Blitzkrieg bop & teenage lobotomy - Ramones. that was 16 years ago when i was 7-8 years old.Started with NYC punk rock & made my way through a lot more down the line
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First bass riffs you learned
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First real bassline I ever learned was that iconic riff that plays under Peggy Lee’s song Fever. That was when I was on upright.
First electric bass riff I ever learned was the line to Them Changes by Buddy Miles.
(Funny how despite mainly being a progger by trade, my roots are mostly in Jazz, Motown and Funk. Just goes to show you never know where you’ll end up landing.
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First electric bass riff I ever learned was the line to Them Changes by Buddy Miles.
(Funny how despite mainly being a progger by trade, my roots are mostly in Jazz, Motown and Funk. Just goes to show you never know where you’ll end up landing.
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I can't recall the very first one, (probably Smoke On The Water), but I do know some of the first few were, Another Brick In The Wall pt.2, Torpedo Girl and Sunshine Of Your Love
For Whom The Bell Tolls high part and the intro riff to the The Four Horsemen by MetallicA were the first 2 riffs I learned on bass.
Can't remember the specifics but the one that sticks out is the riff that starts Tommy James and the Shondels, "Draggin' the Line".
Ditto, RW, on Bouree... assigned by BL, recently...
... hopefully, I can do it justice in less time...
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This I learn it on upright for grammar school
only cool song I learned in school all the rest were you know kids songs.
Clementine, Skip to My Lou, Short'in' Bread, Grandfathers clock, here comes Peter cottontail, God Bless America, America the Beautiful, I've been working on the railroad and Dinah were songs you learned in band class back in the early 60's Imagine I went on to Black Sabbath by 12 \m/
only cool song I learned in school all the rest were you know kids songs.
Clementine, Skip to My Lou, Short'in' Bread, Grandfathers clock, here comes Peter cottontail, God Bless America, America the Beautiful, I've been working on the railroad and Dinah were songs you learned in band class back in the early 60's Imagine I went on to Black Sabbath by 12 \m/
Intro bass line to 'Barney Miller'. Then I think 'Dazed and Confused' intro. In general TV show theme songs caught my attention.
I got dragged to his concert in the mid 90s by my first wife. I thought it would be a bunch of people in argyle sweater vests listening to some boring music.
I was right about the audience. Buncha stuck up Chapel Hill wine and cheese crowd. They got offended if you stood up to applaud.
But JT had a KILLER band and they threw down.(Sorry for the derail)
I played acoustic first, so most likely it was a riff I already knew. I think the first thing I recall trying to learn was just a basic boogie 1-4-5. I got a bass in June and in August we had a gig and we played Zeppelin covers with no singer for a church fair with a few other things thrown in there. Dazed and Confused, a bad version of Ramble On, Stairway, Communication Break Down not sure what else.
