Everything started to come together for him quickly once he started playing with another. Hopefully this will give you some ideas on where Part One of The Chicken For Beginners Lesson can be taken but also share some of the secrets of how Jaco Pastorius created his infamous 16th Note Funk Feel Here’s the original bass line and the 5 fills written out in standard notation and tab. All transcriptions are presented in both standard notation and tablature. He and Stanley Clarke were the towering influences on their instrument in the 1970s.īorn in Pennsylvania, Pastorius grew up in Fort Lauderdale, where he played with visiting R&B and pop acts while still a teenager and built a reputation as a local legend. book features 16 songs recorded by legendary bass player Jaco Pastorius. The Chicken with the Jaco Pastorius Big Band LIVE in Japan 1982 with. He also sported a strutting, dancing, flamboyant performing style and posed a further triple-threat as a talented composer, arranger and producer. I know for cer - tain 9 11 9 12 12 A 21 Bbdim7 12 & T A B 18 J the. With a brilliantly fleet technique and fertile melodic imagination, Pastorius made his fretless electric bass leap out from the depths of the rhythm section into the front line with fluid machine-gun-like passages that demanded attention. Hope this is a nice 'I'm sorry' gift to all of you for my time away. Jaco Pastorius was a meteor who blazed on to the scene in the 1970s, only to flame out tragically in the 1980s.