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Jamerson - Motown - One-Bar Bass Lick in All 12 Keys with Tabs

Can you spot from which song this line comes from? Answer below!

One of the best ways to really learn a line and understand it well is to learn in all 12 keys with all of its idiosyncrasies. James Jamerson was a master at using open strings and playing a pattern in various positions. In this exercise, I tried to do just that. Use a one-bar riff, which starts on the first position (first 3 frets) and adapt it to all 12 keys, with their respective characteristics, such as open strings, various positions, displacing lines to a different octave, etc...

In this video, I tackle the riff at its original speed, 98 bpm, then at a slower tempo, 70 bpm.
You can follow along with the notation or TABS below.

I've used my Fender Precision Road Worn '50s Bass with a Japanese Fender Jaguar Neck
with a piece a foam underneath the strings at the bridge to get that Motown-Style sound.
I've also used an Ampeg B-15 amp simulator to get closer to the desired bass sound.

For the backing track, for drums, I used the Toontrack EZ-Drummer 2 - Southern Soul EZX,
a Fender Rhodes Mark I simulator and a Fender Stratocaster as a guitar.

I hope you enjoy the bass workout/exercise.

Downloadable Practice Media Files (Video, mp3, Guitar Pro File & PDF)
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Includes:
MP4 High-Quality Video
Backing track (at 98bpm & 70 bpm) to play along to (mp3 - 256 kbps)
PDF Bass Transcription - TABs & Standard Notations
Guitar Pro 6 & 7 (.gpx &.gp) files for interactive practice

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Answer: "I Was Made to Love Her" by Stevie Wonder from 1967

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