Amazing technique by Jac?:help:

RaszBasz · #1 04-06-2007, 05:44 PM

Yo! .. I've been watching Jaco Pastorius for some time and I've been trying to learn his technique where he plays 2 tones at one time. The theme he is playing in Blackbird is really really sweet, but the technique seems to me very difficult to learn?.. Anyone who has any links that shows how it is done??

RaszBasz · #2 04-07-2007, 05:49 AM

Anyone out there??

43apples · #3 04-07-2007, 04:09 PM

Two tones at the same time? That isn't hard....

...can you describe what you mean?

doctorjazz · #4 04-07-2007, 04:17 PM

I really, really hope he's talking about something other than playing two notes at the same time.

mikezimmerman · #5 04-07-2007, 04:40 PM

From what I can hear, the technique Jaco uses on Blackboard is just simple fingerstyle guitar stuff, fretting two notes with his left hand on the G and D strings at the same time and leaving the A string mostly open as a kind of drone. His right hand is doing a sort of rolling pluck, with the middle finger plucking the G string, the pointer finger the D string, and the thumb the A string, either in sequence (G-D-A) or all at once.

Mike

RaszBasz · #6 04-07-2007, 06:58 PM

//His right hand is doing a sort of rolling pluck, with the middle finger plucking the G string, the pointer finger the D string, and the thumb the A string, either in sequence (G-D-A) or all at once.//

Yeah, something like that, I mean, I have tried to use this technique, for example : you place your thumb at the g-string, and then you place one of your leftfingers at one of the tones at the g-string, and at last you would pull the g-string and remove your thumb from the string. This technique would give you the possibillity to get two tones at one time, by simply playing at one note.

But my issue is that I can't get it right...

skullreaper · #7 04-07-2007, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by RaszBasz

//His right hand is doing a sort of rolling pluck, with the middle finger plucking the G string, the pointer finger the D string, and the thumb the A string, either in sequence (G-D-A) or all at once.//

Yeah, something like that, I mean, I have tried to use this technique, for example : you place your thumb at the g-string, and then you place one of your leftfingers at one of the tones at the g-string, and at last you would pull the g-string and remove your thumb from the string. This technique would give you the possibillity to get two tones at one time, by simply playing at one note.

But my issue is that I can't get it right...

Dude you seem to be talking about a pinch harmonic which is relativly simple to do. You just "pinch" the string between the pad of your thumb and one of your fingers... pluck the string with your nail while lightly pulling your thumb off the string like you were "pinching" something but make sure you pull the whole mechanism off the string to let the harmonic ring. more detail here--> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinch_harmonic also check out Billy Sheehan.

RaszBasz · #8 04-07-2007, 07:43 PM

Yo Skullreaper, thanks a lot for your help!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdCWbNWVCeI

It's just like that guy is playing, but if he's doing it good, I can't tell?:P

Anyway, this other guy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eS58W-gRlQ explains it very well I think, but the way he explains it, doesn't seem to look as the way to do it, if you watch the first youtube video I have posted??