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Great lesson, & love your pacing!!

Yeah. I had to transcribe that one and then try to play it at a gig. It was a nightmare.

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Mark, yet another fantastic video, a polite suggestion from me however! will one of you 'You Tube', bass gurus PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE cover some of 'Robert (Kool) Bells' , Kool & the Gang, bass work while this Disco/Funk genius is still with us, may I again politely suggest you start with 'Fresh' because this is THE song that got me into Bass playing.... Ta Muchly !! For the sake of argument it's always a 'Barm cake" !

I slapped this on a gig, played slightly different to you but I'm sure you are more correct than I was.

Great!

Thank you. This is such a grt lesson. Learn notes. Isolate probs. No stataco(sic) notes. Smoothness. This one vid will b a couple of months for me of really clear direction. And is it ok if i download this video? Thanks again.

I tried flats once, thinking they'd be easier on the fingers. I ended up disliking their feel a lot more and went back to rounds. The trick is you just gotta toughen up. My plucking fingers are like leather now.

I first heard Pino Palladino on Gary Numan's 1982 album I Assassin. Gary pushed Pino's bass to to forefront of the music. The most well know song is Music for chameleons as seen on the Alan Partridge comedy show. As an aside Joe Hubbard played Bass with Gary on his extensive 1983 Warriors tour. So both maestro's played bass for Gary.

Such a great teacher!

Great lesson Mark as always. I never studied Steve’s technique because I only had vinyl so I came up with my own. I use a very different technique, 1. bass slung a lot lower Al a Steve 2. Arm and wrist hanging naturally and wrist straight and relaxed. 3. I use 3 fingers in various combinations, this is obviously different to Steve other worldly approach but as mentioned this was 1980 ish. It’s more like a Billy Sheehan style a mate mine had it nailed and shared his way of doing it and we shared or interpretions. The one thing that is the same is the light touch there’s no way you play this hard unless you’re Eddie Hall or Thor

Look up never gonna give you up isolated bass. Many people have gotten close without it but put that on 0.75 speed and get it perfect. Also curious how you got that tone. Is it gated fuzz?

You are good mate. My new bass hero

The bassline of this song is so “mechanic”, because this was time when HOUSE music just got commercial, and this song felt a lot like house (which was a part of its success in the charts). I remember this song being distinct from other songs because of this very different bassline, which was not quite playing along with the chords, but playing “something else” instead (“stubborn” in a way, ignoring the rest of the song, but somehow still managing to blend in). The premise of house music back then was sampling a bunch of different things and blending them together, that’s why the bassline feels so “off”. I’d suggest you to take a look at yet another Stock Aitken Waterman song: “Nothing’s gonna stop me now”, by Samantha Fox. This bassline is very special, ritch in terms where it goes, although it’s all octaves. Because of this, it’s quite hard to remember how to sing the song (the pitch of the mellody), and you’ll find some unsuccessfull karaoke attempts here on UA-cam. It’s a synth bass, plus slaps on the real bass.

Honestly, I was never able to make out the bass line in this song, and thanks to this video, I know why. I'm gonna try and listen harder. Now that I know it's in there somewhere. Lol!

Irelands finest.

thx so much for this, i can finally be pro

Got to love the sound of that bass.

Lesson material: www.talkingbass.net/the-crazy-rick-roll-bass-line

this guy sucks

do that work with a string and a string bass

Never Gonna Give You Up" is a song by English singer Rick ' Astley, released on 27 July 1987 .

This one will turn out very useful 😂😂😂😂

Good job

We have new key here, the name is Jeff 😁

dat paint job is perty.

Thanks. I'll just say I was expecting to hear you play the bass part along with the song at some point, to better understand how they blend together...

Been playing that wrong since eternity……..

When it was new…………..

Surprised you omitted to say that this bassline was purloined from Trapped by Colonel Abrams! The Colonel could do with some respect for his years of service.

More 2-Tone please 🙂

Mark is the unique person in the world who can do all these fingers running in the fast and accurate chords speed

A question: why is the mixolydian scale used in the first bar while the cord is a major7? I thought mixolydian contains a flattened 7. The same goes for arpeggios. I'm relatively green and it's been bugging me for a while now. Please lend a hand guys.

I learned guitar and bass with geometric shapes: long L, short L, long triangle, short triangle, etc. This was very helpful, but learning music theory, scales, modes, and the patterns they draws on the neck is inestimable!

My bass sounds nothing like that think it's just a 5 string metal machine sounds wicked trying this

I tried etude 1 and absolutely hated it. Guess my ego wasnt ready for this piece humble pie.

Band "let's throw a ricvk roll in the set! It's only 4 chords' Bassist '.......,.,.,'

😮 Whoa, I wasn't aware of this tune. Great Funky Bassline, just another one on the list. Still working on "Come on, Come Over". 😊

Learning this line is like a Rick roll in itself! Very unintuitive

good to know this lesson will never give me up, let me down, run around, or desert me!

Thank you, Mark. I really appreciate the breakdown.

Nice

Beautiful bass guitar!

💯% accuracy on bass which is dead on point to George Porter Jr.'s originality but not so much the same for the guitar being anywhere close to Leo's originality.

Your lessons are awesome!

Help please...ive run out of screw on t G string. Its still sharp😭

There's a brilliant video on YT of some kid playing this line with a pick. Sounds awesome! I still don't know what a rickroll is; was it just the way he danced?

playing this to someone is the most OP rick roll because they don't know this is the bassline from the song so they won't defend themselves 😈 as you see this comment is not edited and gonna tell you guys it's a joke so don't start a war in the replies

This is a very good basic lesson and the “ micro shift “ technique is important . It should also be noted that these exercises should be used with a slow simple drum loop ASAP once you’ve learnt the patterns . Timing is PARAMOUNT in being a bassist 😉

Since you mentioned the half round and tape wound I was hoping you'd compare them also. I purchased a set of flats but haven't installed them yet. Gotta get off my rear and change them, and a set of rounds on the other bass. Thanks for the info.