Jaco Pastorius - Jam In E [BASS COVER] - with notation and tabs

Always happy to attempt some Jaco but this one is a bit emotional to do. This is from the instructional video Jaco did fairly near to the end of his life; he is clearly not well here and is rumoured to have been homeless at the time that they shot this video - in addition he had destroyed the beautiful fretless neck of his bass, so for this video shoot they bolted on a fretted neck to his bass’ body, just to get him something to play. He is clearly in a bad way, but he creates this gem, on the spot - just improvising away. An absolute genius, but just as tortured. Had he only lived now, with our advances in mental health awareness, I’m sure he would have been able to continue innovating on the bass for decades to come... Here’s a link to the video clip of this “exercise“ in the instructional video: ----------------------------------------------- Looking for a PDF bass chart for this tune? Want to ensure your song request gets noticed? Maybe extra weekly how-to-play conversations for each of the covers I release here? Now you can support the channel and become my Patron on ! Patrons have access to these perks, and more, so please check it out - for details. ----------------------------------------------- Want to purchase this score? I’ve partnered with Jellynote to bring you the ability to purchase and practice this chart, and every chart you can find of mine here on Youtube, in a one-off capacity. Jellynote has a cool practice tool which allows you to play along with my chart as you see it here (although it’s more nicely laid out, in standard page format), and you can slow down the tempo etc right there on the site. All charts are very reasonably priced. Head over to for all the details. ----------------------------------------------- Join the BennyTheBassman community discord channel! ----------------------------------------------- Also please LIKE and SUBSCRIBE here on YouTube to help me continue to produce these weekly videos. ----------------------------------------------- Gear/settings: - 2011 Fender American Deluxe Pbass - D’Addario nickel (round) wound medium gauge strings - Pickup knob: full back - Treble: mostly off - Bass: neutral - Avalon U5 D.I. - Protools 11 (minor compression eq)