Anyone with any suggestions for easy bass songs? something like Money which I'm learning here. by that I mean something easy and instantly recognizable.
All easy, all recognizable bass lines:
Another One Bites The Dust - Queen
Oye Como Va - Santana
Green Onions - Booker T & the MGs
Guns of Brixton - The Clash
Low Rider - War
"Everybody got to elevate from the norm."
Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum. I think it's in here somewhere.....lovely descending bass riff, very easy song to play along to.
Rocky Mountain Way - Joe Walsh. Although the song's in open E, the bass-line's virtually all root notes - and Albatross - Fleetwood Mac - has a very similar bassline, believe it or not! Also Roadhouse Blues by the Doors - only real difference between them all is tempo......
A couple of bass lines that aren't too hard but will get your fingers tapping? La Bamba and Twist and Shout are quite similar - and try following the lead guitar on the Beatles version of Money, makes a great bassline!
Laz posted a nice bassline for "Walk On The Wild Side" somewhere - I only read it once, but it was soooooooooo easy I never had to refer back to it........
Those are just a few suggestions - I like to put the WM playlist on shuffle and play along, for me that's been a great learning tool.......
I think my fave on that particular list has to be "Dirty Boulevard" by Lou Reed......there are some quirky little riffs, and the tming's all over the place - you really have to concentrate to play along with that!
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Vic
"Sometimes the beauty of music can help us all find strength to deal with all the curves life can throw us." (D. Hodge.)
Aren't they all easy? Haha, I kid, I kid.
I'd imagine most of the Nirvana songs are pretty easy... not sure how recognizable the bass parts are though.
Easy, Easy, is the bass line to "Down on the Corner" by CCR......
Check the ESD index :wink:
Be excellent to each other & party on dudes!
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'd imagine most of the Nirvana songs are pretty easy... not sure how recognizable the bass parts are though.
Nope. They're not Primus, but they're not basic either :)
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G W Roach (Don't BUG me while I'm practicing!)
im glad someone resurrected this thread. thanks for the suggestions. i bought a Beatles 1967-1970 bass book. looks like there's plenty here thats pretty easy with some moderately difficult songs. Back in the USSA and Get Back look pretty easy. Come Together looks a little harder. Most of it looks pretty do-able with a little practice.
better get going on it!
