Artist - Anita Baker
Electric Bass - Nathan East
Difficulty - Intermediate
Nathan East is one of those players that, when you listen to him, you often think “Yes. Perfect. Nothing else needed”. This is particularly the case in a lot of what he has recorded with the great singer Anita Baker, the record ‘Giving You The Best That I’ve Got’ being a favourite of mine.
This particular track, Just Because, not only demonstrates Nathan’s incredible sense of taste but also his absolute mastery of what I think of as ‘connective ideas’. The movement from one chord to another and one phrase to another appears completely fluid and rarely repeats the same exact idea twice. As the song moves on, Nathan’s ideas develop and he has some REALLY tasty fills towards the end, not that they are enormously complex or harmonically ambiguous but they suit the music and the mood just perfectly. All in all, it’s a perfect demonstration of why Nathan has been one of the first call bass players on the LA scene for decades.
I used my Fodera for this particular playthrough, pickups centred in single coil mode and the passive tone 60% open.
Hope you enjoy this one as much as I have!
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