Wait Until Tomorrow
TRANSCRIPTION to WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW by JOHN MAYER TRIO
- bass by Pino Palladino
This week’s main transcription
is from John Mayer’s TRY live
album featuring Pino on bass.
This originally was a Hendrix
tune that Mayer covered for
this album....and there’s a very
improvised feel to it.
It’s been something that I’ve
been transcribing on - on and
off - for several months as Pino
is playing with flatwounds
and the audio quality makes it
hard to hear the bass accurately.
There are lots of things to like in this line - for me, the number 1 takeaway is the way that the band are playing together, listening to each other, but yet stretching out in the way the classic rock line ups of the 60s
and early 70s did.
Listening to this reminded me of Jack Bruce’s description of Cream “Cream was a jazz band, but we never told Eric!” This improvisatory
flavour runs through the tune and runs through Pino’s bass line.
And that means there’s a lot of material that you could extract from this
line!
Here’s how the bass line lays out:
Letter A - Intro - 0.00
Letter B - Band In 0.09
Letter C - Verse 1 - 0.35
Letter D - Chorus - 0.57
Letter E - Intro Reprise - 1.13
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Letter F - Verse 2 - 1.19
Letter G - Chorus 2 - 1.40
Letter H - Intro Reprise - 1.57
Letter I - Verse 3 - 2.07
Letter J - Chorus - 2.28
Letter K - Chorus - 2.45
Letter L - Guitar Solo - 3.03
As always, the tab reflects my fingering system, hand size and scale
length. If any of these differ for you - the probability of which is high then feel free to change the tab positions around to suit YOUR playing
system, hand size and bass length.
Paul’s Note - Watching Pino play on the live footage from WHERE THE
LIGHT IS it’s immediately apparent that Pino is a big guy - and he has
massive hands! So some of his intervals are a challenging stretch!
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