[Bass Lesson] Jaco Pastorius - Modern Electric Bass - 2

[gmrios]

I get the impression that Jaco is arrogant. No matter how good you are at anything if you're an arrogant person Karma will get the best of you...Where is he now?.

[43lochness]

@gmrios uuuughhh

[patilj]

Man, someone pop that zit on Jerry's forehead...

[Basstard22]

@patilj they should pop his whole head, lol

[TheIllegalKind]

i have a fretted jaco bass

[Mjolbaggar]

He is finnish american.

[Carehuea]

Without knowing anything about anything, I took the frets out of my first bass more than 20 years ago... I used a kitchen knife. It was no big deal. I did many more times in the ensuing years. My only advice to those of you out there thinking of doing it to your basses is this: Try and use your second bass as a guinea pig. Or if you only have one bass, be totally sure before taking the plunge - once the frets are gone, there's no turning back....

[devilmate969]

Jacos bass playin is as smooth as milk chocolate :)

[NorwegianCheesecake]

11 people that accidently clicked the dislike button. at least i hope so

[ElRonMaltan]

The story is that he invented the story of ripping out the frets himself. It was originally fretted, but he bought it with the frets removed.

[6ftUnder92592]

hes so good he doesnt even know when hes blowing peoples minds!

[AndreidaGiant]

@6ftUnder92592 he knows

[martin10921]

yup, practice, practice, practice... not too many other alternatives.

[MrElis2011]

muinto bom

[noellein]

Nice video jaco is awsome

[Phnergelde]

And as Jaco says, use just a thin bladed knife, and a lot of care..

[Phnergelde]

Removed the frets from my 2nd bass, 18 years ago.. Bugger wood putty, replace them with wood. Mine lasted, so...

[pureevil007]

@eddynaco Another asshole dick fucker go killyourself

[Mewantzcheezeburger]

Can anybody tell me how to remove the frets? :)

[skeetersbiscuits]

@Mewantzcheezeburger to remove frets, get a soldering gun, heat the glue and lift them out, then fill the gap with wood putty and refinish the neck

[pacree]

@Mewantzcheezeburger I wouldn't bother. Save your money and get an aftermarket fretless neck from Warmoth or someone similar. I just went to Warmoth and used their online neck builder and built a pretty standard Jazz neck with a tinted vintage nitro finish for $395. Just swap over your hardware.

[ataconazi]

@lemontree27013 its a major scale...

[ubernerd35]

@eddynaco

Holy crap, dude. I listened to you play and you blew my mind. Do you wanna be in my Miley Cyrus cover band?

[addyr100]

so cool

[FredDude27]

If I had an ounce of Jacos skill I would be the greatest bass player of the world!

[michirican123]

Hhahahahah he's staring at him like oh yeah mothafucka 6:00

[WykydWaze]

I'm a guitarist but, I started playing bass first. this is some of the first exorcises I learned and part of the reason I play the way I do now. at the time I had never heard of Jaco and these lessons he is giving are the exact same as the ones that I was taught., I played trombone in school and already had that base, but this band I was jamming with had this awesome bass player already and no guitarist so I learned a lot of what i know from that bass player.

[pablojimenezro]

I need this booklet plece !!!! give me the link

[STEVE25406]

only the great die young

[peters9nine]

@STEVE25406 .

Sshhhhhh.........

[rfwagnerjr]

the server at the venice beach public library is maine molasses this morning, but it's always a pleasure to listen and learn from timelessness itself, every few minutes.

[neogen50]

to all u jaco haters, yeah he was pompous and all that which helped lead to that "bar bouncer" killing him thinking he was just the every day run of the mill drunk at the bar. but f. all those who cant here his genius musicanship...he died in the earley 80s and today only a few can touch him. what victor w, stanley c, marcus miller, alphonso j, maybe a few others....im a black guy and say f. all yall jp haters name me 10 better bassist...bet u cant b....es

[ShmamanFire]

@neogen50 you're right. In fact it is absolutely impossible to name a single better bassist than jaco.

[cskarch]

He was good for back then but there are so many better players now

[Mattycnw]

@cskarch that couldn't be farther from the truth. No one touches JP even today NO ONE

[250Yogi]

@cskarch you mean there are so many faster players now. None better

[kendallcory]

Pretty pompous for my taste. Sure he could play. But he could NOT teach. Vague, indirect answers coupled with an air of elitism. No thanks.

[jeremyhillaryboobphd]

@kendallcory think it's more an interview than a lesson

[jryuwah]

@jeremyhillaryboobphd watch the other videos it gets more lesson like

[jryuwah]

@kendallcory he taught at 3 colleges in the U.S.......

[XrisikosTonPernei666]

where i can find this book?

[PleaseFillInNameHere]

jaco, you were a deity and pioneer of bass, but you sure were a self righteous asshole.

[wysiwyg248]

@PleaseFillInNameHere

"It ain't bragging if you can play it" Jaco Pastorius

[PleaseFillInNameHere]

@wysiwyg248 im not saying hes bragging, the guy was just an asshole.

[iplaytehbasspipes]

Actually, flea did want to copy jaco's style, but he destroyed his bass trying to rip the frets out. Instead he copied Bootsy, Larry Graham, and Louis Johnson.

[AceInTheWhole94]

@iplaytehbasspipes Hey, i've wanted to make my first bass into a fretless for a long time now...got a squire jazz bass and an aria...i wanna make the aria a fretless...its a cheap bass...but i dun wanna destroy the neck..i kinda like havin to basses with different feel....is the like a safe way o doing this..on your own? or can the knives thing work..like jaco?

[olibobi]

@AceInTheWhole94

I use a pair of end cutting pliers, they give a good (parallel) grip when you yank the fret out.

You will probably pull some chips off the fretboard too. Glue them back with superglue.

Tape the space between the fret slots with masking tape before filling with wood putty (if it's rosewood).

If you choose to not put putty in the slots, you can put the frets back later!

[HendrixPrinceFlea89]

It's important to have your own sound, but according to Miles Davis: a musician needs to sound like a bunch of other people before he can become himself musically.

[TOPCAT3443]

it looks like he has shiny  frets on his bass though......does anyone know what booklet there talking about???????

[ughre]

@TOPCAT3443

Comes with the dvd. Everything played on 'Modern Electric Bass' is scored in there.

[xdutchgrindx]

fenders fretless basses have steel fret markers that receed below the fretboard so the player knows where the frets are supposed to be but they dont interfere.

[froggydude29]

@xdutchgrindx They aren't steel, on Fenders they're usually strips of wood or some sort of plastic filler

[taufoofar]

@xdutchgrindx All except the Steve Bailey model. That's one cool fretless...

[RATMblink182]

@TOPCAT3443 u can find it via torrent

[ShannonVenasse]

his thumbs were made for slapping the bass. the way they're bent back.

[sean33313]

thats not his bass

[HendrixPrinceFlea89]

Flea said fuck it i aint going to copy that guy's style. so he made his own.

[malicant123]

such an inspiring musician. I knew a guy that met Jaco back in the 70s, I was so jealous :(.

[aakkoin]

Little trivia: Flea from RHCP wanted to be like Jaco and tore the frets from his first bass and ruined it.

[GenericName86]

@aakkoin I've done the lower half 12th to 24th frets of my bass all it took was masking tape a knife hammer and chisel mind you I also just looked up how to do it on the net flea wouldn't have been able to, beautiful sound to I still need to develop my ear but when I do I think I'll go full fretless and I'm looking to try flats for some nice legato slides and fluidity

[youreastupid]

@aakkoin really? thats pretty damn funny

[aakkoin]

@youreastupid yea, he said it in a bass lesson/interview video :)

[Hanske90]

@mastertung7 Agree, dont like it either :-)

Have a precision myself tho :p

[fuzzypieman]

First time i ever heard him speak..never imagined him sounding like that

[jdrew1130]

Yeah, he's such a genius.

[Pastorius333]

What did you think his voice would sound like?

[Donjeur]

thats sick...considering he's dead

[11966ericp]

Wow ok at 1:58 inthis video the blues lick he plays is the only way I can fret the neck. Dont think I will ever be able to Spread my fingers like that. He had Piano playe fingers long and wirey wich is one reason he could play so damn good!

[intrepgun]

practice is the only reason. and if you practice you can probably end up doing the same. yes, there are physical matters to consider, but if you have so little reach that you feel it's a detriment to your progress as a player, get a shorter scale bass.

[omnitron1234]

just practice using 1-2-3-4 frets on the largest frets and use your pinky

practice

it gets easy after a while

[MikeOnBassGuitar]

I did it to an old fretted bass. Literally just ease the frets out with a knife then fill the frets in with epoxy resin and sand it down lightly so the epoxy is even to the fretboard It's quite simple to do just make sure you don't damage the wood or sand it down too much so you bow the wood.

[grownnbass]

LMMFSAO!

[BassDude50000]

lol yeah i should try it on a crappy bass

[BassDude50000]

how do you defrett your bass??

[proferic]

buy it that way!!

[Fishies125]

I love the lick he plays at 5:55. So beautiful.

[zhonggg]

he doesn't use his ring finger very much..

[ragist]

yep it really is

[GaryCancer]

No the sound really is only coming out of the right channel

[SammyT657]

definitely yakked out during this video

[Fungwabus117]

most likely your headphones not this video.

[idoruZe]

that would be your headphones.

[burntoast]

Does anyone know where I can find some recordings of Las Olas Brass?

[Blackbolt4prez]

Guy probably has a vicious eagle claw.

[zanzarinna]

very straordynary de zigulli

[pacree]

I love how he emphasizes hard work. In an age where it seems to be the thing to be 20 years old, beautiful and talentless, it's refreshing to hear a master craftsman riff on the old joke...

"How do you get to Carnegie Hall?"

"Practice!"

:D

[kraeutemall]

Point!

[CriticalHammer007]

@pacree

Agreed!

[dTbFan72]

@pacree haha my dad always tells me that!

[BORGESALEPH78]

@pacree I totally agree. I was reading Bass Player the other day and they had the Kings of Leon bassist on the cover. I like some of their tunes and can appreciate their music, but after having read what that guy had to say about bass playing (practically nothing) I was really disappointed. Young musicians can get the wrong idea from guys like that. Practice and hard work are what will get you through your musical career, not hairspray and a Gap or Hollister credit card.

[CadillacL]

Who's the other guy?

[karrowarro02]

I think his name is Jerry Jemmott....but I don't know exactly who he is, I know he was a famous bass player.

[jakegreenburger]

yeah that jerry jemmott, ive taken some clinics with him hes a really cool guy, and he still has that same bass haha

[fivestring]

Jerry Jemmott, a.k.a.

"The Groovemaster," was one of the architects of the Atlantic Records and Muscle Shoals Soul sound. He has performed/recorded with such legends as Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, B.B. King, Nina Simone, Roberta Flack, Lionel Hampton, Bette Midler, George Benson, Wilson Pickett, and The Rascals among others. He played on the original recordings of great hits, such as "Think," "The Thrill Is Gone" and "People Got to Be Free"....

[wysiwyg248]

Amen to fivestring,

Jerry was one of Jaco's idols when starting to play bass

[poolio1971]

thats a big ole ZIT on my mans forehead. lol

[Binkulak]

when I watched this vid one stupid thing came to me:D what if Jaco wouldn't take the bass?? drummersKing?? :P

[WickedMan274]

What was this book called

[zdflip3]

im pretty sure it was a hot licks series on vhs.not positive though.

[Zombbg4]

It's called Modern Electric Bass- just like the title

[m0nNickneim]

I think it's called "modern elecric bass", there is another book called essentials or "the essential" something like that

[schwarg]

such a fucking legend

[spectorsam68]

R.I.P. Jaco

[z1chuckster]

Thanks for the tips Mr. Pastorius ! The master may be gone , but his inspiration lives on !

[patabaterista33]

so true, this man is one of the best musicians ever lived!!!

Hendrix is the Jaco Pastorius of the guitar

[Fungwabus117]

who came first? thot so

[marcello1993ful]

@z1chuckster he was the best. we miss him so bad

[RUMPproductions]

...what?

[carsleuth]

idiot...

[eddievhfan1984]

The greatest musicians often go that way. God knows he would still kick ass to this day...