Bass Line + Solo transcription - ‘There Is No Greater Love’ by Scott LaFaro

This video is a preview lesson from John Goldsby’s soloing course:
Tell Your Story: Soloing Concepts for the Jazz Bassist

We’re giving you another exclusive look inside John Goldsby’s new soloing course so you can see John and his trio in action. This lesson covers a great Scott LaFaro solo from ‘There Is No Greater Love’, originally written by Isham Jones (1936) and recorded by Scott LaFaro with Victor Feldman and Stan Levey on the album, The Arrival of Victor Feldman.

John goes through the bass line, the bass solo break, and the LaFaro solo and performs it with his trio so you can play along. In the next lesson in the course, John finds nine patterns in this LaFaro solo that you can learn and adapt to use in your own solos. Scroll down to find more information about the course and how John can help you with soloing.

To follow along with this lesson, you will need the music PDF transcription and backing tracks, which are both provided below the video. Enjoy!

Download the Transcription

Please note in the course, there are full transcriptions, backing tracks with and without the bass, and the bass only track all available to download.

Tell Your Story: Soloing concepts for the jazz bassist

Tell Your Story is an online course by John Goldsby to help intermediate to advanced bassists perform their original ideas with confidence. John presents his unique approach to improvising and structuring solos, with over 100 exercises, patterns, and licks to get you soloing on classic tunes such as 'Moose the Mooche', 'Giant Steps', 'Tricotism', and 'I got rhythm'. A live band provides the backing tracks and there are over 150 pages of sheet music to spark your creativity and get you grooving. Lessons include how to use patterns and cycles, soloing with the bow, thumb position, taking inspiration from great solos, practicing round the circle of 5ths, & much more!

TELL YOUR STORY - Learn more