What's the first bass line you learned?

[gtmalone]

All of the tunes on "The Byrds Greatest Hits" album.

 

[Sam Evans]

Besides the exercises in some simple method books, I started learning bass by playing along with John McVie on various Fleetwood Mac albums. It's been a while, but I'd guess "The Chain" was one of the first, if not the first.

 

[nonohmic]

All my friends drive a low rider. A low rider is a little higher.

 

[ERMAL]

 

[svlilioukalani]

Light My Fire by Jimmy Hendrix

 

[gcb]

Honey Don't Carl Perkins

 

[Justinian]

Cream- "I Feel Free" 2005

and I can actually play it now!

 

[sleddogn]

i'm old too, just trying to deflect, lol

 

[Plain Old Barry]

Hot Cross Buns. Mel Bay Bass Method chapter 1.

 

[Florinda4]

On the URB. 1963. I was 13.

 

[zon6c-f]

Wondering how it affects you years later.
It's one of the first lines I play when I pick up a new to me bass.
Mine was a standard blues shuffle taught to me by my then 14 yo son. I know it by SRVs version of So excited.
What's yours?

Bad Moon Rising ; was a new hit

Most influential for me was Lee Sklar and Chris Squire others ranked just under
That and round wound strings ..Acoustic and Sunn rigs
My 2 C

 

[fishdude101101]

How can anyone remeber this? Am I the only one who doesn't have a clue?

 

[J_Bass]

I remember because I was 17 yo. Bought an acoustic guitar and hated it, so I started learning bass on it. The first tune I learned was Know Your Enemy.

If you ask me what was the first piano piece I learned, I have no idea, I was 5 yo.

 

[MichelD]

How can anyone remeber this? Am I the only one who doesn't have a clue?

I spent a very formative summer at 16 in 1969 spending several hours a day learning bass lines. That's how.

 

[Bass Man Dan]

Come As You Are by Nirvana.

 

[Cave Puppy]

You always remember your first. I started playing the day I got my driver license at 16. I was playing tennis rackets before that. I really dug (and dig) Sultans of Swing. Me and a buddy shared our Beatles Complete song book and played the stuffing out of a ton of those.

 

[2112]

 

[akukulich]

The first line I remember learning was "Gimme Some Lovin'" from the Blues Brothers.

 

[roller]

"Shyboy"

 

[fishdude101101]

I spent a very formative summer at 16 in 1969 spending several hours a day learning bass lines. That's how.

I was probably about that age when some older friends who needed a bass player showed me some baselines, I think. Memory is fuzzy from those days.