You aren't fooling anyone, Mr. Fozworth.

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.

[QUOTE=CaFFeiNe]I should also mention that any song by Van Halen is easy as balls on bass.[/QUOTE]

not every song of Van Halen is easy to play

[QUOTE=Wintermute]You aren't fooling anyone, Mr. Fozworth.[/QUOTE]

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

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----------------||

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

:yawn:

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

Limp Bizkit - Re-arranged

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

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

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. >:|

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.

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.

[QUOTE=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.[/QUOTE]



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

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

Greenday- minorty-fairly easy- fun to play

Goldfinger-superman-intermediate

Hives- Hate to say i told you so- easy

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

i luv the pixies anything by them is great and easy

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

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

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

More good beginner songs
 

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Today - Smashing Pumpkins

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

anyone got some good classic rock songs

plz

****

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

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

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

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.

any ramones songs are pretty easy

[QUOTE=Blood of Fury]Here's a good beginner song that's fun to play.

Jimi Hendrix - "Fire" - Easy[/QUOTE]




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

[QUOTE=KoRn1234]what the easyist and cool sounding song to play on bass guitar?[/QUOTE]


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

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

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