what was your very first song? [Archive] - GuitarsCanada.com

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07-10-2007, 09:53 PM

simescan

07-10-2007, 09:54 PM

Showing my age here but it was the theme song for the t.v. series "Peter Gun".

Soupbone

07-11-2007, 01:18 AM

Eruption, off Moving Waves ...by Focus(Jan Akkerman)I still wind it up once and a while...with joy.

Mooh

07-11-2007, 05:22 AM

Old fart here...Greensleeves melody and House Of The Rising Sun with arpeggios. Seems like a thousand years ago...oh yeah, it WAS a thousand years ago!

Peace, Mooh.

Tarl

07-11-2007, 07:03 AM

Old fart here...Greensleeves melody and House Of The Rising Sun with arpeggios. Seems like a thousand years ago...oh yeah, it WAS a thousand years ago!

Peace, Mooh.

House of the Rising Sun here to. First "real" song I could play and change chords smoothly on.......the arpeggios were somethin i was really proud of!

Starbuck

07-11-2007, 08:47 AM

Wish You Were here.. I Still love that one and Wonderwall!

Starbuck

07-11-2007, 09:27 AM

YOU - DON'T - WANT - TO - KNOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh I SO want to know! It's ok if it's lame, we've all been there!

Ripper

07-11-2007, 10:14 AM

Mine was Frankie and Johnny (I was 5).

offkey_

07-11-2007, 10:40 AM

The first whole song, start to finish note for note-ish would have been livin' lovin maid.

Before that I learned the main parts of 'Living after Midnight', 'Breaking the Law' and 'Love Bites'. Lots of little riffs from Iron Maiden songs in there as well.

The next full song would have been Black Dog as I took guitar lessons at Ken Davidson's Music in Bedford NS, and that was the song the teacher taught us.

WOW.................. I learned almost the same tunes as you! Living after Midnight was the first song I learned the solo in. Not much of a solo, but still my first. I think I was 14 or so years old.

Hamm Guitars

07-11-2007, 10:49 AM

WOW.................. I learned almost the same tunes as you! Living after Midnight was the first song I learned the solo in. Not much of a solo, but still my first. I think I was 14 or so years old.

I was 13 or 14 myself when I started learning to play. I'm 37 now, so we are probably from the same era?

Robboman

07-11-2007, 10:57 AM

"Mother do you think they'll drop the bomb..."

Pink Floyd. My Dad showed me G, C and D chords which I immediately applied on that song.. gets you about half way through, then you need to learn F.

adamthemute

07-11-2007, 12:40 PM

Besides stuff like "Mary Had a Little Lamb', I used to figure out some simplier music I was into at the time. Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, stuff like that.

ENDITOL

07-11-2007, 12:45 PM

Obituary - The End Complete :rockon2:

auger

07-11-2007, 10:44 PM

hey ..
add another person to the" house of the rising sun"...era.....lol

Auger

Jeff Flowerday

07-12-2007, 12:15 AM

Besides Aura Lee...

Rock you like a Hurricane though I can't quite remember for sure. Maybe Panama or You shook me.

Stratin2traynor

07-12-2007, 12:35 AM

Wanted Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi (minus solo)
Closer To The Heart - Rush

laristotle

07-12-2007, 06:43 AM

I too was 'House of the Rising Sun'.
Also 'Proud Mary'. 'Smoke on the Water'
when I got an electric.

Paul

07-12-2007, 08:22 AM

Honky Tonk Women.

GuitarsCanada

07-12-2007, 09:17 AM

Mine was "Still Got The Blues" from Gary Moore.

gpower

07-12-2007, 12:02 PM

House of the Rising Sun.

fretboard

07-12-2007, 01:56 PM

Hey Hey, My My by Neil Young was the first thing I learned when I started lessons back in the mid 80's...

Lester B. Flat

07-12-2007, 02:40 PM

The first song I learned on guitar was Revelie. You know, the military-get the hell out of bed-bugle thing. I only had to fret one note and I didn't know any chords yet. I performed it in front of my grade 5 class.

stratovani

07-12-2007, 09:16 PM

When I first started playing I was into The Beatles, so my first song was probably something simple with just a few chords and easy lyrics to sing. So it was probably Love Me Do or something like that.

I_cant_play

07-12-2007, 11:17 PM

mine was The Animals- House of the Rising Sun

it has more different chords in it than most true beginner songs. it's best to start off with something like Knockin' on Heaven's door which has just like 4 chords in it.

maybeyes

07-13-2007, 09:54 AM

If I remember correctly, my first song was Wipe Out by The Surfaris. Then I learned Smoke on the Water followed by Under My Thumb.:food-smiley-004:

All fun songs to play even if they are now played to death. :rockon2:

I hear a lot more people playing Iron Maiden and Metallica hits than those now though. The other day I was in at Steve's Music and there was this kid playing a semi-hollow through one of the amps in the test room and he had that thing cranked. For the fifteen minutes I was there he played the same thing over and over and over. Only one song. Made me glad that I usually bring out several different tunes to test a song and only play a song over again if I plan on testing several guitars. Kinda felt sorry for some of the employees who were visibly cringing as this youngster played on and on. I certainly hope I didn't sound like that in my formative years. Even when I wasn't that good (not saying I am great now) I usually had 3-5 songs to test a guitar and didn't spend more than 15 minutes on a guitar test.:rockon:

hammer744

07-13-2007, 10:35 AM

On bass, it would have been New World Man by Rush, and on Guitar, probably Take It Easy by The Eagles...

felenoral

07-20-2007, 09:44 AM

Requiem by Due le Quartz. Although, I only really learned the intro to that song. Took me ages to learn, I remember that much. I dived right into the fingerpicking dealie from the start.

I think after that was I've Got a Feeling by The Beatles. That was the FIRST FULL song.

Robert1950

07-21-2007, 09:52 AM

YOU - DON'T - WANT - TO - KNOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh I SO want to know! It's ok if it's lame, we've all been there!

Yes,.. it was very lame. Let's just say the lead singer for the was, ... (turning red),... Peter Noone.

bluecoyote

07-21-2007, 10:28 AM

It was "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen, I think!

Wow, that takes me back to the time I saw them live at Danceland in Riding Mountain National Park in the 60s!

aC2rs

07-21-2007, 07:44 PM

The first complete song I learned was House Of The Rising Sun

Robert1950

07-21-2007, 08:18 PM

The first complete song I learned was House Of The Rising Sun

At least that was one of my first ten songs.

Lowtones

07-21-2007, 10:31 PM

It was either Bad moon Rising or This land is your land. Not quite sure as it's been a while.

NewGuitarGuru

07-27-2007, 09:46 PM

The first song I ever learned was Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd. I loved it, and practiced those chords over and over.

Schluppy

07-29-2007, 09:35 PM

"Fight For Your Right" was my very first. I was playing air guitar and stumbled upon the magical "power chord" which, of course, you could move around and play almost anything a 12 year old would care to play.

Taking lessons, the first song I learned was "Beat It".

GuitaristZ

07-30-2007, 12:41 PM

I first learned "oh to joy" or whatever. I think its Bach or something haha...

offkey_

07-30-2007, 12:42 PM

I was 13 or 14 myself when I started learning to play. I'm 37 now, so we are probably from the same era?

Yup.....36 and counting!

bluecoyote

07-30-2007, 01:39 PM

I first learned "oh to joy" or whatever. I think its Bach or something haha...

Bach, Humbug! You mean "Ode to Joy", eh? "To Joy" (An die Freude in German, in English often familiarly called the Ode to Joy rather than To Joy) is an ode written in 1785 by the German poet and historian Friedrich Schiller, known especially for its musical setting by Ludwig van Beethoven in the fourth and final movement of his Ninth Symphony (completed in 1824), for four solo voices, chorus, and orchestra.

Check this out! ..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqgLxfjJK6k

GuitaristZ

07-30-2007, 03:07 PM

wow...that was pretty freaky....
Im partly German so I should of known that hahah!

sgiven

08-02-2007, 03:27 PM

The first song I could play from beginning to end was "Rumble" by Link Wray

No, I'm not that old. I was born about twenty years after that song was released, but its a cool sounding song and very easy to learn.

I also learned "Wish You Were Here" and "Wild Thing" early on.

Honky Tonk Women.

That's one I'd like to learn, even just the riffs. Maybe later when it's not so hot.

Ti-Ron

08-03-2007, 07:21 AM

The first song I learn was Come as you are by Nirvana! I think my dad remember it too! :P I had the tabs from a friend who had internet and it takes me many time to figure everything. I know it's a very simple song but I was alone and nobody in my familly playing the music so I learn it by myself. The next one was Sweet Dream by Marylin Manson! I still play that song when I'm jamming around! ;)

esp_dsp

08-03-2007, 02:22 PM

i think my first riff was smoke on the water but the first full song i learned was smells like teen spirit first solo too.. if you can really call it a solo :banana:

notme

08-09-2007, 04:54 AM

I made a friend play "Give a little bit" and "Needle and damage done" over and over so many times that he said he would teach me if I wanted.
I set out to learn the closing riff of "Give a little bit" and got hooked on playing.
I use to stop him on his way home from school and tape him (cheap portable cassette player) playing a few songs, then get him to teach me those songs.:food-smiley-004:

JWR Guitar

08-09-2007, 08:17 AM

Scarborough Fair by Simon & Garfunkel was not only my first tune but also the first thing I ever learned on guitar. My father told me I had to learn the song and everything else in some book on my own and if I could get through it all he would pay for guitar lessons. Man I worked my butt off to get through all that, I wonder what I'd be doing now if I hadn't worked on all that stuff...

zinga

08-09-2007, 02:43 PM

iron man, sweet leaf and do'nt laugh now tom doley[ hang down your head]all note for note lol.:rockon2:

oldcountry310

08-10-2007, 06:40 AM

:zzz:The Carter family....Wildwood Flower( God I'm getting old)

AJ6stringsting

10-04-2007, 10:09 PM

Ride my Seesaw by the Moody and S.A.T.O. by Randy Rhoads / Ozzy.:wave:

Fajah

10-05-2007, 06:02 AM

Eight Days A Week - The Beatles

Lou Cipher

10-06-2007, 02:49 PM

Old fart here...Greensleeves melody

that's pretty bad. that was one of the first songs that I learned to play on the accordian when i was a kid. :smile:

my first guitar song was "The Last Day On Earth" (live acoustic version), Marilyn Manson. From there, a lot of songs off of Abbey Road, and I haven't stopped since. :rockon2:

hendrix

10-06-2007, 05:44 PM

Mine was a horse with no name I learned it in my grade 8 music class we played the recorder and at the end of the year are teacher lets us play the guitars and taughts us all a horse with no name .

Gilliangirl

10-06-2007, 06:31 PM

Ride my Seesaw by the Moody and S.A.T.O. by Randy Rhoads / Ozzy.:wave:

Regarding Ride My SeeSaw.... can you play the guitar solo bit in the middle? That has to be my favourite piece of guitar work of all time. I should sit down and figure it out someday.

My first song was For Baby For Bobby by John Denver, a looooooonnnnng time ago.:smile:

Mr. David Severson

10-07-2007, 08:33 AM

My first song was Purple Haze and I was hooked foreversdsre

Beatles

10-07-2007, 10:14 AM

The first song that I can ever remember playing was ..... are you ready?.....
Puff the Magic Dragon ROTFLMAO. The first song that somone tried to teach me was either House of the Rising Sun, or was it Don't Bring me Down by the Animals. The first song I ever played with a band was Please Please Me by the Beatles. Cripes I'm old.

bcmatt

10-18-2007, 02:59 PM

I started playing bass first but I was learning with my friend so I tried these songs on guitar too.

Unforgiven - Metallica (intro)
GSF - MxPx (we could actually do the whole song!)
Everybody Hurts - REM (probably just the intro cus we stop when the singing gets too hard)
Canon in D - Pachelbell (just the chord progression - D A Bm F# G D G A)
Hmm...what a rather random list....

bcmatt

10-18-2007, 03:07 PM

Actually, this takes me back. This was the reason he brought the Traynor and Yorkville over to my parents' house. We used it as a bass amp and he wanted me to accompany him while he played guitar. That's how it started. Now I know it's a pretty nice guitar amp and I still have it 10 years later. Sorry Mike, I really don't want to give it back...but let me know if you need it....heheh, I'll have to charge you a storage fee and get you to reimburse me for getting it repaired and serviced for you...do you still want it back? Please say no.
See! I tried to get it back to him! This is a public board.
He refused to take it last time I asked him 5 years ago.

david henman

10-19-2007, 07:49 AM

:zzz:The Carter family....Wildwood Flower( God I'm getting old)

...i think that is the first song i learned, as well. or, it could have been "my bonnie", or "red river valley".

i took lessons when i was twelve and living just outside halifax (timberlea).

i hated the lessons so much i quit and hid the guitar in a closet.

then surf music came a long....

-dh

Scottone

10-19-2007, 07:59 AM

House of the Rising Sun here to. First "real" song I could play and change chords smoothly on.......the arpeggios were somethin i was really proud of!

That was my first one too....quickly followed up by a couple of Neil Young tunes.

In hindsite, that was a pretty tricky one to start with since it had an F chord.

fingers

10-19-2007, 08:31 AM

Hell's Bell's,House of the riseing sun,and "let it be".That was over 20 years ago and I still play them from tme to time,incorrectly of course!:)

CobaltBlue72

10-21-2007, 11:46 AM

hmmm and I thought Smoke on the water, was everybodies first lol. well the riff, and it probably was the first full song I learned anyway, solo is fairly easy.

Coustfan'01

10-21-2007, 06:27 PM

Bro Hymn by pennywise . I played it on the low E for at least a week before even trying to do power chords . I then learned some parts of ironman , eye of the tiger , milk and metalstorm .

Renvas

10-21-2007, 06:29 PM

........ everyone plays such pro songs.... i played ode to joy as my first song :eek:

shad

10-22-2007, 10:51 AM

It was so long ago that I can't remember for sure, but it might have been a Duane Eddy song (they were so easy to learn), probably Rebel Rouser. I also remember playing the Peter Gunn Theme and the Third Man Theme endlessly, and of course, Walk Don't Run.

NB-SK

10-22-2007, 06:09 PM

When I started (I was 6 years old), a Chopin guitar arrangement. Since I started again after not having played for a long time: a very simplified version of John Lee Hooker's Boom Boom and Neil Young's Hey Hey My My.

al3d

10-23-2007, 07:44 AM

wow..it was 2 songs we, as me and my fiend were trying to learn at the same time...EXTREMELY hard to learn in the day..:)

BREAKING THE LAW, that's judas priest for the kiddies, and SMOKE ON THE WATER, deep purple, not to confuse with Purple rain..:rockon2:

skydigger

10-23-2007, 07:14 PM

Limelight by Rush was the first real song I took to.

Boston's More Than a Feeling came around the same time.

zontar

10-26-2007, 12:00 AM

I don't remember the first song I learned--but I do rremember the first one I figured out on my own--
Smoke on the Water.

millenium_03

10-26-2007, 11:56 AM

My very first song was " Stand by me" john lennon... very easy chord. The strumming pattern is easy to get.

Fingerpicking very first song was "Dust in the Wind" Kansas

zontar

10-27-2007, 05:28 PM

Check this out! ..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqgLxfjJK6k

Not bad--but I prefer Ritchie Blackmore's version--known as "Difficult to Cure"-
He does some bluesy stuff first on this video-the first hint of Beethoven comes just over 3 minutes in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKf7oYywdS8

This may have been on the same tour I saw him on--but maybe not.

michaelferris

10-28-2007, 09:27 AM

I am actually a classical guitarist, but I have to say, my very first song was American Pie. It is composed of about just about every basic chord and is a lot of fun to play, especially for a beginner.

Dude5152

10-28-2007, 07:39 PM

Mama Im Comin' Home- Ozzy Osbourne, Haven't forgotten any part of it

noobcake

10-28-2007, 08:25 PM

Iron Man!!! Hahaha and what a great first song! I've played it and heard it over a thousand times, but it's such a classic, it never gets old :smile:

noobcake

10-28-2007, 08:26 PM

Sorry, just checking if my sig works...

noobcake

10-28-2007, 08:30 PM

Argh the 19.5 kb limit is too low... the limit should be increased to atleast 75 kbs...oh wellsdsre

acdc54_caddy62

10-28-2007, 10:46 PM

House of the rising sun here too! I played it for an hour straight the night I learn it. awesome song!

:smilie_flagge17:

sysexguy

10-29-2007, 08:36 AM

Mine had a pesky F chord too :mad:

"It Don't Come Easy" (George Harrison) come to think of it, it's got the sweep picking arpeggios so I guess it was a good start. I recently ran into my first teacher in the parking lot behind Steve's......a great man, I said thanks.

Andy

Warren

10-31-2007, 11:56 AM

Fly by Night, then I played it for 2 months straight on probably >100 guitars at 10 different Music Stores. A couple posted my picture with a big X through it and wouldn't let me try anything else until I learned another. I think #2 was Great White Buffalo, but mostly just the guitar over the head/feedback sections.

Roidster

11-07-2007, 08:53 PM

first lick= pretty woman VH version.....on my buddies guitar,the beginning of the quest to pester the crap out of my parents to get a guitar.....with a lot of NO'S
comming from them,my grand mother told my mom "to quit being stupid and get him a guitar''
i belted out riffs on a untune guitar for about a year,until i finally
took lessons in grade 12

first song=walk all over you AC/DC

just

11-08-2007, 10:30 PM

more than words - xtreme

Davo

11-22-2007, 01:49 AM

Friend of a Friend by Foo Fighters... one chord shape that just moves around alot.

Korsko

12-15-2007, 12:15 AM

Either 3AM by Matchbox Twenty, or Sweet Home Alabama. Not particularly well, mind you... but... hey, we all used our thumb to push down frets. Right? :frown:

gramatica

12-15-2007, 11:19 AM

Train Kept a' Rolling

Which I found out later was actually The Yardbirds.

Anyroad, a fantastic first song to learn!

Milkman

12-15-2007, 11:33 AM

Country Roads by John Denver! :eek:

I'll be damned. That was one of the first I can remember learning if not THE first. I played for a year or more before actually learning a complete song.

laristotle

12-16-2007, 05:12 AM

:zzz:The Carter family....Wildwood Flower( God I'm getting old)

I like Jim Stafford's version.

Korsko

12-18-2007, 08:02 AM

Eruption, off Moving Waves ...by Focus(Jan Akkerman)I still wind it up once and a while...with joy.

Haha, looked quickly and I thought Eruption by EVH. Haha.

Intonator

12-19-2007, 07:02 PM

Hello

The first song that I learned to play was Ghostriders in the Sky ..written by Stan Jones

The early version I played was by the Ventures.
I would have to thank my first guitar teacher Sig for that one:smile:

Here is a link to some great versions of this song

http://www.secretspain.org/ghostriders.html

:food-smiley-004: