Pdf 14 Verified Upd: James Jamerson Standing Shadows Motown

Mastering the "James Jamerson feel"—playing slightly behind the beat while maintaining intense drive. The Funk Machine:

Explores Jamerson’s life, his transition from jazz to pop, and the recording scene in Detroit's "Snakepit" studio. james jamerson standing shadows motown pdf 14 verified

There is of the entire book floating around with a file named "14 verified." Instead, this query points to Chapter 14 of that book, which is famous for containing the transcription of James Jamerson’s isolated bass track to the song "Bernadette" by The Four Tops. Jamerson’s style was revolutionary

Jamerson’s style was revolutionary. He refused to play root-note, plodding bass. Instead, he played melodic, syncopated counter-melodies using only one finger (his "hook"). He played while lying on his back, drunk on Scotch, and insisted on using old, dead flatwound strings because “the funk is in the gunk.” He is on more #1 records than The Beatles, Elvis Presley, and The Rolling Stones combined . He played while lying on his back, drunk

One afternoon decades later, a young archivist named Lena came rifling through a carton labeled “session ephemera.” She found James’s notebook between a stack of cue sheets and a broken metronome. The pages held things that read like confessions—bass phrases annotated with times, names of singers, and small line-item notes in a shorthand of rhythm and sorrow: “leave out 3rd bar — breath there”; “light on chorus—don’t overfill.” Most striking was a margin where James had written, in a rush, a single line that read: “sound is honesty; don’t trade it for name.”

The “Standing in the Shadows of Motown” book remains under copyright (Hal Leonard Corporation). While short excerpts for personal study may fall under fair use, sharing the full 250-page book as a PDF is illegal. The “14 verified” excerpt—about 10 pages—is often shared freely among bass educators, but you should consider purchasing the digital edition (available on Amazon Kindle or Hal Leonard’s site) to support the Jamerson estate and Allan Slutsky’s work.