Jaco Pastorius Continuum Bass Cover
This is the first Jaco tune I ever learned. It was beautiful then, it s beautiful now. If you go looking for tabs of this tune you will probably see my name on them. Please don t use they are mostly incorrect. I was 13 and the internet was a new thing. Sorry about that. I m not playing to the original track, I m using a backing track from here: If it sounds like I m playing over another bass part, it s because I that other part is also me. Read on. I m not using any effects here. I wanted to get that singing Jaco chorus tone, but chorus effects just weren t doing it for me. In an interview Jaco said he played the whole thing twice, so that s what I did to get the sound (which is why you see two angles for the first time in any video I ve ever made ). No effects, no delay, nothing. Audio comes from my bass POD in stereo, so I split each track into two mono tracks and only kept the left track from each one. Then I panned the first one at 60 left, an
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