Excellent info, thanks a lot!

perfect riff to start with

Hey Mark, thank you for your lesson. I play in a couple of punk bands and your lessons have given me so much more scope to come up with interesting bass lines learning this stuff. I am currently doing your chord essentials course which is awesome. Learning Jazz and reading music and the harmony behind it are explained so well on this channel, cheers mate.

This is a GREAT tutorial - thanks!

3:45 6:00

Awesome! Been struggling with this since the last millenium! Thanks!

Play different techniques, like fingerstyle , slapping, chord's , and even tapping.

If you 're a beginner on bass , you 're probably practicing wondering when should rhythm, you start looking into practicing rhythm..

1:52 hell yeah i already know about bars. i’ll drink to that

I saw Lou Reed play this on Late Night around 1990, and that’s exactly how his bassist played it: the two-handed tapping, sliding.

why not show the fretting hand??

Thanks so much for this video! A mate of mine has asked me to dep on bass with his band this weekend and Rio is one of the songs in their set. I started practicing after watching this tutorial last week. Had a rehearsal last night and I pretty much nailed it. All thanks to you. Cheers, dude 😁👍🏻

Jazz bass needs to be active imo Passive J got lost in the mix a lot They need way more volume in the foh compared to p or humbucker

I have spent WEEKS and WEEKS learning this (bloody) riff! I've studied all the live footage I can get my grubby little hands on, in quarter speed; I've purchased Transcribe and created loops where it's further slowed down to a snail's pace (on Quaaludes); and I've practiced and practiced it at embarrassingly slow BPMs; and you know what? After all this ridiculously-painstaking work, I've discovered that... *YOUR VERSION IS *EXACTLY** *CORRECT!!!!* I mean, I'm good...but you're better. I PROSTATE myself before you, Master - or do I PROSTRATE myself before you, MISTER? No matter, I think you - in your infinite bass-stuff wisdom - get my drift. So if anyone out there has read this far: DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO!! Learn this song EXACTLY as Mark describes it here, and follow his sage wisdom and practice it SLOWLY. I you will, as I have done, get this friggin riff under your fingers! Good luck. And Godsp- wait, no God-SLOW to you, mams and sirs! Yours Truly (Insane) - JD, Montréal

This is what I'm choosing to do with my freewill

WOW? I’m a beginner N I can see making progress with U.🎶🎶🎸

A beginner and layman asks: are there only theoretically 30 keys? In practice, aren't F# and Gb identical on the instrument and so are C# and Db and Cb and B? Is that just a theoretical thing? Aren't there practically only 24 keys on the instrument (after the enharmonic equivalence)? And why is minor (Aeolian) a key of its own and not just a mode of major?

You know you're dealing with some genius musicians when it literally takes 5 minutes to explain to everybody how to even come in on the very opening lick of a tune like this. There's never going to be another Police. Man I wish they would get back together. What kind of mountains would we have to move to get those guys to do 10 new songs and go to her again

Bruce Thomas's basslines are my favorites !

Les claypool is a bass genius

Forgot the title. But Irene Cara song "I found love🎶..." has a great bassline.

Hi There, Gary from KZbin. Mark ! You are being a little hard on your self there fella. I’m sure your the only one in that audience who remembers that colossal bum note. You have more than made up for it with your 1st class tutorial lessons. C flat Mark…..C flat….

Wow, that is a fantastic bass line. For me though, the best part of the lesson was the second half when you explain and teach us how it works over the chords and key. Fascinating stuff! And man, what a great tone you are getting. I love those staccato notes. A lot of punch in that tone! A classic song from the 80s from a masterpiece of an album. Thanks Mark!

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 KZbin. 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! kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGjSd4Vjadd2d6Msi=Z2pFCRD-5KUVEyZH

Oh wow 😮

Excellent choice, Marc. Honestly, this album is so strong, front to back, you could have gone with almost any Song(s) from The Big Chair (see what I did there?😁) As a teenager during the 80's I felt there were many strong bass players and bass lines to pull from that motivated me to pick up the instrument. Jumping Someone Else's Train by The Cure probably did it, though.

Excellent job- would love to see you do Disorder by Joy Division

I don’t think ‘The Beat Goes On’ is considered Disco… 🤔 it’s RnB. 😼 start doing extensive research before you start mislabeling Black American music 🤷🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️ #Dwightndem 😏😤

No it's not

Great teacher! Making this soo understandable. Thanks Mark.

Wow, So much here! My goal is to be able to bump up from scrambling at KZbin’s 50% speed to 75% to normal. Sure am grateful for the ability to start slow. I so appreciate you calling out the string and fret AND the name of the notes found there. There seem to be secrets revealed here - patterns shown that my fingers are learning with and without my brain.

What kind of bass is that? It Sound awesome! How much do they go for?

💩💩💩💩💩💩

Thanks!!! Loved this and learned a lot

How are you supposed to learn these things?If you're just learning bass and you're going like, you're the flash on the dog on strings?

This lesson DOES have everything! I’m really enjoying the tweaks you are doing with the weekly videos, more close ups and your editing choices. Occasionally, I feel it could be helpful if you were able to have tight close ups of your fretboard and/or right hand when there may be more intricate plucking, or would that bring major editing headaches into your production?

Hi Mark , I've purchased your Ear Training. Do you recommend to finish that course first before I learn many songs? Thanks

There are lots of great basslines from the 80s ? Japan, Duran Duran, being amoung them ! The bass player and band that came up with great basslines for me was Colin Moulding, of XTC, the best all round bass player iv'e listened to! Check out the bassline to " The Mayor of Simpleton " Only Andy Partridge, could come up with a bassline like that. But have to say this is a great bassline by Curt. 👌

Les isn't human dude 100% not from this world

Its My Life - Talk Talk

Too much talk

prelude in C minor great composition.

Got that rhythm 🕺

It’s a great one but Level 42 ‘Something About You-KajaGooGoo ‘ Too Shy’- Paul Young ‘ Everytime You Go Away’-Duran Duran ‘ Rio’ - Elvis Costello’s ‘ What’s So Funny About Peace Love and Understanding’ all phenomenal bass parts!! Lead guitar solo at end of Everybody Wants To Rule The World is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Kajagoogoo’s ‘Too Shy’ is the best bass line of the 80s. However, that song in general is, well, kind of crap. Tears for Fears, on the other hand, is an overall outstanding band you just don’t hear about much these days even though songs like ‘Head Over Heels’ dominated MTV at that time. Other notable bass playing of that era/genre can be found bands like The Cure and Duran Duran.

Thank you for all that you do Mark. You're an excellent instructor.

It's such a sublime bass line.

I like the green screen over the white screen!

Loved this bass line forever. It was one of the first ones I learned when I started playing as it's not bery complicated physically.

Oh very good choice of equipment. I am left-handed. It's a little tough in the market to find things but I get by I used to have a LH squier precision I DIDN'T KNOW THAT I COULD GET IT SET UP BECAUSE THE ACTION WAS VERY HIGH AND ALWAYS FOUGHT IT THAT'S GONE BUT I HAVE A SIRE MARCUS MILLER P10 , AND A MARCUS MILLER SIRE M5. I'M VERY HAPPY WITH BOTH I PLAY THE FOUR STRING MORE THEN THE FIVE STRING. MY BASS RIG IS A TRICK FISH BULLHEAD 5 K BASS HEAD,, IN MY CAB IS A BARE-FACED SUPER MINI 1 X12 AND A TWEETER THE CAB HANDLE 600 W. DO YOU HAVE SOME VERY NICE EQUIPMENT HAVE YOU EVER CHECKED OUT BEARFACED ON KZbin . 0:04 THEY'RE OUT OF ENGLAND MAN THEY REALLY INSPIRE ME . I WATCH SCOTT'S BASS LESSONS AND THEN HE HIP ME TO THE TRICK FISH. BULLHEAD. PLUS HE HAS A BARE FACED CABINET . ALSO ON ANDERTONS. MY CAB CAN BE USED FOR GUITAR AND BASS WHAT DO THEY CALL A F R I FORGET WHAT IT IS I used to have a sterling I got it from southpaw down in Texas. But there was a nut attached to the truss rod that was stripped had to send it back. ARE THERE ANY OTHER CASE SORRY FOR THE SHORT BIOGRAPHY BOOK. HEY TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF I LIKE TO COMMUNICATE DOWN THE ROAD WITH YOU. MAY YOU YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS ENJOY A PROSPEROUS HEALTHY REST OF THE NEW YEAR. SINCERELY WALTER THE LEFT-HANDED BLOKE 😎