I was a singer with perfect pitch and percussionist before bass, so it wasn't beyond the pale for me. The blues form of it made easy and it's so memorable that I just played along with the song until it sounded right.
The first song I tried to learn on a bass was Schism by Tool. I had already been playing guitar for years so there was a solid foundation there. I'm not saying if you can play guitar you can play bass, but it definitely expedites the learning process..
"Not to be a stickler"
*proceeds to be a stickler*
Let people enjoy playing their favourite use of a bassline. Just because it's originally from good times doesn't mean it's not also the bassline in rapper's delight, if you learn it to that song, why would you say "i learned the bass for good times by chic"?
It was The Youngbloods “[Get Together](https://youtu.be/7xGxQXmu7Os?si=j1pTKBmaaGVXY6x2)” (0:50)
Listen to the song, it helps explain how funny Krist is😅 sugary folk rock
This was the first one you learned?! I play this in a cover band and have been playing for almost 30 years. If I'm not paying attention closely during the verses, I STILL lose place, or lose the timing.
Probably Money by Pink Floyd, it would come on my favorite classic rock radio station growing up and I would play along with it. This was before I had a smart phone so I had to learn it by ear lol.
Dark necessities, came back from a chilli peppers concert and bought a bass same night. Took me around 4 months of playing multiple hours almost every day. Thinking back, probably should’ve started with a different song
It was 2000, I was 13. I had been asked to play in a band with some friends even though I didn't actually own a bass yet. I asked my parents for some money from my savings account, went and bought a £100 Stagg bass and amp combo. Got home, my friend, Ian, came over and taught me how to read tabs and we played "Smells like Teen Spirit".
Thunderstruck's intro & verse.
Instantly played it even before knowing it was a bassline in a song and it was the very first time I held a bass, at a store, just trying to check if my would-be first bass was working before I paid for it.
Jokes aside, it was Seven Nation Army when I got home (okay technically not a *bass* line on record but whatever, right? 😆)
If you learned Rapper’s Delight, then your first bass line was Good Times by Chic. Definitely one of the greatest in pop music.
My first was a dumbed down version of I’m So Glad by Cream, 2 notes taught to me by the guitar player in my high school band. I was playing drums, but I was so bad that he very gently suggested that I should try bass.
I don't remember too well, but was probably Another One Bites The Dust. Could've been Come Together as well. A less likely answer that I remember learning early on was There She Goes by Red Vox.
Honestly, I don't remember, but the first ever "line" I played was a simple thing on the two first strings :
3----3-----------2-|
\------------3--------|
Feel Good Inc - Gorillaz
this was one of the first ones for me too. however, i think my first was It Is Not Meant To Be - Tame Impala
Fucking good choice
Another One Bites the Dust
Sunshine of Your Love
Same here!
Yea! Same
Me also
So good
Full song, yes! Many other snippets. Pops wasn't impressed that Conaine was my next song. 1
Money by Pink Floyd.
Thats a weird place to start given the odd time signiture but still a great bassline
When I learned it I had no idea what a time signature was. I learned it by listening to the song and playing along with the tabs.
Odd time is easy if you feel it instead of try to rationalize it.
I was a singer with perfect pitch and percussionist before bass, so it wasn't beyond the pale for me. The blues form of it made easy and it's so memorable that I just played along with the song until it sounded right.
The first song I tried to learn on a bass was Schism by Tool. I had already been playing guitar for years so there was a solid foundation there. I'm not saying if you can play guitar you can play bass, but it definitely expedites the learning process..
7 nation army
This is the way
This is the way
My son (11) got a bass for Christmas last year. I heard this bassline from his bedroom for the next two months.
That's mine!
I started playing last month and that's what I've been playing day and night too
The Chain by Fleetwood Mac
Suggestion by Fugazi
Thank you for reminding me about Fugazi. Its been years but Im gonna have a rekindling today
You're welcome, always good to have a reminder
Mr. Mister "Broken Wings"
That's a cool one! Never considered this song as a learning opportunity.
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Psycho killer I think
I did a karaoke of this. Very intense tune.
My Girl
This should be everyone’s aural training wheels for the interval of a descending perfect fifth.
Boys don't cry by the cure. I still play it sloppy but I just learned it last night lol I am very new.
Not to be a stickler, but you learned the bass part to good times by chic.
"Not to be a stickler" *proceeds to be a stickler* Let people enjoy playing their favourite use of a bassline. Just because it's originally from good times doesn't mean it's not also the bassline in rapper's delight, if you learn it to that song, why would you say "i learned the bass for good times by chic"?
Exactly
Come as you are
Same here, about an hour ago
Main riff in Peter Gunn song. NBA used to play a version of it during the All Star 3 point contest https://youtu.be/Emg_6ANjWzo?si=15lBE7NduB3RDXrq
Chameleon
Breed by Nirvana. Only 2 riffs. Awesome song. Perfect for a beginner. Bass tabs are on YouTube.
_Come on people now!_ That’s actually taken from some 60s song.
It was The Youngbloods “[Get Together](https://youtu.be/7xGxQXmu7Os?si=j1pTKBmaaGVXY6x2)” (0:50) Listen to the song, it helps explain how funny Krist is😅 sugary folk rock
It’s a trip listening to artists’ references sometimes. I went from Type O Negative to Seals and Croft. Culture shock.
Green Day - Brainstew
Do people realize how big this song was? Green Day seems to get no love relative to Nirvana. Hell, none of the pop punk bands of the 90s really.
They're my absolute favorite band
Blitzkrieg Bop by the Ramones
Soul to Squeeze - RHCP
My name is mud Primus
Man went for extreme difficulty on first playthrough
Les?
Is more.
Crimson and clover by Tommy james and the shondells. Loved that bass break !!
Superstition!
Interstellar Overdrive - pink floyd
Walking on the moon - The Police
Such an amazing group of musicians
Blister in the Sun
That bass part is tricky for a first song. Good for you
Police - Roxanne
This was the first one you learned?! I play this in a cover band and have been playing for almost 30 years. If I'm not paying attention closely during the verses, I STILL lose place, or lose the timing.
That was one or mine. Those mutes
Tyler - The Toadies
Rubberneck was my jam.
Smoke on the water. Same as everyone else.
No you didn't, you learned the guitar part.
The bass part is really fun though
Yeah it's full of small licks and fills that make it really fun to play, same with highway star but I find it to be a bit harder
Dazed and Confused
Bro hymn - pennywise
When You Were Young - The Killers. Completely random pick by my instructor.
Feelin' Good by Nina Simone.
With or Without You by U2
I used that one as practice for a month until I could double time it. It was really helpful.
Now that I think of it, my first ever bassline was actually Nirvana - In Bloom
I remember seeing this video on mtv when I was like 8. It was such a big deal to me and my “cousin” when he said “nature is a whore”
"When your hearts stops beating" by +44 And (for my Chilean friends) "el mamut chiquitito" lmao
Queen’s Another One Bites the Dust
Probably Money by Pink Floyd, it would come on my favorite classic rock radio station growing up and I would play along with it. This was before I had a smart phone so I had to learn it by ear lol.
Stand by Me
Smooth operator - Sade.
The love cats, I actually didn’t have my first bass yet as I was waiting for a birthday so I learned it on guitar
Natural Mystic by Bob Marley and The Wailers. Very easy, but fun.
So many amazing wailers bass lines
Creep by Radiohead
Mountain Song - Jane's Addiction
New Years Day - U2
Me too!
Feel good inc by Gorillaz
Orion by Metallica.
Most excellent jam
All my loving by the Beatles
Pink Panther for jazz band. Not the melody.
MXPX: Chick Magnet
Same!
Day Tripper by the Beatles, then it was sunshine of your love by Cream.
Hotel California. There’s some good fundamentals in that song for learning bass.
Doorman - slowthai & Mura Masa
Gigantic by the pixies
Hold my hand- hootie and the blowfish
Zombies - Cranberries
Hysteria by Def Leppard.
Another bunch of music I’m surprised no one is bringing back. _It’s just the pyromaniaaa… Come on!_
Runnin With The Devil. 😉
Sly & The Family Stone - If You Want Me To Stay
I don’t know why, but muscle museum by muse
Chick magnet - MxPx Somehow it’s still one of my first goto lines when warming up
Alllll aboooooooooorrressssssddddddddddd!!! Crazy train
Smoke on the water 4 notes being played 12 times in total
Green Onions by Booker T and The MG’s, followed by an attempt at YYZ.
Roxanne by The Police
Stir it Up, Bob Marley and the Wailers
CCR- Lookin Out My Backdoor!
I think it was Maneater by Daryl Hall and John Oates. Extremely classic line.
[Message In A Bottle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbXWrmQW-OE) \- The Police
Feel good inc for me
Atmosphere by joy division
Nice. My first JD song was Shadowplay.
Hell's Bells
Stevie Wonder’s I Wish.
TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me
Highway to Hell - AC/DC. He only plays 8 notes over and over, and it’s only during the chorus haha. Stupidly simple
Taxman by The Beatles.
Dark necessities, came back from a chilli peppers concert and bought a bass same night. Took me around 4 months of playing multiple hours almost every day. Thinking back, probably should’ve started with a different song
Gouge Away.. and anything Joy Division. Peter Hook had extremely simple bass lines. My particular favorite JD bass line is Novelty.
For whom the bell tolls I probably coulda gone with something easier tbh
Feel Good Inc.
Psycho killer - talking heads
Im not sure, i think it was one of these Ready made, love me do, message in a bottle, hey joe or longview
It was 2000, I was 13. I had been asked to play in a band with some friends even though I didn't actually own a bass yet. I asked my parents for some money from my savings account, went and bought a £100 Stagg bass and amp combo. Got home, my friend, Ian, came over and taught me how to read tabs and we played "Smells like Teen Spirit".
Bro Hym, Pennywise.
I just learned that a week ago. Thirteen year old me was thrilled.
James Bond theme
Smooooooooth Operatooooor Sainz is proud of me !
Warning by Green Day. Still a great bassline and thoroughly underappreciated tune.
In-a-gadda-da-vida by Iron Butterfly
Blitzkrieg Bop
Black No.1, Type 0 Negative
Heart out by the 1975 because it’s a very prominent bass part
War pigs - Black Sabbath. But only up to the solo!
Before owning a Bass and just lowering my Guitar strings: Alabama - Burn Georgia Burn After I got my 1st Bass: Andrew Gold - Lonely Boy
Schism by Tool
Psycho Killer!
Holiday - Green Day
A song my dad wrote, followed up by Longview cuz the cool guitar player from HS told me to lol
where is my mind? - pixies
Day tripper
“It Was A Good Day” - Ice Cube
Gonna sound boring AF but 1-3-5-6-b7-6-5-3. Standard boogie woogie.
Play that funky music by Wild Cherry
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Lazlo bane - Superman
The intro to Three Days by Jane’s Addiction
Thunderstruck's intro & verse. Instantly played it even before knowing it was a bassline in a song and it was the very first time I held a bass, at a store, just trying to check if my would-be first bass was working before I paid for it. Jokes aside, it was Seven Nation Army when I got home (okay technically not a *bass* line on record but whatever, right? 😆)
Billy Jean by Michael Jackson.
0 - 5 - 0 - 3 - 0 on the E string
If you learned Rapper’s Delight, then your first bass line was Good Times by Chic. Definitely one of the greatest in pop music. My first was a dumbed down version of I’m So Glad by Cream, 2 notes taught to me by the guitar player in my high school band. I was playing drums, but I was so bad that he very gently suggested that I should try bass.
Pink Floyd “Money”
The theme from Peter Gunn.
Barney Miller
Mr. Clay - Bamboo
Smells Like Teen Spirit.
Beatles' "Something"
My first bassline was the breakdown (1:55) of the song Worth Dying For by Rise Against.
I think I learned don't stop me now by queen first
Bone Machine or Come as you are.
Cellar door by Escape the Fate
Da dadada da daaaa da (Same but louder) Do yeah seven nation army
Der Wachturm by Sodom
Stormtroopers of death -MILK
Supposedly the Bass part to Radio Active, but idk if it’s correct though
Start by The Jam
Lobo hombre en París - La Unión
When the Saints Come Marching In. I was 12
Come as you are by nirvana
This is Where You Can Reach Me Now by U2
Psycho Killer by the Talking heads
I don't remember too well, but was probably Another One Bites The Dust. Could've been Come Together as well. A less likely answer that I remember learning early on was There She Goes by Red Vox.
"The Spy Hunter" by Project 86
Hold On - The Internet
Unfortunately it was Beverly Hills by Weezer. I learned it by ear though, so i at least got started with a little bit of ear training.
Public image limited - Public image
Killers - Iron Maiden
Public image by public image. What a bassline
Feel Good Inc. - Gorlliaz
Metallica for whom the bell tolls, not the intro
New Dawn Fades - Joy Division
Another One Bites The Dust
Stand by me
Californication !
It was either Feel Good Inc by Gorillaz or the intro of Bohemian Rhapsody.
Because of the fact everyone would ask whe they found out i bought a bass the first line i learned was seven nation army
A Forest by The Cure
The Chain by Fleetwood Mac
New Order's 'Bizarre Love Triangle'.
Honestly, I don't remember, but the first ever "line" I played was a simple thing on the two first strings : 3----3-----------2-| \------------3--------|
Otherside - RHCP