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Goal: To play "Portrait of Tracy" by Jaco Pastorius
(here is a video of some guy who is not Jaco Pastorius playing it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjILhlfdF98 )
(and here are the tabs http://www.totalbass.com/tabs/bass/j/jaco_pastorius/portrait_of_tracy/1/ )
Obsticle: Jaco Pastorius' hands are bigger than mine so I can't play the 2&6 harmonic note (this means finger pressed on 2nd fret while you play the harmonic on the 6th fret of the same string at the same time), and it's really hard to reach a bunch of the other stuff too
Possible Solutions:
1. Get surgery to increase hand size
2. just play a different note there instead (so it will be wrong)
3. Destroy every existing evidence that the 2&6 note was ever there and put a different one there instead so that it becomes "truth"
4. miraculously find a different way to play the same harmonic note, which at the moment seems unlikely
I also have to get my bass jack fixed. When I plug in the cord the connection is weak and it cuts in and out a little bit since something inside is loose. And yes, I am sure that it is not the cord. I'm not sure how to go about getting this fixed. But the music guy for Monday nights says it's really easy to do--I'll ask him more about it on Monday, unless any else wants to tell me how to fix it.
These are mine: bass and guitar: exact same brand/model/colors/#strings, etc.
(here is a video of some guy who is not Jaco Pastorius playing it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjILhlfdF98 )
(and here are the tabs http://www.totalbass.com/tabs/bass/j/jaco_pastorius/portrait_of_tracy/1/ )
Obsticle: Jaco Pastorius' hands are bigger than mine so I can't play the 2&6 harmonic note (this means finger pressed on 2nd fret while you play the harmonic on the 6th fret of the same string at the same time), and it's really hard to reach a bunch of the other stuff too
Possible Solutions:
1. Get surgery to increase hand size
2. just play a different note there instead (so it will be wrong)
3. Destroy every existing evidence that the 2&6 note was ever there and put a different one there instead so that it becomes "truth"
4. miraculously find a different way to play the same harmonic note, which at the moment seems unlikely
I also have to get my bass jack fixed. When I plug in the cord the connection is weak and it cuts in and out a little bit since something inside is loose. And yes, I am sure that it is not the cord. I'm not sure how to go about getting this fixed. But the music guy for Monday nights says it's really easy to do--I'll ask him more about it on Monday, unless any else wants to tell me how to fix it.
These are mine: bass and guitar: exact same brand/model/colors/#strings, etc.