Jon Liebman Play Like Jaco Pastorius PDF. The Ultimate Bass Lesson. Study the trademark songs, licks, tones and techniques of the world's greatest jazz fusion bassist, Jaco Pastorius. This comprehensive book/audio teaching method provides detailed analysis of Pastorius' gear, techniques, styles, songs, riffs and more. Each book comes with a unique code that will give you access to audio files of all the music in the book online. This pack looks at 15 of Jaco's most influential songs.
You need to have certain skills already to learn Jaco's tunes. However the books is organized in a way to help you by breaking the tunes in parts so one can go through that first.
The really good thing about the book is the break down of musical elements. JL writes a synopsis of each of the phrases and informs you as to the notes Jaco chose. As Marcus Miller observed on Jaco: 'I really wanted to know not just HOW he played what he played but WHY.'
The book then goes into other classic Jaco bass lines: 'Portrait of Tracy', 'The Chicken', 'Teen Town' and 'Birdland'. Each of them with the same breaking down of tricky sections, followed by the complete transcript. It feels like jumping in at the deep end to start with playing 'Donna Lee', as JL then looks to 'essential licks' and breaks down short phrases analysing Jaco's style.
Songs include:
- Donna Lee
- Portrait of Tracy
- The Chicken
- Teen Town
- Birdland
- Come On, Come Over
- (Used to Be A) Cha Cha
- Barbary Coast
- Opus Pocus
- Palladium
- Invitation
- Liberty City
- Blackbird
- Rockin in Rhythm
- Havona
Format: PDF + Audio tracks (Mp3). 123 pages
