Ross Posted May 5, 2011 Posted May 5, 2011 Well I'm just curious as to what the first song people on here could play on bass was. For me, on the £70 stagg crapmaster, American idiot. Oh dear lord, how far I have come since then. Started off not knowing what frets were what and it took me a while to get the concept of adjusting a strap... How about you guys? Quote
Prime_BASS Posted May 5, 2011 Posted May 5, 2011 Carousel by blink-182 This song helped develop my whole take on writing songs and writing basslines. Quote
Salt on your Bass? Posted May 5, 2011 Posted May 5, 2011 Wow, this has got me thinking! Kinda 2 at the same time by the time I learnt all the parts! Goo Goo Dolls - Long Way Down Blink 182 - Small Things Quote
Doddy Posted May 5, 2011 Posted May 5, 2011 A generic root-fifth pattern over a 12 bar in C. It was written on the stave,so I learned to associate the fingerboard with the written music straight away. Quote
essexbasscat Posted May 5, 2011 Posted May 5, 2011 Hold your head up by Argent, Whole lot of Love Led Zep and Rubber Bullets by 10cc for the first performance on bass. Quote
Lozz196 Posted May 5, 2011 Posted May 5, 2011 [quote name='Deep Thought' post='1220678' date='May 5 2011, 09:54 AM']UK Subs, Warhead. And I bet I'm not alone.[/quote] Quality! [quote name='Hobbayne' post='1220713' date='May 5 2011, 10:15 AM']Pretty Green by The Jam [/quote] And more quality! For me, think it was Anarchy In The UK. Am going back many moons, but it was the only LP I had that I also had the songbook to, and I know that I found Pretty Vacant too difficult (I was a beginner). Quote
Shawman Posted May 5, 2011 Posted May 5, 2011 (edited) the first one i learned was a song by my mate's band in high school the first well known song was van morrison - brown eyed girl (simplified a wee bit of course ) Edited May 5, 2011 by Shawman Quote
Dave Vader Posted May 5, 2011 Posted May 5, 2011 [quote name='Bilbo' post='1220712' date='May 5 2011, 10:14 AM']I have absolutely no idea.[/quote] +1 (But Bilbo meant to say Moondance ) Quote
toneknob Posted May 5, 2011 Posted May 5, 2011 On a red Marlin P-copy, various bit and pieces of easy Zep, the Doors. Then my dad said one day quite innocently "what can you play all the way through?" errrm. So I went off and found the nearest "Guitar For The Practicing Musician" which had Enter Sandman conveniently tabbed out and learnt that. ||: Dum dum dum dum dum dum dum DUM :|| Quote
monkeynuts Posted May 5, 2011 Posted May 5, 2011 erm....The Chain - Fleetwood Mac but only the F1 theme music section! Quote
2wheeler Posted May 5, 2011 Posted May 5, 2011 The riff from Day Tripper on my Vintage acoustic bass. It also works great on double bass transposed up from F to G so that the D and G are open strings Quote
muttley Posted May 5, 2011 Posted May 5, 2011 I dunno, but probably Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag. I wasn't a bass player then, BTW . Quote
Cosmo Valdemar Posted May 5, 2011 Posted May 5, 2011 [quote name='xgsjx' post='1220883' date='May 5 2011, 12:09 PM']The Chain - Fletwood Mac[/quote] Ditto - although it was just the famous riff at the end, not the whole song. The first complete song I learned was Bowie's 'John, I'm Only Dancing', as it was transcribed in the forst copy of Bassist I ever bought. Quote
paul_5 Posted May 5, 2011 Posted May 5, 2011 "Freewill" by Rush. It was transcribed for guitar and bass in a guitar magazine years ago, and was the only bass music in the house. I think I wore the cassette out listening to it repeatedly. Happy days. I can still remember most of it too. Quote
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