Watch & Learn Seven Nation Army
The first song that I learned on the bass guitar was Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes. This is also the first song I mastered on the bass guitar. It is pretty easy, and the rhythm is slow enough to pick up quickly. After reviewing other site’s tablature and picking it out the first few times, I realized that it was a bit difficult to read these tabs since I was coming from a sheet music background. I decided to tab it out here very clearly for anyone who is just picking up this song for the first time or is a beginning bassist. I have also included the video with lyrics at the bottom of the Seven Nation Army bass tabs page.
The fact about this song is that there is no actual bass guitar being played. The sound is actually created by running Jack White’s semi-acoustic guitar through a Digitech Whammy pedal set down an octave. The riff was composed at a sound check prior to a show at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne, Australia.
