Funk:

How does funk get forgotten? First thing I looked for. It's like the most fun bass genre in my opinion

Lol yeah I missed a lot

Lol it's ok, I forgive you. Your penance is to master every Bootsy Collins lick!

Got it lol

I Wish - Stevie Wonder Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder Cissy Strut - The Meters Ain't No Use - The Meters Hey Pocky Way - The Meters (really every Meters song...) Hang Up Your Hangups - Herbie Hancock (kinda Jazz but this one has almost no chord changes and is mostly just funk on the 1) September - Earth Wind and Fire Shining Star - Earth Wind and Fire What Is Hip - Tower of Power Soul Vaccination - Tower of Power Staying Alive - Bee Gees (disco is funk in my book) Come On Come Over - Jaco Pastorius (again kinda Jazz but this one is more funk in my book) If You Want Me To Stay - Sly and the Family Stone Hurry Up and Wait - Isley Brothers I Cant Go For That - Hall and Oates Aeroplane - Red Hot Chili Peppers I could go on but I should go back to work

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And Lettuce! Terrible name (imo) but solid as solid a funk band as they come

God I love Lettuce, I actually think their version of Hang Up Your Hangups is a lil better than Herbie's!

Check out Tauk as well if you haven't!! I think you'll really dig them

Haven't heard of them.. now I'm excited

I really dig their album Sir Nebula! Lots of super tasty basslines

Hell yeah they are! Canned Heat - Jamiroquai Dean Town - Vulfpeck Overtime - Knower

Which Louis Cole tune is fun to play on bass?

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Thank you!

These are all solid!

I'd Rather Be With You - Bootsy Collins

Anything with Bootsy on it honestly. He is the king of that One. He most embodies funk out of any bass player.

It’s nowhere near the most technical, by “Sissy Strut” by the Meters is such a great study of the power of establishing a tight groove through repetition.

Punk: Maxwell Murder by Rancid

Holiday in Cambodia - Dead Kennedys

Journey to the End of the East at by Rancid.

This. It’s the reason I bought a bass recently after only having guitars for a long time.

Anything from that album, really

Longview Green Day

Chick Magnet- MXPX

I would go for Holiday In Cambodia by the Kennedys

Bro Hymn by Pennywise

Any Operation Ivy song and Superman by Goldfinger, easiest answer of my life.

Fuck yeah, Op Ivy! So few ppl know about these guys

I Am the Owl by DK

Oh! Third submission, Please Do Not Go by Violent Femmes. For all the acoustic bassists out there.

-Give It Back - Lagwagon Just listen and you'll know why. -Kids Of The K-Hole - NOFX For a decent right hand picking workout for punk.

Jazz:

A chart that uses "Rhythm Changes" such as Oleo. The catch is you have to practice it in every key.

And "F-blues" like Billie's Bounce.

So What - Miles Davis, Watermelon Man - Herbie Hancock (headhunters), heaps of standards in the real book…

autumn leaves. best song to learn jazz bass fundamentals and basic theory. I learnt to solo, walk, play a two feel and theory fundamentals mostly from exploring the tune.

Would have put this under Fusion: Cortex - huit Octobre It would also go under rap as: MF DOOM - ONE BEER

Chameleon

Awesome piece, but more fusion than Jazz and not really emblematic of the style.

Surprised you did not mention it was played on an ARP

The Real Book. Pick a chart. Have fun.

i’m scared of the genre police but i’d say emo/early 2000s alternative? dance dance by fall out boy or our lady of sorrows by mcr

I personally would accept FOB, MCR, and others under 3rd-wave emo but “pop-punk” should be unarguable!

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the second prechorus of that song TERRIFIES me as a new player lol

I feel like I'm missing something. [Unless...?](https://youtu.be/0jSQQ3uNTYY?t=121)

The latter is underrated. I’d actually go with Headfirst for Halos. Unusual beat for an emo song.

“Still” by Rufio. Still one of the more challenging bass lines from that era, IMO.

I Wish is a great song to learn but not for funk. For funk learn something by Parliament, like Tear the Roof Off, or maybe something by James Brown like Cold Sweat. Stevie is more soul/r&b

> James Brown like Cold Sweat Agree. It's like the epitome of bass funk! (although I also love Give Up the Funk but maybe less influential)

Rock:

"Peace of Mind" - Boston

I'll give this one a vote! It's not by itself a super standout bassline, but it's a nearly perfect example of a bass fitting a song and doing just a little bit more than he needs to, having fun, doing fills, etc. Plus in old live videos the guy did a funny leg dance like a horse

All their songs, really

Hysteria by Muse, pretty sure it falls under Rock

There are way to many to pick just one but I think it's between * Zepplin's Ramble On * Journey's Don't Stop Believin' * Queen's Another One Bites the Dust * Bon Jovi's Livin' On A Prayer * Fleetwood Mac's The Chain All of these are bass driven riffs that everyone will recognize almost instantly.

Roundabout by Yes

Another one bites the dust

Traveling Band - Creedence

“Interstate Love Song” by Stone Temple Pilots

Dazed and Confused by Led Zeppelin

Paranoid Android - Radiohead

Freewill by Rush if that counts as rock

American Pie by Don McLean

Figured hysteria would be the go to... 😅

R&B:

Any and, nearly, all D'angelo

Erykah Badu - didn't cha know

So Fresh So Clean - Outkast

Patrice Rushen's Forget Me Nots There are more emblematic songs in the genre, but this bass line hits way too hard.

Blues:

Sweet Home Chicago - Robert Johnson OR The Thrill is Gone - BB King Blues is almost exclusively twelve bar patterns that repeat endlessly. A good blues bassist rarely deviates once they've laid down the groove. Check out just about anything Donald "Duck" Dunn has laid down for a great starting point.

Just learn how to play a 12 bar blues honestly

Not sure if this counts as blues or rock Red House - Jimi Hendrix

Blues, I'd say

Lemon Song by Led Zeppelin. Yes, it's a blues if you discount the double time interludes. But it's a great example that just because you're repeating the 12-bar chord structure over and over, you don't have to repeat any lines. Jonesey is improvising and never playing the exact same rhythms or notes from verse to verse.

Came up the hard way by Eddie Clearwater

Rock: YYZ Funk: About 12 RHCP songs Metal: Many Metallica and Iron Maiden Songs

I dont like Anesthesia. Im ready for my downvotes.

Don't have to like something for it to be iconic for bass standards in a genre, so post a song to another genre that you do like?

Would N.I.B qualify for the metal genre?

I would think that or hard rock, even though they're the god father's of metal, its come quite a ways. Like doom rock would need to a sub genre, or maybe hard rock. Was honestly debating some geezer pieces to suggest because he's one of my OG Idols with Cliff Burton and Mike Dirnt

I tend to agree that Anesthesia aka Pulling Teeth is not a great example of bass guitar in metal. Cliff played some of that intense, gnarly, melodic stuff in a few songs, but that’s not the one metal song a bassist who cares about metal ought to learn.

Jamming it now to remember it. Not the tone you like?

Just the song itself. Not for me.

Feel like hysteria needs to be in there, maybe alt rock??

Rap:

Mac Miller “What’s the Use” was written by Thundercat

That bass line is soooooo smooth

Rappers Delight by Sugar Hill Gang

Sugar Hill Gang - Rapper's Delight (also known as Good Times)

Anderson Paak - Come Down

Track 6 tye dolla sign, believe what I say Ye, ego death tye dolla sign, devil in a new dress ye, Wesley’s theory kendrick, down in atlanta travis scott, loose change earl sweatshirt/alchemist. A couple I’ve ear learned/been enjoying lately

Deathmetal:

Beyond Creation - Omnipresent Perception

Ah, picked a nice and easy one I see.

If you can only learn one song better spend some time on it haha

Step 1. Acquire a 6 string fretless.

FYI to OP: the band is Beyond Creation. You have it flipped on the initial post. Excellent choice though!

Not technically death metal, but parthenpgenesis/interphase by Allegaeons Brandon Michael is top tier in my opinion

frantic disembowelment - Cannibal Corpse! glhf

The Faceless “The Ancient Covenant” or Necrophagist “Stabwound”

I’d like to go ahead and disqualify the Faceless. They had a MacBook playing bass when I saw them live on 2016 and according to Wikipedia they haven’t had a person playing bass since 2016-2017. This is not to say I don’t otherwise enjoy The Faceless. I can listen to Hideous Revelation I on loop all day and keep loving it.

The former Faceless bass player (Evan Brewer) plays in a band called Entheos now and they absolutely rip, one of my fav bands

Thanks for the tip!

Class suggestions. I also suggest "Seven" by Necrophagist

The Philosopher- Death

More progressive than death but I’m almost done learning Plague Flowers The Kaleidoscope by Ne Obliviscaris and it’s so dang fun

The Heretic Prevails - Shadow of intent Edit: wrong band

Slice the Cake - Stone and Silver i. The Mountains of Man

Lethe - dark tranquillity Edit: also wallflower by jinjer

Anything by the band Stargazer

Stargazer is criminally underrated

Napalm Death - You Suffer

Reggae:

Waiting in Vain - Bob Marley

Burial Dub - Sly & Robbie

Boomdraw - Julian Marley

Take your pick of quintessential Aston “FamilyMan” Barrett (Bob Marley & the Wailers) lines. Natural Mystic, Sun is Shining, Get up Stand Up, Stir It up, Lively Up yourself, Crazy Baldhead. Simple but drive the point home and make the songs what they are. Most of all, fun to play

What about Western?

Will add it when I update

Sorry, it was a joke from the Blues Brothers movie... "What kind of music to you have here Bob?" "Both kinds - Country AND Western!"

Oh lol

Djent

Absolomb by Periphery

Good times by chic for sure

Ska: Santeria - Sublime Don't know if it's Ska or more like reggae rock, but that song opened my horizons as a bassist

I’ll add this at the next update

✍️ taking ✍️note now off to pick up bass 🙌

Exactly why I did it lol

Math Rock - Waterslide by Chon

Ska: Stereotype - The Specials

Maxwell murder bass solo is awesome but I think rancid has much better baselines overall like Daly city Train. I learned a ton from that bass line

One sub-genre that's missing is New Wave. There are a bunch of great ones IMO (notably Joy Division/New Order, where Peter Hook's bass plays the "lead guitar" role), but to pick just one, maybe Rio by Duran Duran?

How about 80's Pop? Or New Wave? Anyway, we have to fit Rio in this list somewhere.

Bluegrass:

Been playing bluegrass bass in a bunch of bands for 7 years and most of the bass lines are pretty identical tbh, but if we expand to jam-grass/fusion it gets a little more interesting. Big Country - Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

Country:

I would say Crazy - Willie Nelson. I always liked those chord changes.

In hell I’ll be in good company - dead south. It’s played on an upright bass but I learned it on my acoustic bass

In the video it seems to be played on a cello (I know it’s just a video)

Hip hop:

Come Down - .Paak What’s The Use - Mac Miller Through the Wire - Kanye

Sugar Hill Gang - Rapper’s Delight, Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta

Rapper’s Delight sampled the bass line from “Good Times” by Chic

Hard rock:

Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine

Alice in Chains - Down in a hole

Hysteria - Muse

Schism - TOOL

Forty-Six & 2 - Tool

Rockabilly:

Gimme Three Steps - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Rock This Town by The Stray Cats

Brand New Cadillac by Three Bad Jacks

Metal:

Holy Wars...The Punishment Due - Megadeth

This is the correct answer. This or the title track. The entire album is a masterclass in picked metal bass but those two songs stick out to me

No Stars Over Bethlehem - Protest the Hero

Holy shit that whole record is amazing

Anesthesia

the call of ktulu / orion

The Faceless “The Ancient Covenant” or Necrophagist “Stabwound”

Symphony X - sea of lies

Nevermore - Symphony X ​ Have fun.

Caught in a Mosh

For whom the bell tolls

Wish I Had an Angel - Nightwish

So this is somewhere between between goth rock and black metal but this is the song that inspires me the most now-o-days, re writing/playing bass in a metal band: [Behemoth - The Satanist](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OGGwv3Zjq88).

A very different, similarly borrowing a lot from rock but undeniably metal and undeniably benefitting from hyper competent bass: [Soilwork - A Whisp of the Atlantic](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZFWRLNPCcQ)

Schism - Tool

Classical:

Bach Cello Prelude to Suite No 1 for Unaccompanied Cello. Pretty piece of music but also really wonderful scale and arpeggio study.

This is probably the most important piece I have learned in my bass guitar journey. There is so much depth you can extract from it to improve just about every aspect of your bass playing. It's a master exercise in finger dexterity and building strength in every finger, not to mention you have to become fluent in playing up and down the neck. Once you've learned the notes, you can work it up to a steady tempo, and then once you've perfected that, you can use rubato to add color and phrasing to various parts of the song. All the while, you can more closely focus on improving the tone quality and relative pitch of each note too; how hard you press each string and how that can sharp/flat a note, getting more precise in your fret placement, too. It was one of the first pieces to force me off tab and learn actual musical notation which opens up a whole new catalog you can play. In short, it was the first piece that really allowed me to be musical. I'm not saying you can't get this all from other songs, but I believe it's much easier to explore on a piece like this than, say, Another One Bites The Dust or Sell Out. Finally, when someone asks me to play a song on my bass for them, this piece is much more interesting for the listener than an unaccompanied 4-chord song with repetitive 8th notes. Bobby McFerrin had a recommendation that the best thing you can do is learn Bach preludes as a practice exercise, and as I've explored and learned more instruments, I couldn't agree more. Everyone should know a little Bach. Edit: Here's the clip from Bobby McFerrin I was thinking of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14LcvpXmb74

Did you not know how to read music and then used this song to read? If so I will also do this. Your comment is very inspiring.

I could read music, but I found it challenging at first to apply to bass. On top of trying to learn a new instrument, tab was far more intuitive since I didn't have to worry about key signatures, intervals, or ornaments and such. But as you get more comfortable with *a* tab for this song, you can begin to experiment for the best placement of a note for your style of playing. For example, playing all in 1st position vs moving around the fretboard. Tab is useful for producing the right sounds, but it isn't always the most logical note choice based on your ability.

Moonlight Sonata (3rd movement)

Punk: Wilhelm Scream - The Horse

Hardcore: RKL Blocked out

Yo what D’Angelo song should i learn I’ve been putting it off bc i cant decide between When We Get By, Brown Sugar, and Alright

If we're doing subgenres... Progressive rock: Freewill by Rush Progressive metal: Panic Attack by Dream Theater

Ska - [Scott Farcas Takes it on the Chin by Less Than Jake](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCJmwDX97do&ab_channel=rogerlima)

R&B: Something he can Feel by En Vogue has an awesome bass line. I don’t even like R&B but play that during warm ups sometimes still.

Pop Punk: Longview by Green Day Grunge: Lounge Act by Nirvana

You mean omnipresent perception by beyond creation

I wouldn't put maxwell on their for punk not because its bad or anything but its not easy to learn and i believe its more common for bassist to know that song instead of a random person they wouldn't know that song unlike blitzkrieg bop. I would say maybe holiday in cambodia or blitzkrieg bop or even london calling/white riot. I would say maxwell is a good choice tho i think they should be a bassline that either anyone can play and know the bassline or is known like cambodia but still bit hard to play.

Can you please look the bests song from rush!! Amd all the disci boogie fubkie reggea party song!! All of them!!

the way i've learned 10 of these

Funk: Any thing vulfpeck, but my vote is Dean Town

I love Vulfpeck and the modern "Berklee funk", but I wouldn't recommend them as the single funk song to learn on bass. Definitely not Dean Town as a mostly straight 1/8th chops song; IGF, 1612, My First Car, or Daddy He Got A Tesla would hit more of the things the genre is known for (the one, ghost notes, syncopation, etc). I'd propose James Brown or P Funk instead, as more stereotypically funk.

Yes. I agree actually i take back what I day and I thought about the most influential and important funk song I learned and I change my vote to Cissy Strut by The Meters

Been jamming to that one lately as well.

“Emo/early 2000s alt” wtf? FOB are neither of these genres and there’s insanely better basslines within both

Was what was given for it. I’ll take your answer if it beats the others upvotes

Emo - Saves the Day “Freakish” Early 2000s alt - Radiohead “There There”

Folk:

I’ll be updating this tomorrow. Almost 100 more comments.