Jaco Pastorius` music | Live streaming Fri 21 May 8pm CET

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It is a great honour to be invited as special guest in this live streaming presenting Jaco Pastorius’ discography for Musicoff series ‘Ti Consiglio Un Disco‘. The discussion will revolve around the music and career of the World’s Greatest Bass Player, his style and his approach to the bass. I will be playing some tracks live and analyse his most representative compositions and trademark bass lines.

Read the presentation HERE (https://www.musicoff.com/strumenti/basso-artisti/ti-consiglio-un-disco-di-jaco-pastorius/)

Follow the live streaming on Twich or on Facebook

Jaco Pastorius transcription | All American Alien Boy

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Jaco Pastorius has, without a doubt, profoundly changed the way we perceive the electric bass and its role in a band. His distinctive tone, grooves, and solos literally came from another planet – like if he was an Alien Boy – and became so iconic that Jaco had influenced generations of bass players and, I am sure, more to come.

“Jaco opened the door, and we just walked through”.

 

Read the full article HERE

 

Alex`s Bass Room | Facebook Group

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Welcome to my Bass Room group! This space is intended to primarily share music related content to inspire and help all members to expand and their knowledge of theory, harmony, techniques, gear, tips & tricks.
Although this groups is mainly focussed on the bass guitar, all instruments are welcome as we can all learn from each other.
You can ask questions, look for suggestions and above all share your passion for music.
All points of view are welcome and discussions should lead to a mutual benefit. Irony and humour are accepted, but please keep it healthy and constructive and don’t use them just for the sake of it.
Hope you will enjoy and I’ll see you in!
Alex

 

The many aspects of the Bass | TV Performance at IGT

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How to divulge the bass to a wider audience? Take it on the telly! Here’s a very fun and unconvetional experience I had when I showed up at a talent show demonstrating some other ways to make music with just the bass – or like Victor Wooten would say “Me and my Bass Guitar”.
My intent was to share my passion for music with the hope to inspire to play an instrument – preferibly the bass 🙂 – and shed some light on one fundamental instrument which is rarely under the spotlight.

Click HERE to watch most of the performance broadascted on TV8it on 17 February 2021

Enjoy!

 

 

New Book | CONTEMPORARY BASS GUITAR, Jaco Pastorius

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Very excited to announce the release of this new SCALE COLOUR SYSTEM series book!
For many years I have been using Jaco as a reference to learn and teach aspects of his style. The only instructional video Jaco ever released is gold and, in my opinion, contains more crucial information about the bass than any other resource.
Through thorough analysis the book presents Jaco’s ideas and approach to the bass in a comprehensive manner, using his examples to explain and expand universal concepts on the mechanics of the instrument and a beginner/intermediate approach to harmony and theory.
The brand new transcriptions are enhanced with TABs and the examples are explained and presented through the unique Scale Colour System.
To celebrate Jaco’s legacy, Contemporary Bass Guitar will be released on his birthday on December the 1st!
Now available at www.alexlofoco.com/Shop

 

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    Credits

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    Example 2: The Major Scale

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    Examples 7, 8

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    Bass Harmonics

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    Back cover

 


CONTEMPORARY BASS GUITAR, Jaco Pastorius
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Live Streaming Open Class

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On Friday 13 November I’ll be joining Bass Your Life Educational for a live streaming  open class at 5pm GMT. I will be talking about the newest Scale Colour System book series CONTEMPORARY BASS GUITAR – Jaco Pastorius and more about the techniques I like to use the most.
Join the lesson and participate with questions or just pop by to say hi on YouTube at https://youtu.be/9pT34AX2hOU

You can read more on Bass Your Life website

Live Stream | Federico Malaman & Alex Lofoco

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Due personaggi che nel mondo del basso non hanno bisogno di presentazioni per una diretta interamente dedicata alle corde grosse: Alex Lofoco e Federico Malaman.

Prendiamo subito nota della data: l’appuntamento è fissato per Venerdì 5 giugno alle ore 21:00 sui nostri canali YouTube e Facebook. Sarà una serata in cui questi due incredibili artisti delle basse frequenze ci intratterranno parlando di didattica, di suono, di tecnica e di stile, ma non mancheranno anche delle belle performance a tema e ci sarà come sempre spazio per i commenti degli spettatori da entrambe le piattaforme.

Watch the live stream HERE

LEARN TO PLAY DAY 2020 London

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This year’s Learn to Play Day will take place on 28 and 29 March at the Music Room London – Denmark St.

This series of events, powered by Music For All, encourage people of all ages and abilities to try out an instrument and have a go at making music, will see music shops, teachers, venues and schools across the UK partnering with musical instrument manufacturers and brands to offer free music taster lessons.

Info and bookings: london@halleonardeurope.com

on The Bassist Podcast #83

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I met up with Jayme Lewis from TheBassist.net in Hollywood after the NAMM and we talked about my new projects, discussed about music education, gear, drank cofee and much more…

Visit https://thebassist.net/episode-83-with-alex-lofoco/

 

Direct link to listen to the podcast