As a bloke who picked up bass 15 years ago, because I was drunk and a mate wanted to start a covers band, I taught myself to play. There is some glaring holes in my technique. I might have to go back to the beginning of these lessons and beat my bad habits out! Great demo and lesson. This guy deserves all the views in the world
Mark, I was chomping at the bit waiting for you to break out and play the rest of the song! You’re a great and patient teacher meticulous at the details. I’m currently taking 2 of your online classes. And would highly recommend to anyone who is on the fence about trying one.
Jesus I've been practising with plucking the line..now I need to learn to pick it ...got to say though your breakdowns are so clear for a beginner to learn ..other RUclips channels tends to gloss over technique and in my experience that's just as important as learning the notes
I love Mark's teaching style. His "Bassics Fundamentals" course is an incredible value and I'm already improving as a result. Highly recommend - and thanks Mark!
Fantastic explanation - the best step by step explanations of any music teacher or online lecturers I've experienced. Not to give a plug or anything, but Mark is the best and definitely where I would go to get help on my bass.. Great Stuff!
I’ve watched this loads and it has really helped, still a work in progress but I’ll get it. Others I’d love to see you do would be Does It Really Happen or Tempus Fugit. I have problems with the picking speed of Tempus and Roundabout......more practice required! Thanks for these videos they are great and I really like your method.
Brilliant systematic presentation of Left Hand muting technique,useful when playing with a pick! I find palm muting difficult to control. I'm a relative newbie who depends mainly on Right Hand fingerstyle muting, and this systematic approach to the left hand is terrific. Thanks Mark!
would you be interested in posting full song covers, maybe as a side thing just for fun? I'd love to see you play through some classics (even roundabout, maybe giving us an insight into a full song you've covered in one of the lessons! I'd love to see more Primus stuff as well) anyways, great video as always, very entertaining and educational!
I've always steered clear of posting playalongs. I can't afford the possibility of copyright strikes. It's VERY easy to have your channel closed. Many people get away with it but it's a very 'grey area'. I'd rather just avoid the whole thing. Even posting isolated riffs like this is risky.
Really appreciative... I never used a pick and I'm starting to practice! Songs like Lazy are hard to play with fingers and even my generation with the real complications Entwistle puts in it are very hard with fingers... but my god it's hard to use a pick... well... practice practice practice..... and the sounds of Lynerd Skynard are hard to perform with fingers... But my god what a brand new territory!
I guess I have to be the only one who points out that you're missing a very important part in this lesson. It's at :51 and :58 on the original recording and it's heard on a separate shadow track and panned to the right side. If you're only listening to the isolated main bass track, you definitely won't hear it. But it's there in the full recording and I've only seen one player get it right on all of the bass covers of Roundabout here on RUclips. Watch below and you'll hear it at :11 and :17 on this video. (which is clearly audible on the full recording) This guy absolutely nails it, and he does it without a pick! ruclips.net/video/B7oFR-4rCAA/видео.htmlsi=Z2pFCRD-5KUVEyZH
Hi! Thanks for your all your great tutos! I don't know if this is the right place to ask for a lesson... anyway I like to learn the Get Lucky (Daft Punk) baseline... will be great. Thanks anyway!
The learning by fragments method is certainly an effective technique, and Mark is a master at it. As for future songs, has anyone mentioned "Sometime World" (Wishbone Ash - Martin Turner) or "Out of the Blue" (Roxy Music - John Wetton)? Full songs would be great, but riffs are fine too.
even thou I've been playing bass for quite a while now, you've learned me so much!! I even started a channel myself now with basscovers but not the usual 'basscover play along with the original song' (well some of them are :) ) I started making bass-mashups ; I mash-up 2 songs using only bassguitars, drums and vocals ;) Curious on how that would sound ? Well, you know what to do :) Thanx for all the great advice, you've really made me grow as a bassplayer !!
I would love to know how squier conceived that riff. That's the genius of it. Howe got writing credits so I assume squier heard Howes guitar part, which is just a couple of repeating harmonics, and he hears that bass riff in his head. I've never seen or read an interview where he explained how he came up with that riff.
I remember learning this riff many moons ago, and it was the rhythm of the G leading into first hammer-on that threw me. That pick up note G before A(hammer)B. I still like replacing that last ghost note with an open D before D(hammer)E. Particularly when not using a pick. Still think it sounds better with a pick... even when Geddy did it ;)
As much as I love and respect Geddy, he didn't do a great job of playing this song fingerstyle when Yes was inducted into the Hall of Fame. They should've found someone to play it with a pick on a Rickenbacker.
this is a fantastic breakdown. however, and this may be because of my guitar upbringing, but i cant seem to snap out of strumming the A and D strings on a downstroke rather than an upstroke. any advice?
Doesn't sound like he's gliding the syncopated note from A up to B. He just makes the note (A) an 8:th note long and then continues with B D E at the end of the bar. I've listened to it at very low speed and I cannot hear the B note at all. Watch the star licks video here on youtube at 9:58.
Actually he did -- he rewired his warhorse 1964 RM1999 (the British model number of the early 4001S) to stereo before there even was Ric-O-Sound. He did it so he could run each pickup through a different signal chain. He liked his fuzz pedal to be on the neck pickup only, for example. All of his Rics were wired for stereo.
The notes and the position isn't what I'm hanging up on. It's the rhythm, especially that second G before the hammer on's. The rhythm changes from note x x to something else and that's tripping me up.
Not easy for the beginner! That’s an understatement! Actually it’s pretty damn hard to play properly because it requires a lot of right hand picking stamina to play smoothly and consistently, at the proper speed.
Bro your leaving part of that riff out.about the Fifth measure are you not hearing it or are you choosing not to play it. Which is cool but you should acknowledge it in my opinion. Yes I went back and listened to it been years but my mind is still good every fifth time he plays a answer to it he starts it on the high E he does the lick backwards ending up on the low G and right back to the open E every Fifth time. No offense I subscribe to your channel watch it all the time. It's just FYI much respect
As a singing bassist if by some miracle I learned the Bass part of this song . I can’t reach the singing parts with vise grips on my testicles let alone finding anyone who can play the keyboard parts.
I guess you’re new to the channel. This isn’t a play along or covers channel. If I breakdown a riff it’s for a specific lesson topic. If you want a cover channel where you can just copy a song I suggest Cover Solutions.
I think Mark does a brilliant job as a teacher, but sometimes his voice and manner make him appear (to me at least) to be really angry about having to make these videos, as if doing so is one of the terms of a particularly acrimonious divorce.
It was the Tony Franklin video that made me start studying this riff I have heard this song countless times. something about Tony's timing is off. This video the timing sounds right to me.
As a bloke who picked up bass 15 years ago, because I was drunk and a mate wanted to start a covers band, I taught myself to play. There is some glaring holes in my technique. I might have to go back to the beginning of these lessons and beat my bad habits out!
Great demo and lesson. This guy deserves all the views in the world
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The hardest "easy" line on bass!
Great explanations and tips!
For real! Its hard to master the Rythm!
A classic that every Bassist must know!
You are the best “ explainer” bass teacher on the web bar none! ( great tone too, very Ricky like)
You were expecting bass lesson but it was me, Dio!
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Great as usual Mark - I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, you’re one of the best teachers out there!
What a great teacher - clear, breaking the information in easily digestible bits. That's an art in itself. 👍🏼
Mark, I was chomping at the bit waiting for you to break out and play the rest of the song! You’re a great and patient teacher meticulous at the details. I’m currently taking 2 of your online classes. And would highly recommend to anyone who is on the fence about trying one.
Jesus I've been practising with plucking the line..now I need to learn to pick it ...got to say though your breakdowns are so clear for a beginner to learn ..other RUclips channels tends to gloss over technique and in my experience that's just as important as learning the notes
I love Mark's teaching style. His "Bassics Fundamentals" course is an incredible value and I'm already improving as a result. Highly recommend - and thanks Mark!
The most concise lesson on this riff. You show it with tab as you play it at veriuos tempo. Awesome tutorial. Thank you.
I think Chris Squire and John Entwistle pretty much laid the foundation of aggresive, lead-like bass playing most of us rock lovers love, eh? :D
@anta40: Shame on You, You left out Jack Bruce!
@@dennymcfastlane8530 No doubt JB was a highly influencial pioneer, but for me he was more in the melodic side.
Great Lesson... Heart Of The Sunrise will be a real challenge!
Very nice Mark! Cut my learning time from 20 to 5 minutes. Thanks!
Speaking of John Entwistle... How about doing a lesson for "The Real Me"?
Now that would be cool
Fantastic explanation - the best step by step explanations of any music teacher or online lecturers I've experienced.
Not to give a plug or anything, but Mark is the best and definitely where I would go to get help on my bass.. Great Stuff!
This is the best bass channel on RUclips. Thanks again for all the great videos.
I’ve watched this loads and it has really helped, still a work in progress but I’ll get it. Others I’d love to see you do would be Does It Really Happen or Tempus Fugit. I have problems with the picking speed of Tempus and Roundabout......more practice required! Thanks for these videos they are great and I really like your method.
Superb explanation and teaching skills of this Chris Squire bassline 'gem'. Thank you!
Thanks for the tutorial. This was one of the main bass lines that got me to start playing.
He is a great teacher..
Brilliant systematic presentation of Left Hand muting technique,useful when playing with a pick! I find palm muting difficult to control. I'm a relative newbie who depends mainly on Right Hand fingerstyle muting, and this systematic approach to the left hand is terrific. Thanks Mark!
Can you do the bass line from the Yes song “Tempus Fugit”? From the Drama album.
Yes, I love that one too. Actually love the whole Drama album!
No, he cannot
Filippo Corvalan and how do you know 😂
Such a great teacher!
Thanks mark. You are seriously the best bass teacher out there.
would you be interested in posting full song covers, maybe as a side thing just for fun? I'd love to see you play through some classics (even roundabout, maybe giving us an insight into a full song you've covered in one of the lessons! I'd love to see more Primus stuff as well)
anyways, great video as always, very entertaining and educational!
I've always steered clear of posting playalongs. I can't afford the possibility of copyright strikes. It's VERY easy to have your channel closed. Many people get away with it but it's a very 'grey area'. I'd rather just avoid the whole thing. Even posting isolated riffs like this is risky.
Such an easy way to understand tjis! Thanks Mark!
fantastic lesson sir and I simply love the purple bass
Great lesson beautifully broken down
Great lesson. Haven't thought if this tune in decades. Now I can pay it, thanks!
would you be interested in doing the bass line in damaged goods by gang of four? id love to see that:)
Great teaching style! Thank you.
I play this up the neck (see Tony Franklin's video) on this... And I hit the right notes & stay in time, but I pick this differently Too.
Does It Really Happen? has a pretty amazing bassline. From the Drama album.
MONSTER Bass Riff!!!!!!
HOW HAVE I ONLY FOUND THIS NOW. YOU LEGEND!!!!!!!
Brilliant guidance! Fabulous tutorial.
Thank you!
P. S. Heart of the sunrise, Close to the edge, Siberian Khatru
Really appreciative... I never used a pick and I'm starting to practice! Songs like Lazy are hard to play with fingers and even my generation with the real complications Entwistle puts in it are very hard with fingers... but my god it's hard to use a pick... well... practice practice practice..... and the sounds of Lynerd Skynard are hard to perform with fingers... But my god what a brand new territory!
I'm a complete idiot and this gent made it easier for me to understand. Thanks!!!....
Good bass riff good lesson... Tricky riff...
What a great choice, a classic
I guess I have to be the only one who points out that you're missing a very important part in this lesson. It's at :51 and :58 on the original recording and it's heard on a separate shadow track and panned to the right side. If you're only listening to the isolated main bass track, you definitely won't hear it. But it's there in the full recording and I've only seen one player get it right on all of the bass covers of Roundabout here on RUclips. Watch below and you'll hear it at :11 and :17 on this video. (which is clearly audible on the full recording)
This guy absolutely nails it, and he does it without a pick!
ruclips.net/video/B7oFR-4rCAA/видео.htmlsi=Z2pFCRD-5KUVEyZH
Great Video! Thanks
Looking forward to this one!
🤩 you very best teacher. it nice Mark
Love your videos they make me want to learn a lot of bass riffs and to keep being inspired!
Amazing work!
Excellent as always! Thanks Mark!! 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
Hi! Thanks for your all your great tutos! I don't know if this is the right place to ask for a lesson... anyway I like to learn the Get Lucky (Daft Punk) baseline... will be great. Thanks anyway!
The learning by fragments method is certainly an effective technique, and Mark is a master at it. As for future songs, has anyone mentioned "Sometime World" (Wishbone Ash - Martin Turner) or "Out of the Blue" (Roxy Music - John Wetton)? Full songs would be great, but riffs are fine too.
even thou I've been playing bass for quite a while now, you've learned me so much!! I even started a channel myself now with basscovers but not the usual 'basscover play along with the original song' (well some of them are :) ) I started making bass-mashups ; I mash-up 2 songs using only bassguitars, drums and vocals ;) Curious on how that would sound ? Well, you know what to do :) Thanx for all the great advice, you've really made me grow as a bassplayer !!
Vids a big help!! 👍
I would love to know how squier conceived that riff. That's the genius of it. Howe got writing credits so I assume squier heard Howes guitar part, which is just a couple of repeating harmonics, and he hears that bass riff in his head. I've never seen or read an interview where he explained how he came up with that riff.
Cant wait for heart of the sunrise!
i bought my bass yesterday and i want to play this riff...
Great lesson!
I remember learning this riff many moons ago, and it was the rhythm of the G leading into first hammer-on that threw me. That pick up note G before A(hammer)B. I still like replacing that last ghost note with an open D before D(hammer)E. Particularly when not using a pick. Still think it sounds better with a pick... even when Geddy did it ;)
As much as I love and respect Geddy, he didn't do a great job of playing this song fingerstyle when Yes was inducted into the Hall of Fame. They should've found someone to play it with a pick on a Rickenbacker.
very nice...so much more to it...!
Mark, can you elaborate what gear you used in this lesson? Guitar type and model, any cool pedals or somthing alike?
this is a fantastic breakdown. however, and this may be because of my guitar upbringing, but i cant seem to snap out of strumming the A and D strings on a downstroke rather than an upstroke. any advice?
Doesn't sound like he's gliding the syncopated note from A up to B. He just makes the note (A) an 8:th note long and then continues with B D E at the end of the bar. I've listened to it at very low speed and I cannot hear the B note at all. Watch the star licks video here on youtube at 9:58.
Easy bass tabs roundabout : ruclips.net/video/oJEjFBBIYFA/видео.html
Parallels. A masterpiece.
My fave.
Now, if you could teach me to SING while I play Parallels...THAT would be something else. Thanks for keeping Chris' memory alive on this channel.
Sh*t...fifty years later...and it’s finally revealed the mighty Squire was really a crypto funk bass player. Damn! ; /
NICE
Chris Squire did not use Rick-O-Sound. He mainly used 4001S basses that only have a single channel output.
Actually he did -- he rewired his warhorse 1964 RM1999 (the British model number of the early 4001S) to stereo before there even was Ric-O-Sound. He did it so he could run each pickup through a different signal chain. He liked his fuzz pedal to be on the neck pickup only, for example. All of his Rics were wired for stereo.
I could have sworn you already taught me this.
I looked back in the vids and didn't see it. I've been posting this for a while and someone said the same to me. Alas it does not appear to be so.
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away
Please break down the bass intro from Damage Inc. By Cliff Burton on bass.
You should check out Miguel Bass channel. That guy can play all of Yes' stuff. He's awesome.
You done this b4 I think but with fingers and playing 5 and 7th frets on e and a string. Anyway, as usual, great lesson Marky Mark. Cheers
Yes. Got a load of grief for not being authentic enough (not that I really give 2 hoots about being authentic). Thought I'd do it 'properly'
Can you make a tutorial for "heart of the sunrise" ?
Isn’t it easier to play the hammer ons in the second position, moving up the E string?
Update: I guess it’s not a bright sounding.
@@i_rj5800 True. Because you're playing it on a much slower string
Soundchaser :)
It's a beauty!
What is the name of the bass you are playing??
It sounds awesome!
Enfield Lionheart. Gear in the description.
Wish I would have found this channel earlier
Can you maybe do basically/nib by black sabbath?
really quickly do u have a dead note tutorial cuz i cant play it
The notes and the position isn't what I'm hanging up on. It's the rhythm, especially that second G before the hammer on's. The rhythm changes from note x x to something else and that's tripping me up.
What are those pickups and what preamp are you using the sound is smoking hot😎🌈
Sims Super Quads in Enfield Lionheart bass. Just direct signal. Don’t worry too much about preamps. It’s more about technique.
_On the Silent Wings of Freedom_ from _Tormato_
Anyone notice that Chris used his thumb for the F# ? It's easier if you have a huge hand like Chris'.
Schindleria praematurus!
Not easy for the beginner! That’s an understatement!
Actually it’s pretty damn hard to play properly because it requires a lot of right hand picking stamina to play smoothly and consistently, at the proper speed.
weird seeing you play with a pick.Is this possible without a pick?
Geddy Lee played it without a pick for the Yes "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" appearance. There are videos about so check it out.
I play it fingerstyle in the video near the end. It's fine to play it that way but impossible to get the right tone.
It's not about being possible, it's about being LEGAL
@@MattiaPrometeo ha very true!
anything from Andy Frazer (Free) other than 'all right now'
Bro your leaving part of that riff out.about the Fifth measure are you not hearing it or are you choosing not to play it. Which is cool but you should acknowledge it in my opinion. Yes I went back and listened to it been years but my mind is still good every fifth time he plays a answer to it he starts it on the high E he does the lick backwards ending up on the low G and right back to the open E every Fifth time. No offense I subscribe to your channel watch it all the time. It's just FYI much respect
Please please do pictures of home deep purple
Tempus Fugit is my reference for classic squire bass playing, try it and see! Cheers!
As a singing bassist if by some miracle I learned the Bass part of this song . I can’t reach the singing parts with vise grips on my testicles let alone finding anyone who can play the keyboard parts.
To be continued... ->
We'll forgive your lack of authenticity if you do a tutorial for Steely Dan's "Peg."
🐟🐟🐟
😭😭😭😭😭This is pain
Another bass player playing this riff wrong. 😔 He's hammering on and then off the b (on the A string)
but the off is muted. It's just percussive.
twista
Sorry mate , too much talking. Play please whole song so we can see how yoy are doing it.
I guess you’re new to the channel. This isn’t a play along or covers channel. If I breakdown a riff it’s for a specific lesson topic. If you want a cover channel where you can just copy a song I suggest Cover Solutions.
I think Mark does a brilliant job as a teacher, but sometimes his voice and manner make him appear (to me at least) to be really angry about having to make these videos, as if doing so is one of the terms of a particularly acrimonious divorce.
I play this up the neck (see Tony Franklin's video) on this... And I hit the right notes & stay in time, but I pick this differently Too.
It was the Tony Franklin video that made me start studying this riff I have heard this song countless times. something about Tony's timing is off. This video the timing sounds right to me.
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Yeah, lemme restate that:
I similarly run up the neck like TF, But, I'm In proper time. 🤣😏
@@irvingferginspud2070 Yes. This is the most accurate I've ever seen anyone cover this riff.