First Song You Learned

cfsguitar · July 2007

Hey Guys 8)
How's it goin?

Anyway, I started feeling nostalgic from the first guitar thread and remembered the first song I ever learned on that junk guitar of mine.
Highway to Hell by AC/DC :twisted: :twisted: , struggled to learn the solo but finaly got it.Anywho I was wondering can you remember your first song?

shredd · July 2007

Bad Co. - Young Blood. Party song for teenage doods trying to score w/teeange girls... :roll:

Terranaut · July 2007

First song; Come to the Sea by anomynous. A sea shanty I played in front of my 4th grade class. Second was Do the Mouse by Soupy Sales. Performed at the same 4th grade show with my friend who lip synced the Soupy Sales part.
First Rock song was White Room by Cream.

motowncoop · July 2007

Smoke on the Water.

iliace · July 2007

Dating myself here. And not in the old way.

I did learn a few classical-type songs that my mother had books for - she used to play guitar and got me my first one.

The first two songs I learned were in high school guitar class, there were a couple of guitarists there that played in bands and knew \"rock\" songs, although they had nothing as far as actual guitar or theory knowledge. First one I picked up was Green Day's Brainstew. One I learned alongside, if not before, was Nirvana's Come As You Are.

Tal Rules · July 2007

Can't remember...
Old age.

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I want to say \"House of the Rising Sun\" or \"Wipeout\", but it might have been \"Jingle Bells\"..

steven lee · July 2007

First 2 complete songs I learned were...

House Of The rising Sun and Working Class Hero which I later made almost exactly the same way green day did....But years before them...

The Very first song I ever started learning was Beethovens 5th.....Got the first couple chords and that was pretty much it....

guitar3456 · July 2007

Satisfaction

Brown Sugar

Johnny B Goode

Starting off with the Stones was not my bag o tea!

1st 3 my instructor had me learn other than Mel Bay standards. I couldn't wait to actually play full songs!

then on my own with acdc, zep, the who, kiss, benatar, journey, bad co, boston and VH! anything that moved or was different.

got into Prog after playing a few years. Rush, Yes, Zebra, Kansas, Dregs til I got the metal bug. Scorps, JP, Maiden, Crue, the usuals! High School was great!

Got a bit more serious and learned Steeley Dan, Yes, older Rush, Jeff Beck

partch · July 2007

Beings that I play in a Worship Band & don't have alot of time to learn others songs? I mainly work on Original work & Learning new things to add to my technical ability on guitar. BUT I have learned a few that we do at Church by the Original Artist's from CD by Ear.

Parachute Band-All the Earth
Third Day- God of Wonders, Offering
Kutless-Strong Tower

ednrg · July 2007

I believe it was Smoke on the Water. But, like most guitarists, I didn't realize I was playing it wrong. I picked the notes instead of finger picking the diads. At least I got it right now.

motowncoop · July 2007

\ednrg\ wrote:

I believe it was Smoke on the Water. But, like most guitarists, I didn't realize I was playing it wrong. I picked the notes instead of finger picking the diads. At least I got it right now.

Same here, but it still excited me to hear myself playing it

craftm1 · July 2007

The Ventures \"Pipe Line\", then I think Wipe out.

Manitou · July 2007

Whatever little ditties that was in my Mel Bay guitar lesson book.

I learned by ear my first song off one of those little '78' HiFi records... \"(I can't get no) Satisfaction\" by The Rolling Stones. The song was a brand new release, and the year was 1965. I didn't learn the whole song very well, but the main tune was easy to sound out. I realized something very important with that first song. I was never going to get girls with my singing voice...but I belted out the tune anyway. Also, I think I was one of the pioneers in Air Guitar. 8)

But my Gunny Sargent Dad would not allow me to have \"Beatle style\" hair...it was many years before I was away from him and the Corp...before I was able to at least grow the hair. BTW...I also learned \"Taps\" as one of my first songs on the guitar. That was the theme song of my youth. :evil:

Metal Rulz · July 2007

The very very first song that I learned was Walk Don't Run by The Ventures. My Dad was in a Ventures cover band so he would show me how to play some stuff. When I hit grade 5 an older brother of a friend of mine put on a record. It had a scary man on the cover holding a cross. I tell ya when I heard the first few notes in the intro to Crazy Train, I knew that is how the guitar was supposed to be played. I got my buddies brother to record his record for me and I raced home to get my dad to show me how to play this stuff. He figured out the intro to Crazy Train pretty fast and taught me how to play it. Here I am now 34 years old hoping my 3 year old son will eventually play. I think if he does get an interest for music it will probably be the drums. He often comes down into the basement and sits at the drum kit and pounds away at the skins with his paper towel tubes. ( He is not aloud to use drum sticks because he tries to poke them in our cats a$$ hole) lol. That and he tries to play my guitars with them as well