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First Guitar Song You Learned To Play

SpunkieSpunkie Posts: 6,676
edited January 2008 in Musicians and Gearheads
Mine's gonna be "Knocking on Heaven's Door". (Not including childhood playing.) I've got all the chords down, when I get quicker at the fretting I'll learn to pick.

C, G, D and A minor. Pretty simple.
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  • gobrowns19gobrowns19 Posts: 1,447
    Mine was like a combination of Stairway to Heaven, [weird for a very first song, I know] Free Fallin, and Not for You.
    Happiness is only real when shared
  • pjoasisrulepjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    Come As You Are
    Alpine Valley 2000
    Summerfest 2006

    "Why would they come to our concert just to boo us?" -Lisa Simpson
  • mca47mca47 Posts: 13,290
    pjoasisrule wrote:
    Come As You Are

    I think that was mine too.
    After that I'm pretty sure it was Long Road.
  • DriftingByTheStormDriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
    Probably
    Sliver - Nirvana
    Then Corduroy.
    Exponentialy in to the Pearl Jam arena from there
    :D
    If I was to smile and I held out my hand
    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • deadnotedeadnote Posts: 1,678
    mine would haven to be ship
    set your laughter free

    dreamer in my dream

    we got the guns

    i love you,but im..............callin out.........callin out
  • JoahJoah Posts: 18
    Nirvana - Sappy (I learned the entire song, except for the solo).
    My band, Red Stone of Faith (http://www.myspace.com/redstoneoffaith).
  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Come Together - The Beatles
    Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
  • NovawindNovawind Posts: 836
    First actual song... probably Californication.
    If idle hands are the devil's workshop, he must not be very productive.

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    7/10/06 LA 2
    10/21/06 Bridge 1
  • pjtaperpjtaper Posts: 3,020
    It was Immortality I believe... Then In hiding and Who you are.
  • xtremehardy388xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    Something by Nirvana. I actually learned taps but that doesn't really count. It was Come As You Are, the opening to Jeremy, Smells Like Teen Spirit, and the riff from 7 Nation Army. I was in a hotel with(at the time my friends, now mine) mustang and was bored. Little did I know that the guitar would change my life...
    Grand Rapids '04, Detroit '06
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  • exhaustedexhausted Posts: 6,638
    i can't honestly remember. something by nirvana i'm sure. maybe teenage fanclub.

    when i first started playing, i learned from nirvana, teenage fanclub and oasis songs. some matthew sweet too.
  • HushBullHushBull Posts: 996
    When I first got my bass, I learned Gigantic by the Pixies. I felt like a genius at 12 or so figuring it out by myself... XD
    "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro"
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    Long Road and Not For You :)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • GardenpartyGardenparty Posts: 1,910
    Ahh the memories!!

    Mollys Lips - Nirvana
    “I know this song so well, I can smoke a cigarette, have a drink, brush my teeth, take a shit, and mow the lawn while singing it. But I'll only be doing a couple of those things during this version.”
  • Stone Is GodStone Is God Posts: 1,331
    Pearl Jam-Sometimes
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me.
  • SomethingCreativeSomethingCreative Posts: 3,375
    corduroy...best beginer song ever.
    "Well, I think this band is incapable of sucking."
    -my dad after hearing Not for You for the first time on SNL .
  • WindNoSailWindNoSail Posts: 580
    Betterman
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  • PaukPauk Posts: 1,084
    I remember my first few lessons were:
    Monkeywrench - Foo Fighters (No idea why this was the first song considering how fast it is)
    Californication - RHCP
    Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana


    The first song I was taught that I could get perfectly right all the way through was Everlong by Foos.
    Paul
    '06 - London, Dublin, Reading
    '07 - Katowice, Wembley, Dusseldorf, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
    '09 - London, Manchester, London
    '12 - Manchester, Manchester, Berlin, Stockholm, Copenhagen
  • mike squiresmike squires Posts: 27
    Unfortunately Every Rose Has It's Thorn
  • moster78moster78 Posts: 1,591
    Elderly Woman
    Take A Picture by Filter
    Hear You Me by jimmy Eat World
  • Dogman3Dogman3 Posts: 330
    It was either:

    The Beatles - Elenor Rigby
    Nirvana - Come As You Are
    Led Zep - Stairway to Heaven
  • Hitch-HikerHitch-Hiker Posts: 2,873
    First song I ever learned to play was Why Does it Always Rain on Me by Travis.
    I'll Ride The Wave Where It Takes Me
  • StuffnJunkStuffnJunk Posts: 896
    Jingle Bells - reading music (gave up on that a LONG time ago!!!) from a mel bay book

    About a Girl - i remember strumming the Em G intro and my classmate saying it sounded nothing like the song.....i've come a long way!

    was thinking today i've been playing for 13 years now.....i probably should be a lot better than i am!
    "I'll tell you what: If all I had was Pearl Jam, and I didn't have another band in the world, I would not be worried. Because in there is the essence of making great music. You don't have to use it all at once, but it's there." - Neil Young
  • MLC2006MLC2006 Posts: 861
    tish and pjoasisrule, the people that taught us to play must've went to the same guitar teaching school because "Knockin on Heaven's Door" and "Come As You Are" were the first 2 songs I learned. soon followed by "Teen Spirit", the 12 bar blues, and "Is There Anybody Out There".
  • boxwine_in_hellboxwine_in_hell Posts: 1,263
    Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple

    Isn't that the first song everyone learns?
    one foot in the door
    the other foot in the gutter
    sweet smell that they adore
    I think I'd rather smother
    -The Replacements-
  • MLC2006MLC2006 Posts: 861
    StuffnJunk wrote:
    was thinking today i've been playing for 13 years now.....i probably should be a lot better than i am!

    you and me both. I've been playing about 13 years now too. it's wierd that the "new" bands that I started out learning are now considered "classic rock". I should be a LOT better than I am now.
  • JoahJoah Posts: 18
    StuffnJunk wrote:
    About a Girl - i remember strumming the Em G intro and my classmate saying it sounded nothing like the song.....i've come a long way!

    It's E major. :D
    My band, Red Stone of Faith (http://www.myspace.com/redstoneoffaith).
  • SteveMurraySteveMurray Posts: 66
    i think mine was either Tomorrow by Silverchair or About a Girl by Nirvana
  • GardenpartyGardenparty Posts: 1,910
    Joah wrote:
    It's E major. :D

    I'm going with Stuffnjunk here.

    Why don't we just call it an E5 then we can all get along:)
    “I know this song so well, I can smoke a cigarette, have a drink, brush my teeth, take a shit, and mow the lawn while singing it. But I'll only be doing a couple of those things during this version.”
  • Jam10Jam10 Posts: 654
    Keep On Rockin In The Free World!
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