First 50 Songs You Should Play on Bass

Black Sabbath has some great ones, like Paranoid and War Pigs. Those are fun to play and easy to learn.

What technique do you use to mute strings on your right hand? I started getting bass lessons and I got taught two different ways to mute strings but im not sure which is best!!

Great list. I think Wham's "I'm Your Man" has a pretty interesting bassline! Deon Estus is a totally underrated bass player.

and a whole Primus discography

Level 6 - Tommy the cat

My current highest on this list is #38. Nice.

feel good inc should be way lower. it was one of the first i learned
same with teen spirit

I'm always shocked that nobody ever suggests Sublime - Wrong Way. It is really accessible and good practice. Plus it is just fun to play.

I have had several online lessons on the harmonica and Guitar Tricks. BassBuzz is the best online learning tutorial.

Minor point but Waters didn’t write or play on the recording of Money. Gilmour did.

if spain isn't on here i swear to god...

Ah, but we're I to learn Zombie, I would need to listen to Zombie which is unacceptable.

Oh my… I began to play bass by learning New Born by Muse 2 months before the concert. Crashed it totally with even higher speed than originally. Felt crazy 🙈
Then - muscle museum - Muse, Chop Suey SOAD, foo fighters - pretender and learn to fly, and finally Hysteria 😅😅😅

Thanks for the great list!! And you positively nailed the Thunderstruck look!!!

Brick in the Wall pt 2. I’ve always used a a drop D on the E string. Try it.

First bass line I learnt was Feel good inc. Now that I have mastered the bass I relize how I use to play that riff entriely wrong.

I like that you put Muse's album at the top in the thumbnail.

Muse & Chris Wolstenholme are still the Masters these days!

I’m looking for a video that shows the cool groove from Jesus Jones’ Right Here, Right Now.

Hey man, I have a Precision, could I get that sound you have?

Why there is nothing like this video on guitar?!?!

It is a crime to put seven nation army that high on the list if you play it on the g and d strings 🤣

I was so excited to learn Thunderstruck for Bass expecting something... I felt that face!

Peace sells ???????

Bass in a White Stripes song, really? 😛

Down in the tubestation at midnight by the Jam should be on the list (I don't think the Jam were as big in the US as the UK so maybe it is not so well known over there)

Love this ❤

Well, I knew 30 of them. That's enough to play a 3 hour set 😁

No "Dazed And Confused"? Shame on you! 😂🤣😅

Carausel by Blink-182 has a peak bass intro. Learned it fairly quik. However What's My Age Again is a real good beginner song

more of this :)

Thank you so much! This gives me so many sings to learn! You suggested it in your video of bass lines that normal people find impressive

Feel good inc. is the first riff I learnt 😭

What level would Green Day's Longview be in?

I was thinking of making a video series where I, unlike my previous video series, not only play the drums to a lot of songs, but also sing, play keyboards and the bass. Given that I play the drums on an expert level but not the bass, I need to turn down the difficulty level of all songs. This video could help me with some choices for that, I assumed. Hearing that one of my already selected choices was ranked as #1 on the noob scale pretty much killed my ego, so thanks a lot for that, jerk 😒

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Excuse me but how the fuck is crazy train #2...what the damn hell? String skipping part is not that easy.

I like your style, but these songs are too hard for an absolute beginner. Riffs are a problem, because for a beginner, the whole song should be very slow and easy, not just some riffs. Can I ask for slow and easy songs for an absolute beginner? I have found Something in the way, Come away with me and Hello. Songs as easy as these, or easier, would be appreciated. There is nothing for me in your list, if we are thinking of the whole song. It is discouraging to get songs that are too hard. Been there. That's why I am working on the songs I mentioned, restarting as a noob. I am open for suggestions, hope you are too!

As a teen, my easy songs were Aerials by SoaD and Bombtrack by RATM. My difficult one was Death Blooms by Mudvayne. Also liked playing Rancid songs. 😊

Great riffs, you really nailed the learning path. Well done

great list!

I've been learning some of these in a very very different order. My very first song o learned with my instructor was Feel Good Inc.

I learned Creep on my own months later. I tried to learn Hysteria but it still eludes me as it is too fast for me and too much to memorize right now.

grrrr where dark necessities????////

Hey Joe and September were a couple of the first songs I learned! That makes me feel slightly better about my skill level 😅

Can you do a video on playing "Invisible" by Duran Duran I've been trying to find the tab but can't and I'm still a beginner so I can't just learn by ear quite yet

The commentary was killing me 💀💀💀💀 Go buy the course at Bass Buzz. Phenomenal. Great teacher. Worth every penny. Unleash the inner bass beast in you.

I think "A thousand miles" from Vanessa Carlton is a pretty good one for begginers too! That was actually the first song I learned to play on bass

nothing of the cure? joy division?

one for the next 50: Robben Ford & The Blue Line - You Cut Me To The Bone. Essentially a blues in F but try and make is swing like Roscoe Beck does.
And one more for the swing of it: Freedom 90 - George Michael. Deceptively simple but it has space, some nice fills and played to the 'Funky Drummer' groove. I guess you were distracted when you saw the video on MTV :)

I think you should teach lessons solely on doing various bass face..just bass face..no bass..no music..bass face is the most important technique to master

What song would YOU learn first if you could start over?