these are the songs i started with, and this thread has helped me find some new ones, lol

Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple easy, nice and steady, wll known
Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes easy, good for pinky strength
Feel Good Inc - The Gorillaz easy (if you get the right TAB)
Enter Sandman - Metallica easy, bit confusing at first
Cocaine - J J Kale easy, also good for pinky strength
Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes easy, good for fretting hand speed
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd easy, goos for picking hand and string skipping
Mission Impossible - Theme Song well known, sounds cool, good for fretting hand co-ordination
Short Skirt Long Jacket - Cake easy, good for speed and fretting hand flexibility

[QUOTE=Shyanel]Sorry dude, but you'll find a lot of people who play bass dont like blink, myself included. It's just that hoppus is so poor. I mean as a fundemental bassist he serves his function perfectly, but he has no creative talent and no personal flair. Sorry, it's just the way it is bud....

....as for something easy to play - have a shot at "The O'Jays - For the Love Of Money"

it goes like this:

G ---------------------------------------------------------
D -------x11-11--x9--x9--x9x--x9--x9x--x9x--x9x--9x--8-9-11
A ---------------------------------------------------------
E --9--9---------------------------------------------------

thats it, just make up your own variations as you see fit. It's great fun to play and it gives you a use for your phaser (if you have one), although it still sounds good without.[/QUOTE]

I know Hoppus aint excatly a bass genious, but he isnt tht bad. If u listen 2 sum of Blink's early stuff he plays sum realli cool bass lines, not so much in the more recent stuff, since Blink became famous. You cant really be tht creative as a bass player if u r only a 3 piece band cos the bassist kind of has 2 act like a rhythm guitarist.

Try Mutt, Carousel, Marlboro Man and basically all the songs in Cheshire Cat.

[QUOTE=*Blink*182*Guy*] You cant really be tht creative as a bass player if u r only a 3 piece band cos the bassist kind of has 2 act like a rhythm guitarist.
[/QUOTE]

If your in a 3 piece, you need to be MORE creative, to fill the gaps where a rythm guitar plays.

Mark Hoppus isnt any good. Wasn't in early Blink, wasn't at the end of the bands carreer. Accept it.

Agreed. You need to be more creative in a 3 piece band, and hell wouldn't you want to be more creative if you are a musician.
Hoppus was an average punk player on Cheshire, but slacked right after dude ranch. He was never good, just average.

If you want to start playing on a good foot play Primus, or any other band that does not stay in one place with technique.

What songs have great basslines?

[QUOTE=tank_89]What songs have great basslines?[/QUOTE]

Care to be a little more specific? What genre's do you play most?

rock

Then, Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker, The Immigrant Song
Black Sabbath - NIB, Evil Woman
Iron Maiden - Run to The Hills, The Trooper
The Who - My Generation

Those songs arn't hard In my opinion, but those are at least good bands to start with.

Couple of Easyuns for you chaps seeing as no one else posts for the novices no more I'll start with these two for you:
Incubus - Battlestar Scralatchtica
Primus - American Life

Have Fun. :thumb:

[QUOTE=Oz Rembrant]Then, Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker, The Immigrant Song
Black Sabbath - NIB, Evil Woman
Iron Maiden - Run to The Hills, The Trooper
[b]The Who - My Generation[/b]

Those songs arn't hard In my opinion, but those are at least good bands to start with.[/QUOTE]
How you go on with the solo inthat?

Bit off topic but.......the guys Devvo avatar above is the hot shiznit!

[QUOTE=mikethecoug]How you go on with the solo inthat?[/QUOTE]

Took me a while, but I nailed it. By far not the hardest Who song out there.

some basslines i learned when i was a beginner:
Metallica - my friend of misery - easy
Metallica - king nothing - easy
GNR - sweet child of mine - easy
Nirvanna - come as your are - easy

Green Day-Holiday-easy
Green Day-American Idiot-easy

Metallica
 

[QUOTE=legion88]any real metal? I dont count metallica..?[/QUOTE]



Metallica owns and u no it man they r the metal band of the world lol. :evil:

[QUOTE=hiimjohn12345654321]Green Day-Holiday-easy
Green Day-American Idiot-easy[/QUOTE]

Anything off the Album American Idiot = Crap and boring. Don't learn it.

Heavans Shadow - Learn to spell...

[QUOTE=Oz Rembrant]Took me a while, but I nailed it. By far not the hardest Who song out there.[/QUOTE]
You got a link to the tab you used?

Okay.
Weezer: Beverly Hills: Easiest song ever (and boring)
Green Day: American Idiot- Easy
Green Day: Longview- Easy
Green Day: When I come around- Easy
(pretty much all green day is easy)

Muse: Hysteria- Easy- Moderate
Antiflag: Die For the Government Easy- Moderate
Rancid: Stickin in my eye: Easy- Moderate

Less Than Jake: Johnny Quest Thinks were sell outs- Moderate- Hard
Rancid: Maxwell Murder w/ solo: Hard

Bomtrack-race against the machine
brain stew- green day
iron man- black sabbath

[QUOTE=punkrockkid101]Okay.
Weezer: Beverly Hills: Easiest song ever (and boring)
Green Day: American Idiot- Easy
Green Day: Longview- Easy
Green Day: When I come around- Easy
(pretty much all green day is easy)

Muse: Hysteria- Easy- Moderate
Antiflag: Die For the Government Easy- Moderate
Rancid: Stickin in my eye: Easy- Moderate

Less Than Jake: Johnny Quest Thinks were sell outs- Moderate- Hard
Rancid: Maxwell Murder w/ solo: Hard[/QUOTE]

Less Than Jake - All My Best Friends are Metal Heads - HARD
Rancid - Axiom w/ solo - HARD

uhhhh.... anybody got any of the songs on sheet music? because I don't want to rely on tabs, wanna try and play bass in jazz and I need to learn the notes and what string they are, I have a basic concept of it but I need practice -.-

I dunno about sheet music, but to learn the notes on my fret board, I printed [url=http://www.guitarnoise.com/images/fretboardmap_bass.gif]THIS[/url] and learnt it.

RHCP- Otherside- easy Parallel universe-easy
At the drive-in 198d-easy initiation- easy
Incubus talkshows on mute easy
Bon Jovi- living on a prayer -easy/ moderate
AFI narrative of soul against soul- easy The great disappointment- easy
Duran duran- Rio-easy

[QUOTE]I dunno about sheet music, but to learn the notes on my fret board, I printed THIS and learnt it.[/QUOTE]

[URL=http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=291097&highlight=Cheat+sheet]http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=291097&highlight=Cheat+sheet[/URL]

This should help a lot

The links from that arn't working.

another easyun RHCP - Fortune Faded (thats if you like pick playing.......I personally do not).

green day- brain stew
led zepplin-moby dick
rhcp-cant stop

well if you're lookin for a challenge 90% of streetlight manifesto's basslines I'd put in the moderate-hard-very hard range

here's to life-very hard
that'll be the day-very hard
point counter point-hard
if and when we rise- moderate-hard

good luck

Lovecats - The Cure (Moderate)

korn - here to stay - not hard, if you can play it you can play any korn song.
gorillaz - feel good inc, very easy

anti-flag:bring out your dead

any1 give me some more suggestions for more advanced bass lines i.e. that are fast or move up and down or other techniques like slap/pop

Time Is Running Out - Muse
Feeling Good - Muse
Seven Nation Army - White Stripes


I know these have been done to death, but I don't even own a bass - I can play the bass lines on my guitar. The last two I made up the basslines myself and I think they sound good :) I'm hoping to get some effects pedals to cover up some of my dodgy bits on TIRO :lol: I hope to get good enough to play Hysteria and New Born


Guess who is my favourite band :naughty:

The White Stripes Don't have a bass player.

korn- ya'll wanna single (pretty simple)
iron maiden- hallowed be thy name (easy, but atleast a month of prac)
maiden bass isn't too hard anyway..

[QUOTE=Oz Rembrant]The White Stripes Don't have a bass player.[/QUOTE]

But the song has a bassline, therefore it's valid song suggestion for a beginner to learn.

Happy Birthday is easy.

easy stuff:
Weezer: Beverly Hills
Green Day: Brain Stew, American Idiot, Holiday, Hitchin' a Ride, pretty much anything they play
White Stripes: Play the GUITAR line on 7 nation Army on bass
Ramones: Blitzkrieg Bop, Beat on the brat
Intermediate: Muse-Hysteria
Horace Silver: Song for my Father
Miles Davis: So What
Steely Dan: Bodhisattva (easier if you just make up your own walking line)
This song my school's jazz band does called Red Clay

The Offspring's stuff is really easy, and Nirvana bass parts are also simple.
By the way, what do you guys use to tab stuff out, I have bass parts for all kinds of stuff (need the head for So What anyone???), i just need to know how to tab it and post it

sabath warning
nib
ratm bombtrack
pink floyd money
lzep dazed and confused