Some easy rock songs to learn?

rcadble · #1 12-02-2008, 11:37 PM

I want to go ahead and learn a couple dozen songs over the next couple months, and I was wondering if anyone had suggestions. By easy, I mean easy to learn -- this doesn't mean that it has to be some tedious song where I just play the root note over an over. I simply mean that it's not a song with a million different changes that'd take forever to learn. More or less, I can play all the basslines I've tried; I just want to be able to learn a bunch of songs in a shorter period of time.

Nothing against songs like The Real Me but they just take too much time to do right.

Thanks.

P.S. No country "music" or death metal.

Jumping_Bomb_Angel · #2 12-03-2008, 01:57 PM

Some of the Nirvana stuff is easy.

Fetusyolk · #3 12-03-2008, 01:59 PM

some Audioslave stuff is pretty easy.

muse can also be very easy, and seems to be a pretty good choice that alot of people make. (i used to learn their songs all the time)

PRUNEFACE · #4 12-03-2008, 02:26 PM

Almost all of the green day stuff is easy. especially Boulevard of Broken Dreams and Wake me up when september ends (which can be challenging if you dont have a good guitarist to play with). Hypnotized and Aerials by System of a Down are also relatively easy but they're fun to play.

Bassorama57 · #5 12-03-2008, 02:40 PM

"ROCK In the USA" (Mellencamp). Pick it off the record or see "Bass Bible."
Then "Crazy Little Thing Called Love," (Queen), root/3rd/5th, then on the break, 5th/3rd/root. Throw in a decending Bflat major scale. Fun to play.
Then learn "Brown Eyed Girl," the Savakus bass line is a classic 'almost' reggae that uses beautiful transitions and doesn't just pound the root in eight notes. Fun to play also.

Or for that matter, get a copy of the "Bass Tab White Pages," about the size of a phone book and work your way through it. If you only read tabs, it's a roundabout way to learn to read regular music notation, as it has both.

lambro · #6 12-03-2008, 04:55 PM

go to the well

get Cream Disraeli Gears and learn that inside and out, you will be set for virtually all rock & blues situations

Ampeg SVT · #7 12-03-2008, 04:58 PM

Foo Fighters.

GearHeadBassMan · #8 12-03-2008, 05:02 PM

almost 100% of top ten rock bands

Bassorama57 · #9 12-04-2008, 07:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lambro

go to the well

get Cream Disraeli Gears and learn that inside and out, you will be set for virtually all rock & blues situations

+1 or just do what Jack Bruce did - learn the basslines from Bach organ cantatas (Jack started out life with the Scottish Nat'l Symphony).