I was made to love her on bass (Stevie Wonder)

heya! after quite a while im back with this great song! stevie wonder's "i was made to love her" with an even greater bassline from the master himself: james jamerson. lately ive seen some guys claiming that not james but Carol Kaye has played that bassline. but in MY humble opinion its jamerson.

massive thanks go out to Arcellus for his video and his great transcription! check his channel out! we can learn a lot from him!

unfortunately i dont have the timing of the song 100 % down yet and i fuck up the breakdown a little bit (also timewise), but i thought i might upload the video anyways because i wont have that much time for some new videos in the near future.

im playing my squier precision bass with very old rotosounds.

have fun watching the video!
comments and critics are very appreciated.

greetings from vienna :)

ps: i realized i make funny/strange faces. i guess its a mix of concentration and "wow. this bassline is so awesome" and "damn. how could he play that with just one finger!?"

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• carol
• kaye
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• motown

[T2TD]

this actually very good, very fluid. do you like your p bass special? im thinkin but gettin one. i have to say though, you look at times as though you're havin an orgasm! lol. great job though

[jockoPchetB]

the p-bass is nice. i also own a fender jazz (MIA). i prefer the jazz because of its smaller neck (i have small hands) so its easyer to play for me. but for value/money the p-bass is great!

[jockoPchetB]

thx for your comments guys! i really appreciate them =)

[kings57]

you just look like funny guy lol

[jockoPchetB]

i am ;)

[chu1111111]

one milion percent this is jamersons bassline. EVEN STEVIE WONDER SAID SO. Carol Kaye let the late great man R.I.P

[olflatop]

@TheBelgiangiant since it was never documented, there's no way to know. Jamerson's not around to weigh in on it and Kaye was so prolific that there's no way she could remember every session she was on. Either one of those two would have been capable of producing a line like this. No matter who did it, it's one of the great historic bass lines.

[TheBelgiangiant]

oh, and dude in video needs to practice a little more.

[TheBelgiangiant]

I"m a full-time professional bassist, and to all the non-believers that think Carol Kaye lies: She is so accomplished, she has no reason to lie about anything. I play both with my fingers and with a pick-- a dead set of flatwounds on bass can make fingers and picks sound the same, especially if the tone knob is tweeked just right. I know, I switch back and forth depending on the tune. Carol is the sh!t, and I believe her when she says she played on recordings.

[mjs3888]

Fantastic job, man! And it is Jamerson on the original. Jamerson played with his finger, Kaye played with her pick. Different sound altogether.

[ROCKSTARCRANE]

Great fingering and technique....work on your time.

[miamiwax]

this sounds like such a james jamerson bassline.. would love to get a definitive answer

[Duraan84]

NO WAY Carol Kaye played this! She plays with a pick and Jamerson had had the legendary hook.

[4eyed4stringer]

One of my favorite Jamerson songs! EXCELLENT job.

[oktoplay]

Awesome!