Chords for Modern Electric Bass - Jaco Pastorius - "Arpeggios and Double Stops"

[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [D] [Bb] What about the [G] use of arpeggios in terms of developing fingerboard memorization?
Well, that's the greatest. _
Plus it's _ just about the hardest thing to play, in my opinion, on the bass. _ _
Like piano, for instance, it's easy. _
_ But on a bass, guitar, _ that skipping, _ _ that's _ tough.
_ _ One way that I teach cats _ is _ just two octaves _ up the board, like this.
_ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
[G] _ _ _ [Bm] Okay?
Yes. _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _
[G] _ _ [C] I mean, this way your [N] hand is moving every note.
_ Every note is_
As opposed to playing it in position. _
Yeah, as opposed to just going, let's _ _ say_
_ _ _ Yeah, as opposed to _
[G] going_
You know, because you _ _ _ go_
As opposed to doing it like an easy skip, _ like_
As opposed to doing that, _ _ or_
I _ go_
You get up much faster.
You can get there real fast.
It's smoother, but it's tough, and it teaches you where the notes are on the fingerboard.
You've got to be thinking every note _ _ where_
_ _ Okay?
And then what you do is you run that stuff. _
I don't even know if I can do it anymore.
Wait a minute. _ _
I _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ don't _ _ [F] _ [B] even know if I can do it anymore.
_ _ _ _ _ [Bbm] _ [B] _ [Gb] _
[E] _ [Gb] _ _ [E] _ [Bb] _ [B] Mm-hmm.
Now, double stops is another thing I find is really helps you learn the fingerboard also.
Well, because you have to think two notes at a time all the time. _ _
_ _ [Abm] Multi stops.
Yeah. _
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[Dbm] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
So [B] _ [Gbm] _ _ [Bm] _ [Dbm] _ _ [Abm] _
[A] _ [E] _ [Gb] _ _ [B] _ [Ab] _ _ [E] _
_ [Db] _ [A] _ _ _ [Db] _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ your exercise is going to be more or less in terms of like mental, in terms of developing,
things that make you think.
That's ultra important, because that way you can_ _ _ _
_ _ In improvisational [C] music, you know where the stuff's at to go for, as opposed to just _ _
jiving, let's say, where people are just wiggling their fingers and know a couple of licks.
I mean, this way we're talking about the real deal.
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _
[Gb] _ _ [F] _ _ [B] _ _ _ [Ab] _
[Ebm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Abm] _ _ _ [Ebm] _ [F] _ _ [G] _
[Bb] _ [E] _ _ _ _ [Db] _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Gb] _
_ [Bbm] _ _ _ [A] _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ [G] _ [Cm] _ [A] _ [G] Yeah.
Yeah.
[Am] _ _ _ [Db] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
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[E] _ _ Yeah, I can [D] see where the arpeggios really pay off, because you play a lot of things
in thirds, large intervals.
Plus going up and back with them, too.
[Gm] Here's a good [C] exercise.
_ [F] _
_ [Em] _ [Bm] _ _ [F] _ _ [G] _ _
_ [Am] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [Dm] _ [Em] _ [Am] _
[G] _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Em] _ [F] _ _
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ [F] _ _ [D] _ [C] _
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_ _ _ _ So what I'm saying is, [G] now, all I did [C] was go up in major, _ _ let's say, a seventh.
_ What would you just call it?
Chord.
It's [G] a_ _ Arpeggio.
Major seventh arpeggio.
So it would just be, let's say, because I'm doing everything in [C] C now. _ _
So [Am] _ [C] it would be C major, _
[Dm] D minor [E] seven, [D] E minor [Am] seven.
Come down F.
[F] F.
F, you know.
[G] And then you go up [F] _ on a G7, right?
Then you come down on the A minor, up on [Bb] what actually would be like, what do you call it?
A dominant seventh chord, a [Bm] G7 without the G in [Dm] it.
[Em] _ [Am] _ [G] _ [F] _ _
[Em] _ [D] _ _ _ [Db] _ [C] _ _ _
[B] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Em] _ _
You're using a diatonic use of the scale, playing the chords, but you're using it in
a very musical way instead of going up, [C] you _ [Em] _
[N] know_
_ Oh, yeah, yeah. _
Not making it a practice, make it _ actually_
Make it musical.
Exactly.
That's very important.
And it reflects in your playing also.
_ _ I always try to be musical, yeah.
_ Well, you know, sometimes it does.
I hope not [E] all the time, you know.
_ [D] _ [E] _ _ [A] _ [Bb] _ [B] _ _ _ [F] _
[E] _ [Bm] _ _ [Db] _ [Ab] _ [Bb] _ [B] _ _
[Gb] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
[B] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
[Gb] _ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ [Bbm] _ _
[Eb] _ [Abm] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Ab] _
[Bb] _ [B] _ _ [Db] _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ [B] _ _ [D] _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
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