How to Sound (More) Like James Jamerson

[@jomalomal]

this channel is criminally underrated!

[@Guitartomguitar]

Thanks Justin. I really appreciate that. Take care man.

[@jomalomal]

@@Guitartomguitar looking forward to more content! Keep doing stuff like this and your channel is bound to keep growing. Thanks for teaching me Dragonball Durag 😉

[@StratBurst92]

Excellent video. Jamerson also played with one finger which he called the hook. I play like this as well as two fingers. You are so right with playing with others. In the 60s/70s I played in a lot of so called garage bands, sometimes we did not play well but we always had fun.

[@Guitartomguitar]

Thanks very much! It was amazing the speeds that Jamerson could reach with one finger, but the consistency in tone was even more impressive. Nothing beats playing with others, I find with young students these days that it is becoming more difficult for them to find others to play with, which is a terrible shame.

[@dbo514]

I loved this video, more breakdowns of Jamerson and other players of that era! You went about it in a much more nuanced and interesting way than most other video on the topic.

[@Guitartomguitar]

Hey, thanks for the feedback! This video did take me a while to make but I'm happy with how it came out. Whose your favourite bassist from the era?

[@dbo514]

@@Guitartomguitar I like Willie Weeks a lot! I guess he was more in the early 70s rather than the 60s but I loved his work with Donny Hathaway, for instance on a track called "Love Love Love". His playing is similar to Jamerson, but a bit less muddy.

[@Guitartomguitar]

@@dbo514 Sorry it's taken me a while, but just listened to "Love Love Love" great track and great tone.

[@dbo514]

@@Guitartomguitar Really glad you liked it! I love that entire record, really classy production.

[@Guitartomguitar]

Any other bassists you would like me to do a similar breakdown for? Get printable TAB's and support my channel via Patreon.

[@noaheckman8330]

Great vid

[@Guitartomguitar]

Thanks Noah!

[@tonycampbell9626]

Tom for this video are you playing a squire affinity bass?

[@Guitartomguitar]

Hi Tony, yes I am. I wanted to use flatwounds, but didn't want to restring one of my other basses.

[@RHINOSAUR]

Please do one on the great Berry Oakley.

[@Guitartomguitar]

great suggestion. Thanks!

[@profile2047]

Thank you for not being a fan of those time keeping slaps. Sounds so lazy and awful on my ears.

[@Guitartomguitar]

Yeah, I hate those slaps!