I’m going to start Van Halen’s cover of The Kinks - You Really Got Me
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I’ve got this on my School of Rock setlist for our British Invasion preview show a week from this Saturday (the Kinks version). It’s got a couple fun slides in it.
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I’ve already learnt this one, it’s great fun. On a lot of the youtube videos that have tabbed it, they seem to play with a pick but I finger play.
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Yeah, I am playing that one finger style as well but am using a pick on the other Kinks song I have assigned to me (All Day and All of the Night). That is the first song I have used a pick on, and it is a big adjustment not having the thumb anchored…I feel like I am just floating out there and my spatial awareness needs to improve. I actually whiff on hitting the string once in a while. Another interesting thing was that the first rehearsal, I was playing YRGM with the low F and the director asked me to play up an octave on the D string. Where are you playing YRGM?
Bukowski - Modest Mouse
Dress Me Like A Clown - Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
Don’t Carry It All - The Decemberists
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I have no idea how to answer that properly as I don’t read music. I’m on the A string, 8th and 10th frets, 10th and 12th on A, then 10th and 12th on D string.
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Right now I’m working on Soft Cell - Tainted Love. It’s a simple bassline and I picked it up pretty quickly, so I’m going to add the Where Did Our Love Go portion of the medley.
Next is probably Fleetwood Mac - The Chain. That was one of my goal songs when I first started with the bass, since the ending riff was the old BBC F1 theme song.
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Blackalicious - Alphabet aerobics
Tone Lōc - Funky Cold Medina
Muse - Supermassive Blackhole
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The Chain is also on my to-do-list, and I have been also practicing Tainted Love for some time. Tainted Love is one of my all time favorites from the Disco days (and even nowadays nobody can stop me from dancing when I hear it somewhere). This is a pretty good cover from The Smiling Bassist (a totally sympathetic guy) which I have been using for practice.
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I’m currently practicing the 12 Bar Blues. As I’m still unable to play fast, I’m very happy to have found this slow, bassless backing track for Blues in G. Besides the slow tempo, I especially appreciate the clearly hearable chord changes.
Green Day. Welcome to Paradise. That bass solo is fast.
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Tainted love is fun! And looks like it is easy to play.
The smiling bassist! I like his videos. It always looks like he’s having so much fun!
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Yeah, I too like him very much. It’s not so easy to remain focused on his hands, because his smiling face is so cute. 
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Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go medley is fun and not that difficult. I play the Tainted Love part the same way as the Smiling Bassist, and I play the Where Did Our Love Go part from this Songsterr tab, starting on measure 87:
Still haven’t tackled The Chain yet, though with the new F1 season starting this weekend I just might.
Right now I’m working on Wet Leg - Mangetout. I’ve had a bit of an epiphany: I can learn songs just because I like the song! Might seem obvious, but I’ve been in learning mode for so long.
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Just a wee crazy homework for our little cohort seminar … learn to play a TV series theme/title song and perform it during the live seminar. Well… what did I end up getting myself into?? A hard one, of course 
- Yoko Kanno’s “Tank!”
Need to get this done by tomorrow evening. Timing is so hard, notes fly by at crazy speed, and there is all that mayhem going on everywhere… this is as good as I get it right now:
PS: yeah, the tuning is a bit off… that’s on the tune I grabbed from YouTube. It’s just a bit off, so I didn’t feel like re-tuning my bass to it… 
(Also: that’s not my biggest problem here!!)
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How many songs is a good number to practice at the same time? I have a lot of songs I’m currently working on, and maybe this is one reason why it takes me so long to master them all. I crave novelty, so I would get bored if I would dedicate most of my time to practice one or two songs. So I keep adding more to the mix.
I have some songs I have memorised the notes, but I can’t play them at the right tempo yet. For instance, The Cure’s Lovesong, Wet Leg’s CPR, and some others, but I’m getting better.
I have been practicing The Cure’s Catch (and other songs), Wet Leg’s Wet Dream, Elvis Costello’s Pump It Up, The Stranglers’ Nice N’ Sleazy, some Pixies’ songs, etc. It will take me a lot of time to be able to play Pump It Up at the right tempo, but Nice N’ Sleazy is a little easier. I have a long list of songs I practice from time to time, but I’m not good at them yet.
But I’m just playing for myself, with no schedule nor pressure, so it’s OK.
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Probably my favorite modern jazz piece. Gotta love bebop 
She is so good, just an amazing artist and composer. Her stylistic range is incredible.
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I’m working on Room for You, by Sub-radio
Love this song so much. Plus I’ll stan a pop band with instruments.
I always practice a whole bunch of songs at the same time. I have been practicing some of them for many months, and still don’t master them, but that’s okay, as they’re way above my difficulty grade, and I have picked them only because I love them, not really minding the difficulty. I want to learn them and am aware (but don’t mind) that it will take a loooong time to master them. But the craving to play THAT bass line keeps me going, and I usually come back to these songs almost every day. Other songs I have picked based on context: f. ex. I currently practice intensively the 12 Bar Blues in G, and so I have added a couple of songs based on that to my practice. But still I want to practice my favorite songs, and I want to repeat previously learned songs. So at the end of the day, there’s a whole bunch of songs which I practice at the same time (not necessarily everything on the same day). I believe that there’s nothing bad about practicing several songs at the same time, given the fact that there’s a lot to do - and it still needs to be fun. Sometimes I simply need something new. To give you a number, I have around 15 - 20 songs which I regularly practice. I sometimes use shortened versions, or practice only chunks of songs. I often find whole songs too exhausting. I need alternation and a certain variety, just like you, I’m pretty much craving for new stuff. 
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It’s the same with me. I practice songs I like, though some are way above my current skill levels. But they might help to increase dexterity. Especially songs with fast string crossing.
Another good thing that comes from playing a lot of songs is getting used to the notes, their sounds, getting more acquainted to the fretboard.
I’m playing with a long scale and a short scale bass. Before getting the short scale, I was afraid it would mess up my ability to play the long scale. But no problems at all! The fingers find their way along the fretboards of both basses just fine.
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