Chords for Marvin Gaye - What's Going On | Best Of Bass Lines | James Jamerson | Julia Hofer | Thomann

Hey guys, welcome to [B] Tomans Guitars and Basses.
[E] My name is Julia and today we're looking at the [B] bassline of the song [C#m] What's Going On by Marvin Gaye.
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[C#m] _ _ _ It is on the album of the same name, What's Going On, released in 1971.
The bass player on this song was Mr.
James Jamerson and he played a 1962 Fender P-Bass
with flatbounds and a foam under the bridge to mute the strings.
He's also known as the hook
because he played just with his index finger because he was coming from the upright bass. _
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James Jamerson is one of the most influential bassists in the history of popular music.
He was the bassist of [G#] the Motown record studio band called the Funk Brothers and he played on so
many albums for famous people like The Supremes, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder.
The song What's
Going On has this typical Motown James Jamerson bassline with a lot of arpeggios, scales and also
chromatic lines and no verse or chorus is like the other.
So I'm going to play the song on this
Sandberg PF with flatbounds.
Have fun with What's Going On by [B] Marvin Gaye. _
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