Jaco Pastorius - 'Teen Town' Full Tutorial for Bass
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Click Here to download the PDF worksheet and backing tracks for 'Teen Town':
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The worksheet contains the notation and TAB (with fingerings) for the chords demonstrated in the first part of the video, as well as the full melody section.
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In this lesson I'll be teaching you how to play the main melody line from 'Teen Town', which was written by legendary bassist Jaco Pastorius. It was released on the Weather Report album Heavy Weather and is an excellent study piece for intermediate/advanced bass players.
I used a Zon Sonus bass in this video.
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I’ve been waiting forever for somebody to boil this down slowly so I could have a fighting chance to actually play it. Thank you!
Hope you enjoy working on it - start slow...!
@@StuartClayton ~ I have no choice but to start even slower than 90BPM LOL
Never had it so easy the way he does it
Such a clear and well paced lesson! Glad I found you.
Thanks so much Rob, glad you enjoyed it
This cut down the five years of trying this song learning this wow😮
Been listening to Heavy Weather recently out of nowhere. Teen Town was really getting to me and I wondered if there might be a dude on UA-cam who felt the same way and had done the dream lesson I imagined. Thanks man for being so competent on all levels. Explaining the fingering, explaining the chords behind and how Jaco was playing through and the presentation of the lesson in general is 2nd to none. Also, thanks for making my day ¥
Thanks so much for the kind words Kate! Glad to have been able to help you learn this.
Nice teaching you make it easy can you play day ride by return to forever
This is the best tutorial for teen town by far.
Thank you so much.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.
Well done mate ,great job,brilliant breaking down each note in this riff,. Nobody else has done this,I had to search for it . Its always interesting to navigate through the note and scale choices for this (theory etc),and you've done a excellent job of doing this 👍
Thanks Mike, glad you found it useful!
@@StuartClayton I totally get it they're just chord tones and passing, mainly from the moving 7 mixo,thx again, I'll see you soon
It's wonderfully explained for the beginner that I am.
Thank you Mr Bassist for helping me to progress
thanks to your work. 👍😍🖤
excellent,accurate,calm lesson.Cuts to the chase.Thanks for this!
I remember learning this wayyy back in the day when Bass players learned Bass parts from listening to it on a 8- track ..😳. Took me a whole day to learn it 😅 but eventually I learned it
Wow!! Love the break down in digestible bits.. you are the best teacher. thank you
A very nice tutorial , helping me enter a new approach in the world of bass, couldn't of been done better than this hands down, thanks for the lesson
Amazing lesson. Thank you Stuart!
Well paced and easy to follow. Thank you.
Merci beaucoup pour votre super pédagogie et pour la qualité de votre vidéo 👍
Impeccable, as always.
Cheers Eugene!
Thanks Stuart,great lesson ,truly,would love to see a video on the rest of the track.Subscribed!
Another comment thanking you on the tutorial. I have to comment on your bass tone. Narly and phat!
Good evening Stuart Clayton I love the way you explain the details of the bass the teen town sound of Jaco pastorius and I would like you to do it for the piece of Chicken jaco pastoriusca help me a lot and thank you long life to you
Wonderful lesson, would be happy to pay for a lesson on the balance of the tune.
muito bem explicado stuart inclusive os acordes..muito bomm..DEUS ABENÇOE
clear and useful lesson. Thanks! :)
Cheers from Italy.
You're welcome!
U re the best teacher..I've seen ever..thanks a lot 👍👍👍👍🙏
Thank you! 😃
Nice bass , love jaco
Would you please do a lesson on havona? 🙏
Sehr gut
Why you so kind, thanks Stuart.
I'm just a nice guy I guess....!
And because you so nice I’m going to buy your Ultimate Tapping E Book today!
@@davedwave7 I've done a course on his site...it's excellent and well worth it!
Jon Jon Thanks Jon Jon. I’m looking forward to giving it a shot.
This is great. The TABs online are SOOOO flawed. Nice Chord/Chord Tone analysis as well!
Thanks so much, glad you liked it
Great Lesson, the best TT lesson imo....The download button is not working for the tab though.
Wow! This is an incredible lesson. Thank you. Subscribed.
Thank you so much for taking the time to put this fantastic tutorial out there....but what is so confusing is that there are so many ( very good ) versions of this brutal classic ?
best lesson of this tune 👍
Top Top Lesson. You great!
Great lesson! Thank you!
Jesus Christ how many incredible basses you’ve got?!! Awesome as always
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it
Wow i remembered all the notes....now to work in timings.....please do what is hip
Stuart, your tutorials are amazing. I want to suggest (as you have the skills) if future lessons could be about songs that are difficult to find accurate bass covers or tabs as you did with Tommy The Cat, which is for me, the best tutorial in all the internet.
I would like to suggest Unusual Weather from Michael Manring for the next tutorial.
I will spend my quarantine time learning this song. Thank you so much for sharing these tutorials with all of us.
Thanks Matias, glad you like my tutorials. I've never heard that Manring piece, so I'm not sure I'll be able to do a tutorial on it. I'll have a listen though.
Thanks sir
Awesome video, thanx
Excellen tutorial.
Thank you
Super!
a bit tough Stuart , sounds real good , thanks
Stuart - Thanks SO MUCH for this instructional tutorial. I just lifted this for the first time in my life about 2 months ago. I worked endlessly for almost an entire month on it, using all my free-time. I do not know music at all, but I am starting to learn after 40 years of playing. This tune was incredibly difficult but I did get it and posted a youtube video for it. I'm going to re-do this video sometime in the near future with just a backing track - no accompaniment from Jaco. Also, your video is going to come in hand when I finally understand basic music theory and chord progressions. Once again, thanks so much for this valuable lesson.
One quick thing - when I record the tune with just a backing track, I noticed that not only is Jaco's bass missing - but so is Joe Zawinal's unison line - and that makes it sound VERY EMPTY! Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks for the kind words! Perhaps use my backing track, which you can download from the link in the description? It has the synth bass part on it.
@@StuartClayton OH - This is awesome news! I'm going to check that out RIGHT NOW! You're THE MAN!
Nice Rumour on your wall :)
Professeur exceptionnel
Great analysis again Stuart!!! Not being picky or anything. In the 1st bar, I think the slide starts on the Eb. What do you think?
Craig Sinclair I thought that but I thought it slid up from Eb to E. I got it from a written transcription!
@@johncellario I meant to write E flat. I've seen a few with the wrong notes on transcriptions.
It's fine to do the slide from the D#/Eb. It happens so quickly there's no real difference anyway.
@@StuartClayton respectfully, what jaco does (Eb) is harmonically more interesting and is a real difference, however subtle to some (not to my ears). it's bluesier...the minor/major 3rd thing adds that little bit of dissonance which is just the right aural seasoning. starting on the D is a bit bland. no offence intended!
@@littlejoegould I agree, it's better. When I first learnt it, I played Eb as that was what the transcription said (from Joe Hubbard's basslines book). Years later I saw Wooten play it and he used a D. It was easier the way Wooten did it, and I started doing the same. But yeah, it's Eb, which also sounds better!
God I wish every bass tutorial was like this. The first time I heard this song I couldn't even imagine trying to learn it - it sounded so intimidating - but with this lesson I'm already way further than I thought I'd be. Also, as somebody who has a rough understanding of theory and basically no framework for understanding Jazz, I really appreciate you explaining how the bass line helps highlight the chord progression. Thanks Stuart (P.S. ever thought of doing a tutorial for Love Games? :P)
Thanks so much for the kind words, glad you enjoyed it! I've done a breakdown of the main groove of 'Love Games' already. If you look at my channel, it was part of a 'My Top 10 Slap Riffs' series.
Fantastic lesson, thanks! Question: Having played with an almost exclusively "one finger per fret" technique for a million years, I find it more natural in measure six to use my third finger on all three C#s. Is there a disadvantage to this and should I practise it out? Thanks.
Thanks very much. Using the third on the C# is logical and a perfectly good choice. I tend to alternate between finger-per-fret and condensed fingerings, hence my preference for the fourth. But yeah, third is fine.
MAN ,U R A BORN TEACHER THANKS ALOT.....PLS can u break down REDBARON billy cobham thanks
Question: Why not play the first chunk by flattening the index fingering, rather than using the middle finger to play the Bb?
You can do that if you prefer - I personally find that less comfortable
@@StuartClayton Ok. Thank you
Wants that bass on the wall😮
great tutorial except my flatwound srtings broke when i was learning the 4th bar ):
What bass is that hanging on the wall? It looks like a neck-through. Thx!
GB Guitars Rumour bass. A very nice instrument, and one that you'll see in some of my other videos
@StuartClayton
Thank again. I subscribed to your channel. Will take a look at it in action!
Notation on screen would have been awesome
Nice rare zon ...what pedal are you using
No pedal, but the backing track has a synth bass on it
and the bridge?
Nice fingering. Even the essential Jaco book has very weird fingering
Désolé mais dans la première phrase le glissendo ne se fait pas du ré vers le mi mais du mi bemol vers le ré :juste un demi ton
Yes, you are correct
@@StuartClayton you're welcome
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I remember learning this wayyy back in the day when Bass players learned Bass parts from listening to it on a 8- track ..😳. Took me a whole day to learn it 😅 but eventually I learned it