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11-04-2008, 05:32 PM
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11-04-2008, 05:34 PM
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and any victor wooten lick
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11-04-2008, 05:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Dacula, GA | | | wrong thread man. mods, can you guys move it for him?
there's a song called monsters on guitar hero three. its literally b and e the entire time.
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11-04-2008, 05:36 PM
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11-04-2008, 05:38 PM
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11-04-2008, 05:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Baltimore, Maryland | | | Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana
Crazy Train by Ozzy/Black Sabbath (depending on your beleif)
Guerrilla Radio by Rage Against the Machine
Easy songs. Very easy, really.
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11-04-2008, 05:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Wilmington, NC | | | All this is too easy. The first things you'll want to try are the Bach cello suites, then you can maybe work your way up to stuff like Blink 182.
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11-04-2008, 05:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Illinois | | | Listen to some of The Who - the basslines on the studio work isn't nearly as intimidating as trying to replicate Entwistle's live fretboard pyrotechnics.
"Baba O'Riley" strikes me as a song that's both classy, simple to learn, loads of fun to play along to, and leaves plenty of room for trying to do some new things of your own. |
11-04-2008, 05:54 PM
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Try fifties, sixties rock or some blues. |
11-04-2008, 05:56 PM
|  | It's a happy song about not getting what you want | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: NY, Just Like I Pictured It. | | | U2. With or Without You. 4 notes. Can be played all on the E string. |
11-04-2008, 06:03 PM
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great song to practice your groove on.
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11-04-2008, 06:54 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Templeton, MA | | | Grand Conjuration by opeth. First song I learned, pretty easy just have to play at a moderately quick pace.
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11-04-2008, 07:24 PM
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Originally Posted by astroman420 what are some easy songs on bass | Astroman420, what have you done to earn all this vitriolic flattery?
Couple of honest questions here. How old are you. I am 54. And what do you like? There are some 'easy' Beatle songs to learn, which I think were the best from the 60's. Before and after that time have great songs that are very good for learning 'easy' bass lines too!
Please let us know what you are interested in playing and there are those of us here that will be happy to help you go from there. |
11-04-2008, 07:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Gastonia, NC | | 3 chord rock 'n roll - think G-C-D and C-F-G - tons of songs from the 50s and 60s particularly. 
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11-04-2008, 08:22 PM
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All 3 are the same song and consist of 3 notes all the way through..... DCG....
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11-05-2008, 07:25 AM
| | | | Blues stuff is good cause it is easy to start to play but then you can get really complicated with it if you want - eg Hey Joe is fun to play, especially with the chromatic/walking bass line.
And other 50/60's songs like people have already said.
But you can take any song and start with a basic bass line and build it. You don't have to play everything note for note - just get ideas from the parts/sounds you like.
I always start with the Root for any chord - usually add the 5th and then I might just experiment trying to find only 1 other note to use. That's kind of how I build my bass lines. I am not a great bass player - but no one I play with in bands ever complains about me playing simple lines - I think they like it cause I play in time and I don't step on the guitar players toes.
I break out into stuff every now and then but you really don't have to.
Keep everything simple I say - if a song sounds complicated to play on bass, simplify it. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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