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

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

Jimi Hendrix - "Fire" - Easy

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)

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

ratamahatta
 

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EXTREMELY EASY :thumb:

by the way thats by sepultura

ratamahatta-sepultura

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

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.

Dead Kennedys - Moon Over Marin
Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia
Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks F[U]u[/U]ck 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

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.

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.

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!

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...

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

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

Only in Dreams by Weezer

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

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

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

[QUOTE=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![/QUOTE]

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.

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

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.

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:

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:

[QUOTE=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[/QUOTE]

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

[QUOTE=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:[/QUOTE]

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

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

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?

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

[QUOTE=e-$tr1nG]G--------------------------------------------I-
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EXTREMELY EASY :thumb:[/QUOTE]

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