First bassline you ever learned?

[xgsjx]

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' post='1221035' date='May 5 2011, 01:45 PM']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]
The very 1st thing I ever recorded on bass was the F1 bit, a few days after I learned the song (it's an easy starter of a song) & me & my mate on guitar played along to some programmed drum beats (we didn't do the 1st 1/2 of the song as the guitar part is fairly tricky for a 12 year old beginner.

[flyfisher]

I can't remember my first bass lines (probably a generic blues) but I remember first learning House Of The Rising Sun on guitar.

[Skol303]

[quote name='xgsjx' post='1220883' date='May 5 2011, 12:09 PM']The Chain - Fletwood Mac[/quote]

Yep, another +1 from me on The Chain.

That and 'Another One Bites The Dust'... can't say I was ever really a fan of Fleetwood Mac or Queen, but those two basslines are so iconic they just seemed like a natural place to start at the time.

[el borracho]

[quote name='Skol303' post='1221182' date='May 5 2011, 03:34 PM']Yep, another +1 from me on The Chain.

That and 'Another One Bites The Dust'... can't say I was ever really a fan of Fleetwood Mac or Queen, but those two basslines are so iconic they just seemed like a natural place to start at the time.[/quote]

Those were actually the first two songs I played the first time I ever picked up a bass.

The first full song I learnt was Chatterbox by the New York Dolls.

[lojo]

Basic 12 bar blues pattern with open strings I think

Then perhaps, peaches and walk on the wild side (the book I had, had a section on double stops)

First lines I played all the way through with another musician where Hey Joe and Cross town traffic

[iconic]

[Michaelg]

im pretty sure it was bigmouth strikes again by the smiths

[the_skezz]

Either 'All Day and All of the Night' or 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'.

[I.dunno]

Come Together by The Beatles. Sexy bassline.

[iconic]

[quote name='Michaelg' post='1221216' date='May 5 2011, 04:21 PM']im pretty sure it was bigmouth strikes again by the smiths[/quote]


tough 1st one! great bassline

[xgsjx]

The 2nd song I learned all the way thru was Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick, it all went downhill from there!


Only messing, it was a selection of U2 songs from their first 3 albums that was in a transcribed book that my guitarist friend had (has all the instrument score). New Years Day being the gem to play out of that lot.

[TheGreek]

[quote name='monkeynuts' post='1220935' date='May 5 2011, 12:41 PM']erm....The Chain - Fleetwood Mac but only the F1 theme music section! [/quote]


When I first started playing this is all I aspired to be able to play - sorted it within a few days!!

What do you do - give up or learn something else??

I did the latter..

[Graham56]

Probably Talking Heads' Psycho Killer.

After that it was a very crude improvised four-to-the-bar walk over a jazzy 12-bar in C. This was as part of a bass evening class which had you working on improvised patterns against chords from almost the first lesson.

Cheers

Graham

[xgsjx]

[quote name='Graham56' post='1221582' date='May 5 2011, 09:16 PM']Probably Talking Heads' Psycho Killer.

After that it was a very crude improvised four-to-the-bar walk over a jazzy 12-bar in C. This was as part of a bass evening class which had you working on improvised patterns against chords from almost the first lesson.

Cheers

Graham[/quote]
The original or the one off Stop Making Sense?

[Graham56]

[quote name='xgsjx' post='1221618' date='May 5 2011, 09:33 PM']The original or the one off Stop Making Sense? [/quote]

The original... although after that I spent months learning the bass lines for White Stripes' tunes...

[WHUFC BASS]

4-Skins - Wonderful World

[YehItsRyan]

Brain Stew by Green Day, the simplest bass line known to man XD

[Clarky]

Not sure between two - it was either "Crocodiles" by Echo & The Bunnymen or "Ceremony" by New Order/Joy Division - on an Aria Pro II bass c.1980/1

Edited May 5, 2011 by Clarky

[bassatnight]

From memory it was Peaches by the Stranglers on my Westone Thunder 1 bass

[bassatnight]

[quote name='Clarky' post='1221654' date='May 5 2011, 10:01 PM']Not sure between two - it was either "Crocodiles" by Echo & The Bunnymen or "Ceremony" by New Order/Joy Division - on an Aria Pro II bass c.1980/1[/quote]

Good call Clarky, must have played the Crocodiles and Heaven up here album to death back in the day.....

[danhkr]

I Wanna Be Adored - Stone Roses

[scalpy]

My Dad showed me keep on running. First one I worked out was Hey Joe. Felt like a god!

[leezo666]

I did a performing musician course at college but being the crappiest drummer out of the 10000000 drummers and the lack of bassists on the course I had to play bass and had to learn Hitchin A Ride - Green Day, Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous - Good Charlotte, I Wonna Be Your Dog - Iggy And The Stooges, Mr Jones - Counting Crows on a some rubbish Legacy jazz replica in about a week for a gig.
I still have that bass but it would cost more to repair it than it would to buy a new one so its sitting on a stand gathering dust

[bottomfeed]

Well... the 1st bassline that I really got happening & was proud of the achievement, was Lord of Light by Hawkwind (the Space Ritual version)
....... then the Universe opened up!

[steve-soar]

Down In The Sewer, The Stranglers.