Edge even commented that the U2 is a bunch of musicians that don’t sound good individually but together sound very good and simplicity of each person’s musical parts are a big aspect of U2’s sound and ability to stay so musically and socially relevant over the years. But one thing that makes U2 so unique is that musically speaking, U2 is very very simple. U2 has come to embody a lot of things over the years from stage shows to social activism. Both start on the Db on the E string with the only difference between the two being that the first pattern turns around on an F# and the second one turns around on a B.
The bass line is composed of two primary patterns that alternate between one another. Underneath Judy’s playing, guitarist Issac Brock and company fill in the sonic space with gentle, floating guitar parts and a quiet kick and high hat combo to round out the song.
Judy’s bass line here, like that of the Pixies’ ‘Hey, drives the song. Fortunately, Modest Mouse’s Eric Judy worked a few of those into his bass line for the Modest Mouse song, ‘Tiny Cities Made of Ashes’ off their 2000 album, The Moon & Antarctica. To my ear, there is just something very satisfying about a gentle slide from one note to another up or down the bass neck. I’m a big fan of bass lines with slides worked into them. ‘Tiny Cities Made of Ashes’ – Modest Mouse Here’s the tab to the Pixies’ Hey’ off their classic album, Doolittle:Ģ. The bass line is a classic example of a line that doesn’t need to be fancy or elaborate to still hold down the low end and provide body to the song. While I could have chosen any Pixies’ song for this list, I chose ‘Hey’ for the reason that the bass line is the center point of the song and it comes in clear and audible in the mix. She even commented on what she believed a ‘real bass player’ was. Her bass lines were simple, audible and supportive of the guitar work of Frank Black and Joey Santiago. The band’s bass player, Kim Deal, held down the Pixies’ low end for all four of the band’s albums, Surfer Rosa, Doolittle, Bossa Nova and Trompe le Monde before her departure from the band in 2012, 2013. She was a role player and did her role like the best of them. Weezer, Nirvana, the Strokes, Radiohead and countless other high profile acts have all claimed to have drawn influence from the Pixies’ raw sound and soft-loud-soft verse-chorus-verse song structure. The Pixies were a seminal 1990s alternative rock act that helped to shape the sound of many of the acts that we consider to be power players and representative of the Generation X sound. While there are books and books and books of bass of rock bass lines geared towards beginners, here are 11 bass lines that you might not find in a book by Hal Leonard but are no less friendly towards beginner players and very fun to play.
Moreover, they can just be fun to play and learn. The lines are intended to be supportive and not lead oriented, the notes tend to follow the chord changes of the guitar player and the lines give the budding bassist a great crash course in the very essence of being a bass player while developing playing chops. Every band on the planet has some song that have bass lines that are very friendly towards beginners.
Easy bass lines for beginner bass players are just about everywhere.
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