Ya, it’s incredible that he had chips way behind the already complex basslines he’s known for. His understanding of music and how the bass could fit into it was second to none!
Wow! That was really cool! Thank you so much for sharing! I hadn't heard that J.J. solo before. It sounded awesome! You sounded awesome as well! Nice p-bass by the way.
Wow, thank you so much! Greatly appreciate the kind words. I love that P Bass, it's a 2004 but I got rid of a 1975 P because this one sounded and played better!
"In fact, the JJ bass line effectively carries a portion of the song's melody and hook. I became aware of this while listening to instrumental versions in elevators and restaurants. During the 70s and 80s, Motown instrumentals dominated those markets." Do you recall those times when you'd visit the dentist or the eye doctor and hear Motown music playing in the elevators? (70 & 80's)
@@LowEndNationBassLessons I will admit part of me wanted it to not be Mutiny, i was hoping to know there's another James solo out there! Cheers! I also play bass and do covers on youtube, just found your channel! Really good content!
I hear you there! I was kind of hoping someone would prove me wrong and inform me that there was another Jamerson solo on record but it seems like Mutiny is the only one. Thanks so much, glad you're enjoying our content, I'll give your channel a spin too! We have some really cool content with Derek Frank coming soon too!
@@LowEndNationBassLessons Hi! Listening more James as usual and thinking about another solo that might be a solo from him, maybe we can consider what he does at 1:30 into "I Was Made To Love Her" from Stevie Wonder. The music goes into a "break" of sorts and James do something that i'm considering a solo, more and more that i listen to it. It's short, but i would consider a solo, what do you think?
Thanks for publishing this. For whatever reason, people are having fits that it's not the original recording but whatever. There is another recording of him soloing in a jazz club but it's almost inaudible
@@mp9228 Thanks man! Ya, seems to be a lot of fuss about that…..I haven’t seen the jazz club video, would you mind sending a link if you’ve got one? Would love to check that out!
He was trained on the stand up Bass Viol and used that “hook” there. He just did it on an electric bass. It looks hard but he never had to play 2 different strings at once so using one finger was doable?
He has an interesting solo section on a track called "The Flick" with Earl Van Dyke. There are several versions too. The constant is a solid, fat funky bass tone and the fingerstyle touch of a legend.
i didn't pay any attention to jamerson when i was starting out playing bass. i've picked it up 25 years later and now that i'm "in the full bloom of maturity" i have seen the error in my ways. got some flats (i'll never change them) and i'm not looking back
Nice! It's a never ending study! You should check out our bass player database, you can find a pile of Jamerson tracks you may not have heard of before: lowendnation.com/len-bass-and-drum-database/
Thanks so much! Have been working on Jamerson's stuff for a long time, greatly appreciate your comment. The mute is just a piece of foam that came in a gig bag I bought a few years ago. Seems to be the perfect density for a mute!
@@LowEndNationBassLessons Cool! I got to work with Mary Wilson of the Supremes for about four years before the passed away. It was fun playing all the classic Motown hits! I have a cover and my transcription of What’s The Buzz from JCS on my bass stuff playlist. I tried recording with and without foam. Compared them…With foam was the obvious choice! th-cam.com/video/Dr9kw5NUTIY/w-d-xo.html
@@drbassface Very cool!!! Working with Mary would have been an incredible experience! Checked out your vid, sounds great! That tone is killin’ and you nailed that bassline!
Not sure if I’d agree that there’s a solo on that track (unless there’s another version I haven’t heard yet) but regardless his playing in that track is killin’! 🙌🏻🙌🏻
@@LowEndNationBassLessons It's not a long solo. It's the pick up after one of the choruses I think. Maybe not what would be classed as a solo today but it highlights Jamerson as the virtuoso that he was.
I did a video awhile back playing The Jackson 5 version of "Standing In the Shadows of Love" using "the hook", but haven't gotten around to trying this solo with it yet. Will be fun to see if I can!
It depends how you want to define "solo" but I would argue that line isn't a solo as it's only one bar and it is repeated later in the song. It's essentially just part of the bassline.
Pointless me heading on over to grab that pdf. (If only.) But hey thanks for posting it for those that can make use. That was a lovely play through of a great JJ solo I'd never heard before. Maybe I can kind of kid myself I'm getting there by plodding along on the root notes. 🙂
Hmm... I gave you the information to go and listen to the track so you can hear Jamerson play it, and if there were a video of him playing it, I would have used that, but......
Cool video! Thank you for hipping me to the track! A little critique though: I'm quite sure the low note at 1:19 should be an F (tritone jump from B) instead of an E.
You know what….you’re absolutely right haha. One listen back and I heard it right away, not sure how I missed that. Damn that’s hip! Jamerson never ceases to amaze. Will correct this for version 2 of this video! Thanks for the heads up! 🤟🏻🙏🏻
For me that one wouldn't fall into to the category of solo, I think of a solo more as a player expressing melodic ideas, where this part of The Flick is really just the bassline with no other accompaniment, but it's an incredibly badass bass part nonetheless!
Funky, Great Grooving solo right within the format of the Tune. We nevertheless heard stretch the way jazz and Fusion Cat's were allowed . I have read and heard that he did and one guy described it as a "Concierto" 😊. Jamerson was one of those Cat's who could deliver more in a tune than most could in a solo.
In my humble opinion Jamerson most masterful bass lines were 1. Inner City Blues 2. Flying High in a Friendly Sky 3. Save the Children All 3 from the Marvin Gaye what's going on Album
@@kinglikuid6109 All great basslines and Flying and Save the Children definitely show Jamerson’s mastery at work, but Inner City Blues was Babbitt, who was a master in his own right!
Very likely that Jaco knew this track! I’ve heard him say that Jerry Jemmott was one of his heroes, wouldn’t be surprised if he was a big Jamerson fan too!
Hey, I found that there's another recording of a James Jamerson Bass solo! Over eight choruses of a Bb blues. It's shown on this interview: th-cam.com/video/xcaDXnhrkkU/w-d-xo.html
It’s just a piece of foam that came in a gig bag that I bought. I’ve used it on a couple different basses so it’s gotten pretty beat up, but works like a charm
What's happening real vdeos of James Jamerson, they put up his face, I click on and it's somebody else playing. you play fine, but I am looking for the ORIGINAL MOTOWN PEOPLE
@@ramonaclaytor8736 Unfortunately there are only a handful of videos of Jamerson playing bass. With his most known body of work being from the early ‘60’s to the early ‘70’s there weren’t cameras running all the time so video of him is hard to come by. But I feel you.
I played Standing in the Shadows of Motown that way but haven't given this a shot yet. Will try it out and see how it goes! Pretty sure this one will be a battle!
Bro are you kidding me? You gonna replicate the sponge mute at the bridge, but you gonna play with multiple fingers?... smh... Bruh, you gotta use THE HOOK!... You cant play James Jamerson, and not play with the Hook.. Sacrilegious!
Just about everything he played was a solo but he was smart. He knew how to do it when the singer was still singing
Amen to that! He knew how to dance around the melody without stepping on it, just incredible to listen to!
Yes and Micheal Jackson's Darling Dear is a prime example of this
I have always said that every great Motown track is best understood as a bass solo with band (and vocal) accompaniment.
There's a lot of truth there!
@@matthewbailey9789 That's excellent!
Well, he was a a jazzer at heart so no surprise really. Very cool.
Ya, it’s incredible that he had chips way behind the already complex basslines he’s known for. His understanding of music and how the bass could fit into it was second to none!
Would it be safe to say that to be a genius bassist, elements of jazz must be incorporated?
Congratulations for really getting the feel of Jamersons genius. Poetry in motion.
Wow, thank you! 🙏🏻
1:16 few musical things can make me audibly exclaim "gahhh!!!" but that right there did. What a turnaround.
Amen to that! Such a genius
Great playing on your end , wow ! Tone is awesome too.
Thanks so much! Greatly appreciated! 🙏🏻🙌🏻
Great job on this video! He was a legend!
Thanks so much! Absolute legend and innovator, strange to think where music would be without him!
Wow! That was really cool! Thank you so much for sharing! I hadn't heard that J.J. solo before. It sounded awesome! You sounded awesome as well! Nice p-bass by the way.
Wow, thank you so much! Greatly appreciate the kind words. I love that P Bass, it's a 2004 but I got rid of a 1975 P because this one sounded and played better!
"In fact, the JJ bass line effectively carries a portion of the song's melody and hook.
I became aware of this while listening to instrumental versions in elevators and restaurants. During the 70s and 80s, Motown instrumentals dominated those markets."
Do you recall those times when you'd visit the dentist or the eye doctor and hear Motown music playing in the elevators? (70 & 80's)
So good! When i saw the video i thought MUTINY? Yes, also great playing!! This solo is really great!
Thanks so much, Beca! Such a great song and bassline, could play this all day every day! 🙌🏻🙌🏻
@@LowEndNationBassLessons I will admit part of me wanted it to not be Mutiny, i was hoping to know there's another James solo out there! Cheers! I also play bass and do covers on youtube, just found your channel! Really good content!
I hear you there! I was kind of hoping someone would prove me wrong and inform me that there was another Jamerson solo on record but it seems like Mutiny is the only one. Thanks so much, glad you're enjoying our content, I'll give your channel a spin too! We have some really cool content with Derek Frank coming soon too!
@@LowEndNationBassLessons Hi! Listening more James as usual and thinking about another solo that might be a solo from him, maybe we can consider what he does at 1:30 into "I Was Made To Love Her" from Stevie Wonder. The music goes into a "break" of sorts and James do something that i'm considering a solo, more and more that i listen to it. It's short, but i would consider a solo, what do you think?
@@LowEndNationBassLessons Earl Van Dyke & The Soul Brothers - "The Flick II" starts with a ~30 second solo by Jamerson.
thank you ..for putting this up..❤ from ireland..
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻. Will get to your beautiful country one of these days!
Thanks for publishing this. For whatever reason, people are having fits that it's not the original recording but whatever. There is another recording of him soloing in a jazz club but it's almost inaudible
@@mp9228 Thanks man! Ya, seems to be a lot of fuss about that…..I haven’t seen the jazz club video, would you mind sending a link if you’ve got one? Would love to check that out!
No worries! Perhaps I misremembered the contents of this video, but I like finding anything I can on James. th-cam.com/video/p_JC1HvHwWw/w-d-xo.html
Thanks so much for sharing this! Super cool! I guess I'll have to change the title of my video now, lol
No slight on Mr. Dougall's prodigious chops, but I was kind of expecting to hear Mr. Jamerson play. Was that a copywrite thing, or something else?
Awesome video have a great weekend also happy first week of fall ❤😊🎸🍂🏴🇬🇧🇺🇸🇨🇦
@@aminahmed2220 Thank you and you as well!! 🙌🏻🎸
How he did all that with one finger is beyond me
Right?!?!?
He was trained on the stand up Bass Viol and used that “hook” there.
He just did it on an electric bass.
It looks hard but he never had to play 2 different strings at once so using one finger was doable?
He has an interesting solo section on a track called "The Flick" with Earl Van Dyke. There are several versions too. The constant is a solid, fat funky bass tone and the fingerstyle touch of a legend.
I can’t believe how good your video sounds through my phone. Great job.
Wow, thanks! Glad to hear that! 🙏🏻
AWESOME TRIBUTE!
Thanks so much! 🙏🏻
Sure thing!@@LowEndNationBassLessons
i didn't pay any attention to jamerson when i was starting out playing bass. i've picked it up 25 years later and now that i'm "in the full bloom of maturity" i have seen the error in my ways. got some flats (i'll never change them) and i'm not looking back
Nice! It's a never ending study! You should check out our bass player database, you can find a pile of Jamerson tracks you may not have heard of before: lowendnation.com/len-bass-and-drum-database/
Note the foam rubber under the strings. All Fender basses used to come with that attached to the bridge cover. Trying to get a string bass sound.
Really got your sound together on your P bass with flats….and what kind of mute by the bridge? Foam? Sponge? You have it set perfectly. Great playing!
Thanks so much! Have been working on Jamerson's stuff for a long time, greatly appreciate your comment. The mute is just a piece of foam that came in a gig bag I bought a few years ago. Seems to be the perfect density for a mute!
@@LowEndNationBassLessons Cool! I got to work with Mary Wilson of the Supremes for about four years before the passed away.
It was fun playing all the classic Motown hits!
I have a cover and my transcription of What’s The Buzz from JCS on my bass stuff playlist. I tried recording with and without foam. Compared them…With foam was the obvious choice! th-cam.com/video/Dr9kw5NUTIY/w-d-xo.html
@@drbassface Very cool!!! Working with Mary would have been an incredible experience! Checked out your vid, sounds great! That tone is killin’ and you nailed that bassline!
Great !!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thank you! Jamerson was a beast! 🙌🏻
This isn't the only Jamerson solo. He played a meaty little piece on Jr. Walker's number, Home Cooking.
Not sure if I’d agree that there’s a solo on that track (unless there’s another version I haven’t heard yet) but regardless his playing in that track is killin’! 🙌🏻🙌🏻
@@LowEndNationBassLessons It's not a long solo. It's the pick up after one of the choruses I think. Maybe not what would be classed as a solo today but it highlights Jamerson as the virtuoso that he was.
Wow great job. Nice
Thank you! 🙏🏻🙌🏻🎸
have you tried playing it with one finger like JJ did on the Funk Machine?
I did a video awhile back playing The Jackson 5 version of "Standing In the Shadows of Love" using "the hook", but haven't gotten around to trying this solo with it yet. Will be fun to see if I can!
What about the one bar solo in Reach Out I'll Be There by the Four Tops?
It depends how you want to define "solo" but I would argue that line isn't a solo as it's only one bar and it is repeated later in the song. It's essentially just part of the bassline.
I'm going to try listening again at home. Not one single bass note was audible on my phone😂
Pointless me heading on over to grab that pdf. (If only.)
But hey thanks for posting it for those that can make use.
That was a lovely play through of a great JJ solo I'd never heard before.
Maybe I can kind of kid myself I'm getting there by plodding along on the root notes. 🙂
Haha, thanks very much 🙏🏻 I'm sure if you spent the time on it, you could get it down!
Dont know if you wanted us to hear him doing a solo or wanting to show you can play it. Was it him or you?
Why should that even matter? This shit ain't a competition. Take that gatekeeping garbage somewhere else.
Hmm... I gave you the information to go and listen to the track so you can hear Jamerson play it, and if there were a video of him playing it, I would have used that, but......
Very nice.
Super Cool!
Thanks brother!!!
Cool video! Thank you for hipping me to the track! A little critique though: I'm quite sure the low note at 1:19 should be an F (tritone jump from B) instead of an E.
You know what….you’re absolutely right haha. One listen back and I heard it right away, not sure how I missed that. Damn that’s hip! Jamerson never ceases to amaze. Will correct this for version 2 of this video! Thanks for the heads up! 🤟🏻🙏🏻
Nice job!
Thank you! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
It's called "pickin' your spot" and no one did it better.
@@wilsonburgess7196 Amen to that!
Earl Van Dyke & The Soul Brothers - "The Flick II" starts with a ~30 second solo by Jamerson.
For me that one wouldn't fall into to the category of solo, I think of a solo more as a player expressing melodic ideas, where this part of The Flick is really just the bassline with no other accompaniment, but it's an incredibly badass bass part nonetheless!
Funky, Great Grooving solo right within the format of the Tune. We nevertheless heard stretch the way jazz and Fusion Cat's were allowed . I have read and heard that he did and one guy described it as a "Concierto" 😊. Jamerson was one of those Cat's who could deliver more in a tune than most could in a solo.
In my humble opinion Jamerson most masterful bass lines were
1. Inner City Blues
2. Flying High in a Friendly Sky
3. Save the Children
All 3 from the Marvin Gaye what's going on Album
@@kinglikuid6109 All great basslines and Flying and Save the Children definitely show Jamerson’s mastery at work, but Inner City Blues was Babbitt, who was a master in his own right!
The intro to the solo probably inspired Paul McCartney's bass on Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except for Me and My Monkey.
NICE.
Thanks! 🙏🏻
pretty amazing since jamerson only plucked with his index finger.
great find! I once spoke with Bob Babbit
Very cool! Wish I'd had the chance to meet him!
Am I the only one hearing some similarities with Willie Weeks bass only on Everything is Everything on Donny Hathaway’s Live?
Jaco must've definitely known this part. Because there are some elements in here that Jaco played all of the time.
Very likely that Jaco knew this track! I’ve heard him say that Jerry Jemmott was one of his heroes, wouldn’t be surprised if he was a big Jamerson fan too!
James would be proud of you my man.
Thank you so much my man! That's an incredible compliment. 🙏🏻
love that P bass!
Thank you! 🙏🏻
Thats a great solo. I just put flats on my squire P but they dont sound 'bouncy' like this bass
Ya, Jamerson had something special going on on this track
Now can we hear _JAMES_ play it. 😐
Look it up yourself he put the name of the track
Without him, people like Paul McCartney wouldn't have created fantastic bass lines such as the Beatles songs "Rain" and "Hey Bulldog"
Completely agree, is influence reached further and faster than his name did for sure
So basically JJ wrote the Benny Hill theme.
Damn that was tasty
Jameson is the greatest
Back when (electric) bass solos were LESS exciting than the rest of the bass line, haha!
For real!! The walking bassline on this track is sooooo good!
I would've sworn the first one was James Jamerson on Mutiny Jr Walker...however thats 1966
How cool is that?
Can you call it a solo if there's sax and drums in it?
what about Bob Babbitt?
I think Darling Dear that he wrote for Jackson 5 was his best jam, of course its debatable
That's a great one for sure. My personal favourite is The Jackson 5's "Standing In the Shadows of Love" but as you said, it's debatable
Hey, I found that there's another recording of a James Jamerson Bass solo! Over eight choruses of a Bb blues.
It's shown on this interview:
th-cam.com/video/xcaDXnhrkkU/w-d-xo.html
@@IgnacioLong Hey! Yes, I recently learned that as well! Pretty cool to be able to hear a recording from just a regular night at a club!
why are you playing over his solo? makes it sound a mess.
😂😂
Whats that mute you are using? Looks like a piece of tissue.🤔
It’s just a piece of foam that came in a gig bag that I bought. I’ve used it on a couple different basses so it’s gotten pretty beat up, but works like a charm
Don't say let's listen to the solo, then play it yourself...
did the fact that the solo was performed for you in this video (so you can see what's being played) somehow prevent you from listening to it?
here, I googled it for you all
th-cam.com/video/M1g7O5oZ8m4/w-d-xo.html
It’s hard to hear the bass over the music
I thought he was just playing to the song 🤔 it isn't a bass solo so much as he was just really good to improv the run he did.
I hear he used just one finger
What did he do with the other nine?
@@seanonel directed the rest of the band probably
@@seanonel 😂😂😂
Know I know where Duck Dunn got his grooves from!
Amen! They were both influential bassists but Jamerson definitely set the standard in that era
Well I was kinda looking forward to a JAMERSON recording ……! WTF
What's happening real vdeos of James Jamerson, they put up his face, I click on and it's somebody else playing. you play fine, but I am looking for the ORIGINAL MOTOWN PEOPLE
@@ramonaclaytor8736 Unfortunately there are only a handful of videos of Jamerson playing bass. With his most known body of work being from the early ‘60’s to the early ‘70’s there weren’t cameras running all the time so video of him is hard to come by. But I feel you.
th-cam.com/video/7yInJS0Fljk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=S4AIeTSrh-SslZWi
That’s a link to one of the few that you can find if you haven’t seen it already
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James jamerson,s bass line are solo😂😂
deep south church solo
Can hear his South Carolina roots coming out on it for sure!
On the other hand, Wilton Felder.
James Jamerson used one finger.
Where are your tools, man?
Now try with just your index finger!
I played Standing in the Shadows of Motown that way but haven't given this a shot yet. Will try it out and see how it goes! Pretty sure this one will be a battle!
Bro are you kidding me? You gonna replicate the sponge mute at the bridge, but you gonna play with multiple fingers?... smh... Bruh, you gotta use THE HOOK!... You cant play James Jamerson, and not play with the Hook.. Sacrilegious!