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04-02-2004, 10:41 PM
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i thought it would be nice to start a thread of the simplest bass songs, for beginners and lazy people who want to easily add a bunch of new songs to their repetoir  . please post only SUPER simple, 3 or 4 chord songs, and i know this can easily get filled with "no bass" songs - lets try to keep it real. i'll get things started with these...
blitzkrieg bop - ramones
all the small things - blink 182
dreams - fleetwood mac
mony, mony - billy idol
whole lotta love - zeppelin |
04-02-2004, 10:44 PM
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04-02-2004, 10:48 PM
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04-02-2004, 10:50 PM
|  | put a bird on it | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Minnesota | | | well, there's always the animals. house of the rising sun, or "we gotta get outta this place" is a good bass driven song. draggin the line is pretty easy.
heck, just about any song you hear on the radio today is an easy 2-3 chord song.
around here the last time i went to a live show, they played alot of white stripes (well, a lot of "hate to say i told you so").
clapton's cocaine is pretty easy, and usually is a good crowd pleaser around here.
of course there are hundreds of other songs in a thousand other genres, like in jazz, Herbie Hancock's "chameleon" is pretty easy, only two chords.
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04-02-2004, 10:51 PM
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04-02-2004, 10:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Lowell, MA, USA | | | "Rockin in the Free World" by Neil Young.. very easy
I always laugh when bands play this song and then say something like "Hell yeah... God bless america!!".. while there's nothing wrong with that sentiment, it's a protest song... so that's not quite the right statement to be making. |
04-03-2004, 07:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Concord, NC USA. | | | The Long Run by the Eagles. Amazingly simple yet a very upbeat and happy sounding line. Took me all of 20 seconds to learn it by ear. |
04-03-2004, 08:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: North Kingstown, Rhode Island | | | Running With The Devil- Van Halen.
I'll tab it for ya.
E:--------0-0-0-0
A:0-0-0-0
Something like that. |
04-03-2004, 09:23 AM
| | | | U2 - Pride (In the Name of Love)
Cool song, but I always thought it was boring to play. |
04-03-2004, 10:50 AM
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Anything by the Ramones
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04-03-2004, 03:27 PM
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Self Esteem-Offspring
Smells like teen spirit-Nirvana...Duhh
When I come around-Green Day
Basket case-Green Day
Knockin on heavens door-Bob Dylan
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04-03-2004, 04:13 PM
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04-05-2004, 02:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Falmouth, Cornwall, UK | | | nirvana - come as u are
r.a.t.m. - guerilla radio
any primus
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04-06-2004, 04:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Dubai,UAE (originally from UK) | | | 7 Nation army
Any Blink 182
Any Oasis
Black Sabbath - Paranoid (sounds quite good too) |
04-06-2004, 11:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: footballscannotbekickediguess | | | I gots you all beat, y'all.
The Troggs' Wild Thing.
(Because Tone Loc's is SO much more difficult...)
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04-06-2004, 12:05 PM
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Originally Posted by The Golden Boy I gots you all beat, y'all.
The Troggs' Wild Thing.
(Because Tone Loc's is SO much more difficult...) | Nope, "No Fun" by The Stooges is even simpler.
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04-06-2004, 12:10 PM
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Originally Posted by MacheteJames "Rockin in the Free World" by Neil Young.. very easy
I always laugh when bands play this song and then say something like "Hell yeah... God bless america!!".. while there's nothing wrong with that sentiment, it's a protest song... so that's not quite the right statement to be making. | Hate to drag up an old thread .... but this just struck me as very ironic. Wasn't this song banned from a lot of US Radio playlists? Sorta like when Regan used "Born in the U.S.A." as an election theme song. |
04-06-2004, 12:41 PM
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Originally Posted by P. Aaron Nope, "No Fun" by The Stooges is even simpler. | You win. There's some sort of timing required for Wild Thing.
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04-06-2004, 12:42 PM
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Originally Posted by seanm Hate to drag up an old thread .... but this just struck me as very ironic. Wasn't this song banned from a lot of US Radio playlists? Sorta like when Regan used "Born in the U.S.A." as an election theme song. | I don't think it was radio, and I don't think it was Rockin in the Free World. "This Note's For You" was banned from MTV because it PO'd a lot of MTV sponsors.
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04-06-2004, 12:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Kaz Running With The Devil- Van Halen.
I'll tab it for ya.
E:--------0-0-0-0
A:0-0-0-0
Something like that. | Eh, there is a bit more to it than that.
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