Jaco Pastorius' Continuum - Complete

I had noticed there were no attempts at the full version of Pastorius' Continuum so here is my attempt. I did miss out two bars however so I will be re-recording in two weeks; any comments would be much appreciated!Thanks to Jaco for writing the piece, Victor Bailey for his sung version making the melodies easier to understand, Lucas Pickford for his transcription and my bass teacher for his support and acheiving the Jaco tone using his software. Enjoy! Feel free to say/compliment/flame anything you want.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Jazz
• Fusion
• Fretless
• Electric
• Bass
• Jonathan
• Brodrick
• Jaco
• Pastorius
• Continuum
• solo
• complete
• sexy

[poopinahat7]

Nice Playing. I bet you wouldn't mind giving away one of the basses behind you? =)

[jonathanbrodrick]

cheers man, they belong to by bass teacher actually :-P this was done in a lesson

[joegridl]

not bad... just wanted to say "tone" comes from many things (mostly out of your fingers...) but definitly NOT from software ;)

Best regards

Joe

[jonathanbrodrick]

Thanks man! You are very right, but Jaco used some subtle Chorus in a lot of his songs, so it was that I was talking about, which I CAN'T emulate with my fingers ;-)

Let me know if you can get the chorus effect with your fingers :-P

(Don't mean to be rude, more humourous)

Thanks all the same

[luke125]

Sounds great Jon. Great job on a hard piece!

[jonathanbrodrick]

Hey Luke, I just realised this comment was from none other than the great Lucas Pickford! I'd like to say thank you very much for transcribing the whole piece! Amazing transcription, couldn't have done it without you!

[Cataniza]

Nice job man, & play with whatever posture you like - it doesn't matter if it works for you. What kind of bass are you playing in this video?

[OrisLover]

Not bad especially playing in such an akward posture.

[withouttonight]

nice work man! awesome! i love the feel you give it....very passionate:)take another listen tho....jaco is using open strings entering a few of those licks in the solo....

[MushroomDisorder]

Awesome playing!

I'm learning the whole piece and want to make it to the end lol.

Those fast parts looks really creepy!

And you hold the bass in a really strange way.

If you held the bass "normally" you'd look more appropriate.

With holding the bass like this,it looks like you don't give a shit,like you don't care about anything..It just makes the whole vid less better in the visual way.

And if you held the bass "normally" I believe you can get your playing better,because like that,it looks bad.

[toskoramone]

Get some posture man. I mean, if you want to swing around the whole damn song, knock yourself out, but you're barely supporting your bass on your leg, it's practically hanging by the damn strap! Also, your left hand posture is terrible. Most of the time your thub is way off the arm of the bass, and you only have two fingers on the fretboard, like you're goddam Django Reinhardt or something. Quit trying to look 'cool' and focus on the damn playing, you'd do a lot better.

[tyke58]

Well done. Nice phrasing of the more complete piece, which is a difficult one to emulate accurately. Nice 'Jaco sound', compliments your playing.

Keep at it. Obvious talent there. Jaco would have been proud!

[TheOctogenarian]

You're right, you're only one I've seen attempt it, and a very admirable job. I'm motivated to post my own, but nor until I have the whole thing like you did. Very nice!

[sakuraikeitaro]

really nice, thanks for the video.

[METALLMAN1000]

5:00 you think your cool huh!? well you are a thousand thumbs up buddy awesome job

[iLikegirlsbutts]

When Chad decided 2 make this video he was gona make some funky licks, but ,

In his "Drug Induced Hypnotic State" Jaco channeled Continuum just for fun :)