[Bass Lesson] Jaco Pastorius - Modern Electric Bass - 4

[GeoAl09]

why is there no left channel?

[loombaron]

Jaco = Fender jazz bass

[LokiNTB]

The jam they played reminds me so much of The Red Baron, when Victor Wooten played with Oteill Burbridge at one of the Bass Days

[ThePunkRevolt]

i wish i had the exersize booklet :L

[ruffd777]

@ nachoisone... Mine would be Bernard Edwards, Louis Johnson, and John Entwhistle :-)

[nachoisone]

The Holy Trinity of Bass, Larry Graham, Scott Lafaro, and Jaco. That's my religion what's yours?

[mattpolofka]

He also said John Mclaughlin couldn't swing to save his life; he's too white. Which isn't really true, white people can swing for sure, it's just kinda funny.

[bigpeej92]

if victor wooten is the chuck norris of the bass, then jaco must be the bruce lee

[split427]

6:04 I love how he would just throw in harmonics at the most unexpected times!!

[MrPathologigk]

this was my teacher ......das war mein Lehrmeister......the king of bassguitar.....

[bigpeej92]

whats the theory behind that lick at 4:17

[thecrashinghighways]

2:57 random bass change

[margrinf]

Anyone knows where i can get the exercises in this video? thanks!

[ConorBass440]

@margrinf torrent it (fileshareing program)

[thecrashinghighways]

@margrinf hate to tell you but the only way i can say is buy the video because a little book comes with the dvd with all of this written out

[TheBassistWW]

Those are some monster fingers at 4:25....

[tbsxbassistx375]

At 6:02 did he say "Ah, BLEEP"? 

[tbsxbassistx375]

Anyone else digging that sweater?

[JazzzRockFuzion]

One of my favorite parts of this whole instructional vid is that jam starting at 3:58. YAYAAA!!

[jeustor]

I feel like taking my bass and smashing it into little pieces..sick bass playing!!

[6ftUnder92592]

goddamn imma have a tribute song to jaco, thrash metal, with a pause then just a sick jazzy jaco lick, thrash, then another pause, with a different jazzy lick,

[MajinWamu]

its funny cuz people say he was a jerk...he had problems but the truth was he knew what was good and what was crap and he wasnt afraid to express it.. You should read the book his wife wrote about him. very very interesting. He was homeless at a point

[iratevidscuzicool]

@MajinWamu I have 2 bass professors who knew Jaco. One who knew him extremely well. He had a severe mental illness, that's what seemed to be the underline problem with what you hear about him. But it should not have any reflection on peoples opinions of his musicianship. Because aren't all geniuses crazy in some way? ;)

[MajinWamu]

@iratevidscuzicoolhe also had an addiction to alcohol. that's also stated in his book. It's all thanks to the jerk who pressured him into it.I met his brother in law, who was his old drummer and I believe he also played in whether report. He too was a drunk :p met him at my cousin's wedding. His wife's family was very wealthy and they rented out an entire beach for the weekend and that's how I meet his brother in law. he was playing at the wedding...his bassist was a HUGE jaco fan...and so am I.

[originaltbyrd]

i wonder, is this dvd still available? there's a lifetime of learning to get from this, would like to have tab on some of the excercises.

[eddgomezHaHa]

i hate that tone, but i love the groooooovee

[wardrobesaviour]

Great jam sesh there

[hoolzote]

awesome sweater

[BASSMASTA264]

I hope to be as half as good as Jaco some day.

[eddynaco]

@BASSMASTA264 take my lessons of tapping and sooome day, maybe you would be half as me!

[msyjsm123]

I fucking love the jam at 3:55

[FredDude27]

The best always die so young..Jaco, Hendrix and Lennon is way up on that list.

[HAhaUDied13]

@FredDude27 you forgot mark sandman

[Romans10Verse9]

One thing that shows his incredible musicianship is that every time he says "Here's a good exercise" or "What I like to do is..." it always ends up rolling out into beautiful MUSIC! Jaco doesn't play scales or modes or arpeggios. Jaco plays MUSIC at all times. I Love this man!

[Airwar405]

he is litterally a demigod

[rfwagnerjr]

Lately, I've felt like his spirit is trying to communicate with us, and I can hear him. In cases of unresolved restlessness, I am very sensitive. I keep my ears open for that. He's easy to hear. I've been swapping 6-strings from my collection for the Jazz basses I currently have. His spirit suggested I take a knife to my frets. He's somewhere just beyond a thin membrane. Is he talking to you, too? shhhh. Listen. Open your ears. Roger Houston, Venice Beach, CA 90291

[Mattycnw]

@rfwagnerjr I feel the same man, and I'm a guitarist! Peace from London, UK

[randallam]

You can hear the interviewer giving his O face in the background at 0:45.

[SleazyE08]

I grew up in the same turf as this man, and am a bassist as well. I know why this man was as good as he was, a little inspiration and a lot of gigs. Florida sucks for recognizing good talent. Had he been in NY or CA for most of his career he would have had a sweet pad. Instead he loved this dead at heart state and the last we know of him, was getting kicked out of a show in FL, when he wanted to go on stage to do what he did best, only it wasn't his band or gig. Viva Jaco!

[ultramegadudesupper]

amazing how they can photoshop 'the frets' in these days : p

[DivineWindOfTheSnow]

Jaco speaks!

[poochiepooh]

I saw Weather Report...25 years ago with Jaco. I couldn't believe my ears and eyes.. It was the most incresible music experience. He's a bit out of his element with a fretted bass in this series.

[4rainbowed]

@poochiepooh YEAH. It was like sex!

[VicRattlehead79]

@poochiepooh

You saw Weather Report?

You are really lucky

[lidesnowi]

@poochiepooh

In 1985 he did not play with Weather Report anymore !

Do you mean Word of mouth ?

[JohnGrovemountain]

or you people could buy it like I did. the money goes to..Manhattan Music Puplications, what? ok just download the pdf.

[5T3V1L]

lightning speed

[diegokillua]

que jam tan exelente!!

puedo conseguir este dvd con subs al español??

[Mafimishebi]

Pls can anyone help with these exercises?

[mEtaLPinCh]

both basses are aweso0me!!!

[Luckyhat66]

If anybody needs the book I have a pdf

[mEtaLPinCh]

hey duuude i need that stuff!!! :D

[electriclaserpeople]

would dig the pdf for sure.

[Biergermeister]

hey, could you send it to me please? thanks

[thoeksema]

Luckyhat, I would really love to get a copy of that pdf

[jaredw5]

@thoeksema There are no tabs in the pdf, if that is what you are looking for

[Blackkx]

Please send that to me!!

[bassduro]

Please would you send it to me?

[jagheterzack]

It comes along with the DVD, or at least I got it with the DVD. But fuck my bastard luck, I think I've lost it.

[southgallatin]

anybody know where or how to get these exercises?

[Frozenboard]

@southgallatin This is probably video that came with a book. I couldn't tell you what the book is, but I could guess that it would be hard to find considering the age of this video... If you find it TELL ME!

[HendrixPrinceFlea89]

well James Brown did create funk in the mid sixties, but music had been funky since the inception of Jazz

[Wahncynic]

This is insane, advanced bass playing. Remarkable by the way a white guy significantly coined a lot to the feel of funk-music which is said to be shaped mostly through black people. Musically,(and in every other sense too), at the end, it doesn't matter if you're black, white, red or green etc...

[bohigasss]

@Wahncynic ...exactly, then why would you mention that Jaco was white? why was that important? music is music, black and white does'nt exist in music. Duck Dunn and Steve Cropper are the greatest bassist/guitarist in Soul music and they are white, and I could go on for hours. so why mentioning race, you dumbass german cunt?

[Wahncynic]

Obviously, the colour of your skin can also give information on your ethnical background, culture etc.

and therefore you can use this information to describe origin of music. Moreover, i also extra-mentioned that its not important wether you're black or white for the case that some retarded, degenerated piece of shit from the usa needs more explanation to understand. So why don't you go fuck yourself you worthless scum? Thank you for reading.

[bohigasss]

@Wahncynic and how is influential your ethnical background in what do you play? a pianist from greece might play jazz better than someone from new orleans or a guitarist from china might play better classical music than a spanish one. and i could go on saying that your country had some of the most brilliant philosophers ever but, unfortunately, also some very unfortunate minds like your stupid, moronic, ignorant comments confirm. thank YOU for reading cocksucker.

[mattpolofka]

@Wahncynic while Jaco was definitely an innovator of the bass he didn't really have much to do with the funk feel(with inventing it; he certainly could play the hell out of it), more with the improvisational aspects of bass playing. He says himself that he stole everything from black guys, Otis Redding, Sly etc.

[GiantPandas]

It looks like Jaco's jazz bass there has a p-bass neck.

[62erPrecision]

it is a precision neck

[MrKyleMac]

4:39 thats crazy finger stretching

[Mafimishebi]

4:26-4:29 Jaco's amazing

[leeble611]

man i miss this guy

[leeble611]

wired watch his jaw such a loss

[z1chuckster]

you don`t have to be straight to play music,that`s the beauty of it all...you don`t even have to be a virtuoso. You just have to feel joy in playing...Fame and Fortune will never replace the third F : FUN .

[evilbahumut]

high as hell

[aaronamccoy]

jaco tearin' shit up!

[funnyduck]

Jerry's bass is sooo... UGLY!

[oOJimmySueOo]

you kidding? it's a beauty

[godsinarms]

I came at 0:34

[Galv1nBass]

I have this dvd. My bass teacher said Jaco was DAMN High when he made this. lmao

[Rodztar13]

lol

[bassrafe]

he wasn't high,

they kep him clean for several days just to record this video tape

[sspeck42]

haha he absolutely was. dude was always high, but sick shit nonetheless.

[grownnbass]

HEY!!!!!.....Hadrien does uses that technique all the time!!!...At 4:26...He absolutely idolizes Jaco...

[desertfox202]

Hi, I'm the greatest bass player in the world.

[TheWayish]

At least the instructional video explains what is being taught...very well. Most of these kind of tapes more or less just show off the chops of the "teacher".

[Skeedaddy91]

I can't believe he's gone...I know I would probably never met him nor had him as a teacher (that would be just...wooah!) but I just feel sad realising this footages are the only thing left to us. That's a world wide loss I guess...

[willoke8]

Killed by a club bouncer

Were I in Edinburgh I've people come out of a club after 3am and seen bouncers beating people up.

[AparoidX]

Couldn't have said it better myself.

[widefilth]

@Skeedaddy91 there's also a ton of recorded music.let's be thankful for that.but yeah you're right man.big loss.

[MajinWamu]

@Skeedaddy91 I meet his drummer a year ago. He was a cool dude. They were cousins. He was playing at my cousins wedding. Luckily his wife's family was rich. rented out the entire beach. The bassist of the band was in love with Jaco. He two had a fret-less. I have a bass of death replica...not as valued but its a cool bass. I barely ever play it tho

[jsog1]

@Skeedaddy91 I believe, when listening to an artist, we get to know him quite closely, in a way. That makes the gap he left even more painful.

[jeustor]

@Skeedaddy91 I met him 3 times in Manhattan, twice he was drunk in the basketball courts on west 4th and once barefoot and really high walking around the west village. He even asked me to hang with him if I wanted, but I was with other people... I wish I had now though, it was a year before he died. ....oh and I've seen him normally playing in quartets and trio's. Never with weather report or his big band...great bass player..

[lowfreq65]

jaco is dope?

[barbagrossa]

@lowfreq65 Naturally dope

[ChoochProductions]

The bass player in my band's dad used to be good friends with him. his mom kicked Jaco out of his house for doing cocaine lol

[eaton1012]

man his left hand is crazy.

[doublealufwaffe]

Man, it is sad to see him this messed up.

[EddieG1888]

I have the DVD, and the thing which I find the most sad, is that instead of playing *with* Jerry Jemmott, he seems to want to go up against him in some sort of head-cutting exercise. And apparently, he did this with a lot of musicians later on in his life.

[StoneBeliever]

was he heavy into drugs? he does look a bit strung out, but I didn't think he was that messed the first time I saw this...

[mryellow123]

All his good stuff is from when he was young and wild. In todays world he'd likely be diagnosed as Bi-Polar. Once he got into drugs he went all out, it got to the point those close to him couldn't bare to stand-by and watch anymore and he was largely sidelined. Hence the comment "give me a gig!".

A candle has never burnt so bright.

[Outie1179]

I LOVE JACO!!!

[Maverick274]

What book does this video use!

[alembicbassguy]

The absolute master of electric Jazz bass playing...monster technique from a guy living rough!

[afi21321]

that guy looks like a clone of billy bob thorton! haha

[kmish213]

i didn't know there were blind people on youtube

[burntoast]

I don't know. I can see why he'd say that.

[sorencasonwood]

He's not in his prime, but he is playing that on a REALLY old FENDER. The action on that is horrible . . . and his musicality is AMAZING!!!

[bratblaster]

dude its a fretless the action is probably as good as it gets and dude dont diss fender theyll find u

[mathewsanchez]

That's not fretless. It is jaco's jazz which usually had the original jazz neck which he defretted himself, but in this video it's got a fretted precision neck. He often swapped to the precision neck for practice and used the fretless jazz neck for performance.

[EddieG1888]

No it isn't. It's a Jazz which Jaco borrowed for the video, and it's up for sale online.

[funnyduck]

it's not fretless. that's not even his bass, his had a rosewood neck.

[funnyduck]

that is an old fender jazz bass but it is not his. he didn't change the neck around, that's really bad for the strings. and jaco's bass had scratches, dings, and marks in completely different places.

[guitarstudent101]

actually it is a jazz bass with a fender p bass neck

[camstef2dro]

5:00.

[miriyaa]

Who's this Jaco? He stinks...

[wysiwyg248]

miriyaa,

The only one who stinks in here is your comment. Post your video playing bass and then we can talk.

O, si queres, escucha a Pedro Aznar, que ha sabido copiar muy bien al Gran Maestro. Chau

[PhillipScottAustin7]

Jaco is the only the greatest Jazz bassist ever

[wysiwyg248]

PhillipScottAustin7,

Although Jaco is the Ubermaster, there are also great players, that I personally consider at his level. James Jamerson is one of them.

[PhillipScottAustin7]

I didn't think about James Jamerson.... have they found his bass yet I know they found Jaco's bass of doom but....

[wysiwyg248]

PhillipScottAustin7

Unfortunately, the "FUNK" bass has not been found yet. Funny enough, the three main basses that JJ used (the black beast, the FUNK and his first upright) were stollen.

[arnbassbaritone]

In these videos Jaco is out of his prime and he is still better than most bass players easily.

[miriyaa]

It's a clown, too much "pac pac pac". A real bassist makes music from his bass, not noise.

[arnbassbaritone]

Are you agreeing with me or what?

[miriyaa]

No, i'm not! I said he's a clown!

[arnbassbaritone]

How is the greatest bass player of all time a clown?

[wysiwyg248]

miriyaa,

If you need more attention, call your Mom instead of writing stupid comments.

My remarks stand putL You are the only clown in here. If you think Jaco is a clown, you obviously play better, please show us.

[vicphine]

yes he was going downhill here as you said, but he'd been knocking himself around hadn't he-until some baboon knocked him dead. but i agree with what you said, and, if jaco was a clown, i'm going out to buy my bozo suit. the guy was a musical freak, in the best sense. this entire dvd is great. goes for over an hour.

[fenderjazzthunder]

what kind of bass is that he changed to(jerry)? the headstock doesnt look like fender

[pacree]

Jemmott starts with what looks like a custom Carl Thompson, a NY luthier. another famous Thompson player is Les Claypool. The blue Jazz he switches to just has the old pre-60s tele style headstock is all; it's still a Fender. Mike Dirnt's (Greenday) Precision has the same kind of headstock. Every once in awhile you will find one in the Fender Catalog.

[WalClaypool]

actually dude, i think that jazz bass hes playing is an ESP. just look at whats written on the headstock at 3:01

[wysiwyg248]

The bass that Jaco uses in this video is the actual Bass of Doom with a fretted maple Precision neck.

[WalClaypool]

no im talking about the bass that the black guy is using.

[BennettSJP]

love the bass change!! lmao

[UrsaMusic]

"love the bass change!! lmao"

I know, that had me laughing. he's like "I can't handle this custom voluted fretless in front of the fretless master"

[earachegraf]

wheres the part about pinch harmonics?

[onefuelsntrm]

go to part 7

[bassmanjaco321]

Who is the black dude?

[kutcher11]

LOL

some random who wants to be cool

[Pewpshmear]

random?

[kutcher11]

Ehhhhh

[Pewpshmear]

its jerry jemott....

[wysiwyg248]

kutcher11,

If there is a random who wants to be cool is you. The dude is Jerry Jermott, sideman to Aretha Franklin, BB King and many more. One of Jaco's idols when he was growing up

[4rainbowed]

@wysiwyg248 READ MY MIND! There were few African American jazz dudes who were even willing to chat with Jaco as a really young man. But who they WERE! Jerry Jemmott (who was recently the Allman Brothers guest at the Beacon), Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, etc. Jaco never had a lesson in his life, and yet taught music at three American Universities! In the end, drunk and manic-depressive, homeless. Tossed out of a Santana concert, and a local bouncer thought: just another drunk & killed him

[wysiwyg248]

@4rainbowed

Jaco learned harmony and to read music while touring with Wayne Cochran and the CC Riders.

[kablooey]

Denzel Washington

[TitaniumFireball21]

If he was still around, I would move to where he is, and I would take lessons from him. I don't care how much he charged either.

[hor69rorvette]

Wouldn't we all!

[jjjkop]

which is the book ?

[nkr10]

u can buy the book in music stores. not only in instrument stores but in other stores like virgin, mix up, etc.. i have the book, but a don´t have de dvd :(..

The book is titled "modern electric bass"

[victorgtz]

The master at work. Wow, Imagina how that little solo would sound on his fretless neck.

[z1chuckster]

These exercises are food for my brain , and a hell of a lot of work for my fingers !

[uniquess]

Did ya know he also played sax (alto)

[Moonunit02]

and piano

[vicphine]

not until i just read it in bill milkowski's 'the extraordinary and tragic life of jaco pastorius'. he played some drums too. his old man made a living as a drummer. according to the book, jaco's first instrument was the drums. he played keyboards as well. i think anyone who knows about him, has listened, and maybe plays an instrument themselves, can see he's just a natural musician and could have played anything. pity it all ended too soon, 35 or 6 or whatever he was.

[izumialexisikedathor]

thats not exercise 16. its more like exercise 1628

[smellycorpse]

i wish i could see the exercises

[nkr10]

u can buy the book in music stores. not only in instrument stores but in other stores like virgin, mix up, etc.. i have the book, but a don´t have de dvd :(..

The book is titled "modern electric bass"

[pokerace87]

very

[arnbassbaritone]

nice