jazz bass, you can still get that vibe.
Just roll off the neck pickup, whatever you want, or just dial it all onto the bridge
pickup and it will get you pretty much all of the way [Fm] there. _ _ _ _
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[Eb] _ _ _ _ [N] So number two is to listen and study the language of bebop and _ improvisation.
Jaco Pistorius was a huge fan of music and if you look at his first solo album simply
_ entitled Jaco Pistorius, you'll see that Donnelly was one of the most famous tracks to come
out of that album, which was originally written _ apparently by Charlie Parker, but maybe Miles
Davis, who knows.
But in terms of bebop and the language of improvisation, I really recommend that if
you are not already doing this, you should start off with simple walking bass lines.
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_ _ [Gm] _ [Ebm] _ And you should be studying walking bass lines because getting them into your playing is
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_ _ [Eb] Number three is that you've got to play _ 16th note funk lines like a _ badass. _ _ _
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_ Jaco was simply one of the best bass players at this 16th note funk feel I have ever heard.
He kind of got what Rocco Pastier was doing at the time and just _ poured rocket fuel on it.
If you want to check out a track that I absolutely love, go and check out Come On, Come Over
on Jaco's self-entitled album, Jaco Pistorius.
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_ _ _ Number four is that Jaco's main [Bb] instrument was really the fretless bass, and he was one
of the main guys that brought that to the public.
He wasn't the first guy, but he was one of the first guys.
And if you mention fretless bass to anybody, obviously _ everybody's going to say, well,
Jaco Pistorius.
So here's a little shred time on the fretless for you. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [G] Number five is that you've got to be able to play harmonics all over the bass and do
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_ When I heard Jaco playing Portrait of Tracy, if you haven't checked out, by the way, you've
got to do it.
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It absolutely blew my mind.
You should go check it out like yesterday _ and learn to play it on your bass as well.
It's a really fantastic study piece for you to get your teeth stuck into.
So hopefully you enjoyed this lesson, guys.
I want to also give you three _ recommendations if you want to go further with the whole Jaco thing. _
Obviously, _ scottsbasslessons.com is the ultimate online bass school.
If you haven't checked it out, you can go over to scottsbasslessons.com and grab your
14-day free trial.
If you remember already at scottsbasslessons.com, you should check out the Beginning Jazz Survival Guide.
It is a fantastic course.
If you're already playing but want to get into jazz, and obviously Jaco Pistorius was a huge
fan of bebop and jazz and improvisation.
If you want to get into that stuff, check out that course.
I think it's three, four hours long and it's step-by-step.
It gets you into walking bass lines and then takes you out from transitioning from walking
bass lines, taking that language and then moving that into soloing over the entire neck
of the bass as well.
Really, really fantastic course.
Next up is the Technique Deep Dive at Scott's Bass Lessons.
Now, if you're into, obviously, you wanted to get that 16th note funk thing together,
there's a gazillion exercises in that course to help you get there.
Again, it's exactly the same as the Jazz Beginning Survival Guide.
It's step-by-step.
It takes you right from the start, first _ focusing on the right hand here because this is the engine, right?
Focusing on this hand here, _ muting, raking, _ alternate picking, _ _ free stroke, rest strokes,
all of that kind of stuff.
Then it focuses on this hand and getting the two synced up.
It is, again, a really fantastic course.
Finally, you should also check out the Harmonics course by the awesome Phil Mann as well, if
you remember, because we just released it a couple of months ago where he shows you
really systematic way to learn the harmonics all over the fretboard and, most importantly, _
make it musical and get it into your bass playing. _
That's my recommendations for today.
Hopefully, you enjoyed this lesson, guys.
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