Your very 1st song

[Bass4real]

What was the very first song you learned to play on BASS from beginning to end ?

 

THE 1st song I learned from beginning to end was 

YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHING YET 

By

BACHMAN TURNER OVERDRIVE 

 

I think :?)

[Twigman]

The first song I tried to play was Black Dog by Led Zeppellin - I probably aimed too high for a starter but I did learn the main riff. 
The first song I played all the way through was a song I wrote myself called The Tree.

it was far simpler. 

[Bluewine]

Midnight Hour, Wilson Pickett .And it was also the first full song I played with a band.

 

Daryl

 

[Reggaebass]

For me it was Natural Mystic from the Exodus album , it’s the first album I learned to play all the way through, I still play it now occasionally , wonderful basslines 

[MichaelDean]

I can't really remember the first song, but I did get the tab book for Rage Against The Machine's self titled album very early on. That was a really good introduction to bass. Lots of good rhythmic work, some speedy fingering, and a whole lot of fun.

[Velarian]

Sometimes- The Stranglers. First track on Rattus Norvegicus. 

[neepheid]

"Peaches" by The Stranglers.  Learned it on the bottom four strings of a guitar so I had something to play when I went to the music shop to buy my first bass.

[christhammer666]

im broken by Pantera

[Delberthot]

Another One Bites the Dust - Christmas day 1987. I was 12 years old.

 

Marlin Slammer, yellow curly cable and Squier 15w guitar amp

 

I was already a massive Queen fan after seeing hearing them for the first time at Live Aid. The red Marlin with maple fretboard was the closest I could get to John Deacon's One Vision Precision Elite. The curly cable, just because Brian May used one. The guitar amp was just because I had no idea at the time that there was a difference between a guitar and bass amp

 

Still a massive Queen fan having just managed to get a hold of the remastered Queen I picture disc

[chrisba]

Sit Down by James.
 

I was sitting in a pub watching a couple of mates playing acoustic covers, sitting around a table. The bass player wandered off to get the beers in, and I picked up his bass and asked how to play it.

3 notes later, I knew I had to get one of my own and learn how to play it.

The rest, as they say, is his story.

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

Paranoid by Black Sabbath

[Ed_S]

Pretty sure it was Def Leppard - Animal.

 

It's also the first and only song that I've ever 'learned' using tab instead of just figuring out my own line by ear. The only reason it was that song is that the title starts with 'A', so it was the first one in the list that I knew and there was a bass tab available for. It's not a particular favourite or even a song that I've ever played live in the years since, but it got me started.

[asingardenof]

Probably Cigarettes and Alcohol by Oasis, having borrowed the tab book for Definitely Maybe from a mate at school

[RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE]

Black Magic Woman was officially the first proper song I learned . That was with friend who used to give me weekly lessons for a fiver..or an album . 
However on my own without having much of an idea , I did for some reason nail the track no man's land from the penetrator album by Ted Nugent  . I was going through the dopey stage without any confidence etc .

It seemed like I was getting something going ,instead of playing the riff to ac/dc sin city so many times ..

Edited January 24 by RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE

[Bigwan]

Seek and Destroy by Metallica. Not the first riff I learned - that was Another One Bites the Dust - but I'd just been plunking along on various other bits and pieces until getting together with a few school friends to form a band and the first song we learned was Seek and Destroy. Looking back I think we could have started on something easier!

[leschirons]

Black magic woman Santana version

[Lozz196]

I’m pretty sure it was I Wanna Be Me by The Sex Pistols 

[Franticsmurf]

4 hours ago, Bluewine said:

Midnight Hour, Wilson Pickett .And it was also the first full song I played with a band.

Me too, at my first gig as a dedicated bassist (I played guitar for several years before seeing the light). I remember learning Midnight Hour and a bunch of other tunes (Mustang Sally etc) at the singer/guitarist's house. On the night, he announced the song as 'a Wilson Pickett number' (without mentioning the title) and I didn't know it was by Mr Pickett, so I missed the first few notes as I desperately tried to figure out what was being played.
😀

[Bassassin]

Stranglers - Peaches. Had no idea how to tune my bass when I first started playing, so I had to re-learn it once I did. Unsurprisingly, it suddenly made a lot more sense!

 

Went on to learn the entire Rattus Norvegicus album, which on reflection, was a great tutorial & has probably had a long-term influence!

[neepheid]

4 minutes ago, Bassassin said:

Stranglers - Peaches. Had no idea how to tune my bass when I first started playing, so I had to re-learn it once I did. Unsurprisingly, it suddenly made a lot more sense!

 

Went on to learn the entire Rattus Norvegicus album, which on reflection, was a great tutorial & has probably had a long-term influence!

 

Bloody doppelgänger!

[spencer.b]

Green day "When I come Around" off the record and Cream "Badge" from a transcription in bassist magazine ( I could read a bit from playing the trumpet)

Both really great inventive lines that taught me loads

[Cosmo Valdemar]

John, I'm Only Dancing. Not because I was a Bowie fan at the time, but because it just happened to be transcribed in Bassist magazine. 

Thinking back, I learnt to play it before I actually heard the song!

[bertbass]

Purple Haze, Hendrix.

[obbm]

So long ago. It was Move It by Cliff and The Shadows. 

[tubbybloke68]

Cherry oh baby, UB40 for me. I remember a feeling of bliss and anticipation.An all new experience at the time. It was wonderful 😊.