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satansbedbugssatansbedbugs Posts: 2,412
edited December 2006 in Musicians and Gearheads
What was the first riff or song that you first learned on the acoustic or electric? Everyone who plays remembers that one. No matter how good or bad you sound . Everyone got it? Good ill start it off...

Come as you are- Nirvana , and were off.......
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  • exhaustedexhausted Posts: 6,638
    something nirvana i'm sure. i couldn't pinpoint the song though.
  • goldstargoldstar Posts: 256
    the animals - house of the rising sun
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  • hendrix78hendrix78 Posts: 507
    first riff = Satisfaction by the Stones. Other riffs I learned right after I first got my guitar included Come As You Are and Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana, Black Dog by Led Zeppelin (took a while to get that one up to speed, though), and Day Tripper by the Beatles.

    First complete song = Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd and Norwegian Wood by the Beatles. I learned them on the same day. Actually, now that I think about it, I might have learned Knockin on Heaven's Door before those.
  • moster78moster78 Posts: 1,591
    The first thing I learned in a lesson was a two octave C major scale, and the opening chord progression to Elderly Woman.
  • satansbedbugssatansbedbugs Posts: 2,412
    moster78 wrote:
    The first thing I learned in a lesson was a two octave C major scale, and the opening chord progression to Elderly Woman.


    Im learning that song right now. elderly woman is easy, but getting the strum down is the hard part. sbb
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  • HailHailVitalogyHailHailVitalogy Posts: 5,135
    Riff: Rearview Mirror intro
    Full Song: Smells Like Teen Spirit
    2003: Uniondale, MSG x2 | 2004: Reading | 2005: Gorge, Vancouver, Philly | 2006: East Rutherford x2, Gorge x2, Camden 1, Hartford | 2008: MSG x2, VA Beach | 2009: Philly x3 | 2010: MSG x2, Bristow | 2011: Alpine Valley x2 | 2012: MIA Philly | 2013: Wrigley, Charlottesville, Brooklyn 2 | 2014: Milan, Amsterdam 1 | 2016: MSG x2, Fenway x2, Wrigley 2 | 2018: Rome, Krakow, Berlin, Wrigley 2 | 2021: Sea Hear Now | 2022: San Diego, LA x2, MSG, Camden, Nashville, St. Louis, Denver | 2023: St. Paul 1, Chicago x2, Fort Worth x2, Austin 2 | 2024: Las Vegas 1, Seattle x2, Indy, MSG x2, Philly x2, Baltimore
  • senninsennin Posts: 2,146
    Corduroy intro
  • YeahThatRocks.comYeahThatRocks.com Posts: 117
    Paint It Black.
    Leave your lady on the cement floor.

    "You boo us, you call us pussies, and still we come back." EV NJ1 2006

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  • He_Who_ForgetsHe_Who_Forgets Posts: 200
    Horse With No Name- America
    me you wouldn't recall, cause i'm not my former.
  • dimitriherremandimitriherreman Posts: 115
    first 2 songs : Pearl Jam - Last Kiss
    Neil Young - Keep on rocking in the free world
  • DOSWDOSW Posts: 2,014
    Pearl Jam - Lukin. Took me a looooong time to consistently play that. It was also my first full song.
    It's a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win
  • xtremehardy388xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    He_Who_Forgets wrote:
    Horse With No Name- America

    I LOVE that song! Anyway, my first song was the National Anthem. First full song though was Come As You Are and the first riff was Breed
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  • BlackCorduroyBlackCorduroy Posts: 1,374
    Last Kiss
  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Come Together - The Beatles
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  • seanw1010seanw1010 Posts: 1,205
    very first riff:
    back in black

    very first full song:
    purple haze(i was so proud when i finished it)
    they call them fingers, but i never see them fing. oh, there they go
  • MichaelMcKevinMichaelMcKevin Posts: 1,161
    Come As You Are
    Camden I '06, Camden II '06, Bonnaroo '08, Camden I '08, Camden II '08, Philly Spectrum II/III/IV '09, MSG I '10, MSG II '10, Made In America '12, Wrigley '13, Brooklyn II '13, Philly I '13, Philly II '13, ...
  • ledhed43ledhed43 Posts: 114
    people are strange-the doors

    followed shortly by wish you were here, house of the rising sun, and the ocean. the ocean is the only one i remember how to play. i wore the others out.
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  • enharmonicenharmonic Posts: 1,917
    When I was 8 years old, I learned Jessie's Girl by Rick Springfield.
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  • grendelgrendel Posts: 14
    first song: kiss calling dr love
    open the fridge...now i know what life is worth
  • PearlJamaholicPearlJamaholic Posts: 2,018
    first riff was sweet dreams by marilyn manson
    http://db.etree.org/PearlJamaholic
  • swans05swans05 Posts: 108
    first entire song was either wishlist or elderly woman
  • RhynoRhyno Posts: 304
    MFC and Rearviewmirror
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  • WiLL75WiLL75 Posts: 415
    On acoustic...that's going back to when I was nine. I think it was a song out of Book One of the Ernie Ball "How to Play Guitar" book...one book had blue lettering and one had red, I forget which, but they both had eagles on them. Anyways, it was a song out of that. On electric the first song I learned the whole way through, including the solo, was "Talk Dirty To Me" by Poison.
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  • PJGARDENPJGARDEN Posts: 1,484
    Going to California - It seeems to be taking a really long time.
  • Pearl Jam and toastPearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    About a Girl - Nirvana
    Come on pilgrim you know he loves you..

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  • lucylespianlucylespian Posts: 2,403
    Probably Bob Dylan "Blowin in the Wind", but the one I remember best from back then was 'Vincent" Don McLean, 28 yrs later still have the scabby old typed page and the same guitar.
    Music is not a competetion.
  • justamjustam Posts: 21,408
    At my first recital I played Jingle Bells. I was five. ;)
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  • LauraPJLauraPJ Posts: 1,777
    PJGARDEN wrote:
    Going to California - It seeems to be taking a really long time.
    I'm with my first one as well: Low Light, and yeah... the first one always takes much time :p
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  • xtremehardy388xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    justam wrote:
    At my first recital I played Jingle Bells. I was five. ;)
    NO WAY!! I am trying to learn that right now!!!
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  • satansbedbugssatansbedbugs Posts: 2,412
    LauraPJ wrote:
    I'm with my first one as well: Low Light, and yeah... the first one always takes much time :p


    wow. youre starting hard...lol
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    East Rutherford, New Jersey- 2006
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