Ain't no mountain high enough - Isolated Bass Track
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- One of Jamerson's most incredible compositions! I was always fascinated by the bass track on Ain't no mountain high enough, and after coming into possession of the multitrack in lossless .WAV, I knew I had to share it.
![James Jamerson - Reach Out (I'll Be There) - Isolated track bass [1966] [HQ]](/img/n.gif)
He creates the hook with a bass riff, sets the groove, establishes the harmony, defines the parts, leaves room for the voices, refers to the lyrics (high and deep), provides variation and improvises some jazzing lines!!! A great 2 minute lesson for any bassist.
Yep, the bass covers everything.
What has to be remembered about Jamerson is that he wasn't copying someone else's style. Sure, this bass line can be learned and played quite effectively by bass players today. But Jamerson came up with it. He originated this style of playing. He didn't have youtube. He didn't listen to Jaco, Pino, or Duck. He invented this stuff, and it's what makes the song. Everyone after him credits him as in influence. He was the originator. Simply amazing.
Also noone makes it like jame anymore
One can make a strong argument for him as the most influential player of the 20th century.
This sound was already around in gospel and blues stop the nonsense.
@@kensmechanicalaffair gospel yes. Not blues. Blues bass don't have this much walking. It's more groove oriented.
@@VCT3333 Sure.
The GOAT, in my opinion. No one combined groove, harmony, and melody into a single part as well as he did.
With good bassists you will listen to them and think "Wow hes a really good bass player" like with people like Jaco and Victor Wooten, but great bass players will make you feel the lines and get lost in the groove and will make you think "Wow this is a great song, I wanna listen to this again" James was the greatest to ever do it, and there will never be another bass player quite like him
he didnt play with the usual styles modern players play with,sticking to the bass drum and just rhythm etc..he plays like a member of the orchestra,playing a melody and rhythm..music was different then and mixed differently too...his lines were fantastic..and i i love his style.x
Amen to that!!
He would tend to play along with what the singer, the saxophone, and the piano was doing, although he did have great chemistry with the drummer, but honestly I think he could’ve did without, either way..the guy did what he wanted
He plays like a member of the Orchestra because that's what he was when playing live.
sounds like he s inventing it on the spot
This is one of the many examples of just how ridiculous it is that some people believe the bass should be felt and not heard. Allow the bass to do more than just stick to the bass drum while playing root notes, and you could get magic like this.
If the only purpose of the bass was to stick to the beat and fill in some lower frequencies, you might as well just beat a floor tom instead.
I'm just sitting here bobbing my head and grinning the entire time. I'm humbled to have the honor to listen to such greats as Mr. James Jamerson.
The bassline on this is Difficult... But once you can play it, It is the best bassline ever!
Love it!
Fantastic isn't it? I persuaded my music class to do this song when I was in high school and learned the bass line for it, I was grooving so much at the end of year performance. I ended up buying a P bass around that time too and customized it up to look more like Jamerson's before the concert. Good Times
Ya I know, I'm doing it for my concert in July, Fingers crossed I don't mess up xD
xD I've practiced for like 4 months straight, Hopefully that's enough Spups
Spups xD
yeah, it's tricky to remember but you're right, once you know it it's so much fun.
Simply amazed by what he pulled off after the half-tone raise. The line is already great by itself but @01:56... What a genius he was!
HorusTV The first bar of the chorus in Ab is a master class is strong beat/weak beat, approach notes. He also favors a half step below the F-7 as the chorus gets close to the end. He never ran out of ideas, ever😎
The original mixed version will never be the same for me after hearing the isolated bass. It gives the song a whole new layer of experience.
Its the BASS MELODY that supports the VOCAL MELODY, FITTING LIKE A GLOVE🥇🏆🥇
James Jamerson was just the greatest. He's one of the few bassist that makes that sucker sing the song. I love it!
Absolutely I agree. I sing along to the bassline from Ramble On, which was very much influenced by Jamerson.
Few bass players left their indelible mark on recorded music. Only one defined the very essence of the instrument first, and then like a master artisan retrofitted it to the music in such a way that can never be duplicated. Imitated perhaps. Covered, well maybe. But then, so can the Mona Lisa, and the great classics of the ancient masters. But there can only be one original of anything! Witness the originality of one such master, if you will. Rest in Peace...Mr. Motown. You have surely earned it.👑🎸🎵
his timing is like a god damn machine. amazing.
A machine that can't play on beat or at a consistent clean attack. Sure. That kinda machine.
dookie shoes you want him to play 8th notes of just only the root?
dookie shoes It’s called having great feel, timing isn’t meant to be metronomically on the beat. This is masterful bass playing
@@shawnm3839 @Shawn M if only Jamerson could have received some lessons from the legendary Shawn M
His rhythm and articulation were so damn perfect.
The father of modern day bass players, James Jamerson. What an incredible bassist. No one was playing patterns like he did on record. He created the way 8th note, 16th note and 32nd note patterns where played on record. He opened a door that other bassists walked thru even to this day
James Jamerson nobody before or after him who can compare to him !!
I think McCartney is comparable. The melodic nature of the way the two play is just astounding, it's not just a compliment, it's like an entire composition in its own right.
In melody, maybe they're comparable, but in tone and rhythm, there's no comparison there. The tiny little ghost notes and stuff Jamerson just added as par for the course on every track is just insane. th-cam.com/video/pAF8P8DCDKY/w-d-xo.html the run at 12 seconds. I'll never know how one finger can do that
Nathan Watts!
Palladino ? D'angelo hired him cause he was playing all them Jamerson lines accurately during their jam session.
Boxy Brown You never mention a guitar pick player before Jamerson. He's a good songwrite/pianist though☀︎
Biggest observation: A little bit of warm overdrive on bass guitar does wonders for the tone when its sitting in the mix. Respect and RIP to the great James Jamerson as well as the Funk Brothers.
You don't just play his bass lines you feel them... amazing. I've never learned bass lines with so much feel. He was flawless. Straight soul and feel. No one compares to him. He's high above everyone else.
Exactly. Learning his lines is so fun because you can just feel where to notes are going
Man, his playing after 2:08 is like... wtf? genius
Just amazing. Its the also the spaces he leaves where he lets a note hang where most of us would add something else....
Making it dynamic, melodic, and consistent all at the same time is the genius of Jamerson.
Oh my days!! Such exquisite tone! The time you guys make is freakishly mystical. Oh! such time!!! Thankyou! 😅
He could never ever be duplicated the best bassists of all time
Incredible consistent attack in every note.
Are you out of your mind? Half the notes are are played like miss stepped after thoughts. The other half are before or after the beat.
dookie shoes you must’ve completely lost your hearing
@@shawnm3839 That`s called a groove it`s intentional
dookie shoes Its called being human
@@shawnm3839 he meant attack, like in how loud each note is.
all the ascending and descending make me think of mountains and valleys! absolutely masterful
Happy 80th birthday James Jamerson, RIP.
one of those motown tracks where Jamerson's presence makes all the difference. His lines make an otherwise somewhat stiff rhythm mellow, danceable.
This. It's a good tune but he makes it much more interesting to listen to.
I think the way good syncopated music is supposed to work, is that usually there is one rhythm that is deliberately more or less 'straight' (not necessarily 'stiff') against which another syncopated part is pitted. In a lot of older pop music (than this) it was the bass and alto lines that were more 'straight' and then a syncopated melody. Here, the bass line gets very syncopated and that trades off with the melody. I think that is part of the secret to the 'groove' of later popular music like this.
It is perfectly OK to have both bass and melody syncopate at the same time, but if this is done excessively, the 'feel' of the music (and thus I guess 'genre') changes completely to what some people would call a 'Latin' (really, African) type beat, of which there are many dozens or hundreds of varieties under this massive umbrella.
Part of what separates most USA popular music from most African and South / Central American etc. popular music etc. is (in my rather uneducated opinion) that unique pitting of straight rhythm against syncopated rhythm, to give a contrast, instead of making both mainly straight (like a lot of older European music), or both mainly syncopated.
THE MAN WAS A MUSICAL GOD........RIP MR.JAMERSON
an Influence on everyone from Flea, Gene Simmons, Geddy Lee, John Paul Jones etc. etc. Brilliant!!! sculptor of sound :)
the greatest bass player of all time
+Chris Caruso Agreed!
+Norm Spups Entertainment Definitely agreed!
yep!
Geddy Lee
I enjoy Rush, but is that a joke?
Master of improvisation
0:30 he keeps going. You expect a small pause at one point but he fills it up keeping up the pace without increasing the tempo. As if his internal metronome was always counting by the eighth note.
Rutger Gunnarsson from Abba brought me here.
The isolation just gives you a true appreciation! Great picture too
This has made it 100x easier to work the part out by ear. Thanks!
Ray Parker Jr has some great stories about chilling with "Mr Jamerson" back then.
Awesome bass guitarist with an unprecedented skill set that's perfected and a legacy that is protected.
I would do almost anything to have been a participant in the making of the Motown era! It will never be duplicated!❤️
James Jamerson Simply The Best !!!! R.I.P. Bro
blew my fucking mind altogether finding out he played the bass on this tune and to hear it was fucking outrageously good.
Haha yesss, I've heard this song thousands of times and I just now heard how cool the bass sounds
He is singing with the vocalist.
This is nice to hear, cause I saw the Vulfpeck visual thing that sort of showed you how the baseline worked, but I didn't feel like it was isolated enough for me to pick out perfectly despite the visuals. Now I've watched both videos, I can really appreciate it!
Holy mother of tone!
ihave noidea and to say that there were no amps used at motown!
You can get close to this tone if you cut the bass and treble all the way and keep the mids at 12 o clock. Its such a marvelous tone that sits well in the mix nonetheless.
Jameson pioneered the bass sound as it should be played in this genre but many others have followed his style and technique.
Basseline difficulty level: IMPOSSIBLE
good job James Jamerson all time bassist
2 weeks training trying to finish
really?
Dedas Almeida It's actually not that hard of a bassline
that too!
what about "i was made to love her" by Stevie Wonder thats one of my favorite am learning that now
Mr. Jameson, wrote the book! Thank you so much for showing us all, the way. And thank you for some great music to listen to as well.
That bassline is definitely way ahead of its time! Can you imagine how music will be written if he were here today?
JJ is the GOAT 🔥
How I love James! At about :35 the bass line sounds so wacky, but when you listen to the full mix of the song, it makes complete sense. This guy was a genius!
I love those big fat high notes.
Who the hell can follow this? He is considered The Maestro of Electric Bass!!!
Jaco Pastorius. And a fair number of others. Not saying JJ wasn't awesome. He was.
Nom de Plume No one can play it like him though. Just like no one can play Jaco like Jaco.
@@georgeplunkitt5565 That has to do more with individual musical choices a player makes. I don't diminish the importance of those choices but they are only one aspect of mastery. There are, and have been, a number of other bass players that are the equal or better of JJ. Not saying the guy wasn't epic. He absolutely was. Just not unfollowable as OP suggests.
@Nom de Plume Sure, there are people who can play what he plays. And there are people, such as Jaco, who may have more complicated pieces than he does. But all I’m saying is that no one can replicate Jameson as well as Jameson himself. If Jaco were to play a Jameson piece, he would still sound like Jaco. Style is what makes a maestro so fun to listen to. They’re just two sides to the same coin, and asking if heads is better than tails is a dumb question.
@@georgeplunkitt5565 Right. Primarily because of the musical choices JJ makes. But look at OP's statement - Who can follow this. The answer is plenty of people. They can and and have. I hate when people try to argue who is the greatest musician. There are way too many variables that lead to defining anything about any given player if any style. If JJ is somebody's personal favorite, that's legit. But that isn't what the OP is suggesting.
*typos above. I know. don't have time right now to give a shit *
why am i watching this i play the flute
I do too but also I play bass lmao
gimme that flute
I play the computer.
This should be enjoyed by everyone!
Cuz ya know bass is your calling :0
Proper sound. Genius
So awesome some of the things Jameson does I wouldn’t even have thought of.
Also interesting on how on the Diana Ross version of the same song, he changed the entire attitude of the line yet while different...still incredible...
The Diana Ross version was recorded by Carol Kaye...
Damn, such incredible talent and craftsmanship. A musical legend
The "master" at work!
If you who are pondering the Paul McCartney connection to Jamerson, watch the video titled, "I Learned 227 Beatles Bass Lines and Discovered this."
The author of the video learned 227 Beatles songs in chronological order. He says that the first 67 bass lines, with the exception of I Saw Her Standing There, were rather dull and pedestrian.
He claims that the drastic change in Paul's approach to bass playing after the 67th song can be attributed to one man, James Jamerson. Paul has said himself that no bass player influenced him more than when he started listening to Mowtown (James Jamerson). Paul didn't realize until decades later that most of the songs he was hearing were played by one guy.
Check out that video. It's very interesting.
Beautiful musical lines. Great video!!!
WITH ONE (1) FINGER✔
I just bought both a bass and lead guitar for the specific purpose of learning how to play all of my favorite songs from my childhood growing up in Mississippi. This is only one of many of them.
Amazing! Thank you for posting this. He has the harmonic mastery of Paul Chambers with a groove sensibility entirely his own. HIs rhythmic inventions are brilliant (Bach-like mathematical precision).
Genius.
WTHFX I completely agree :) The gorgeously placed staccato percussion notes right before a run just adds so much to the funk! (Works incredibly on standing in the shadows of love th-cam.com/video/pAF8P8DCDKY/w-d-xo.html)
WTHFX He was a master. Chris Squire sited Jamerson's playing on I Was Made To Love Her as one of his favorites.
What a tune! MAN!!
You just inspired me to learn this on 6 string. Thank you :)
WOW listen to that insane compression on the drums at :32 seconds! Its like theyre exploding. Hell yes.
+Joe “JazEGeoff” Sepe Tell me about it! the crunch of that in house snare is just so gorgeous. The mixing/sound engineers spent much more time on the songs than the actual writers at motown :), which is why everything that came out of there sounds so damn incredible!
+Norm Spups Entertainment Is that some form of parallel compression or some tape artifacts?
+Joe “JazEGeoff” Sepe The crunch will be from the hot recording into the tape :). I don't believe they had enough faders available on the mixer to parallel both the drums and vocal.
Thank you so much for that. Insight in the mind of a great genius!
Amazing
Soul at it's finest
This is great thanks.
ahhhh insane!!!so smoothgot the groove
Lyrics
Listen baby, ain't no mountain high,
Ain't no valley low, ain't no river wide enough baby
If you need me call me no matter where you are
No matter how far; don't worry baby
Just call my name; I'll be there in a hurry
You don't have to worry
Oh baby there ain't no mountain high enough
Ain't no valley low enough
Ain't no river wide enough
To keep me from getting to you babe
Remember the day I set you free
I told you you could always count on me darling
From that day on, I made a vow
I'll be there when you want me
Some way, some how
Oh baby there ain't no mountain high enough
Ain't no valley low enough
Ain't no river wide enough
To keep me from getting to you babe
Oh no darling
No wind, no rain
Or winters cold can stop me baby, na na baby
'Cause you are my goal
If you're ever in trouble
I'll be there on the double
Just send for me, oh baby, ha
My love is alive
Way down in my heart
Although we are miles apart
If you ever need a helping hand
I'll be there on the double
Just as fast as I can
Don't you know that there
Ain't no mountain high enough
Ain't no valley low enough
Ain't no river wide enough
To keep me from getting to you babe
Don'tcha know that there
Ain't no mountain high enough
Ain't no valley low enough
Ain't no river wide enough
Ain't mountain high enough
Ain't no valley low enough
Amazing!!!! So happy I could find the ORIGINAL bass, you're the best
TheOneAndOnlyMrPR Thank you :) I'll upload the entire multitrack to mega if you like!
Norm Spups Entertainment That would be awesome ! I've been trying to pick out the specific voicings that the guitar player(s) used. I think there are two guitar parts, but they're kind of buried in the mix.
I've put the link to the download in the description :). The guitar track in this is one of the funkiest things i've ever heard! Joe Messina plays the really fast strummed funky line, Eddie Willis does the iconic 'Chanks', and Robert White plays a simple line that contrasts nicely with the bass, with a similar rhythm to Joe's. There's some lovely little details in the vocals as well, for instance, marvin drops his vocal sheet at the end
Norm Spups Entertainment Wow, that is great stuff ! I never heard most of those string parts clearly before - they really were buried treasure. Thank you for posting this ! If you don't mind me asking, where did you find this ? There are so many classic songs that I'd love to hear the individual tracks for...
jmporter34 No problem, and thank you :) I found it on some dodgy russian tracker site haha :D
Thanks for sharing this! I'm trying to play it on my bassguitar right now. Think it's gona take me weeks to nail it. But it will be worth it. Great song and a formidable bass player. ❤
James Jamerson used one finger!
beautiful
Like butter
Thank you for this.
The really good bassists of old were heard but not seen. But today a lot of players want to get into the realm of the virtuoso bassists, why? 10 % of something is better than 100 % of nothing.
How did a man who helped to bring so much happiness to others die broke. That’s a crime, I pray he got his payment in Heaven.
Unfortunately Jame's story isn't uncommon in the industry back in the day. Studio musicians were expected to play for the song and nothing else. James was one of the highest paid bassists in the world at the time mind, but I do think Motown's move to LA was a big mistake.
You are a saint
Jamerson usually played with one finger, so if he did in this song that’s a damn good finger.
Crazy technique, gave the attack more consistency I think! I think he did a lot of the ghost notes on the back stroke of his finger, you can see this from the live clips of "what's going on"
GENIUS!!!!!!!
Having heard James Jamerson's masterful bass playing on Motown and other recordings for many years how - more than fifty, in fact - I am curious to know if any recordings survive of him playing in a straight-ahead jazz context. Are there are any known recordings of Jamerson playing straight-ahead jazz on an acoustic instrument? That is how he started out, before moving over to R&B and the Motown sound.
This is awesome man! Many thanks for posting
a brother home our wars a song my team 1974 thank you
Listen baby, ain't no mountain high,
Ain't no valley low, ain't no river wide enough baby
If you need me call me, no matter where you are,
No matter how far; don't worry baby
Just call my name; I'll be there in a hurry
You don't have to worry,
Oh baby there ain't no mountain high enough,
Ain't no valley low enough,
Ain't no river wide enough
To keep me from getting to you babe
Remember the day I set you free
I told you you could always count on me darling
From that day on, I made a vow,
I'll be there when you want me,
Some way, some how
Oh baby there ain't no mountain high enough,
Ain't no valley low enough,
Ain't no river wide enough
To keep me from getting to you babe
Oh no darling
No wind, no rain
Or winters cold can stop me baby, no no baby
'Cause you are my goal
If you're ever in trouble;
I'll be there on the double
Just send for me, oh baby, ha
My love is alive
Way down in my heart
Although we are miles apart
If you ever need a helping hand,
I'll be there on the double
Just as fast as I can
Don't you know that there
Ain't no mountain high enough,
Ain't no valley low enough,
Ain't no river wide enough
To keep me from getting to you babe
Don'tcha know that there
Ain't no mountain high enough,
Ain't no valley low enough,
Ain't no river wide enough
Ain't mountain high enough
Ain't no valley low enough
thank you for making this!!!!!
His attack and articulation is crazy good. Yet sounds like he coudl be sitting on a couch wearing pj's and slippers.
And they say bass players don’t solo!!! Wweeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!
Convinced dude kept his bass under his bed. Damn.
Perfect and beautiful👏👏🎸🎸
Omg this is sick 😝🤘🏾 love it
awesome!!!!!
thank you....
thank you so much
No problem at all!
Tks for Multitrack !!!!
No problem bud. Hope you enjoy the listen.
badtato they're all over the internet, you just have to look quite carefully. I got this multitrack from a private tracker. an easy way of getting a lot multitracks is on the subreddit r/songstems
So damned good. Thank you for sharing!
Isn't it? My pleasure! I struggle to think of any musician more influential to modern music than Jamerson
With one finger, people.
One finger!!
So smooth, like butter. And utterly tasty! You think Pino may have listened to a few of James's bass lines, he's one of my current favorites. Check out the John Mayer Trio to see what I mean.
Agree 100%, Pino must have been inspired, Steve Jordan who you must know from the trio names Benny Benjamin as a big influence on the Drums. The Funk Brothers inspire so many, timeless groove!
You have to be a genius to write something like this. The talent at Motown at that time was insane