Big list of easy songs to start with

Hey I have seen a pile of posts asking about easy songs to start out on.

Whenever I see them I usually snag the ones I am interested in and throw them in a list, figured I would just post it since it has gotten pretty big.

I plan on learning most of these songs if not all (over the next few years most likely haha), I hope to learn atleast a few a week. A lot of them are really easy that wont take long but I plan on writing out transcriptions for all of them as I go to help my writing and reading as well as making videos of each so I can go back and look for things I need to improve.

Here is the list, I am sure majority of the people that frequent this board will find these really easy but if any of the really new players want the transciptions as I learn them I would be happy to post them or send it to you.

A few of the ones near the end arent really easy ones but they are in my list to work on.

AC / DC - Highway to hell
AC/DC - Shook me all night long
Albert king - born under a bad sign
Alice cooper - schools out
BB King - Woke up this morning
Beach boys - California girls
beach boys - surfin usa
Beatles - 8 days a week
Beatles - Ballad of john and yoko
Beatles - Birthday
Beatles - Cant buy me love
Beatles - Come together
Beatles - From me to you
Beatles - Get back
Beatles - Hard days night
beatles - she loves you
Beatles - Twist and shout
Ben E King - Stand by me
Black flag - White minority
Black sabbath - paranoid
Blink 182 - All the small things
Blink 182 - Whats my age again
Bob marley - could you be loved
Bob marley - Easy skanking
Bob marley - Get up stand up
Bob marley - Jamming
Bob marley - One love
Bob marley - Stir it up
Bobby fullerton - I fought the law
Bon jovi - bad medicine
Booker T and the MGs - Time is tight
BTO - taking care of business
buddy holly - peggy sue
Buddy holly - That'll be the day
Carl perkins - Matchbox
The Clash - London Calling
The Clash - Should I stay or Should I go
Cranberries - Dreams
Cranberries - Zombie
Cream - Sunshine of your love
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son
David bowie - man who sold the world
Deep purple - Smoke on the water
Dire straits - Walk of life
DOA - Woke up screaming
Earth wind and fire - Lets groove tonight
Eddie floyd - 634-5789
Eddie money - take me home tonight
Elvis - Dont be cruel
Elvis - Mystery train
Elvis - Thats alright
Eric clapton - Crosscut saw
Eric clapton - Lay down sally
Eric clapton - Wonderful tonight
Exploited - Alternative
Exploited - Sex and violence
Fleetwood mac - The chain
Fleetwood Mac - Jigsaw Puzzle Blues
Foo fighters - Learn to fly
Foo fighters - monkey wrench
Freddie king - Hide away
Freddie king - Lonesome whistle blues
Germs - Forming
Germs - Lions Share
GG Allin - no rules
Goo goo dolls - Iris
Greenday - Longview
Greenday - When I come around
Guns N Roses - Dont cry
Iron maiden - Remember tomorrow
James brown - Hot pants
James brown - I feel good
Jimi hendrix - Hey joe
Jimi hendrix - Little wing
Joan jett - I love rock n roll
John lennon - Imagine
Johnny cash - folsom prison blues
Johnny cash - I walk the line
Judas priest - Breaking the law
Judas priest - youve got another thing coming
Kings of leon - Use somebody
The Kinks - Luie, Luie
Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker
Led Zeppelin - How many more times
Lit - My own worst enemy
Megadeth - Symphony of destruction
Metal church - metal church Sheet music - Page 1 Sheet music - Page 2 (Done in standard not down tuned)
Misfits - astro zombies
Misfits - Skulls
Neil Young - Heart of Gold
Neil Young - Rockin in the Free World
Nirvana - Come as you are Sheet music (Done in standard not down tuned)
Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit
Oasis - Dont look back in anger
Offspring - Gotta get away
Otis redding - Mr pitiful
Otis redding - Tramp
Pink floyd - Money
Pink floyd - Time
Police - Driven to tears
Police - Every breath you take
Police - Message in a bottle
Police - Roxanne
Police - So lonely
Police - Walking on the moon
Procol Harum - Whiter shade of pale
Quiet Riot - Metal health
Ramones - Blitzrieg bop
Ramones - KKK took my baby away
Reagan youth - degenerated
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Road Trippin'
Rolling stones - Jumping jack flash
Rolling stones - satisfaction
Sade - Smooth Operator
Santana - Maria, maria
Sly and the family stone- Thank you
Stevie ray vaughn - Crossfire
Temptations - Aint too proud to beg
Temptations - My girl
The four tops - I cant help myself
Tom Petty - Free Fallin'
Tom petty - Into the great wide open
Tommy tutone - 867-5309
Trogs - Wild thing
U2 - With or without you Sheet music
Van Halen - Running with the devil
Van morrison - Brown eyed girl
Violent femmes - Blister in the sun
Wild Cherry - Play that Funky Music
Wilson Pickett - The midnight hour
Zero boys - civilizations dying
ZZ Top - La grange

 

Think you posted on the wrong one Roy

By the way I should be ordering your bass lesson package soon, cant wait to check it out.

 

I tried to make the list pretty diverse, I like pretty much all styles of music and want to be a well rounded player that is decent at all styles instead of great at a specific style only.

Any suggestions? I really dont know much about funk at all but would love to learn some?

What do you think would be good starters for funk?

 

Thanks for the ideas, I will be organizing the list yet as I go through them, if the mods say it's alright I can just post links to the sheet music as I learn them. Can just put them on imgur or something.

 

Sounds like a plan, I have a lot of songbooks so I wouldn't be surprised if I have a lot of them already.

 

Thanks, I will add them to the top list shortly. I like most of those so will probably try to learn them as well, regardless if people want to keep adding easy songs to the list feel free.

Would be nice to have a really large list of easy songs to learn and start with.

 

Not saying they are not good or anything and there is definitly more to them than it seems.

Just want a list of songs that are good to learn for newer bassists. I am not a new player but I don't have much for previous experience with music theory or even learning songs for that matter. Since I was a teenager I have always been in original bands and would basically just follow the roots of the guitar.

Majority of these songs shouldn't be too difficult for someone new to playing if they spend some time on them.

I am finding that I have been learning just as much from learning these songs as I have from theory, exercises, scales etc.

Even the really simple ones have been teaching a lot, Roxanne for example, it can take a while to get used to not playing right on the one beat, atleast it did for me anyways but now I don't always stick to playing on it.

With or without you is about as straight forward as you can get but is great practice for playing steady eighth notes over the chords.

As well learning some styles I wouldnt normally play.

 

I started adding images next to the ones I am working on with the sheet music.

If you have any of them done and want me to post them just pm them to me and I will add them as well.

Would be nice to have them all in one spot.

As well if any of mine are wrong just let me know, I am still quite the noob when it comes to transcribing songs myself but usually get my instructor to look them over to make sure they are correct or close.

 

Hey Malcolm,

Since you seem to like good country I was wondering if you have any tips on the walks/fills between chords for old country.

I love old country, and the new guys doing old country like Hank Williams III is probably my favorite musician ever next to maiden. As well as guys like Bob Wayne, and obviously their influences like Hank Sr, David Allen Coe, Johnny Cash, etc.

I can plug along with the root-fifth lines easily but always suck at walking between them.

So far the only thing I can really do without screwing up the timing is basically playing the 3rd of the chord I am just before changing to the next chord or I will play 2 of the root that I am on then change.

Any tips of what is common to use for country walks?