Jaco Pastorius: This BASS SOLO Changed Popular Music

A video on YouTube. In Music Lessons, a Krater category.

Summary by Krater

Rick Beato analyzes Jaco Pastorius's legendary bass solo on the jazz standard "Donna Lee", exploring its complex chord changes, harmonic substitutions, false fingerings, and melodic brilliance.

From the video

Answers: How did Jaco Pastorius play the bass solo on Donna Lee?

Jaco Pastorius bass playing
Donna Lee chord changes
Tritone substitution on bass
False fingerings in bass solos
Fender Jazz Bass

What it concludes

Jaco Pastorius's playing on Bright Size Life introduced him to the world and made it a monumental jazz guitar trio record.
Donna Lee was written by Charlie Parker over the chord changes of Back Home Again in Indiana to avoid paying royalties.
Jaco Pastorius used false fingerings to produce the same notes on different strings for unique tonal colors during his solos.

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