what was the first PJ song you could play from start to finish?

dunkman
dunkman Posts: 19,646
edited March 2006 in Musicians and Gearheads
mines was "Long Road" but just last night I did the whole of "Thin Air" from beginning to end including the small "dun de de dun dun... dun dun de dun dun...etc" part of the song (the one that gets fucked up on Benaroya Hall CD..


that made me super pleased with myself as i've only been playing for a few months (7 or 8) and have learned loads of stuff (mainly riff-wise, chords, etc)lately but that was the song from start to end in time with the original... i'm delighted :)


i dont know if Long Road should count as it genuinely is that easy, but it would be nice to hear from some of the more seasoned musicians on here what was their first PJ song they learned or the first solo they picked off..

Cheers
Dunk
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.
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  • enharmonic
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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    enharmonic wrote:
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    i can do the intro for about 11secs then i fuck it up... how he manages to sing and do it at the same time??
    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.
  • moster78
    moster78 Posts: 1,591
    enharmonic wrote:
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    I find RVM to be like a frickin endurance trial. My arm is killing me by the time I get through to the end, after the mini jam. And then, if you're not soloing, you can't stop as you have to hit the hell out of those chords!

    I probably learned Elderly Woman all the way through first, and just learned Long Road. Don't know why I waited so long on that one, I probably remembered it, and how easy it was after hearing it on Scrubs last week!
  • one way needle
    one way needle Posts: 196
    umm, Alive... minus the solo
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  • chris01
    chris01 Posts: 559
    Mine was Alive minus the solo too. For full song it was Elderly Woman, cause its easy, for full song with solo, RVM too.
  • guertin32
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  • lolman
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    Alive on drums

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  • SomethingCreative
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    corduroy...
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  • Lost_Clay
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  • Corey112
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    Frist song for me was Alive
  • harrisonmerwin
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    black with just open chords....then black again once i was better, first mccready bti i learned was yellow ledbetter

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  • haggard_jamfan
    haggard_jamfan Posts: 20
    not for you was the 1st for me, mainly cause it's 1 chord! off he goes has to be my fave to play now, tho
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  • pjfan020
    pjfan020 Posts: 426
    I think cordouroy was the first song. I'd play some little riff for the solo part. The first song I really wanted to learn was Yellow Ledbetter. That was tough at the time.
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