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)


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

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

[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

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=skatrpunk]

Originally Posted by 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=skatrpunk]

Originally Posted by 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..