What was the first song you learned?

[SquierBasser]

The first song I learned to play on bass was Snowblind by Black Sabbath. After 30 minutes of strumming the strings without fretting, I decided I'd learn a song, so that was it. Man its really funny but I don't even realize the escalation to better bass playing... I think it was a mix of Black Sabbath and RHCP that got me into better stuff like Rush, Led Zeppelin, stuff like that, now I'm starting to get into learning my notes and all of that good stuff.

[Ting]

hmm, i think it was Longview

[GeddyMe]

Sunshine of Your Love

[peeted]

i think my first sonng was either come as you are by nirvana or the guitar riff from smoke on water by deep purple but on bass. i like to think iv improved a bit since those days though :)

[SquierBasser]

Sunshine of Your Love

:p That's a fun one. :thumb:

[SquierBasser]

i think my first sonng was either come as you are by nirvana or the guitar riff from smoke on water by deep purple but on bass. i like to think iv improved a bit since those days though :)

Just a LITTLE :chug:

[trumpeter]

Either Longview of Carousel

[hellonearth07]

love thing by stu hamm.... it took a while to get changin between the chords done when i was just starting out though

[Munky_Jam]

learned a whole bunch at once. Longview, sunshine, come as you are, Spillage (minutemen) basic (no fills) Blister in the sun NIB and Ironman (sans solos) and finally jeremy (pearl jam) in a week for my first bass gig
I moved from cello and violin to bass for a friend that needed a bass player, and never looked back

[moghes69]

i think it was either californication or whats my age again.

[Munky_Jam]

i just realised the age differences here, Jeremy was kind of newish when i learned it.
to Hell: Stu Hamm one of your first. Mighty impressive (i don't know that one or one from the other with him but everything i've heard is pretty cool) one of my friends is a pianist and absolutely owned me when i was playing NIB years later and he picked up the bass and played the solo first time almost perfectly. Also on that first gig i played my generation by the who on cello solo and all, sounds way cool.

[nisakss]

It was With or Without You by U2. I remember I was so proud about it. Although I did have tons of fun playing that thing....:lol:

[hellonearth07]

munky...yea, i really like all of stu's stuff but IMO love thing is one of his easiest songs to play, really mellow and slower. No real insane tappin/slapping like i'm sure a lotta people know him for

it kinda goes hand in hand with charlottes song, check both of em out sometime, real nice sounding songs

[Mr. Pickle]

i'm always curious why people are so interested in this...?..

regardless, it was either 'when i fall back down' - Rancid, or 'pea' - RHCP

[Kragen]

Black Magic Woman! :D My housemate charged in and demanded I play it so he would have someone to play the solo with :P

[fleakeepr666]

Prolly Brain Stew :lol: Or maybe Smoke on the Water. Something ridiculously easy. But one of my first songs, and what really got me into bass seriously, was learning Money. I still like to jam with that song playing every once in a while.

[Left Shoe]

some of these first songs seem unlikely to me.

[SquierBasser]

Like what?

I swear to God that my first song was Snowblind, it's not very hard...

[Left Shoe]

im not talking about you.

[BenJammin]

My first song was definitely New Beginnings by Finch.

:upset:

[SquierBasser]

im not talking about you.

Good :thumb:

[FruscianteFan08]

either "purple haze" or "sunshine of your love"

[Mr. Pickle]

i guess 'fall back down' could be a difficult first song (if this is directed towards me) but i played guitar for a year or two before hand.

[Myung]

All The Small Things- Blink 182

[Led_Zeppelin678]

Dazed And Confused.

[Myung]

^

| belive that was my number 4.

[Left Shoe]

i guess 'fall back down' could be a difficult first song (if this is directed towards me) but i played guitar for a year or two before hand.
no not you, im not going to point out who it is i am talking about, but i think its pretty easy to figure out.

[Specialsauce]

i got my basss for christmas, and before even tuning, i played 'me and my bass guitar'. perfectly. no errors.

Actually it was stir it up....

[Led_Zeppelin678]

^

| belive that was my number 4.

Dazed And Confused
Crazy Train
Smoke On The Water
How Many More Times
What Is And What Should Never Be

[delinquent]

i cant remember what hte first song i learned was.
i think it was a bad religion song

[FruscianteFan08]

Dazed And Confused.
the whole song :amaze: !?! that gets kinda complex in the middle....

[Munky_Jam]

Dazed And Confused
Crazy Train
Smoke On The Water
How Many More Times
What Is And What Should Never Be
I still have no idea how to play smoke on the water, and i played guitar also for years before i picked up a bass

[BassFish]

I learned War all the time by Thursday because my friends were playing it on guitar.

[Criss Frantic]

I think mine was either Muscle Museum or Uno by Muse.

[jollygiantchris]

red house the hendrix song

[SquierBasser]

the bass or the guitar portion?

[Munky_Jam]

you know what i lied about 6 months before i played bass i was futzing around in one of my friends rooms teaching him how to play the theme to angel on the cello and he taught me how to play the themesong to buffy on the bass

[SquierBasser]

:|
...
amazing

[ProZach]

Longview

[bottlerocket]

My first song was definitely New Beginnings by Finch.

:upset:

Ouch...but it means a lot to me that you've come to terms with it enough so as to post about it publically. :p

Anyway, I'm pretty sure my first was a cheap ripoff of the James Bond theme. It went something like E, F#, and G.

E|--0-0-0---2-2-2---3-3-3---2-2-2-

Repeat. :p

-Gav

[SquierBasser]

Lolz, james bond theme owns all

[TwiTcHyHanDs]

To be honest.
Mine was Iron man.

[SquierBasser]

Good, I see that I'm not the only one who learned a Black Sabbath song when I first started. :lol:

[burtonbassist_101]

first song as in... first riff or first song learned all the way through?

[SquierBasser]

riff

[lais817]

first fiff? uh, probably the verse of "Longview". first song all the way through? that'd be "pea", followed closely by "otherside" and the bassline for "stand by me". yeah, I was so cool way back then.... :p

[Scott01]

Peter Gunn... lol.

[Az_Holl]

Deep Purple- Black Night.

[PaulR]

AFI - Days Of The Phoenix.

[Chris K]

The Shadows-FBI

The Hammer ons killed me at first.

[Akira]

I thin kit was Carousel by Blink or 1985 by Bowling for Soup.

[Akira]

love thing by stu hamm.... it took a while to get changin between the chords done when i was just starting out though
I assume you already had a decent amount of musical experience before starting bass?

[Ganon]

Brain Stew:)

[7thdaybass]

i too, like a bunch of people have said already, learnt brain stew first. i was so happy, i thought i was great :p

[rh15951]

Some **** by the offspring...

[Tom Joad]

The Ataris - Teenage Riot or possibly Peter Gunn, I forget.

[Belfast Bassist]

Back in Black!!

[Rowan S]

me and my bass guitar.

[NoOsH]

im pretty sure my first song was For Whom The Bell Tolls by metallica.

[PainKiller8191]

first song i learned was a dumbed-down version of origional prankster by the offspring :lol: i did it horribly but i practiced for 2 days straight and finally got it...

btw, no tabs..that was all ear:)

[milesflea03]

Prolly Brain Stew :lol: Or maybe Smoke on the Water. Something ridiculously easy. But one of my first songs, and what really got me into bass seriously, was learning Money. I still like to jam with that song playing every once in a while.

Indeed I think we picked up on the same page. Money is actually the song I played at a party one time, this band was playing that are friends of my brother and they took a set break so I know them and I pick up the bass and just start playin money and they all come in one by one and start playin and I end up playin a few songs and jams with the band for the night then a week later they wanted me to play for them because the long jams went really well. I informed them that I should probably work on my rhythm a bit more beforehand.

[lemoley]

Californacation

[Left Shoe]

on guitar californication, on bass smells like teen spirit

[pervy_the_clown]

holiday by green day

[SquierBasser]

3 months after I first got my bass. I played along with the whole Green Day CD perfect.

[Akira]

3 months after I first got my bass. I played along with the whole Green Day CD perfect.
American Idiot?

[SquierBasser]

Yeah,

sorry,

I forgot the name

:(

[timmySmi]

Mine was Rage Against the Machines Bombtrack. That song helped my finger picking loads.

[hellonearth07]

no not you, im not going to point out who it is i am talking about, but i think its pretty easy to figure out.

i swear to god it was stu hamm... i came from playin a guitar for about a year and was used to the flow of playing stringed instruments. I mainly fingerpicked, so just moving to fingerpicking on a 4 string was second nature to me

but if u dont wanna believe me, u dont have to I KNOW THE TRUTH!!

[hellonearth07]

I assume you already had a decent amount of musical experience before starting bass?

yep i did, played guitar either a year or year and 1/2 before... and played trumpet and acouple other instruments so i was used to musical notation and how to read

[eriatarka]

The first riff i learned was smells like teen spirit,the first whole song i beleive was Refuseds summer holidays vs. punk routine.

[Singh]

amber by 311

[Akira]

yep i did, played guitar either a year or year and 1/2 before... and played trumpet and acouple other instruments so i was used to musical notation and how to read
That's cool. The fact that you were familiar with fingerpicking on guitar explains how you could learn that as a first song.

[hellonearth07]

That's cool. The fact that you were familiar with fingerpicking on guitar explains how you could learn that as a first song.

yea, i'm glad someone at least believes me around here... and i think i'm starting to stray a lil more back to guitar:confused: cause i'm learning to play classical gas and acouple other fingerpicked songs like that

[Left Shoe]

i swear to god it was stu hamm... i came from playin a guitar for about a year and was used to the flow of playing stringed instruments. I mainly fingerpicked, so just moving to fingerpicking on a 4 string was second nature to me

but if u dont wanna believe me, u dont have to I KNOW THE TRUTH!!
wasnt you either :p

[SquierBasser]

learned a whole bunch at once. Longview, sunshine, come as you are, Spillage (minutemen) basic (no fills) Blister in the sun NIB and Ironman (sans solos) and finally jeremy (pearl jam) in a week for my first bass gig
I moved from cello and violin to bass for a friend that needed a bass player, and never looked back

is this it?

[mookie91]

Mine was Let It Be by the Beatles my dad taught it to me.

[burtonbassist_101]

first riff: the god that failed
first song: for whom the bell tolls

[Zedthephish]

Sunshine Of Your Love, by Cream.
then I think Killing In The Name.

[basspunk77]

the first i learned waz
All The Small Things - Blink-182

[dirtybass]

Learnt two at the same time

Pennywise - bro hymn
white stripes - seven nation army

[vheartagramv]

It was either Misfits - "Halloween" or Megadeth - "Dread and the Fugitive Mind". God I wish I still remembered how to play DatFM...

[Az_Holl]

Learnt two at the same time

Pennywise - bro hymn
white stripes - seven nation army
I love Seven Nation Army, very fun to play.

[Scooch]

First thing I learnt was the main line in Money by Pink Floyd, all the other variations looked too scary to learn it all though.

[twankie]

take a look around - limp bizkit

:(

[josh3184]

Plug in baby by Muse