Favorite "uncomplicated" basslines.

[zontar]

 

[leegreenman]

Uncomplicated and challenging = ZZ Top!

Grooving like that is not easy, even if the changes are!

 

[Neon Scribe]

Anything by John McVie.

 

[Icculus]

I think most of these should qualify as "uncomplicated"...

Billie Jean - MJ
Into the Mystic - Van Morrison
I'll Take You There - Staple Singers
Crown of Thorns - Mother Love Bone

 

[sleepyEDB]

As a beginning bassist this is a great thread for that 'what song should I learn next?' question. Thanks to everyone that has contributed!


sleepy

 

[Robert Spencer]

johnny rivers with my favorite bassist joe osborn

 

[jazzyvee]

Natural Mystic by Bob Marley and the Wailers

 

[SteveC]

25 or 6 to 4

 

[jeremysmyth]

Witch Hunt - Rush. Probably the easiest line from Geddy aside from Working Man, but the tone is so ballsy and heavy.

Easiest Rush line is either Red Sector A (no bass guitar in the whole song, just a rhythmic held-down synth bass playing whole notes), or Tears from the 2112 album, which is the least "Rush" Rush song ever, even counting their first album.

 

[bswag]

Creedence Clearwater's cover of Heard It Through The Grapevine- Stu Cook pounds it out for 11-plus minutes, and he and Cosmo work up a roiling, boiling sweat behind the Fogerty boys. Butt-simple, butt-shakin'!

 

[bswag]

That album cover had severely erotic effects on my almost-teenaged self! Go and see- Mwwrowwwrrr!

http://hilobrow.com/2009/06/08/hilo-hero-nancy-sinatra/

 

[squarewave]

Pump it Up -Elvis Costello with Bruce Thomas on bass

The bass part isn't too difficult, but really carries the song.

 

[LadyLoveStingRay5]

Give it to me baby.....Rick James
Paradise...Sade played by Paul Denman
Freddy's Dead & Pusherman....Curtis Mayfield played by Joseph Lucky Scott

 

[Thuddy Waters]

Time Is Tight by Booker T and the MG's



.... Anything by Duck Dunn for that matter.

 

[Thunder_Fingers]

Queensryche - Jet City Woman

 

[Neon Blues]

Echoes by Pink Floyd.

(Take that, Roger haters!)

Pretty sure, it's spelt Waters.

 

[Neon Blues]

I know it's the chord progression that made the song, but I will go with Hendrix - Little Wing.

Cranberries - Zombie

 

[Spectrum]

Pretty sure, it's spelt Waters.

What?

 

[Thuddy Waters]

What?

Ha! I think that he thought you meant to say "Take that Roger Waters" instead of "Take that Roger haters." But since you were complimenting Roger Waters, it wouldn't make sense to say "take that Roger Waters." --Unless the bass line in Echoes was one of the Pink Floyd bass lines that was actually played by David Gilmour. In that case, "take that Roger Waters" would have been appropriate.

 

[Neon Blues]

It was a joke.