Sitting down and learning things like scales, chords, and theory is great for your bass playing but it can get old fast. Keep in mind for the tabs listed below that there are many different ways of playing them. The video lessons might have different fingerings, so just choose which one is more comfortable for you.
If you want to dive deeper into learning songs on your bass I would highly recommend signing up for JamPlay. They have a ton of lessons from some legendary bass guitar players and the focus of the site is mostly around learning songs. It helped propel them into the limelight and it has since been used everywhere from stadiums across the world, to TV shows and movies.
If you search any forum for easy bass songs, Another One Bites The Dust will be the one most frequently recommended almost every time. The introduction of this song was one of the biggest turning points in the bands career, and it helped shape their future as well as the future of music in general. They were hesitant to release it as a single at first, but after hearing it Michael Jackson insisted they release it. Kurt Cobain sure knows how to write some catchy songs, and Smells Like Teen Spirit is one that has been on the radio airwaves every day for years now.
Paul McCartney plays the bass in this song and I believe he used his iconic Hofner bass guitar which also appears in our article for the Best Lightweight Bass Guitars.
This is the perfect tune for practicing slides on the bass strings since it does it for most of the song.
His heavily distorted and gritty tone has become the benchmark for lots of modern rock songs today. It's one of the best easy rock bass songs around. Try to get a deep, warm, and fat tone when you play along with this track, and standing up and jumping around is almost mandatory. Pretty Fly by The Offspring was the fourth track from their fifth album called Americana in , and it made it to number 53 on the Billboard Hot , along with reaching the charts in 15 different countries.
Feel Good Inc. This single reached number 2 in the UK and number 14 on the charts in the US. Jason Cox is in charge of the bass in this song, and it's so catchy that it's a must-learn riff for pretty much all bassists. The tuning in the original song is Eb, so you can either transcribe it to standard tuning like the tab below, or just tune down your guitar to follow along with the tabs in the video.
Even if you don't learn the full song, take the time to learn the main intro riff and watch the amazing music video. Released in , Pumped Up Kicks became this bands breakthrough hit song and one of the most popular songs around that time.
In this example you are to play the 3rd fret on the E-string followed by the 2nd fret on the A-string, then the 5th fret on the A-string, and finally the 5th fret on the D-string, then back down the same notes. The above may look and sound like this click play to see and hear the animated fretboard :. Bars are usually marked as they are in standard notation with a vertical barline. Many times rhythm is not indicated in bass tab.
All you get is the order of the notes. In this case you are left on your own to listen to the recording and piece it together yourself. Many of the other markings found in bass tabs indicate the way notes are to be played. These are not standardized.
You may see many variations. Often these markings are defined somewhere at the beginning of the bass tab. Some common bass tab markings you may encounter:. Another thing you will come across in bass tabs is alternate tunings. At the top of the tab it might specify to change the tuning of your bass for something non-standard EADG. It is always written from low-string to high-string. You can read more about standard bass tunings and alternate bass tunings on StudyBass.
Bass tab can be a real aid to beginners before they have learned to read standard music notation or have learned the note names on the fretboard. And, it can be helpful to show complicated fingerings alongside standard notation. You should be at least familiar with bass tab. If you're looking for some good bass tabs to play, check out my recommendations section for bass tab books. I use songs from these books as theory and playing examples throughout my bass lessons.
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