Bass line earworms

[JSMac]

I'm sure we all suffer from the occasional earworm. That song that you just can't get out of your head, sometimes for days on end.

I recently got interested in trying out playing bass. I bought a Fender Rumble 25 and a cheap Ibanez short scale bass. I've been having a blast learning some pretty easy, recognizable songs. But man, the earworms.

All day long I'm hearing Lady Madonna, Come Together, Stand By Me, Three Little Birds...It's like my mind is practicing the songs over and over. Must be a bass line thing because it doesn't often happen when I'm working on guitar songs.

 

[cat dude]

Whipping Post!

 

[rdjones]

 

[JSMac]

Whipping Post!

I just checked those out. Both a little advanced for me. I just started this week.

But thanks, whipping Post will be in my head now to replace one of the others.

 

[drmordo]

 

[Killing Floor]

Haha, sorry, y'all. This song lives rent free in my head probably 10 days per month. First name Moto, Last name Moto. Here's how you spell it MOTOMOTO...

 

[suthol]

 

[Alchemist_PhD]

Andy’s bass sounds great in this Free song.

 

[Vocalion]

I Want You Back. No contest for me!

 

[rickthescot]

 

[JSMac]

Haha, sorry, y'all. This song lives rent free in my head probably 10 days per month. First name Moto, Last name Moto. Here's how you spell it MOTOMOTO...

Not even going to click on that one if it's that earwomy.

 

[mr natural]

Watching the Detectives by Elvis Costello is a master class. Also Slave Driver by Bob Marley and the Wailers and Mystery Achievement by the Pretenders.

 

[Moonraker5]

When I got my first bass and amp (it was also a Fender Rumble 25) the first bass line I set out to learn was The Jam's "A Town Called Malice." Why that one:

1. it wasn't that difficult
2. it was Motown without being as difficult to play as Motown.
3. it's fun as heck to play

Give it a go (there's tabs on the net) and you will be playing a Motown-like bass line.

 

[JL_LI]

I’ve never had a bass line ear worm.

 

[RobRiggs]

Love this one

 

[RobRiggs]

And this one

 

[RobRiggs]

And this one…

 

[JSMac]

When I got my first bass and amp (it was also a Fender Rumble 25) the first bass line I set out to learn was The Jam's "A Town Called Malice." Why that one:

1. it wasn't that difficult
2. it was Motown without being as difficult to play as Motown.
3. it's fun as heck to play

Give it a go (there's tabs on the net) and you will be playing a Motown-like bass line.

I just checked that out. Sounds like a fun one and I'll give it a try.

 

[middy]

I always thought that was the coolest tv theme song. Still do.

 

[Kandinskyesque]

The first bassline I ever learned and I still get earworm with it all these years later.