Here are some REALLY easy songs to play, and I should know, because I just started playing a few days ago.

Easy:
Hole - Violet
Hole - Awful (fun to play)
Hole - Celebrity Skin (great, keeps you moving around)
Weezer - Hash Pipe
Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc.

Auf der Maur - Followed the Waves - Moderatly Easy... it's in drop D, still in the process of learning it myself, but an AWESOME song

Well if your looking for an easy song to begin with its always good to start with sum punk like greenday or good charlotte

I have never tryed this (since i'm not really a beginner) but I just thought of this if you want to build up speed in slap/pop with you right hand.

Take any simple root noting songs(most punk) and then just slap the root and pop the octave. Try to keep up with the song. Good songs for this is probally ones where the bass is just doing straight eighth notes.

[B]Float On[/B] by Modest Mouse
[B]Come As You Are[/B] by Nirvana (a must)
[B]Smells Like Teen Spirit[/B] by Nirvana (a must)
[B]Stand by Me[/B] by Ben. E King
[B]The Thrill is Gone[/B] by B.B King
[B]Caruosel (Chesire Cat Version)[/B] by Blink 182 (a must)
[B]Feel Good Inc.[/B] by Gorillaz
[B]Day Tripper[/B] by The Beatles
[B]Come Together[/B] by The Beatles
[B]Blitzcreig Bop[/B] by The Ramones
[B]This is the Place[/B] by The Red Hot Chili Peppers
[B]I Wanna Hold Your Hand[/B] by The Beatles
[B]Eight Days a Week[/B] by The Beatles
[B]My Girl[/B] by The Temptations
[B]The Zephyr Song[/B] by RHCP
[B]Road Trippin[/B] by RHCP
[B]The Antipop[/B] by Primus (slap/pop)
[B]Higher Ground[/B] by RHCP (good beginner slap/pop song)
[B]Another One Bites the Dust[/B] by Queen (good beginner slap song)

Most Punk Rock is good for beginners.
Blink 182, Sum 41, Pink Flyod, Weezer, Green Day have easy beginner songs.
A Very Good Song for improving is [B]Anesthesia[/B] by Metallica

I've been playing for a over two months now and I found most of these songs to be helpful and some are great just to play and have fun.

-macabre

[B]Weezer[/B]-[I]The Good Life[/I]-easy
[B]Kiss[/B]-[I]Heaven's on fire[/I]-easy
[B]Green Day[/B]-[I]Brainstew[/I]-easy
[B]Green Day[/B]-[I]Minority[/I]-pretty easy
[B]Green Day[/B]-[I]Hitchin' A Ride[/I]-easy

[QUOTE=sixxbassist90]peace sells isnt exacctly a beginners song[/QUOTE]
Yeah it is, maybe at first if youve been playing for less than maybe a month it is, but it's fairly simple and impresses people who know the song and don't play an instrument(maybe).

im a beginner and i was able to teach myself to play Feel Good Inc. by Gorillaz
it's [b]too[/b] simple

[QUOTE=Abrams]im a beginner and i was able to teach myself to play Feel Good Inc. by Gorillaz
it's [b]too[/b] simple[/QUOTE]

G-------------------------------------------
D-------------------------------------------
A----------3-2---0--0--3-2-----------------
E-0--0--2-3----------------3-0-------------

thats just one part, but yeah its **** easy

I know Anesthesia by Metallica is a great song for improvement. What are some other songs that will improve bass playing skills as a whole? Not just songs that are easy.

The Beatles - A Day In The Life - not too difficult

I just started about a month ago and found this song to be fairly easy once you're used to it, especially once you memorize it.

Woo Hoo by the 5,6,7,8's

It helps build up pinky strenght and swapping between strings very well

Incubus- Are You In, Battlestar Scralatchtica: Relatively easy, and Battlestar will prove to be a great project for you to learn. Both sound very funky too.

a really good song to play for practice that's i guess moderate if you're a beginner is jesus of suburbia - green day. i'm a beginner and i learned it fairly fast. a lot of repeats. it's just really long to memorize.

it's definitely not moderate, really its very beginner song, like on a scale of beginner its like this:

BEGINNER
easy moderate hard
||
^its like there

i mean i can play it off the tab straight away looking at it now, i can just play it off and ive not tried learning it before, not bashin you are anything.

just about any my chemical romance song ever made

yeah thats true mcr is so easy

Pearl Jam-Elderly woman behind the counter.........

any moderate Afi or rancid

Money, Time, Set the controls, pink floyd
southbound pachyderm, primus
brain stew...almost any old greenday
one of my fav. little riffs to play is in the hall of the mt. king, just the main part
blitzkrig bop, ramones ..i prolly killed the spelling
april 26th 1992, sublime
black magic woman

Easy IMHO
 

I've only been playing bass about a month or so, and just had my first lesson...here's what I've learned so far and they are easy for me...

Weezer - Undone (the sweater song)
White Zombie - more human than human
Frank Sinatra - Fly me too the moon, a cool song and fairly easy to play, will work your pinky, at least it does for me.


Those are the only songs I know from start to finish, but they are easy.

a real good beginner song is
mama didn't raise no fool-primus

[B]Let's Get Retarted[/B] by The Black Eyed Peas
[B]Time is Running Out[/B] by Muse
[B]Hysteria[/B] by Muse
[B]Rock Lobster[/B] by ??
[B]Blister In The Sun[/B] by The Violent Femmes
[B]Longview[/B] by Greenday (obvious one)
[B]I Never Told You What I do For a Living[/B] by My Chemical Romance

all of these songs have nice basslines

Rock Lobster was done by the B-52's

heres a few

propellerheads-take california- easy boring as hell
metallica- enter sandman- easy -easyish (depends how new you are)
pink floyd-money- easy
led zepplin-black dog- moderate (just don't rush it)

thats all for now

some easy songs are
just like heaven-the cure-really really easy
money-pinkfloyd-easy and has some good runs, really helps timeing
reptilia-the strokes
paranoid-black sabbath
death of seasons-afi
feel good inc-gorillaz
fire,heyjoe,purple haze,-jimmi hendrix

[QUOTE=HitTheLights-]some easy songs are
just like heaven-the cure-really really easy
money-pinkfloyd-easy and has some good runs, really helps timeing
reptilia-the strokes
paranoid-black sabbath
death of seasons-afi
feel good inc-gorillaz
fire,heyjoe,purple haze,-jimmi hendrix[/QUOTE]

jimi hendrix*

Queen has lots of good basslines. and jungle man by RHCP is a good slap song as well

I've just started playing the bass and found the following songs stupidly easy to learn [I also had NO musical background before bass, apart from attempting guitar but I was poo at it]

Greenday - Wake me up when september ends
Oasis - Champagne supernova
Oasis - She's electric [little bit more fiddely but really fun to play]
Oasis - Don't look back in anger [love playing this one <3]

Ramones- I wanna be your boyfriend
Maroon 5- This Love

reptilia-the strokes? You must be a good bassist if you find that easy