desertbluesman Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 Electric, Cream; Sunshine Of Your Love (just the riff in single notes that day)(then a few weeks later, the song with riff/full chords). Acoustic, Animals; House Of the Rising Sun. I learned them both the same day waaaaaaaay back in the day.(maybe 1968 or so) 2 Quote dbm If it sounds good, it is good !! http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=143231&content=music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurricane hugo Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 Remember Stefan Grossman's column in Guitar Player? A couple of songs he featured that year (1979) would've been the first two. I don't remember their names. 2 Quote http://blip.fm/invite/WorkRelease Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RABid Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 Acoustic - Stairway to Heaven. Had the piano music and picked it out. Electric - Probably something from Lynyrd Skynyrd. In my first band I played second lead and 6 of our first 11 songs were Lynyrd. 4 Quote This post edited for speling. My Sweetwater Gear Exchange Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larryz Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 It's a tossup between Honky Tonk and That's Alright Mama for me...😎👍 I like to recommend Jambalaya to any new guitar players out there. Just two chords (C & G) to learn, along with the lyrics, and away you go! 🤠 2 Quote Take care, Larryz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan May Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 One of the first songs I ever taught myself to play was probably a Paul Simon or Billy Joel song. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfergirl Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 Little Room by Norah Jones. 3 Quote Jennifer S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Docbop Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 Pipeline - The Chantays my guitar teacher was in a Surf band so first stuff was all Surf tunes. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkman Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 Happy Birthday To You. Sorry if I disappointed anyone, but I'm just being honest. 4 Quote I rock; therefore, I am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderton Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 Greensleeves. The reason I learned guitar was because I wanted to be able to play Greensleeves any time I wanted. I realize that's kind of weird. 6 Quote Craig Anderton Educational site: http://www.craiganderton.org Music: http://www.youtube.com/thecraiganderton Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/craig_anderton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurricane hugo Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 20 hours ago, Anderton said: Greensleeves. The reason I learned guitar was because I wanted to be able to play Greensleeves any time I wanted. I realize that's kind of weird. If I didn't learn that on day one, it was at most a couple of days later. Had the Frederick Noad classical guitar book, and it was in there. Glad I'd been playing trumpet for 6 years at that point so I could read music. Still love it. 3 Quote http://blip.fm/invite/WorkRelease Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KTSs Posted July 15, 2023 Share Posted July 15, 2023 California Motel !!! It's one of those tunes that I can sink my teeth into in contemporary times, and that's what I learned to play guitar for at the time. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksoper Posted July 15, 2023 Share Posted July 15, 2023 Bad Moon Rising 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CEB Posted July 15, 2023 Share Posted July 15, 2023 Not sure but it was probably a Johnny Cash song. Pipeline was my first big instrumental song. Damn, I’m old. 3 Quote "It doesn't have to be difficult to be cool" - Mitch Towne "A great musician can bring tears to your eyes!!! So can a auto Mechanic." - Stokes Hunt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Fraser Posted July 15, 2023 Share Posted July 15, 2023 The Last Time. I think it was on the first or second Stones album. Would have been around 1965. 4 Quote Scott Fraser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BMD Posted July 15, 2023 Share Posted July 15, 2023 One of my own, probably. I was never that interested in playing other people's stuff 3 Quote Some songs I've written - https://www.soundclick.com/randomguy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p90jr Posted July 16, 2023 Share Posted July 16, 2023 I found the complete Beatles Songbook at the Library, and my pianist Mother had these "Biggest Hits of (insert Year)" songbooks she would play through, and those all had the first position chords notated (along with fingering diagrams!) and that was the first stuff outside of the Mel Bay books I played along with... and I started to realize there were "formulas" for songs and chord progressions and my brain started to file them together in groups... but none of it sounded "right!" I could tell it wasn't what they were actually playing on the records, though it was close enough to sing along and resemble the song. Anyway, impressed enough that I could sit with the radio with the Global cheesegrater action acoustic that was around the house and crudely strum along in the right key (in first-position chords) with any song that came on, my dad (a music teacher and saxophonist) came home one day with a Memphis Les Paul Custom copy and a Holmes Minipicker 12 amp. I had played trumpet for a few years and could play by ear so soloing actually came easy once I had that thing... I knew scales, and this was easier having a visual connection than trumpet. Still... I couldn't understand what was going on with chords on records? I guess I had a monophonic brain... I could pick out the progressions but I was stuck in first-position chord land, which seems weird, right? Around that same time I got drafted by some classmates to sing in their garage (er, one of their dad's painting and art studio) band, and I noticed the guitarists (who were taking lessons from a local hotshot who owned a guitar store) were playing barre chords, and my brain connected "oh, wow... that's just an E shape but his first finger is the nut moving up and down the fretboard!!!" And the secrets of the universe were revealed and I probably did not sleep for 4 months and played constantly, playing along with records, the radio, whatever music turned up on TV... separating out the different parts, even playing along with basslines on the guitar to understand what that was all about. I was 12 so I had the luxury of no distractions other than the pool or whatever neighbor kids I felt like bothering with... unplugged guitar and TV were a good combination. When school rolled back around I had major Social Capital from being able to play Pat Benatar songs, Cars songs, the entire "Back In Black" record note for note, play enough of "Eruption" to impress kids before the tapping part that I couldn't figure out yet came up... the first Rock songs I remember getting down completely are "More Than A Feeling" by Boston, "My Sharona" by The Knack, and "I Want To Hold Your Hand," which I immediately recognized Ric Ocasek had brilliantly re-written as The Cars' "Just What I Needed," which I got down next... forgive me if I've shared all this before... I drop in on a lot of boards and can't remember when I'm repeating myself... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitefang Posted July 20, 2023 Share Posted July 20, 2023 Seems I replied to a thread like this some years back, but seemingly not all that long ago. So here goes again. The first song I learned to play when my step sister started showing me around the fret board was Duane Eddy's "Rebel Rouser". Then she showed me "Wildwood Flower". But the first "song" I learned to play from start to finish and sing along to was Hank William's "Move It On Over" from an old Hank Williams 78 she had. Sometime in the near mid '60's. Whitefang 2 Quote I started out with NOTHING...and I still have most of it left! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnotherScott Posted July 20, 2023 Share Posted July 20, 2023 I think it was Heart of Gold (Neil Young). 2 Quote Maybe this is the best place for a shameless plug! Our now not-so-new new video at https://youtu.be/3ZRC3b4p4EI is a 40 minute adaptation of T. S. Eliot's "Prufrock" - check it out! And hopefully I'll have something new here this year. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzpiano88 Posted July 20, 2023 Share Posted July 20, 2023 Camptown Races. 2 1 Quote J a z z P i a n o 8 8 -- Yamaha C7D Montage M8x | CP300 | CP4 | SK1-73 | OB6 | Seven K8.2 | 3300 | CPSv.3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Bryce Posted July 20, 2023 Share Posted July 20, 2023 Nights In White Satin. dB 3 Quote ==> David Bryce Music • Funky Young Monks <== Professional Affiliations: Royer Labs • Music Player Network Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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