The Five Levels Of JACO PASTORIUS - Easy To PRO 

Teen town obviously

Come On, Come Over! that riff gets me jumping!

weather report - port of entry. This is the real pro Jaco Pastorius

I like groovy Chicken by Pastorius

The Lesson hihihi

Punch Down King You learned how to play the right notes in the right sequence. Thats all you learned. You didnt learn the song.

It took me months too learn it

@Punch Down King tbh Donna Lee seems to me to be the hardest due to how soft and clean he played it in the album. It reminded me of Leonidas Kavakos' Paganini No5 in terms of cleanness.

@Punch Down King ok prodigy, go play classical thump at 500 bpm. Leave us mere mortals to play seven nation army. Bet you’re real fun at parties, probably mansplain to girls why Om is the best Coltrane record and why she’s too dumb to understand it. Btw does your beloved quintuplet swing even sound good?

Yeah, wow. I have to practice more.

Read my mind... ;-)

I cant watch anymore because it just pisses me off. I dont know how anyone could deal with that. Makes me want to yell at the screen, "GET THAT FUCKING THING OUT OF THE WAY!!!" 😐

What’s wrong with it? How is it making you anxious?

Get some wireless headphones...………….

Umm what?

JedRose17 not as hard as the syncopated rhythms found in the other songs along with their speed. I play Jaco’s stuff all the time, although not perfectly, portrait of Tracy is much more about the emotion as opposed to the technical skill needed to play it

and my day is ruined

Immeasurable? Then I don't believe you. Then I say, if you can't even specify your complaint, please bugger off. There are better songs missing here. Your blah blah is useless. And you know it. BEEEEEP!

@@SlexGaming it is objectively harder than come on come over, although come on come over is awesome

@@SlexGaming I’m not so sure I agree dude some of those harmonics are near impossible like the artificial D# or the last chord. Emotional stuff IS often the most technically difficult to play. I just watched a video on a virtuoso violinist talking about how he finds Mozart the hardest to play over other perhaps more technical pieces like Paganini, Tchaikovsky, or Sibelius because it just demands a very specific sound. That’s what portrait of Tracy is. You can half ass a song that’s fast, but getting a tune like Portrait of Tracy to actually sound beautiful is going to be an incredible challenge in a unique way.

I notice😂

What?

@@jacobsss5827 he has a lever to detune his strings in his other bass. Force of habit, just like reaching for the vibrato bar in a non floyd rose guitar

hhahaha I didn't notice the lever wasn't there in this bass haha

I appreciate that you still watched the performance at the very end of the video 🙏🏻

he did plenty of talking with that bass

I love hearing Charles talk, both via vocals and via bass.

Meanwhile Adam Neely literally answers the title of his videos in the thumbnail

Easy my left nut

Come on come over isnt that hard a beginner could learn it given a month maybe. They wouldnt play it perfectly or with perfect rhythm but still

I don't know dude, when I learned it it took me like an hour or something. But teen town drove me up the wall.

@@ben23232 Exactly. Come on Come over is extremely difficult to play up to the level that this RU-vidr is playing it. With the mutes, little harmonics, perfect phrasing and this level of feel its harder than 95% of bass players will ever achieve. Most average players could learn the song, but they wouldn't be even close to "playing" the song in the sense Jaco or this RU-vidr did with that level of intricacy.

@@jeanlucbergman479 Challenge for everyone. Just "rutine" for Jaco, thats way he is a legend (sorry for my english)

As a fellow musician(piano player), I can confirm I'm human, unlike Jaco

I'm 3 years late, so I'm sure you're much better by now, but there is no shame whatsoever in "only" knowing how to play "Come on, Come Over". If you can nail that, then your only direction from there is UP, my friend.

Well they did even name a song after that, so...

Ooooh, THAT'S why it's called Dean Town! Never knew!

btw the line is from Woody not Joe

@@evancrockett9899 I never even thought of that. Lol

lmao

That's the thing with Jaco, beyond his incredible technique, there are the rhythm and the expression, and even with his most easy prices, that's the hardest but more interesting part to achieve.

Ok but chromatic fantasy isn't that hard in reality, much harder song is havona

lol ... take it from Richard ☝

arceom07 I second that!

The Chicken too!

@BegissoR EDM $€|\||) |3@$$

I need BASS

I think nailing those harmonics is way harder than Donna Lee. Just sounds fancy because it's Bebop.

Saw weather report in 77 in England. I treasure that concert more than any other.

Word up

He's doing what the ppl want unlike charles who's doing what he wants

@@ugorton7345 the people that matter and can actually play music want what Charles offers. Fight me.

I watch Charles for true musicianship and davie for laughs.

@@ugorton7345 Actually Davie has said that he's passions are playing bass AND making funny videos (people laugh) so he's also doing what he wants

he reads comments.. he talk less.. but he won't put his %#@ headphone cable away

IKR! All that commentary is distracting

yeah, from 0:00 to 0:00 is kind of too long for intro commentary

Jesus Charles? Is that James Charles’ brother?

@@TotoDG , LMFAO !

Best comment ever

Nice!

@@CharlesBerthoud Oh god, now that you have hearted my comment I feel obliged to learn it in full.

I know it, but I can’t play it the jaco way with the harmonics added or the key change he adds for the solo

@@ethanlocke3604 I guess we should just practice

@@yeetmeintotheabyss2893 Go for it!

not really, so many more bassists better than him now

james ortega I doubt you’d find one who didn’t see him as a major influence

@@ryanstrohman7429 that doesnt change the fact that there are a lot more better bassists than him today. if these great bassists today all went back in jacos time and showed their stuff, i bet no one would even notice jaco.

@@jamesortega8681 I have no doubt that since Jaco's time, Bassists have evolved and completely changed the way we think about Bass, but that does not at all change the fact that he left an important legacy and foundation for many, upon many. I have really heard by many that he's the Hendrix of Bass, and after Hendrix's time did more advanced and technical guitarists come along, but that didn't change his iconic status.

james ortega The point is that everyone needs something to build off of. These great bassists you speak of took what Jaco did and expanded upon it and made it their on; it would make sense that it would be “technically” better if they improved upon it (which I still disagree with, if you think Jaco wouldn’t have been noticed you’re a fool).

Haha

Good, excellent, Pro, Asian, Jaco, Bruce Lee.

Felipe Fernandes Moça ele toca pra caramba!

.. Besides the hour-long intro

Kyle Griffin , search for Alain Caron.

jaco cud only do 200bpm speed..... charles300-315bpm thats the new breed of bassists today

james ortega Thanks for that. Bass guitar moves forward. Jaco strived for melody, much like Duke Ellington. Vs Count Basie, that ‘had the beat.’

@@riffdigger2133 nope jaco and count dont own "the beat". each musician has their own beat and if 5 million people thinks you have the beat then you cant argue with that(talking about charles and davie504)

james ortega I’m not disagreeing with you. I was just quoting Jaco (his DVD with Jerry Jemmott) on how melody was very important to him. The quote on Ellington came from my Artie Shaw doco. Count Basie was an interesting band leader. (Couldn’t read music) And he had the beat -with songs/arrangements like Fly Me To The Moon, with Sinatra. (Quincy Jones, producing). That’s all.

@Punch Down King my bad, charles max isnt 315, its 340bpm, charles already posted a vid doing 340bpm you idiot. so tell us what is the fastest proven/recorded speed of jaco in bpm? if you cant prove what you say then youre the dumbest fuck here. look up charles vids my proof he does 340bpm noob

Although Jaco thought that "Jaco" was the way to spell "Jocko"

that would have been nice pardon typos , weird lag. i co-created allan's official group at facebook 'the unreal allan holdsworth' go check it out! his bandmates family and friends are active there. the last time i talked to allan in person he told me he HATED facebook and personal computers too, lol! i actually quit facebook before allan left us, so u won't see me there. cheers~! ps, re ; jaco - - PORT OF ENTRY< from the solo to the outro, i could never play those - a ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-C-gbGEprDoA.html , re ; allan the second time i chatted with him in person he told me about his divorce and how his wife took his home studio. we didn't see him for a few years after 1999 because he didn't leave his new house. his wife became a fundamentalist xtian, whereas allan was an atheist, albeit spiritual , in a sense. ...another funny story. last time i saw him play he was playing with bunny brunel and my friend dennis hamm. i've been losing hair over the years and was envious of bunny's thick main, when i greeted him, i complimented his hair, not his fabulous playing, lol! the drummer , ronald bruner jr, was 1/2 hour late. at a point, allan cursed out 'where the FUCK is the drummer'. bruner arrived and apologized saying 'don't kill me' , allan flashed him a dirty look and grinned. then bruner played with one hand for the first song while texting with the other. after the song he shouted 'i got bnack together with her' lol. during the song' fred', allan forgot the changes to that simple tune, after his solo, he looked over at me and said 'sorry!' (i was sitting next to his gear, two feet away from him).his gear was actually on the bar i was sitting at. being a spazz, i put my drink down for fear of spilling it... that night , 10 years after his divorce, i could sense that he was still struggling with the divorce. RIP allan!

re allan, i'd loved to hear him play with pat metheny. therewas a track floating around called 'airstream' but i really didn't hear allan on it, i think there was false attribution. same for him and shakti john mclaughlin, tho they were on an album together, but not the same cut... i forgot to mention above, the first time i met allan and hung out with him, i was 17, i had idolized him at that point. after a half hour of chatting with him i STOPPED worshipping him and ALL musicians/artists and any historical figures, really, and my self, too. he was that down to earth and easy going. kinda shy tho. i think that was the best gift ever from him... cheers! ps,if you go to The Unreal Allan Holdsworth facebook (URAH) group i cofounded, say 'hi' to Nick Stefanikas, my cofounder from greeze. g'day!

+1

Can you slap Teen Town like Miller? lol

Wrong channel slapper

Yes please

Up for this

wait, why dont you just listen to the song?

Cover Solutions just posted a full transcription

If the secret gets out, i will call the police.

I was looking really hard to see if it was a fretless. You answered my question thanks.

Looks like a Muckelroy bass from the headstock logo

@@JasonM69 ypu don't need to look at all. You need to listen. No fretted will ever sound similar to this

A very, very beautiful bass.

Charles did the full version of that in the past.

Came here for this - slowing down donna lee just so we could actually understand what he was doing lol

nah the sped up the recording a wee bit. jaco played it slower live

@@jamesortega8681 Actually you can find live recordings where he plays it just as fast if not faster than the studio version. It's fairly common practice for jazz musicians to eventually play familiar tunes faster during live performances. Not that it's all about speed, btw, just to clarify and highlight how skilled Jaco was. As is Charles, certainly in terms of technique. But he does play it slower here.

@@jamesrhee291 im sure charles i faster hes has a vid playing notes as fast as he can, ho may bpm is jacos record? in any case jaco is garbage at slapping so he doesnt even come cloe to charles as a well rounded bass player

@@jamesortega8681 Unbelievable ... seriously missing the whole point.

i used to think that too lmao :(

​@@cirnegro8938 Once you know the basics of the bebop patterns donna lee isnt that hard.

@Jeff C he is actually, jaco is garbage at slapping o overall charles is technically better and more well rounded

Jaco is a sloppy hack

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