Can someone give me a song with a simple bassline?

[RandomEvent]

I'd prefer a song that has a lot of similar notes, in fact, if the same note was played a lot that would be better. I need to find some songs like this and pick out notes/roots and whatnot for music lessons. Thanks in advance.

[Roba2c]

12 bar blues are great place to start. Start in D go to G back to D up to A down to G and back to D. Use itunes radio and switch it to a blues station. The older the music the better.

[Jared92]

Iron Man -Black Sabbath.

Seven Nation Army -White Stripes

Smoke on the Water -Deep Purple

Some well known simple ones



~Jared

[Wespe]

Some Fleetwood Mac songs are good.

[ryco]

"Everyday People" - Sly & the Family Stone - Larry Graham/bass

Greatest funkin' one note groove ever to be laid down by a mortal.

[waffle puzzle]

U2

anything from the 80's

great to learn

[Thunder Pulse]

AC/DC

[RandomEvent]

Sweet, thanks for the quick respones! I'll check everything out tomorrow after work.

[guitfiddle0409]

"I'm a Man" -- the Chicago version

G A C over and over

then Eb D Db C


that's all folks...........

[Woodchuck]

"When the World is Running Down" - Police

[stefandisgust]

Another one bites the dust-Queen
Anything by Rage Against the Machine really too...

[Matt Till]

Some kind of Wonderful - Grand Funk Railroad

[guitfiddle0409]

Originally Posted by Matt Till

Some kind of Wonderful - Grand Funk Railroad

That's true -- one or two notes for most of the tune!

[Matt Till]

I think an interesting lesson in simplicity would be Papa Was a Rolling Stone by the Temptations. Simple, yet it's rhythmically interesting and carries the song.

[ryco]

Another good one note bassline is "Magic Bus" by The Who".
Entwistle pounds out a bodacious Bo Diddley rhythm in the studio cut.

My favorite version is the "Live At Leeds" cut - although it contains a few more notes!

[eddiebo]

another vote for AC/DC

also check out some old Bob Marley records with Family Man Barrett on bass - great repetitive groovin' lines

[jsbarber]

Paul Chambers lays out a simple but elegant bass line on the opening chorus to Someday My Prince Will Come on the 1961 Miles Davis album by the same name. Plenty of repetition too...