What Was The First Song You Learned BY EAR?!

HailHailVitalogy
HailHailVitalogy Posts: 6,020
edited October 2005 in Musicians and Gearheads
What was the first song that you learned to do, by listening to the song and not going through tabs or books and just sat down and listened and tried to play it.

Mine was Custard Pie by Zeppelin
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  • charlotte28
    charlotte28 Posts: 56
    I learn pretty much everything guitar by ear, but I'd have to say my first was either Nothing Else Matters by Metallica or Sweet Child of Mine by Guns N' Roses, ha, ha...still fun to play!
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  • sustainedia
    sustainedia Posts: 112
    theme from 90210
  • thunder_balls
    thunder_balls Posts: 117
    I learned the drum part to Jamie's Cryin' by Van Halen a while back..
    7/10/06
  • U-R
    U-R Posts: 223
    the first (very) basic riff that my hands just knew what to do by my hearing the cd was come as you are. probably the first really great song i taught myself was tool's pushit
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  • MetalGod75
    MetalGod75 Posts: 262
    prob something by acdc or iron maiden
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  • StuffnJunk
    StuffnJunk Posts: 897
    i think it was the intro to "redemption song" by bob marley
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Interstellar Overdrive.
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,389
    Free to Be You and Me (Every father's daugher every mother's son . . . ) Or "Help" by the Beatles.
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  • NoLongerOverwhelmed
    NoLongerOverwhelmed Posts: 82
    I think it was "A Strange Kind of Love" by Peter Murphy...
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  • Thumbing My Way
    Thumbing My Way Posts: 1,073
    Blister in the Sun and ....???? ummm the theme from the O.C. ...i don't even watch the show i was just fiddling around when it was on once!!
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  • GummiBeer
    GummiBeer Newfoundland Canada Posts: 189
    Well i play drums and the first i learned by ear was Paradise City by g'n'r and one by metallica...then everything pearl jam, nirvana mudhoney, stp...and so on
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  • Ladymelonhead
    Ladymelonhead Posts: 113
    i was listening to the radio a few years ago and ( i am ashamed to say this) that celine dion song came on..."because u loved me..." and i was siting at my keyboard and i figured it out. Why did i t have to be that song?.... geeez!
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  • danielheyes
    danielheyes Posts: 362
    Mine was one by metallica! still gets an airing now and again at parties to this day!!
    Shame what happened to them. Im ashamed to say i was into them now....
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  • kigcat
    kigcat Posts: 298
    after 17 of playing how on earth am i meant to remember the first song i worked out when i have enough trouble remembering songs now hahaa. i know the first thing i ever learnt was the main solo melody to layla by derek and the dominoes hahaha

    (i can still remember it just about ;) )
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  • Lost_Clay
    Lost_Clay Posts: 1,085
    i think it was wishlist or maybe 'the end' by the doors (dropped D all open on top 3 strings)
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  • Eddie_Vedder_83
    Eddie_Vedder_83 Posts: 281
    Rearviewmirror intro
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  • Pearl Juli
    Pearl Juli Posts: 1,213
    I've been playing guitar for about 5 months now, so I haven't really mastered the art of getting stuff "by ear", but so far I was able to come up with Heartbreaker by Led Zep and Like a Stone by Audioslave (well just the main riffs though) haha.

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  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    Lake Of Fire - Nirvana (meatpuppets)
    Come on pilgrim you know he loves you..

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  • One Song Glory
    One Song Glory Posts: 710
    I think it was Livin' on a Prayer by Bon Jovi....might have been Black but for some reason I don't think it was.
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