Lou Donaldson - If There's a Hell Below | Bass Transcription

Lou Donaldson - If There's a Hell Below

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Bass: Jerry Jemmott

Album: Cosmos

Released: 1971

Label: Blue Note

Length: 9:03

Country: USA

If there's a hell down below was written and originally recorded by Curtis Mayfield in F#m with a fuzz bass opening the song. In this Lou Donaldson version in Cm , Jerry Jemmott starts with the same (transposed) bass line, but improvises a lot more, which makes it an interesting study of his style of playing. Most of the time Jerry plays the minor pentatonic scale, adding a 2 here and there as a chromatic approach to the b3 (e.g. measure 158) or a passing tone (e.g. measure 102), and a few chromatic passages (e.g. measure 118 & 122). Combine all this and you have to C Dorian scale => C D Eb F G A Bb (e.g. measure 205-206).

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