Anthony, I'm 36, a Berklee grad, and have been playing bass for like 20 years. This channel is the best. I have been struggling to find a channel with more of a selection of advanced material and stumbled upon this. My favorite part about the videos is that you're not afraid of making mistakes. We all make them, but it's always edited out. It injects the humanity back into playing. I was starting many of those arpeggios in less advantageous positions so watching your approach was incredibly helpful. Keep up the great work and thanks for the break down!
Hey man I love your transcriptions and playing! They've helped me out a lot. I watched your Donna Lee one recently and it was a big aid for me in getting it together. I think my fingerings are a bit more accurate to Jaco's so once I can nail the tempo, I'll be posting my own to share with the world my interpretation. Hopefully in a few weeks or so. You talk at 10:50 about the bend and your surprise that he nails it, but have you considered the possibility that there's a little magic trick going on here and "the spoon is not real?" I was checking this solo out and I'm almost completely convinced that from the solo to the end, he overdubbed the entire bass performance in studio, but slowed it down with a varispeed tape deck and performed it a minor third lower that it sounds here. So in other words, he performed his solo in A rather than C, that bent E is actually a C#, and he played it much slower than it's presented on the record. I know it's a live record, but I'm still pretty sure that the entire solo onwards was redone in studio. I'm curious to know your thoughts? Cheers brother!
wow i just finished transcribing the solo today, what a coincidence. Your video of you playing along with the track has helped me tremendously during the process. Thank you!
Thank you Anthony really enjoyed this vid I remember hearing this solo, well the whole night passage album when it came out and I had a westone thunder 1 a fretless bass ,boy I didn't have a clue about the technical prowess of this solo and thought all I have to do is practice a major scale until my fingers go as fast as jaco and I'll get it.😂😱😂🤣...but I will play it one day so thanks for your contribution to my endeavor. These master pieces really do take 4 hours a day every day for years to get ,how blessed must you be to write one👍🎸🎶
thanks a lot for this video man! I really hope you do more in the future like this. I can't read music well enough (yet) to learn this stuff from sheet music, and my ear is not good enough to pick out what is going on with these blazing fast solos either. So, to have someone break it down this way, enables me to get it under my fingers and really understand what is going on. Whereas before I was always in the dark with this solo. Now im sort of like, "oooh, thats what is goin on here!" ... Like i said, its a big help. And getting this stuff under my fingers, helps me wrap my mind around the though process of jaco, and it will most definitely help me learn them in the future. (without the help of someone else) Most people will not break down these solos like this (and i understand why). I just wanted to let you know how much it helps me personally when you take the time to walk through this stuff !
Excellent job my friend...Still to this day, when I listen to Jaco's solo on Port of Entry, It's like it's almost spiritual..as it was the 1st time I heard it back in '81 as a 15yr old..it's not because of his technical ability but more because of how deep his note choices are, and how his phrasing connect's with my ears, brain and soul. That Jaco could achieve this on a tune that was the furthest from a ballad as one could get, just shows how blessed this cat really was ..incredible that now what 39yrs. later! It's still probably the summit of all bass solo's..Again top compliments to you and your talent.
Hi Anthony, I transcribed this over 30 years ago, which doesn’t make me an authority. Lol . Re the bend, I believe Jaco played the C on the G string and bent the C on the D string, in a rake type way.. Now I see your bass hasn’t a high C on the D string. Some gaffer tape may help! Lol. Also the last run differs from mine, again I’m probably wrong. I hear a Eb, Eb, D followed by a C. Sorry to be so boring. I always find that four ears are better than two… or something like that. Great content, great phrasing. M
Very accurate and realistic transcription here...congrats, U d'man. There are a few transcriptions on this solo out there w the bloody wrong notes all over the place.
@@AnthonyMuthurajah The first song I heard by Jaco was Teen Town. Wow. Then the Havona solo. Double wow. Decades went by before I heard Port of Entry. That was the fastest I'd heard him play. Triple wow. I love that you took the time and effort to learn them all. Yes, I watched your other videos. I can play Teen Town not half badly. I tried to learn Havona solo about ten years ago but I can't manage it. I worked at it so many times that I have it memorized enough that I can still hum along with it and imagine I'm playing it. Forget about playing Port of Entry, that's out of my league. Have you ever considered playing any Jaco stuff on a fretless?
@@mattfoley6082 Jaco did't always play the fretless. He'd play the fretted bass a lot. Sometimes it is hard to distinguish which one he plays because of his vibrato. Anthony has the same ability. His tone is dead on Jaco and he is holding a squire jazz bass... fretted... what I'm trying to say is: it is all in the fingers. And besides it is actually harder to play the fretted bass than the fretless because of the fret noise...
Sir... I take my hat off to you. I saw the other video to. And your tone is so beautiful. You got some nice jazz bass there, and some nice fingers. One off the few who can actually touch Jaco's tone. Well done!
Anthony, I'm 36, a Berklee grad, and have been playing bass for like 20 years. This channel is the best. I have been struggling to find a channel with more of a selection of advanced material and stumbled upon this. My favorite part about the videos is that you're not afraid of making mistakes. We all make them, but it's always edited out. It injects the humanity back into playing. I was starting many of those arpeggios in less advantageous positions so watching your approach was incredibly helpful.
Keep up the great work and thanks for the break down!
Antony I'm not a advance bassist so most of the stuff you teach is above me but i can't skip your lessons you are just that good.
Hey man I love your transcriptions and playing! They've helped me out a lot. I watched your Donna Lee one recently and it was a big aid for me in getting it together. I think my fingerings are a bit more accurate to Jaco's so once I can nail the tempo, I'll be posting my own to share with the world my interpretation. Hopefully in a few weeks or so.
You talk at 10:50 about the bend and your surprise that he nails it, but have you considered the possibility that there's a little magic trick going on here and "the spoon is not real?" I was checking this solo out and I'm almost completely convinced that from the solo to the end, he overdubbed the entire bass performance in studio, but slowed it down with a varispeed tape deck and performed it a minor third lower that it sounds here. So in other words, he performed his solo in A rather than C, that bent E is actually a C#, and he played it much slower than it's presented on the record. I know it's a live record, but I'm still pretty sure that the entire solo onwards was redone in studio. I'm curious to know your thoughts? Cheers brother!
U have a grace when it comes to teaching dude
First two minutes and my brain is fried. Keep up the great work man.
Ha! Cheers man!
wow i just finished transcribing the solo today, what a coincidence. Your video of you playing along with the track has helped me tremendously during the process. Thank you!
Glad to hear man! Cheers
I started following you after watching that old video some time ago. Cheers Anthony
Cheers!
Thank you Anthony really enjoyed this vid I remember hearing this solo, well the whole night passage album when it came out and I had a westone thunder 1 a fretless bass ,boy I didn't have a clue about the technical prowess of this solo and thought all I have to do is practice a major scale until my fingers go as fast as jaco and I'll get it.😂😱😂🤣...but I will play it one day so thanks for your contribution to my endeavor. These master pieces really do take 4 hours a day every day for years to get ,how blessed must you be to write one👍🎸🎶
thanks a lot for this video man! I really hope you do more in the future like this. I can't read music well enough (yet) to learn this stuff from sheet music, and my ear is not good enough to pick out what is going on with these blazing fast solos either. So, to have someone break it down this way, enables me to get it under my fingers and really understand what is going on. Whereas before I was always in the dark with this solo. Now im sort of like, "oooh, thats what is goin on here!" ... Like i said, its a big help. And getting this stuff under my fingers, helps me wrap my mind around the though process of jaco, and it will most definitely help me learn them in the future. (without the help of someone else) Most people will not break down these solos like this (and i understand why). I just wanted to let you know how much it helps me personally when you take the time to walk through this stuff !
Excellent job my friend...Still to this day, when I listen to Jaco's solo on Port of Entry, It's like it's almost spiritual..as it was the 1st time I heard it back in '81 as a 15yr old..it's not because of his technical ability but more because of how deep his note choices are, and how his phrasing connect's with my ears, brain and soul. That Jaco could achieve this on a tune that was the furthest from a ballad as one could get, just shows how blessed this cat really was ..incredible that now what 39yrs. later! It's still probably the summit of all bass solo's..Again top compliments to you and your talent.
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Hi Anthony, I transcribed this over 30 years ago, which doesn’t make me an authority. Lol . Re the bend, I believe Jaco played the C on the G string and bent the C on the D string, in a rake type way.. Now I see your bass hasn’t a high C on the D string. Some gaffer tape may help! Lol. Also the last run differs from mine, again I’m probably wrong. I hear a Eb, Eb, D followed by a C. Sorry to be so boring. I always find that four ears are better than two… or something like that. Great content, great phrasing. M
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Very accurate and realistic transcription here...congrats, U d'man. There are a few transcriptions on this solo out there w the bloody wrong notes all over the place.
Thank you! Yeah, there are generally many faulty transcriptions online, both video and sheet music. Appreciate the kind words! Cheers!
Muito bom , você é referência pra mim! 🇧🇷
holy fuck what a coincidence i just started transcribing this last week! Thank u so much
My pleasure!
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It was not pretty bad. They was good.
You haven't played this in 3 years and then you just played it from memory? Please tell me I'm wrong or I'm throwing my bass in the trash.
I sat down with it for a bit and then recorded the lesson. It's in my muscle memory for sure but, hard shit nonetheless! haha
@@AnthonyMuthurajah The first song I heard by Jaco was Teen Town. Wow. Then the Havona solo. Double wow. Decades went by before I heard Port of Entry. That was the fastest I'd heard him play. Triple wow. I love that you took the time and effort to learn them all. Yes, I watched your other videos.
I can play Teen Town not half badly. I tried to learn Havona solo about ten years ago but I can't manage it. I worked at it so many times that I have it memorized enough that I can still hum along with it and imagine I'm playing it. Forget about playing Port of Entry, that's out of my league.
Have you ever considered playing any Jaco stuff on a fretless?
@@mattfoley6082 Jaco did't always play the fretless. He'd play the fretted bass a lot. Sometimes it is hard to distinguish which one he plays because of his vibrato. Anthony has the same ability. His tone is dead on Jaco and he is holding a squire jazz bass... fretted... what I'm trying to say is: it is all in the fingers. And besides it is actually harder to play the fretted bass than the fretless because of the fret noise...
Sir... I take my hat off to you. I saw the other video to. And your tone is so beautiful. You got some nice jazz bass there, and some nice fingers. One off the few who can actually touch Jaco's tone. Well done!
@@fretlessfender Yeah, I know Jaco sometimes played a fretted. But he played a fretless on Point of Entry and Havona.