Beginner songs

[Wintermute]

Ok, this thread can be a compilation of good songs for beginners to learn. There are a hundred and one threads asking for and listing such songs, so lets compile it all in one place.

(JerrytheRacecarDriver / Grondahl gets a cookie for the idea)
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Here's the plan. For ease of browsing, post them in this format

[artist name] - [song name] - [difficulty] - [any other note]

I'll start off with a few obvious ones.

Rage Against The Machine - Bombtrack - Easy
Rage Against The Machine - Wake Up - Easy
Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name - Easy

Primus - Antipop - Easy - good basic slap practise
Primus - Kill The Sacred Cow - Easyish
Primus - Golden Boy - Moderate

[Jerry the Racecar Driver]

At last, my genius is recognised :D .

Anyway, here's my contribution:

Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye - Easy, but hella fun and incredibly catchy
Jeff Buckley - Grace - Easy
Jeff Buckley - Dream Brother - Easy
Jeff Buckley - Forget Her - Easy
Jeff Buckley - Mojo Pin - This and the two above it are great examples of awesome phrasing
Yes - Roundabout - Easy
Muse - Time Is Running Out - Easy
Tim Buckley - No Man Can Find The War - Easy

Jeff Buckley - Eternal Life (the rocked up version) - Moderate
Muse - Hysteria - Moderate
Primus - Groundhog's Day - Pretty easy chording/slap practise
RHCP - Higher Ground - Slap practise

[avenged182]

nirvana- smells like teen spirit
godsmack- mistakes
godsmack- awake
sublime- date rape
~ intermedete~
any anti flag ( sounds alot harder than it is)
rufio- above me
rancid- hyena
allman brothers- whipping post
* advanced/expert*
rancid- maxwells murder
jaco pactoris- chromatic fantisy
jaco- diana
rufio still
rancid time bomb

[ShadowBassist]

easy stuff:

Rage Against the machine - bullet in the head
Rage Against the machine - Guerrilla Radio
Metallica - For Whom the bell tolls
Franz Ferdinand - Tell her tonight
Franz Ferdinand - Jaqueline
Franz Ferdinand - Michael
Foo Fighters - Enough Space
Foo Fighters - All my life
Blur - Song 2

[republican_bass]

White Stripes- Seven Nation Army- Easy
Led Zeppelin - Rock and Roll -Very Easy
Red Hot CHili Peppers-Otherside -Easy (the bridge requires a bit of practice)
P.O.D. -Find My Way -Easy
AC/DC -Back in Black -Very Easy
Black Sabbath-Iron Man -Easy
Are You Gonna Be My Girl- Jet -Very Easy

[avenged182]

lol easyest song ever played on bass
green day- brain stew lol infact here is the tabs
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--5-5--4-4--3-3--2-2--1-1-0-0
a whole lot of times

[bassplayer23]

good charlotte - say anything - easy - a very fun intro. will help with right hand speed
green day - warning - easy - helps with fetting hand speed and accuracy
green day - brain stew - very easy

have fun!!

[bassplayer23]

oh and avenged182 your tab for brain stew is wrong this is the real tab

G|-------------------------|
D|-------------------------|
A|-------------------------|
E|-5-5--3-3--2-2--1-1-0-0-|

repeat a lot of times

[XGwar_RulesX]

primus-wynonas big brown beaver-easy
bela fleck and the flecktones-scratch and sniff-easy
bill dickens-left of center-easy
lol thems songs is hard

GWAR- sick of you-easy
Sabbath- paranoid - easy
Run Dmc - you be illin - easy
megadeth - dawn patrol - it sounds harder than it is (not that its that easy)

[Dunst0]

a lot of pink floyd is easy, especially another brick in the wall prt. 2

[Eddie's the man]

Duece by KISS - easy
Black Night by Deep purple - really easy
War Machine by KISS - easy
My Shorona by THE KNACK - easy
Money by PINK FLOYD - easy
Du Hast - Rammenstein - easy - boring
and
Strutter - Kiss - easy
infact pretty well anything by kiss is simple but sounds great

[basskid]

metallica-orion
metallica-my freind of misery
metallica-the god that failed

[TwistedOfFate350]

The Darkness-I Believe in a Thing Called Love-easy
The Darkness-Growing On Me-easy
Black Sabbath-Electric Funeral-easy
Metallica-King Nothing-easy
Metallica-Leper Messiah-easyish
Godsmack-Vampires-easy
Godsmack-Immune-easy-good for learning to hold a steady rhythm that is out of the norm
Godmack-Goin' Down-easy
Marilyn Manson-mOBSCENE-easy
Marilyn Manson-Use Your Fist and Not Your Mouth-easy
Kiss-God of Thunder-easy
Motorhead-Ace of Spades-easy
Twisted Sister-I Wanna Rock-easy
White Zombie-Thunder Kiss '65-easy
Probot-Centuries of Sin-easyish

[legion88]

any real metal? I dont count metallica..?

[skatrpunk]

[QUOTE=republican_bass]White Stripes- Seven Nation Army- Easy
seven nation army is played palm muted on an electric guitar.they dont have a bass player.

[jermandubber]

rhcp - parallel universe - moderate - easy bassline but its in 16 notes, play with your fingers to build up great endurance and speed.

[Wintermute]

[QUOTE=republican_bass]White Stripes- Seven Nation Army- Easy
seven nation army is played palm muted on an electric guitar.they dont have a bass player.

Doesn't matter what it was played on, it's still an easy bassline.

[Klun]

Jimi Hendrix-Purple Haze-Easy
Led Zeppelin-Good Times Bad Times-intermedite-fast,good solos
AC/Dc-Shook Me All Night Long-easy

Ac/dc tends not to have good bass. They have two exellent electric guitarists(Angus and Malcom Young). But so does Guns 'n Roses, they have some good bass.

[Machines]

[QUOTE=republican_bass]White Stripes- Seven Nation Army- Easy
seven nation army is played palm muted on an electric guitar.they dont have a bass player.

Actually it isn't palm muted, it's run through an octave pedal ;)

[eggs'n'spam]

hm, what would you rate anesthesia (metallica)? Moderate-ish? sorta trying to learn it, more concentrating on learning the fullness of orion interlude solo though..

[ihatemybass]

Alkaline Trio - Goodbye Forever
The Ataris - Teenage Riot
Green Day - When I Come Around

These songs arent exactly begginer songs. You should give them a try after a good 4 or 5 months of playing.

[theclash91]

red hot chili peppers - soul to squeeze ( good fingerstyle practice)
red hot chili peppers - give it away ( slap practice )

both moderately easy

[Untitled]

Greenday longview-easy
Blink182-Marlboro Man-Easy
Blink182- Carosel - Easy.

(two of hoppuses better intros.)

[XXThirdGradeFreshmanXX]

i hate blink 182 but if you're looking for something easy to play then anything by them

brain stew-greenday
anarchy in the uk-sex pistols
i wanna be sedated-Ramones
An idea for a movie-Vandals
Oh Serena-Distillers
as wicked-Rancid

[MustkillLois6712]

Weezer-Say it ain't so- Easy
Green Day-Warning-Easy
Goldfinger-Here in your bedroom-Easy
Goldfinger-Pictures-easy

[Untitled]

i hate blink 182 but if you're looking for something easy to play then anything by them

brain stew-greenday
anarchy in the uk-sex pistols
i wanna be sedated-Ramones
An idea for a movie-Vandals
Oh Serena-Distillers
as wicked-Rancid

You dont have to say you hate them you know, just tell people there easy.

Intermediate
Hyteria - Muse
New Born - Muse.

[avenged182]

oh and avenged182 your tab for brain stew is wrong this is the real tab

G|-------------------------|
D|-------------------------|
A|-------------------------|
E|-5-5--3-3--2-2--1-1-0-0-|

repeat a lot of times
nooooo my life is over lol it was close and i made it up off the top of my head

[ihatemybass]

Also Learn
Blink 182 - Man Overboard
Nirvana - Lounge Act
Nirvana - Love Buzz
All Easy

[rivendell]

The Pixies-Monkey Gone To Heaven
And if you can tune to drop D, Soundgarden- Outshined

[cobain2004]

I have just started to play bass a few months ago and found the following as good starting tunes:

Nirvana- Come as you are, smells like teen spirit, stay away
Sex Pistols- Anarchy in the U.k
theme tune- star wars

I started to just learn the intros first but after a month or 2 learned the chorus and verse...I found that a good way

[ScottoC-]

Jet - Are U Gonna be my girl? - Easy, catchy.
Led Zeppelin - Black Dog - Easy/Intermediate
Area-7 - Second Class Citizen - Easy, sounds way cool though :D (great song aswell)
Bodyjar - Not the Same - Easy
NOFX - Bath of Least Resistance - Easy, Intro's a bit tricky at first but easy once you get the hang of it
Rancid - Stickin' In My Eye - Easy/Intermediate
Bigwig - Blinded - Easy/Intermediate

[Blood of Fury]

Here's a good beginner song that's fun to play.

Jimi Hendrix - "Fire" - Easy

[cramboli]

System of a down-Spiders
System of a down-ATWA
System of a down-Aerials
Marilyn Manson songs are easy and 4 string
Take choruses from any song and put them together for sometinh easy
and don't steal it and make a song.(for people like me)

[fenderbass109]

nirvana come as you are
white stripes seven nation army
System Of A Down prison song
Sum 41 motovation

these are so easy to play im only playing bass for like a month and i can play them all

[e-$tr1nG]

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A--------------------------------------------I-
E-0--1--0--3--0--3---------------------------I-


EXTREMELY EASY :thumb:

[e-$tr1nG]

by the way thats by sepultura

ratamahatta-sepultura

[newbassplayer]

i just got my first bass 5-ish days ago and Ben E. King (that maybe wrong) - Stand By Me, was an easy song to learn

[CaFFeiNe]

When searching for an easy song to play, it's a safe bet that punk is the way to go.

Discharge - Free Speech for the Dumb - easiest song ever
Mistfits - Die, Die My Darling - very easy
Metallica - Crash Course in Brain Surgery - easy, almost moderate; solo takes time to get right

I should also mention that any song by Van Halen is easy as balls on bass.

[sketchyjoe]

Dead Kennedys - Moon Over Marin
Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia
Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks **** Off
The Clash - Police And Thieves
The Clash - Janie Jones
Mad Caddies - Leavin
The Selecter - On My Radio
Madness - Baggy Trousers
The Specials - A Message To You Rudy (Easiest Song Ever)
MC Hammer - Can't Touch This
THe Stranglers - Peaches

[CrazyDiamond725]

The first songs I learned :Money-Pink Floyd
In the Flesh-Pink Floyd
Whole Lotta Love-Led Zeppelin
Anything that u can play when u first start playin is good.

[Spazzout22]

12 bar Bues - killer easy
Deftones: Root -easy
System of a Down: Peephole- easy
Anything really by greenday - easy
Phish - Down with Disease - easy to moderate - Good slap with Drop D tuning
Phish - Llama Taboo - medium - it's pretty fast, but repetitive.
Grey Boy All stars - Jack Rabbit - pretty easy
Herbie Hancock - Chamelian - Easy, but the first notes are pickups and can throw ya.
Karl Denson - Unwind your mind - really easy - it's a 1-5 in C

Jerytheracecardriver get 1,000 cool points from me. Now we just have to post this in the normal forum and add some more advanced songs to the list. Songs for tapping, songs for slapping, songs for harmonics, songs for double thumbing. Songs for billy and songs for sue. Songs that love to be played by you. Songs that dance and laugh and sing. Songs that simply don't do a thing. Ok im done.

[bassman21]

Sorry for going backwards a long way in time, but in the second post in this thread, "JerrytheRacecarDriver" said that RHCP - Higher Ground was a good beginners song. I view myself as a pretty handy bassist and i still have trouble with the starting riff in this song... Was this a mistake or does everyone just outclass me so incredibly? Personally, i suspect the latter of the two!

[bassman21]

I have to say, if people are looking for a relatively easy piece to improve their rythym on the bass, they should try playing the Bass part for Led Zeppelin - Moby DIck... Apart from being a great song that's fun to play, it really gets you using a lot of the fretboard and is great for a general fun piece to play...

[Jerry the Racecar Driver]

bassman21, I never said that Higher Ground was easy, merely that it was a good song for practising/learning slap with.

[d2490n]

im pritty noob to bass and i found these to be pritty esey.

stevi wonder-i wish
black sabbath-nib (excluding solo)
black sabbath-iron man
stabing westward-onyour way down
arrowsmith-walk this way
and i just lernd primus-antipop


oops i just noteced thet this forum is a year old, im so noob

[justinjak13]

Only in Dreams by Weezer

[Romanticide]

are you gonna be my girl
parallel universe-chilis
she wants to move-n.e.r.d-incredibly easy.

[myown]

blink 182- **** it -superduper easy good for a new players worm ups and tempo
pratice
and a good and easy blues scail is the Eminor pentonic blues
]-------------------0--2--3--2--0------------------[
]-------------0--2---------------2--0--------------[
]------0--1--2-----------------------2--1--0-------[
]0--3------------------------------------------3--0[
just play it up and down it sounds preaty cool for how easy it is

[b'Aces high]

1 of my first songs were long view by green day.....it might take u a while but its an awsome song to play.

[Wintermute]

Sorry for going backwards a long way in time, but in the second post in this thread, "JerrytheRacecarDriver" said that RHCP - Higher Ground was a good beginners song. I view myself as a pretty handy bassist and i still have trouble with the starting riff in this song... Was this a mistake or does everyone just outclass me so incredibly? Personally, i suspect the latter of the two!

The riff itself is one of the simplest slap riffs I can name, but it does move at a speed which makes it tricky for some.

[Twiggy_Skold]

Manson-This is the New ****-very easy
Manson-Disposable Teens-Easy
Manson-Antichrist Superstar-easy
GN'R-Welcome to the Jungle-Intermediate
RHCP-By the way-easy
Slipknot-Duality-easy

[cobain2004]

Nirvana- Smells Like Teen Spirit
Eye of the Tiger
Green Day- American Idiot
Nirvana- Come as you are

I'd say that the more advanced beginner would probably try Black Sabbath- NIB, and some Rage Against the Machine.

[purity57028]

ok i got some really easy songs for people who are into nirvana, niel young and stuff.


nirvana-about a gurl realy easy
nirvana-come as you r
niel young- rocking in the free world
the violent femmes- 36-24-36

ill post more when i know the songs :thumb:

[Biscuit_box]

NOFX- Stickin' My Eye
Slayer- Dead Skin Mask
Rancid- Journey To The End Of The East Bay, Don Giovanni
Metallica- For Whom The Bell Tolls
Blink 182- Man OVerboard

Im a newbie to bass and these are really easy! :thumb:
Im tryin to learn some of the harder rancid stuff, any tips will be welcome :cool:

[NLbassist251]

lol easyest song ever played on bass
green day- brain stew lol infact here is the tabs
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--5-5--4-4--3-3--2-2--1-1-0-0
a whole lot of times

WOW ur definatley wrong on that one bud. it goes like this
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--5-5--3-3--2-2--1-1--0-0------

but i like the A-F icon

but a good song to start out with (if u wanna become a good punk bassist) is probable and anti-flag or rancid song...cuz after that you can pretty much play anything

[Piejie]

NOFX- Stickin' My Eye
Slayer- Dead Skin Mask
Rancid- Journey To The End Of The East Bay, Don Giovanni
Metallica- For Whom The Bell Tolls
Blink 182- Man OVerboard

Im a newbie to bass and these are really easy! :thumb:
Im tryin to learn some of the harder rancid stuff, any tips will be welcome :cool:

I'm a punk bassist but i only play for one year
here are some tricky rancid songs

- Axiom
- Detroit
- Dope Sick Girl
- The Brews
- Maxwell (ofcourse)
- Hyena
- Young al Capone
- Dead Bodies

[guitargenius]

im a beginer myself- nirvana,teen spirit + white stripes enter sandman pink feel good time

[kilian]

try:

tsunami bomb - take the reins - easy - nice song, enough variation and easy-to-hear-what-you-are-playing
tsunami bomb - lemonade - easy - but maybe a bit tricky for reaaaaaal beginners
anti-flag - drink drank punk - easy - if you are a beginner who wants some 'more of the real stuff'
rancid - time bomb - easy - feeling like a good beginner?
rancid - maxwell murder - easy/moderate - almost moderate?

[awesomedude]

does any1 no any rly easy but kool basslines which arnt the same all through the song.

im thinkin along the lines of smoke on the water
E: --0---3-5----0----3-6-5-----0---3-5-----3-0-0

[Salvation]

G--------------------------------------------I-
D--------------------------------------------I-
A--------------------------------------------I-
E-0--1--0--3--0--3---------------------------I-


EXTREMELY EASY :thumb:

It should be: 0--0--1-0-0-0-3--0--3
There is more to the song but this is the basic riff.

[BAss_MaN69]

greenday-all of there songs
velvet revolver-slither
rage against the machine-killing in the name of
nirvana-in bloom and sliver

[BAss_MaN69]

play that funky music white boy

----9-7-9---7-9---
---------7-9------
-7-7--------------
------------------ real easy bass tab it sounds kewl when played fast

[xfreedomxfighterx]

hey

Rage against the machine - guerilla radio - good use to use your fingers faster
Red hot chili peppers - Otherside - Easy Good use To practise Strumming with a plectrum
Sex Pistols - God Save the queen - Just A nice song to play to, of course it's easy, its sid vicous playing! :amaze:
Blink 182 - All the small things - nice punky method of strumming.
Red Hot Chili Peppers - not easy for beginners nice way to develop on the old slapping and popping
Black Sabbath - Iron Man - nice way to learn, like they did of school of rock!
nirvana- come as you are - nice to play along to

heres Some i shall return with more :D

[xfreedomxfighterx]

heres 2 nice riffs to play, 1st ones kinda metally. So here you go

E- 00-1-000-1-000-1-000-3-000-1-000-1-000-1-00-3----------------------
than play
A-008-007-005-0001
------------------------------------------------------------------------
nice funk/can be used in punk riff

E3-3-6------
A-----3-4-5-
D---------3-5
G------------
Then play backwards sounds v good! :thumb: faster it is, more effective is sounds. :lol:

[AnGrY,yOuNg,AnD_pOoR]

Alkaline Trio - Goodbye Forever
The Ataris - Teenage Riot
Green Day - When I Come Around

These songs arent exactly begginer songs. You should give them a try after a good 4 or 5 months of playing.


lol i dont play bass but i already can play teenage riot and anti-flag stuff. maybe it's cause i'm a guitar player or maybe i have a nack for bass guitar. which is it?

[Scooch]

Led Zeppelin Dazed and Confused

[Riovanne]

I can play pretty much all of the Rage songs I've looked at without too much of a hassle, but I can't figure out the technique to Take the Power Back. Anyone with some measure of skill care to clarify on that one?

[bad_musician]

weezer: hash pipe
Very easy song

[suckbassplayler123]

down with the sikness-disturberd (i m not not good at spelling)

[MegaDON]

foo fighters - everlong-very easy
Nirvana-polly- very easy
Three days grace- just like you- easy

[4stringFanatic]

DAZED AND CONFUSED ISNT THE EASIEST SONG AFTER THE INTRO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
which is.........(and i dont care what u say this is how its played on the song remains the same because i watched my god JPJ play it)

G|-------------------------------
D|-------------------------------
A|---10--9--8--7---5--4--3--2-
E|-0---------------0------------

ya and 2 good songs for new bass players are:
Cream - Sunshine of Your Love
Led Zeppelin - Rock and Roll

and ya like everyone else said if you wanna be a b i t c h try and be like Blink182

[SociallyDistorted14]

Smells like teen spirit- NIrvana (duh)
Dive-Nirvana
Hate to say i told you so-The Hives
The beautiful people-Marlyin Manson
all easy Sh*t

[SociallyDistorted14]

I can play pretty much all of the Rage songs I've looked at without too much of a hassle, but I can't figure out the technique to Take the Power Back. Anyone with some measure of skill care to clarify on that one?

G---------------------------
D-----------3--------3------
A-----3--5----3--5----------
E-0-0-------------------0--0
The intro is really easy but i'm not sure about the rest of the song

[Riovanne]

G---------------------------
D-----------3--------3------
A-----3--5----3--5----------
E-0-0-------------------0--0
The intro is really easy but i'm not sure about the rest of the song

Yeah, I know the tabs, but I'm wondering about the actual technique of playing the song. It sounds kinda slap/pop to me, but I just can't figure it out. No matter how many times I've played the song through, I can't get the same sound and feel.

[Wintermute]

It is slap/pop. Tim C has a very unique sound, partly because he makes his own pickups, but that's the technique, at least.

[pos_bassist]

Is there a place on the internet that I can find all of these songs so I can hear them? It's kind of hard to learn them if I can't hear them. I used to have Kazaa but that screwed up my computer big time so I don't have that anymore. Any suggestions of a place I can listen to them at would be appreciated, thanks.

[wally the wombat]

Lol, the first song i actually learned to play all the way through was the YTSE jam by Dream Theater I think it is a good beginner song ( but the solo is HARD)

[resurrectionbassist]

Red Hot Chili Peppers Higher Ground is not that difficult and sounds really cool.
Metallica's Seek and Destroy easy good open notes and hammer ons practice
Pantera's Walk easy good practice on timing
Nirvana any song of theirs

[angry armadillo]

The Hives - Main offender - easy, almost moderate - gets a begginer moving their fingers around :thumb:

[Grondahl]

Invisible Touch by Genesis has got a pretty cool and fun bassline. Some of the faster fills may be a little tricky for an absolute beginner, though.

Also:

At last, my genius is recognised .

Anyway, here's my contribution:

Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye - Easy, but hella fun and incredibly catchy
Jeff Buckley - Grace - Easy
Jeff Buckley - Dream Brother - Easy
Jeff Buckley - Forget Her - Easy
Jeff Buckley - Mojo Pin - This and the two above it are great examples of awesome phrasing
Yes - Roundabout - Easy
Muse - Time Is Running Out - Easy
Tim Buckley - No Man Can Find The War - Easy

Jeff Buckley - Eternal Life (the rocked up version) - Moderate
Muse - Hysteria - Moderate
Primus - Groundhog's Day - Pretty easy chording/slap practise
RHCP - Higher Ground - Slap practise

This guy knows where it's at :thumb:

[Wintermute]

You aren't fooling anyone, Mr. Fozworth.

[twenty.five.to.five]

i've provided comments for all these :)

anti-flag - drink drank punk

fairly easy, good to learn finger posistion when playing that quick transistion 345 i think it is

lostprophets - shinobi vs dragon ninja

fairly easy again, has good time variations of the same riff. also teaches some stuff on creating the breathing noise from going up and down continously

mxpx - chick magnet

good to learn some hammer ons.

system of a down - the metro

good timing variations and learning of riff changes



once your a lil better... try these

ataris - teenage riot

pretty long riff. nice to play

choking victim - in my grave

nice ska line

bigwig - falling down

nice intro...


if you are bored and want to play some real easy songs:

machine head - from this day
green day - brain stew
troggs - wild thing
system of a down - prison song
choking victim - f**ked reality

heres something that worked for me.. not sure if it'll work for u. i started playing a heap of punk songs first... then moved to more metal stuff. the punk stuff i could play nearly everything and it laid some good ground work to get into harder stuff.

hope i was of some use. i am still a beginner/intermediate player myself.

[ROM]

I should also mention that any song by Van Halen is easy as balls on bass.

not every song of Van Halen is easy to play

[Grondahl]

You aren't fooling anyone, Mr. Fozworth.

Actually, I probably was until you stuck your nose in :mad:

Besides, all I was doing was referring the best post in the thread to anyone who missed it. That post just happened to be made by me, that's all...

And to make this post relevant to the thread, more cool, fun, easy basslines:

Genesis - I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)

Jeff Buckley - Everybody Here Wants You - Really easy, smooth bassline.

And one of the easiest basslines ever (for most of the song, anyway):

Genesis - Mama

[aks_29]

Green Day-Jesus of Suburbia
Pink Floyd-Money
Sex Pistols-Pretty Vacant
Green Day-Holiday
Theme song for The Today Show, here is the tab

G|--------------------------------||
D|--3----3-------------------------||
A|-4-4-6--6-4-4----------------------||
E|----------- 6-6-4-2----------------||

[aks_29]

there is are also some really fun songs by Young Marble Giants, because they just have bass drums and synths

[Vaelroth]

:yawn:

White Zombie - More Human Than Human - Tiringly Easy
The Toadies - Possum Kingdom - Easy - Catchy
Sublime - Caress Me Down - Easy - Catchy

[Scooch]

Limp Bizkit - Re-arranged

[sharp shredder]

i tabbed it myself and it is sooo easy...seven nation army-white stripes

[Eddie's the man]

Moving Unit - Between us and them - moderate - cool soundings builds up control and accuracy

[mexicola]

Thumbs up to the "Monkey's Gone To Heaven" by The Pixies recommendation, very easy.
"Paranoid" by Black Sabbath is also easy, another good suggestion there.

It's a shame that most of these easy songs are punk, which I don't listen to. >:|

[untalkative]

Megadeth - A Tout Le Monde
Dream Theater - Space Dye Vest
Jimmy Eat World - Pain
Muse - Thoughts Of A Dying Atheist
Oasis - Stop Crying Your Heart Out
Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The UK, God Save The Queen
Silverchair - Emotion Sickness, Suicidal Dream
RHCP - Other Side

I found these songs fairly easy. I've been playing the bass for a couple of months now.

[mexicola]

Oh, I'd like to add Radiohead - The National Anthem

G ---------------------------------------------
D ---------------------------------------------
A 9-----------9----------8-----------7---------
E -10-10-10---10-10-10---10-10-10---10-10-10

or something like that all the way through.

[tncusdavey]

[QUOTE=republican_bass]White Stripes- Seven Nation Army- Easy
seven nation army is played palm muted on an electric guitar.they dont have a bass player.



i think they have a basas player but who cares they suck

[bassplaya225]

RHCP- scar tissue
Green Day- Warning
Deep Purple-Smoke on the water
dunno who it is by but this sounds fair sick

-2-2-0-2------------------
------------2-1-0---------
----------------------0-3-0

[otacon3]

Greenday- minorty-fairly easy- fun to play

Goldfinger-superman-intermediate

Hives- Hate to say i told you so- easy

[frodothebassfreak]

anythin by the pixies
franz ferdinand - take me out
franz ferdinand - michael
metallica - enter sandman
black sabbath - paranoid
black sabbath - iron man
weezer - hash pipe
dead kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia
the clash - londons calling

[frodothebassfreak]

i luv the pixies anything by them is great and easy

[wierdhead3]

megadeth-peace sells easy song to learn and sounds cool.
rancid-fall back down
ataries-teenage riot
tool-schism
blink182-carousel

[Linkin_X1.0]

alice in chains - angry chair is easy to
and nutshell
and brain stew is the easiest song ever

[supernova_32000]

give it away is not slap... you can if you want but there are a lot better songs to practice for slapping. also why is everything here easy, i would class easy as something you would suggest to some1 who has just picked up the bass, i would never suggest wyonna's big brown beaver to a beginer, i would just say put a little bit more thought into the difficulties instead of trying to show of by suggesting a clearly hard song is easy, t'is pafetic should be helping beginners

[chrzaszcz]

im a beginner and ones that i have learned that are good are White Stipes 7 nation army which is really easy and Starshine by the Gorillaz which is easy.

[Nooneimportant]

Relative newby my self so here goes what i started with
Metallica- unforgiven 2- easy
queen- another one bites the dust-easy
radiohead- creep- easy
Jack off jill-strawberry gashes- easy
Black sabbath- crazy train- easy
Evanescence- my immortal- easy
Evanescence- Hello- real easy but can be fun when you depressed
Godsmack -vodoo- easy
Godsmack- serenity - easy

Sorry if some were already posted, these songs are real easy I have only been playing about 3 months and had these songs learned in the no time.

[eugoas]

good times bad times_led zeppelin: good solos
proud mary_creedence
are you gona be my girl_jet
a lot of the beatles songs are easy too like eight days a week
for bass: seven nation army_white stripes
another one bites the dust_queen

[Afrokid]

sorry if these were already posted, didn't get time to read all of the post. I'll try to post some more unique songs for my selection, plus a few classics.

311 - Love Song
311 - 1st Straw
The Ataris - Teenage Riot
Saves the Day - At your Funeral
Black Eyed Peas - Lets Get it Started
No Doubt - Hella Good [This is the background to alot of MTV news things and shows>.<]
No Doubt - ExGirlfriend
No Doubt - Underneath It All
Bob Marley - Jammin [Yeah Mon]
Maroon 5 - This Love
Chevelle - The Clincher [if u can find a tab for it]
Brand New - Sic Transit Gloria...glory fades...[excellent song]
Franz Ferdinad - This Fire [fun song to play]
Linkin Park - Easier to Run [only LP song were the bass is pumped]
My Chemical Romance - Headfirst for halos
Taproot - Poem
The Strokes - Reptillia
The Strongs - 1251 [have a friend play the cool guitar part :D]
Rancid - Out of Control
Rancid - Maxwell Murder [Save the solo for later :/
Rancid - Just about anysong
Pennywise - Society

Rap Songs
Take Me Home - Terror Squad
Through the Wire - Kanye West
Still Dre - Dr. Dre [duh]
Last Song on Kanye West Cd...dont know name

and if u listen to live stuff u can try some [dont bash me for this] Linkin Park vs. Jay Z - A place for my head .. or that one hoobastank song with the bass solo for like 2 minutes...saw it while flippin the channels.

[Romanticide]

1985-bowling for soup
reptilia-the strokes
have you ever-the offspring (nice easy bass solo)
take me out-franz ferdinand
what is soul-RHCP
parallel universe-RHCP (if ur fast enough)
we used to be friends-dandy warhols

[Naveed Afzal]

Umi Says - Mos Def
My Girl - the Temptations
inagodadavida - iron butterfly
ocean breaths salty - Modest Mouse
Time and time again - chronic future
Badboy for life - Puff Daddy
Im Your Captain - Grand Funk Railroad (it can be challenging for a newplayer at some parts but its pretty simple and fun to play)
Last Goodbye - Jeff Buckley
Revisited - O.A.R. (the bass riff is nice, bright and easy)
Natural Blues - Moby
No One - Cold
Naveed - Our Lady Peace
SHe Will be Loved - Maroon 5

thats a pretty wide range of styles. Those are some of the first songs i learned. Some i wanted to learn, and some were recommended, and now i recommend them.

[lilmartin]

Today - Smashing Pumpkins

Everything is in 4s, the beat is constant, very simple

[Broken Arrow]

anyone got some good classic rock songs

[Broken Arrow]

plz

[Broken Arrow]

****

[Joelbassman]

My own summer-deftones...good practice tab helps a lot.
The reflecting god - Manson....great for switching strings practice
Minute of decay - Manson very easy

all of these are easy songs that help a lot

[Linkin_X1.0]

another really good bass song to learn and its easy is boulevard of broken dreams by green day anyone can play that.

[KoRn1234]

what the easyist and cool sounding song to play on bass guitar?

[Shyanel]

hehe....

smoke on the water - deep purple :D

EVERYONE knows that...most people manage to transcribe it by ear to, it really is the easiest thing ever written.

If you want a shot at something fast, try this little funk lick i wrote.

(the numbers are 12's and 14's not 1's and 4's)

G---------------------|
D---1414---------1414|
A---------------------| x3
E-12----12-0h12------|

then

G----------------------|
D---1414---------14-13|
A----------------------| just as a variation.
E-12----12-0h12-------|

basically remember to play the 14's quick, and pronounce the 12's quite strongly. It's a really easy lick, but if you get it down and play it right it sounds fantastic and you can put some sweet variations to it.

[24hourstogoJ]

any ramones songs are pretty easy

[24hourstogoJ]

Here's a good beginner song that's fun to play.

Jimi Hendrix - "Fire" - Easy




it really isn't a good beginner song. It's fast for beginner. It is a fun song to play though!

[24hourstogoJ]

what the easyist and cool sounding song to play on bass guitar?


if you want me to stay is pretty symple and sounds awesome. The plucking is kinda funky though. Give it a try :thumb:

[KoRn1234]

How come like most of the godsmack songs are in a differnt tuneing

[Shyanel]

most heavier music is downtuned, produces deeper, more moody notes.

[KoRn1234]

thats sucks because thats the kind of music i like and i dont really know how to tune it good

[Scooch]

Steve Miller Band - The Joker

[Shyanel]

thats sucks because thats the kind of music i like and i dont really know how to tune it good

Buy a tuner that's NOT automatic, that'll do it for you.

I have a Korg CA-30 which is automatic, but they also do one called the GA30 whihc isnt, and its not that expensive...i think about £20 if i remember rightly.

As for more begginer songs.

RHCP - Mellowship Slinky in B Minor (i found it easy anyway and im still a n00b)
RHCP - Californication (Again i found it easy)
The Hives - Die, Alright! (awesome song, great build up before the chorus..JAM those B's!!!)
36 Crazyfists - Dislocate (pretty easy)

I also put a bassline to Fly Away by Lenny Kravitz, which doesn't actually have a bass line in the album as i remember. If anyone wants to see that contact me, it's a pice of p1ss to play :D
Then again it's only really one riff, then whatever variations you wanna throw in...i prefer free-form improv anyways :D

[timmay]

nirvana - polly- too ****ing easy

[timmay]

what the ****? it doesnt let you ****ing swear?

[diablochick]

the distillers - the hunger - easy and sounds sick

[cheatingdeath]

on a tab what does h, / and \ meen

[cheatingdeath]

and does any one know and bass that sounds good by its self not just the same note all the way trough cos i really hate that :mad:

[Scooch]

h - hammer on
\ or / - Slide

I don't understand your last question.

[djhippie]

Songs I've found easy:

The 69 eyes - Gothic Girl
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb (really easy, so use it for altering - just for fun)
Pink Floyd - Hey you (good for practicing slides)
System of a down - Chop Suey! (fantastic for learning to play fast)
Hoobastank - The reason

[raining_blood]

Louie Louie-the 1st song I learned

[RePlay]

when i did started playing bass, first i played Red hot chili peppers and deep purple. I recormet Deed purple. that is quite simple. :D

[cheatingdeath]

i meant do u know any songs that sound good for bass

[Shyanel]

anything sounds good if its played with feeling. you can hit one note and put a nice bend or vibrato on it and it sounds great. You need to narrow it down a little...do you want smoothe stuff, punky speed shredding, bouncy funk, give us something to work with dude :D

[cheatingdeath]

smoothe stuff or bouncy funk

[JGow92]

Hold on by Good Charlotte is pretty darn easy.....
ive been playing for about 24hrs now and already got it about 95% fluent

[Shyanel]

cheating death, if you want smoothe easy stuff try stand by me for a first piece, thats REALLY easy!

JGow92 Welcome to the wonderful world of bass man!! I've only been playing a few months, but i've devoted a LOT of time to info gathering and technique developing, which is something i would recommend to you. Don't just try to play songs, develop your techniques too :D

Some more good learner songs:

Jet - Are u Gonna b My Girl? (i was playing it earlier just for fun)
Natasha Bedingfield - These Words (i know its a pop-crap song, but it has a good b-line)
The Darkness - I Believe In A Thing Called Love (Was also playing this earlier)
Cypress Hill - Lick a Shot (Sweet heavy hip-hop riff)

[Linkin_X1.0]

green day - hitchin a ride very easy
brand new - sic transit gloria very good bass line
and lots of punk lines are very easy i just learned both these songs today.
i'm self taught mostly.

[mexicola]

I found a new one

Megadeth - Dawn Patrol from the album Rust In Peace.

[wierdhead3]

burn no briches-gray matter

its a cool bassline and easy to play

[MarsVolta2004]

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Really easy and nice to play along to)
Green Day - Longview (Moderate, takes a bit of practise)
Green Day - Brainstew
Green Day - Hitchin a Ride

Ive only been playing for 2 days so I dont have much to list.

[KoRn1234]

a cool song that sounds cool is payback by flaw but it for 5 string there is a 4 string verson that im trying to learn now i got some of it its kinda easy

[wastedinthisworld]

blink182-all the small things-very easy
the offspring-want u bad-easy

[wierdhead3]

rise against-like the angels

this song is a little harder for begginers but its easy

[tomxwithxweather]

incubus- idiot box
good slap practice in solo

[conquest_of_hell]

i liked to play the following tracks very much at the beginning

u2 - with or without you ...very slow, and always the same stuff to play
him - wicked game ...also not that fast, and the easiest bass part i've ever seen

happy new year 2 every1

[highwaychile101]

red hot chili peppers - soul to squeeze ( good fingerstyle practice)
red hot chili peppers - give it away ( slap practice )

both moderately easy

give it away= really easy

[Squirellmeister]

Ive only started playing really recently, and I found good easy songs to be

Ac/Dc- TNT
Greenday- Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Coldplay- The Scientist

[deadheadx420x]

I know this is completly off topic but why cant i post threads

[bobbass4k]

If you want a song that both sounds great is hard to play trey hysteria by muse, the riff soundsa awesome, but even if you can play the riff, its physically a very exhauting to play

a couple of other muse songs worth learning are stockholm syndrome and butterflies and hurricanes. Not wise they are very easy (at one point in SS chris plays an open d about 64 times in a row) But they are very fast and very tiring to play. But if you can nail them it'll do wonders for your picking hand accuracy and stamina

[justinjak13]

Sublime- Wrong Way
Sublime- Santeria
RHCP- Californication
RHCP- Otherside
RHCP- By The Way
RHCP- This is the Place
RHCP- Righteous & the Wicked

[Achilles]

AC/DC - Back In Black - Very Easy
AC/DC - Highway to hell
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train - Very Easy - my first bass song
Black Sabbath - Paranoia - Very Easy
Metallica - Enter Sandman - Easy
Green Day - Brain Stew - WAY TOO EASY
Pink Floyd - Another Brick In the Wall - Easy
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Come As You Are - Pretty Easy

[Bex_UK]

I'd say...start off with a song that kinda challenges you. If u can get over the initial difficulties then u know you're gonna be a good bassist, some people really arent suited to bass and this will show that. Dont Stick to one genre of music either explore with music even if u dont initially like it! Just totally Chill out when u play...so many bassists i know try and show me up when i play...(cause yeh, i am the only female bassist in our town) But they look so uptight its funny, dont go rigid and stiff let ur fingers go floppy...and follow the music. Relaxing is the best way to becoming a great bassist!
A Good song to Start on is;
Lit-Miserable
And any Offspring song-cause they are all sooooo easy!

Bex :)

[punk_rocker_taz]

Most Green Day song are pretty easy
Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water - Really Easy
White Stripes - 7 Nation Army - Really Easy
Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl? - Easy

I learnt these 3 songs the first day I had my bass. The first song I actually learnt was Wild Thing by The Troggs..... easy and catchy

[stumpy]

i hate blink 182 but if you're looking for something easy to play then anything by them

brain stew-greenday
anarchy in the uk-sex pistols
i wanna be sedated-Ramones
An idea for a movie-Vandals
Oh Serena-Distillers
as wicked-Rancid


if u h8 blink then i fink u need ot get ur hed checked out personally :mad:

[Shyanel]

if u h8 blink then i fink u need ot get ur hed checked out personally :mad:

Sorry dude, but you'll find a lot of people who play bass dont like blink, myself included. It's just that hoppus is so poor. I mean as a fundemental bassist he serves his function perfectly, but he has no creative talent and no personal flair. Sorry, it's just the way it is bud....

....as for something easy to play - have a shot at "The O'Jays - For the Love Of Money"

it goes like this:

G ---------------------------------------------------------
D -------x11-11--x9--x9--x9x--x9--x9x--x9x--x9x--9x--8-9-11
A ---------------------------------------------------------
E --9--9---------------------------------------------------

thats it, just make up your own variations as you see fit. It's great fun to play and it gives you a use for your phaser (if you have one), although it still sounds good without.

[stumpy]

Most Green Day song are pretty easy
Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water - Really Easy
White Stripes - 7 Nation Army - Really Easy
Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl? - Easy

I learnt these 3 songs the first day I had my bass. The first song I actually learnt was Wild Thing by The Troggs..... easy and catchy


same as me near enough except i learnt american idiot, brain stew, longview and come as you are aswel.

[rage_h87]

i guess these would be fairly easy if u have a bit of experience (couple of months of bass playing)
black sabbath - iron man - easy
metallica - pulling teeth - (0:00-0:45) easy it becomes gradually harder as the song progresses its not actually impossible.
Rage against the machine - bulls on parade - easy
Rage against the machine - bombtrack - easy (intro - moderate)
rage against the machine - wake up

thats pretty much what i can think of right now....

[wontonjon89]

VanHalen-runnin with the devil-freakin easy-good to add your own stuff to
Aero Smith-walk this way-easy
The Doors-Hello I Love You- Easy

[danson]

White Devil By Alexisonfire is a awesome song to play with a good intro. Easiest song by them on bass to play i've only had my bass for a month and i can play iy.

[chris_182]

Try blink 182 - stockholm syndrome. Fun song to play. Just hav 2 work out the rythmn or all of this. Nice slow rock song

[esp_bassist19]

as i lay dying-forever (pretty easy)
avenged sevenfold-unholy connfessions (easy)
rise against-like the angel (intro.) pretty easy it takes a bitt o get down
rhcp-californiacation

[Buzzbomb]

I find that the tabs for Like The Angel were kinda wrong on mxtabs .

[neatobassman]

I find that the tabs for Like The Angel were kinda wrong on mxtabs .

this has nothing to do with anything....but did you get your name from Scream Out by Suicidal Tendencies?

[JMDavis07]

Twist of Cain-DANZIG-Very Easy
Money-Pink Floyd-Easy if you can play for a long time.

[bassist_for_a_band]

these have probably been mentioned but i've played 'em, they're easy... i only started bass in september but these are pretty easy... they're all I really know at the moment, but we're playin some at the school dance in march

Green Day- When I come Around, American Idiot, Boulevard Of Broken Dreams, Brain Stew (most green day stuff is anyway...)
Sum 41- In Too Deep, Motivation, Pain For Pleasure
Blink 182- First Date, I Miss You
The Bouncing Souls- Manthem
The Vines- Ride

that one main riff in Smoke On The Water is so easy.... seven nation army is, too, but that's actually a bass string that he put on the electric guitar.

[Random.bass.player.]

Iron Maiden-run to the hills is v.easy i started it with that and also
Blink 182-I miss you is really really easy.

[Random.bass.player.]

a lot of ppl have said it but white stripes seven nation army-metallica cover
this is it:-
G------------------------------
D------------------------------
A------------------------------
E---99----12--9---7---5-4-----

[Random.bass.player.]

Yes and it is -twelve-

[Buzzbomb]

Neatobassman, no that is not where my name comes from. Even thought that is a great song.

Anyways...
Bouncing Souls - True Believers (Kinda easy once you get it down and you can play octives)
Rancid - Maxwell Murder - (This song is a bit advanced, the solo is freken hard but it works on your speed)

[bassdudejay]

well ive only been playing bass since december 04 but im pretty gud ive just ordered my own bass of ebay im borowin my friends old one at the mo hes the bes bassist ive ever seen. ( has a warwick)
but back to the topic if your just startin like me although i praxctice like 4 hours aday so ive advanced fast and used to play guitar.
id say play
Rage against the machine
bomb track (easy)
calm like a bomb (easy)

Red Hot chili peppers
higher ground (easy)

greenday
boulevard of broken dreams (easy)
american idiot (easy)
when i come around (easy)

jet
are you gonna be my girl

BLINK 181
First date (easy)
josie (easy)

muse
Hysteria (easy) i love playin this song
Time i running out(easy)

Hope this helps

[Shyanel]

I wouldn't say higher ground and time is running out are appropriate begginer songs to be honest, the timing on higher ground is pretty tough and time is running out has some nasty bits too.

I think you probably found them easy because like you said, you practice a LOT and used to play the gee-tar!

[bassdudejay]

I wouldn't say higher ground and time is running out are appropriate begginer songs to be honest, the timing on higher ground is pretty tough and time is running out has some nasty bits too.

I think you probably found them easy because like you said, you practice a LOT and used to play the gee-tar!

You could be write but i suckat guitar and personaly i think time is running out is raly easy i learnt to play that wen i first got my guitar dont ask me why i played bass lines on a guitar i honestly dont know but ive vorrected my mistake now anyway

[badassbassist]

These were my first

Green Day- American Idiot (The Chorus)
RHCP- Parellel Universe
Black Sabbath- Crazy train

[badassbassist]

if u h8 blink then i fink u need ot get ur hed checked out personally :mad:

Um Blink182 are sell out sluts

[Shyanel]

123

i personally can't stand them.

but if other people wanna like em, let em go for it...doesn't cause me any harm.

[bassdudejay]

These were my first

Green Day- American Idiot (The Chorus)
RHCP- Parellel Universe
Black Sabbath- Crazy train

American idiot especially that so easy it sounds good to

Oh
and the hunger by the distellers thats easy but cool

[wierdhead3]

i like blink but im more of a pop-punk guy but hey thats just me

easy and fun to play sunny-new found glory

[justinjak13]

What is a song by the chili peppers that if you can play it, you could be considered an intermediate?(hope that is easy to understand) I just wanted to see how good or bad I am

[bassdudejay]

What is a song by the chili peppers that if you can play it, you could be considered an intermediate?(hope that is easy to understand) I just wanted to see how good or bad I am
skiny sweaty man no im jokin that would make you amazing
erm i dunno higher ground may b that will make you soujnd good its not hard tho

[m-dirnt_fan101]

a few good and easy songs

greenday-warning-this song will really help with ur timing and if you play this song first before a long practise session it will warm up ur fingers and get u in that "zone" for playing

greenday-boulevard of broken dreams-good song and EXTREEMLY easy to play

greenday-hitchin a ride-2 riffs 4 the whole song

[justinjak13]

mellowship slinky in b major by the chili peppers is one of my favorite songs to play. The intro is easy, but after that ( depending on ur skill obviously) it gets a little tricky, but I have been playing bass since christmas and I can play it( i don't have the complete rythm down) so if you have been playing longer u will be able to play it

[iwanttobalone]

lol easyest song ever played on bass
green day- brain stew lol infact here is the tabs
------------------------------- x100000
-------------------------------
-------------------------------
--5-5--4-4--3-3--2-2--1-1-0-0
a whole lot of timeshey i love your icon.. kick ****in ***

[ReturnToRock]

this was my beginner list:

the ramones - chinese rocks - easy
nirvana - school - ultra-easy
the ramones - Blitzkrieg bop - easy once you got the hang of speed-picking
the ramones - 53rd and 3rd - easy, slow and fun
the sex pistols - sub-mission - easy
AC/DC - highway to hell - easy
Rob Zombie - ***** Liquor - easy and fun
poison - talk dirty to me - moderately easy, try it!

also a few other fun songs to try:

The ramones - i wanna be your BF - mega-easy and awesome fun
the ramones - i can't be - easy
the ramones - i believe in miracles - easy and catchy
BRMC - spread your love - simply AWESOME!
the sex pistols - liar - easy and fun

i'm sorry for the proliferation of ramones songs, but dee dee practically taught me my bass rudiments!! lolololol

[ColdDeadAndSexy]

i'm sorry for the proliferation of ramones songs, but dee dee practically taught me my bass rudiments!! lolololol

...i really, really hope you didn't think that was actually THAT funny

anyways, good beginner songs.. hm... although i think eventually theres a point where you start writing your own rather then just continuously learning other peoples stuff, here's some stuff to get you started off and build your confidence up:

Johnny Thunders And The Heart Breakers - Pirate Love (Great song, fun to play, fun to listen to)
Jet - Are you Gonna Be My Girl
Grey Matter - Burn No Bridges
Black Flag - Fix Me
Blink 182 - What's My Age Again
Blink 182 - All The Small Things
The Killers - Mr. Brightside
The Blood Brothers - Trash Flavored Trash
The Blood Brothers - Guitarmy
Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Jet - Cold Hard Bitch
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit


those are all REALLY, REALLY REALLY easy and super fun to play, they all sound great too.. and as always are fun to play along to the actual song with

[SLManifestoLove]

Could anyone reccomend some easy base lines from ska bands?

[fongofongo]

most ac/dc songs are easy.
highway to hell would have to be the easiest.

[Hardinge]

if u want some good ska bass lines then u should try madness and spunge.

[i_am_tim]

all these are pretty easy and are the first songs i learnt :thumb:

rhcp - parallel universe
rhcp - scar tissue
green day - american idiot
green day - brain stew
ratm - guerilla radio
ratm - wake up
ratm - testify
bouncing souls - manthem
blur - song 2
and most blink 182 stuff

[drizzt_fighter]

[QUOTE=republican_bass]White Stripes- Seven Nation Army- Easy
seven nation army is played palm muted on an electric guitar.they dont have a bass player.

You can still play it on a bass.

[rockinthebass10291]

Most of the Good Charlotte tabs are easy... Bloody Valentine has awesome bass tabs.

[Rilleman]

War - Low Rider

[LOSBassist]

Doesn't matter what it was played on, it's still an easy bassline.

If it's not played on a bass, is it technically a bassline?

[LOSBassist]

Blink 182-What's My Age Again
Switchfoot-Meant To Live

Both are easy, but make you feel like you accomplished something.

[Zalcentice]

Scorpions-Winds of Change-Easy
Scorpions-Send Me an Angel-Easy
Metallica-My Friend of Misery-Easy
Metallica-The God That Failed-Easy
White Stripes-Seven Nation Army-Easy
Nirvana-Smells Like Teen Spirit-Easy

[Zalcentice]

Scorpions-The Zoo-Easy
Scorpions-Holiday-Easy
Pink Floyd-Money-Easy

[YaNaSdEeP]

Songs that helped me very much:

Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
Communication Breakdown - Led Zeppelin
Godzilla - Blue Oyster Cult
NIB - Black Sabbath
Guerilla Radio - Rage Against The Machine(RATM)
Bombtrack - RATM
Bulls on Parade - RATM very easy
Bombtrack - RATM - takes a bit of practice but once you get it its real fun
Testify - RATM - personal fav very simple
Scar Tissue - Chili Peppers

Personally I don't think their is such a thing as "Beginner" songs. Anything you sit down and really work out will come to you in time. Playing bass is all a matter of finger excersize. Once your fingers can move fast enough you'll have no trouble with bass, from, there its up to your creativity.

[sum41lova]

Anything by Blink-182, lol

[DJ Redworm]

Personally i can't stand blink 182 and all this wannabe punk ****. punk died with the sex pistols, black flag, ramones, misfits are still around i think.

Not too mention lately theres too much "punk" and no where near enough metal....we need people to step up and be the next Pantera!!!

as for easy tunes to play
Black Sabbath - Sweet Leaf, The Wizard
Cream- Sunshine Of Your Love
Gwar - Sick Of You
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters, The God That Failed
Rage Against The Machine - Bullet In The Head, Fistfull Of Steel
White Stripes - Seven Nation Army (Stupid Easy)
Pantera - This Love (gets harder as the song goes on)

[javaman03]

these sonegs helped me alot:
communication breakdown: led zeppelin
Time: Pink Floyd (you might not get it all but the chorus is good.)
Whole lotta love: Led zeppelin

One thing i recommend doing is listening to the song being played by the band on the internet or on cd either before or as you play the song. it helps... really.

:wave: :wave: :wave: Good luck

[harpo]

Bombtrack-easy
Adams song-easy
Brain Stews-Simple
All the small things-easy
Enter Sandman-Medium(increases ur hand movement) just play the song slow and eventually ur hand movement will become faster!!
Happy practising

[whitelight]

I learn this is the place by the chili peppers first....as its just one riff that repeats, and its not that difficult to pick up....also good for picking control

[IbanezBassist19]

Californiacation-Moderate
Brain Stew-2 year old can play it
Enter Sandman-Moderate
Bombtrack-Easy
Money- Riffs r awesome good for increasing hand movement

[punskad16]

The Suicide Machines- Hey-easy(to medium depending on what YOU think easy is)

the notes basically stem from an A-major scale
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maybe beat=!150 im not really sure..

This is one of my fav. songs to play

[whokilledbambi]

Pixies Bass tabs are usually really easy. Try Gigantic or Hey. My favorites are Wave of Mutilation and Where is my Mind?

[diego182]

green day--------minority------easy
toto-------------hold the line--easy
suicide machines-new girl------easy
goldfinger-------99red ballons-easy

[like i care...]

system of a down- sugar- very easy- great for endurance building
nirvana- heart shaped box- easy- starts going into multiple strings for beginners
system of a down- aerials- easy- just really fun
korn- any song- easy to moderate- fun and pretty easy to play
system of a down-streamline - moderate- the sliding works on left arm speed

[noots]

First songs I played on bass were
Sum 41 - Motivation, In Too Deep, and What We're All About (super-easy)
Most of Green Day's stuff is easy, Ramones are simple..
Anything by Simple Plan, Blink 192, Good Charlotte, Avril Lavigne are really easy. I don't particularly like those bands, but the bass lines are ridiculously simple.
Led Zeppelin - Ten Years Gone, also fairly easy
Jimi Hendrix - Fire, Cocaine
ZZ Top - La Grange
All these basslines are simple but effective, so if you want to learn something quickly without much difficulty, try those.

[LedHead712]

Cream- Sunshine of Your Love- easy

[LedHead712]

Deep Purple- Smoke on the water- very easy

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[6stringslinger]

Green Jelly-Three Little Pigs (fun song to play)

[doof1023]

lounge act by nirvana has a nice bass solo to it that helped me a bunch

[mikethecoug]

Deep Purple- Smoke on the water- very easy

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That isn't the bass tab to smoke on the water, search it properly and listen to the song, and you will see it's wrong.

Easy tabs..
Greenday - Most songs, to name them - american idiot, longview, holiday, bobd, jesus of suburbia, hitchin a ride, and so many more.
Blink 182 - Always, Carousel, Rock show, many more
Hives - Most of their songs
Led Zeppelin - Whole lotta love, Dazed and Confused
Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit, come as you are
Cream - Badge, Sunshine of your love...

Many more :D

[HARRY666]

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thats how i first learnt that song

[metallicat_71]

Metallica - Anesthesia - Easy to Moderate
Metallica - Orion - Moderate
Metallica - Unforgiven II - Easy
Metallica - My Friend of Misery - Easy
Metallica - The God that Failed - Easy
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters - Easy
Metallica - Enter Sandman - Easy
U2 - With or Without You - Easy
U2 - Vertigo - Easy
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit - Easy
Nirvana - Lounge Act - Easy
Nirvana - Love Buzz - Easy
Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box - Easy
Nirvana - Come as you are - Easy
Nirvana - Stay Away - Easy
Pink Floyd - In the Flesh - Easy
Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall - Easy
Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water - Easy
Muse - New Born - Easy
Tool - 46&2 - Easy to Moderate
Tool - Flood - Easy
Tool - Swamp Song - Easy
A Perfect Circle - Judith - Easy
A Perfect Circle - 3 Libras - Easy
A Perfect Circle - The Outsider - Easy

[mikethecoug]

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thats how i first learnt that song

Yeah, but it isnt the bass in the song - just listen the bass is completely different and alot harder than that, that is the tune played on the electric guitar for bass what you learnt.

Go on mxtabs.net and search smoke on the water, LISTEN to the song then find a tab that is right, listen for the bass it doesnt come in for a bit.

[Joris]

Black Sabbath has alot of neat songs to play for a beginner-intermediate... Like Paranoid, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Die Young etc etc etc...

[Aneirin]

Can anyone recommend any Maiden songs for a beginner? I've already learnt Running Free, but would like to learn some songs from their Smith/Mcbrain/Harris/Murray/Dickinson era (mid to late 80's). Any help would be great, thanks

[Killer Fridge]

well tbh most Maiden songs are very similar (ie they almost always go 7-5-3-5-7) but the first one i learnt has to be The Evil That Men Do, which is more or less that ^ on the A string (look up the actual tab, i cant remember what it actually is :))

[oddbassboy]

I cant beleive no one has said:

Thin lizzy - The boys are back in town (good for working on rythmn and left hand)
Muse - Hysteria (Good for working on speed for both hands)
RHCP - Throw away your television (Good for speed and multi string use)

:D ahh... thats a weight of my mind....

[oddbassboy]

enough of the teen spirit already... that isnt even their best song...
NO MORE TEEN SPIRIT!! :thumb:

[wierdhead3]

i agree with oddbassboy

learn some black sabbath, green day or rise against

[lust4loonies]

Here's three good songs to master for beginners, there pretty easy but they will give your hands a workout!
jeff buckley - last goodbye
nirvana - the man who sold the world
blind melon - galaxie

[sk8e0687]

Dude the all time easyist tune is Lynyrd Skynyrd- Sweet Home Alabama- so freakin easy first song i learned to play

[Ganondorf]

A couple that haven't been posted yet....

The Descendents - Parents
The Hives - Hate To Say I Told You So

[spawn of cliff]

I have a question.....does bass sound better clean or distorted?

[cheatingdeath]

hi i was just wondering if any1 knows any amazing bass songs :thumb:

[macabre]

hysteria by muse has an awsome bassline!!

[jbathehut]

Some classic stuff

Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
Bob Marley - Stir it Up
Steve Miller Band - The Joker
Steelers Wheel - Stuck in the Middle With You
The Beatles - Day Tripper

[SquierBassist895]

a few easy songs:

Gorillaz- Feel Good Inc
System Of A Down- ATWA
Linkin Park- Numb
Gorillaz- clint eastwood

[mikethecoug]

the hives - walk idiot walk
the hives - hate to say i told you so
the beatles - come together
the jam - start

many more.. ive probs already posted though..
green day - longview, welcome to paradise (ALL OF GREENDAYS SONGS!)

[madlyinangerwithu]

any real metal? I dont count metallica..?

Metallica is the best metal, one of the few bands who can actually play their instruments and can sing good...not much of a fan of bands that just scream and hit their instruments...


"Sell outs?, The only thing we sell out is the stadium everytime we play!"

[freaks_refuge]

First songs I learnt:
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Come As You Are - Nirvana
Dammit - Blink 182

[basser_jkx]

A.F.I - Death of seasons - moderate
A.F.I - Days of the pheonix - easy
Billy Talent - nothing to lose - easy
System of a Down - Aerials - easy
The Used - Lunacy Fringe - easy

[Frostie]

The Police - Walking on the moon

Uber bass :)

[macabre]

Feel Good Inc. by Gorillaz

its an easy song but it sounds awsome!

[ninjasmurf]

no sure if its been said but
rammstein-seemann-easy-bit repitive but its good go with the live version

[MrClean]

Bowling for Soup - Almost
Tsunami Bomb - Lemonade
Pennywise - Bro Hymn

Rufio - Just a Memory -imo a bit harder than the other 3, but it's a ****in cool song :)

btw, Does anyone know some easy punkrock songs (but not some crappy bands like Blink and Sum..)

[Ragados]

Well the very first tab I learnt when I picked up my first bass (a black yamaha RBX170 which is still have) was... Pink Floyd - Money
This is a great tune that plays around 2-5 fret area on all strings and is a good way to get you moving as it re-inforces the movements in the C Major scale that is kinda the first thing you should learn.
After that I went for the Nice and easy 7 nation army and Brain Stew.

Other good tabs for a bit of finger exercise are:
Polly - Nirvana
Come As You Are - Nirvana
Lovecats - The Cure (my favorite)

These are not easy for an absolute beginner but with a little persaverance they will click and there is nothing more satisfying than the first time you get them to sound just right.

[sixxbassist90]

hysteria by muse has an awsome bassline!!
123456789 it does, it takes a little time to get it right but it sounds so awsome,with that distortion.

[Joelbassman]

First song I learnt was Highway man by Soad then I think some Incubus

[raptor]

I first learned to play Green Day- Jesus of Suburbia
American Idiot
Nickleback-Fellin' way too **** good
None of them are tooo tough except for American idiot nad that was just b/c of the intro

[mikethecoug]

i suppose they are hard if you are really really beginner, but to me, and i stil class myself as a beginner, are all terribly easy.

feel good inc by gorillaz is fun to play and is so easy too.

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[blackmars0]

Someone needs to go back and compile a big list, instead of having to sift through 10 pages of the same 25-30 songs repeated over and over by different people unwilling to read the thread.

[Oi_bass_77]

Any Rancid

[DanBueno]

Sunshine of Your Love - Cream

Sounds good with a guitar player, plus gets you using your fingers and some bends in there too. Good practice!

[mikethecoug]

sunshine of your love impresses people too, :lol:.
and yeah good idea, somebody preferably a mod, compile a list please, and like in the guitar forum, a thread with links to all helpful threadds.

thanks

[Mojo2004]

System of a down - Sugar
System of a Down - Spiders
Placebo - Sleeping with Ghosts
Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
Green Day - American Idiot

all very easy beginner songs

[Mojo2004]

I have a question.....does bass sound better clean or distorted?
depends what you're playing....

Edit : Sorry bout double post

[yourethecarrot]

Manic Street Preachers-Archives of Pain sounds soo cool

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