Easy Bass songs

Does anyone know any songs with good bass parts?... blah bored and i need to play some music.. thanks everyone

 

Pink Floyd's "Money" is always fun.
For a challenge, try the Super Mario Theme.

 

If you like Green Day the song Longview is mostly bass adn it is fun to play.

 

i dig the bass on fire on the mountain by the grateful dead

 

http://www.ram.org/music/primus/tabs/armys_on_ecstasy.btab.html

http://www.fretplay.com/tabs/m/moe/timmy_tucker-btab.shtml

Haha, may not exactly be easy, but these are my absolute favorite basslines ever.

 

Shake Hands With Beef and My Name Is Mud by Primus are pretty easy and very meaty.

 

Let's Get Stoned by Sublime has a pretty good bass...

 

hey thanks

 

Fire-Jimi Hendrix Expirience.

 

The McCartney base lines from the 60s and 70s have a lot of movement (Nowhere Man, Don't Say Goodnight Tonight, etc). Aerosmith's Walk This Way has neat bass riffs. Another is Carry On My Wayward Son by Kansas.

Some of the jazz fusion tunes from the 70s had lots of bass (Mangione's Feel So Good, for example; Blood Sweat and Tear's You've Made Me So Very Happy). Tunes by Chicago (Introduction). The bass in fusion tunes by Miles Davis was all over the place.

Funk tunes from the 70s had lots of bass. 'Cut the Cake' and 'Pick Up The Pieces' by Average White Band, for example.

Latin pop music usually has plenty of bass movement too.

Some of the most pedantic base lines I know are from the 80s where they plucked eighth notes on a couple notes throughout the whole song (I'll Be Watching You).

Bass solos aren't featured much in rock music as they are in jazz, with the possible exception of the first two bars of the Barney Miller Theme song.

 

learn some scales, then play "walking" bass lines... thats pretty fun, and it builds skill.

 

Daytripper by The Beatles is a great but simple one. One of my favorites to play is also "Something" by The Beatles. Any McCartney bassline is worth learning and playing.

 

The Chain - by Fleetwood Mac - that was the first bass line I ever learned, and lots of fun.

And you won't be a bass player for long without being asked to play the theme from 'Welcome Back Cotter'

 

I agree with Shaggie, the old McCartney bass riffs are some of the most inventive and fun to learn. If you're feeling adventurous, and would like to try something new and different (JAZZ), hop on the Web and find bass lines by Jaco Pastorius, Abraham Laboriel, or Bryan Bromberg. Those will get your fingers tingling!

 

i just learn the bass to "stand by me" by ben E king. dead easy!!! - now listening to led zep's the lemon song, man, jonesy sure rocks!

 

the bass line for heartbreaker is also amazing. john paul jones is one of the best bassists ever.

 

The Offspring - Me and My Old Lady has one of my favorite basslines.

 

Oh and of course Long View

 

long view is mostly bass. mike dirnt got to shine on that song, and he didnt disappoint. he was good on that song

 

do you want good bass lines, or easy bass lines? if you want simple, easy, rocking ones--just listen to the misfits, it doesn't get much simpler than that. as far as really well-written lines go, listen to siberean khatru from Yes's Close to the Edge album. also, deep purple's Pictures of Home has a really cool bass solo. some of The Cure's stuff has some funky basslines, like Hot Hot Hot (from the kiss me album) or Lullaby (from Disintegration). it all depends on what kind of music you like. in my opinion, avoid hardcore--some of it may be easy, but it'll teach you the opposite of tasteful note placement, and you'll get used to playing like you're beating someone up, rather than painting with notes.