Famous songs that were written on a bass guitar?

[BigRedX]

But are they all written on the bass guitar? I think you'll find that song-writers who play bass as their primary instrument are competent on at least one other that normally lends itself better to songwriting.

As a bass-playing song writer myself, most of my songs have the bulk of them written on guitar or keyboard rather than the bass, although I'll use any of them to generate the initial musical ideas.

[StickyDBRmf]

On 31/01/2021 at 09:03, AndyTravis said:

Sort of prefer that version...

A silly love song. And it's brilliant. I could kill him

[Lozz196]

On 31/01/2021 at 17:55, dudewheresmybass said:

I read somewhere that sheryl Crowe writes on bass

 

Yeah I read that, she said she prefers that as it removed minors/majors/sevenths etc from the initial idea.

[Lozz196]

For my last band as I was so focused on it I sold my guitars so that I only played bass, and therefore could only write on bass. I didn’t want the distraction of a different instrument getting in the way.

[TJ1]

Thanks for the replies, I write chord progressions on a 12string acoustic, but I find when the root notes are transposed to a bass the flaws in those progressions are more apparent.