Hal Leonard Presents the Jaco Pastorius Bass Method
MILWAUKEE - Hal Leonard Corporation, the world's largest music print publisher, has just released the Jaco Pastorius Bass Method. The first of its kind, this book/CD pack presents lessons, tips and techniques all culled from the private teaching archives of this legend who died before his time.
Hailed as the "greatest bass player who ever lived," Jaco Pastorius (1951-1987) lives on through his groundbreaking legacy of musical brilliance. In the new Hal Leonard method, author Ray Peterson - one of Jaco's private students - imparts the wisdom gained from his one-on-one lessons with the bass prodigy himself.
Complete with note-for-note transcriptions of songs and solos; detailed explanations of techniques and theory; and priceless anecdotes of personal experiences with Jaco, this groundbreaking book/CD pack is finally here to give the world what it craves - bass guitar lessons with Jaco Pastorius. A must for every aspiring bassist and Jaco fan, the book even includes pages from Jaco's personal practice book - in his own handwriting - for the ultimate Jaco experience. The song list includes 13 tunes in notes & tab: Chromatic Fantasy * Continuum * Donna Lee * Havona * Opus Pocus * Portrait of Tracy * Teen Town * and more, with audio tracks of all the examples on the accompanying CD.
"This is where Ray Peterson’s utterly incredible new book comes in. The Jaco Pastorius Bass Method is essentially what the bass world got cheated out of, but has been looking for forever: a chance to study bass with Jaco."
"What is most striking though, are the last 4 or 5 pages. Ray Peterson establishes a sort of “call to arms” against the legacy of Jaco Pastorius as a lunatic who happened to be incredibly talented with a bass in his hands. He recalls about a million ways in which Jaco was someone you would loved to have hung out with, as opposed to the Milkowski school of tragedy. The last pages of the book are actual scans of paged from Jaco’s practice book, where there are a plethora of ideas to practice that just don’t seem like the kinds of thing that I would just come up with, that’s for sure."
