I'm going to be teaching you how to play "The Chicken" written by Pee-Wee Ellis. This piece of music was made famous by bassist Jaco Pastorius and the bass line is a very very important part of this tune. It's a funk tune and the quavers are definitely straight not swung and there's lots of subdivision subdivisions of semiquavers.

• Playing the tune on my own is quite tricky because the tune is a funk tune so you have to imagine that there'd be an electric bass and a drummer. To see how I get on go to the FIRST LESSON