This Jaco Bass Line was HIDDEN for 40 YEARS 😱
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2024
- It’s one of the most famous instructional videos of all time.
Anyone reading this who’s watched Jaco’s infamous Modern Electric Bass video will have reveled in the hidden bass riff that Jaco digs into as the opening credits roll, but it’s hard to figure out exactly how to play it. So in today’s video we’re going to show you…
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Video Breakdown:
00:00 - Introduction, the long-lost riff
01:02 - Modern Electric Bass by Jaco Pastorius
01:53 - Last chance to join the Jazz Accelerator
02:37 - 16th Note Funk
03:56 - The Main Riff
06:59 - Dynamics & Articulation
08:04 - Accenting Exercise
09:37 - Last round of the main riff
10:43 - Ending Lick
12:48 - Jaco Pastorius' Legacy
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This, 'Fingerstyle Funk' (Francis Rocco Prestia), 'On Bass' (Billy Sheehan), 'Superchops 4 Bass' (Beaver Felton) my old school '90s VHS bass vids. 😄
As someone had already mentioned Jaco used that riff on "No Slack" track on Brian Melvin's "Jazz Street" but Jaco used it extensively many years before that, it is a riff prominently used by him on live "Teen Town" version as included on Weather Report "8:30" record, and it is played there on fretless of course.
You’re absolutely awesome to provide this breakdown, with sheet music. That little tune grabbed me when I first saw Jaco’s instructional video; I set about learning it, and I’m not alone. Everyone loves it, and you’ll find renditions all over UA-cam. People call it “Jam in E,” but I call it “Jaco’s 8th,” because it’s the 8th exercise in the video and it’s as epic as a SYMPHONY!
I credit Jaco's Modern Electric Bass video for teaching me to play bass about 22 years ago. This will be etched in my mind as a musician forever.
What a musician…Jaco was unique… ❤️❤️ about the “forgotten bass line” If I’m not wrong Alex Lofoco something like 3 years ago published the full transcription of Jaco video lesson from the 80’. Stunning !!
What a great riff! Jaco used it in a track called "No Slack" by Brian Melvin
Jazz street was the album
You sir know whats up
also features on a live version of teen town
Also referenced on Little Beaver’s I can Dig it Baby. Safe to say he used it a lot
My Dad went to college with Jaco in Miami and became friends. They even shared a drummer Bobby Econmou. My Dad was also a bass player and when I was little he'd play Portrait of Tracy to put me to bed. Tragically my Dad passed away when I was 4 but the impact he and in turn Jaco had on me was truly deep. Always felt a really strong connection to the self titled album as a result. One of the best things ive ever heard!!!❤
BTW, Jaco plays this toward the end of the live version of Teen Town on 8:30.
Yes, I was scrolling through the comments for people who would know this!
I have it on VHS. Got it in 1991. That part always caught my attention too.
introducing Jaco to the new generations is what I'm trying to do in my videos! Good job Scott! Number 1❤️👍
Just more reasons why Jaco will always be an absolute beast of a player, man, such a unique style
Always loved this riff, have the whole video on my home server to spin up anytime I need! Also, that orange Jazz bass is 🔥👌
I have always loved that part of the jaco video. Such a sick line. Thanks for transcribing it!
OMG!!!! i am obsessed with this riff, I'm so glad you're covering it. i have had it stuck in my head for days before hahahaha
That bass line mesmerized me the first 100 times I heard it. Many thanks for providing the sheet music for it! I used to have Modern Electric Bass on VHS and watched it many times. Fortunately, that gem is still available on UA-cam.
So awesome right?!
That Jaco Pastorius’s lesson is mind blowing. I had only the audiocassette, but still it was fantastic, and he inspired me to get better. This was just an interview but it proved he was a great teacher too.
Wow remembering great time. After that I went to the Patitucci’s book (great lessons there too), and before I retired I tried Billie Shehan book. Those were my main influences.
I started with Paul McCartney, then Lemmy Kilmister, then I went through Iron Maiden (great lessons).
A couple of other books here and there. And a lot of practice. I loved that time.
Ian’s bass tone sounds so good damn nice!
Too often I don’t have the chance to have my bass in hands while watching your videos. But tonight I turned on my SVT in the adjacent room and had a blast learning the riff at the same time ! It made me realize that I usually never play over the bridge pickup, it’s a simple thing but I had to get used to it.
He plays this same line on the Weather Report 8:30 album over teen town. I saw that there first
My bass teacher showed me this when I was in high school, now Ive been teaching this to my own students. I feel this is a really great solo piece to just play as a warm up or sound check.
Thank you very much for this tutorial and pdf!
He plays the same riff on No Slack on the album jazz street by Brian Melvin. It really is a banger, one of my favorites
I remember this riff from watching the videotape in the late 80’s. One of my favorite Jaco riffs, and a simpler version has been part of my warmups ever since.
Best bass channel and best content one could possibly ask for. Thank you!
Big up Nelson! 🙌🏻
This video was the second tutorial I purchased when I first started out back in the day, after Louis Johnson's! Amazing the number of bass players this impacted worldwide! The irony is that he wasn't really trying to teach, he was just talking shop with a fellow bassist! A side note, I know you are a huge Pino fan! You must check out this track he laid down for Go West back in the 1980's! I dare you to analyze what he does on "Missing Persons"! Not only is the groove incredible, but his solo and tone blows me away every time I listen to it!
Thanks Scott. Once again, you’ve inspired me to pick up my bass and revisit some Jaco licks
Thanks so much for sharing, What a great Jaco bass riff and well presented to learn from !
Big up Craig! 🙌🏻
thanks for sharing this, as a newer bass player myself im always lookin for any new/old material to study and incorporate into my own vocabulary.
My bass teacher taught me that riff in like 96 haha. Still playing it
Thanks for your videos! the best lessons!
scotts jazz sounds so nice…making me want one
My favorite SBL video.
I watched it for the first time in 1985 on VHS in a listening room at the library where I went to music school. A bunch of us crowded in there to swoon and tear at our hair and clothing throughout. It was so entertaining and inspiring and we'd come back to watch it again and again
The riff at 12:00 (first five notes) is one of these things I play all the time but I would never have thought to do the B minor over E major thing
That was my favorite part of jacos video. I've watched it hundreds of times
OH !! that Jaco's line... I had it on tape, then later on VHS and I remember having spent hours poking around that groove like an animal searching for food.
Nice job guys...
Grew up with this thank you 😊
That riff makes me crazy everytime. I often watch that video of jaco mostly for that riff.
Scott, that is a beautiful sounding (and looking) bass. Is that a Alleva Coppolo?
Great! By the way, did you ever made a video wherein Jerry Jemmott was spoken about? It took my years to discover that the interviewer in the Modern Electric Bass video is an incredible bass player whose playing was on great influence of Jacos style.
I remember that video , such a tricky groove to learn . If I remember correctly, they used to give you a music notation book for learning with the video .
Yep. Like all instructional videos, it comes with a little booklet… but there’s always lots of transcription errors in those booklets, and this one was no exception.
This was my 1st tutorial vhs tape, I remember that riff very well.
Totally agree this line and this riff is crazy…
Jaco's Modern Electic Bass video was actually the first timer I heard him play. Needless to say he blew my mind
I worked with jaco It was a great guy to be around scott You could learn a lot for me
And this is why Jaco was Jaco, and I am not lol. Great breakdown of those licks. A very interesting side note to that video he made with Jemmott was the hours BEFORE filming and the absolute craziness of what it took to get him up and coherent enough to shoot that video. I believe it's documented in the Jaco biography in a chapter somewhere. If all that is true, it took a lot to get that video done in one of the darkest times before Jaco's passing.
Dear Scott, there is a bit in the Jaco vid where he is talking about playing 6’s. Haven’t been able to find a tab for that. Would be cool exercise either way.
As a guitarist I learn so much from Jaco its unreal.
Not seen anyone mention the fact that the repeating the riff is a slower version of his line on ‘Are You the One? Are You the One?’ off of the Trio of Doom album
@sbl thanks for all you are sharing with us?
woul definitely love a video about the most incredibles licks and riffs of percy jones, he's an abosolute beast, the song "Not Good Enough" from brand x is just...awesome.
Love a minor major seventh chord! 🤩
Scott’s got the exact tone as Jaco. Nice!
My grandad used to build basses, guitars and amps back in the 50s and i think through to the 60s for magnatone in los angeles. He used to tell me how fender pinched some of his ideas for string alignment and such. I dont know how true that might be, but he was still annoyed about it in the 90s. He was incredibly proud of his amps though and used to tell me about one artist from that time who teared up because he had finally found the sound he was looking for through one of the amps my grandad designed. I have a bunch of leaflets and advertisments for magnatones gear from the 50s and 60s at home here. I hear their amps are making a bit of a comeback? I dont know if they are the same company as they were back then but people seem to like their amps still. He told me he designed the sound system for a movie theatre and got massive sound out of very low wattage. He did explain to me how, but I cant remember. He used to try to impart some of his knowledge on me about electronics but as a tempermental 17 year old I was only interested in hammering my bass as loud as possible. I believe he worked for Baldwin and Estey later on.
Love this❤
Scott, what bass are you playing? It's absolutely gorgeous...
I bought the vhs and book of this in 1992 from an ad that was in bass player magazine.
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Great great video! 🖒🖒🇦🇷
I had the vhs tape ! if there is a riff that is jaco funk, this is it! Great video
I have seen live footage of Jaco playing this line with Weather Report. It might have been Teen Town or another song but they were just jamming doing a little improvisation.
Yep, he plays it on Teen Town live version on WR 8:30 record.
He does that as a solo on a live video at the Montreal Jazz festival in 82, playing to a looped groove....it's worth checking out as an example of the same line Scott loves
Awesome dude, we'll definitely check that out!
@@devinebassThe "looped groove" is known as Slang and he performed it throughout his career, including the rare concerts I just uploaded. If any of you over at SBL are Jaco fanatics, I've shared some incredible & rare stuff, like a bass-only solo concert from 1979 ;)
Quick question: Should you play over the pickups or to the side of them? Is there a difference?
He’s playing the riff from the live version of “Teen Town “ from 8:30
Greatest music instruction of all time
We appreciate the warm words!!
Yo Scott you think you can do a lesson on dazz band let it whip song and love the videos.
I had the VHS as soon as it came out. Learned this track first thing!
Iconic 🔥
Jaco was exceptional on Joni Mitchell's Shadows and Light live video. Do check it out again!!
Scott you wear a glove for the tone right? What would you say it exactly gives to your sound?
That video came with a booklet with some sweet parallel sixth exercises.
Scott’s bass tone in this video is 100% pure beef. Wow!
I have really started watching your videos and this may be the best video to ask the question on. I don't play an instrument of any kind but I appreciate and enjoy music. Having listened to more bass players lately and watching your channel more often I notice when I listen to guys like Jaco and other Fretless players that their is an aspect of their sound that I find pleasing. What I notice now when I listen to many of your videos and other players using traditional fretted basses that I keep hearing a metallic rattle sound almost like the strings are vibrating on the frets. This sound I find far less appealing than what I hear with fretless players. Factoring in that I don't play bass, I don't play an instrument am I imagining things? Or is there something too this and if I decided I wanted to one day learn bass what should I do to find that pleasing sound while allowing myself to learn the instrument?
I believe its due to plucking hard by the bridge and over the pick up and very snappy. Also Jaco using round wound strings where as most fretless player use flat wound strings which are nowhere near as bright.
That IS a great bit of bass playing!!! Hey Scott, are you ever going to talk about Tom Fowler? That guy could play music that Frank Zappa wrote! Roxy and Elsewhere is THE record album!!!!!!
That's great still playing music so good jazz is incredible
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And on Brian Melvins "No slack" tune also
Omg I love this
Impresionante 😮😂
Snap! I used to marvel at this riff and wear out my VHS tape working it out! (How old am I?). The beginning of this riff tho with E octaves and E G# C# B string changes was my Nemesis. Do a clip on that! 🎉
Modern Electric Bass was actually the first time I ever heard of Jaco. When I saw the video box I assumed he was some weird French dude or something. I watched it and pretty much knew I had to hear everything else he ever did.
great lines.
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Still got that bud somewhere under the tv, remember trying to learn it, I failed. 😊
Time to get stuck back into it dude! 😉
Is the "paddle" missing from Scott's G tuning peg?
Scott, you should do a video or two with Julia Hofer of Thomann's Guitars & Basses. Should be epic.
Thanks for the recommendation dude, this will be sent over to our content team for consideration!
Do a video on John Entwistle
Crazy how jaco did all of that while improvising
Why is this video framed this way? 😂 this is an absolute classic line!!! We all play it!
I wore the vhs tape out. This was my bass education 16- 18 years old. Rip king
I bought this VHS back in the 80s and I’m not even a bass player.
So funny, I still have that on VHS. It was the best.
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Is this also a real time comparison of rounds (Scott) and flats (Ian)?
If you play on Bass, Jaco blow your mind!!!
Scott please check the fifth note of the "ending lick". I think it`s G# a not B. Coud be?
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Holy smokes, bass faces still better than guitar faces
We joked for years that I was the envy of the other local bass players, because I had, "The video." Yep -- these notes will be in my head until I pass :)
Bb triad is very good for E tone
Shame the tabs on the video don’t match the workbook - section a riff variation missing too. Annoying inconsistency - found it better ignoring the tab and just watching the chaps play. Lovely riff, will be nodding this on the sofa tonight. 👍🏻
Love the end of the video where Jaco throws his bass at the drummer. You could tell he was a little freaked out.
Great moment
In the ending lick, the "B minor over E" the 4th note is G# and not B
What is the bass scott is using???
Exactly the same for me. This riff was like (and still is for me) Everest.
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