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Location: NW of Philadelphia | The very first song? I was 6 for Pete's sake. OK... it was Tom Dooley from an old Mel Bay instruction book... one not at a time. |
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Location: NW of Philadelphia | Thats one NOTE at a time. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | In 1959, there was country, rockabilly, early rock and roll, and do-wop. I didn't know anything about jazz or the blues. I think the very first thing I ever taught myself was Red River Rock by Johnny and the Hurricanes. Not long afterwards, I thought I was on top of the world when I finally mastered the opening lick of Buddy Holly's That'll Be the Day. Another early song was In the Mood which was the type of music my parents listened to. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Little Black Egg and House of the Rising Sun: drove my parents absolutely nuts! |
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Location: NJ | Played bass before I learned guitar, and played drums before that . . .
First song on guitar was probably a Beatles tune . . . "Rain", maybe . . . |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I think it was some classical thing ... can't really remember. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Very first thing I ever played? Red River Valley, cause it's right there. First REAL song was Sweet Baby James. |
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Location: Tampa, FL | ca 1970
Mercedes Benz - JJ
Jug Band Music - JK |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | "Smoke on the Water", followed by the all-too-familiar "Stairway to Heaven" |
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Location: Delaware | "Helpless" by Neil Young. I was a drummer in a band, during breaks I'd have the guitar players teach me some chords. Man that was a long time ago. |
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Location: Agawam MA | My best friend and I decided to learn to play guitar together at 16. We were huge James Taylor fans and picked "Fire and Rain". We were blissfully ignorant and it took us 6 months to make anything that sounded somewhat correct come out of our guitars.
God bless,
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Location: Waurika OK | About 1956, Tom Dooley, on my new Montgomery Wards Airline f-hole acoustic. Like someone else said also spent a whole Sunday afternoon learning the intro to Peter Gunn theme. |
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Location: Michigan | Im So Glad by The Scot Richard Case Band
Gloria by The Shadows Of Night..
GWB |
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Location: Melbourne Fl. | For me it was Kicks by Paul Revere and the Raiders........and The Monkees Daydream Beliver |
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Location: Omaha, NE | I traded a plastic record player for a guitar, complete with the first four books from "Alfred's Basic Guitar Method". This was with a friends older brother who was stepping up to a real guitar. I got the GLO.
So my first song was whatever the one note e-string plinker was on the first page of book 1. |
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Location: NJ | well I guess whatever songs are in the mel bay primer and mel bay one.
volga boatman seems to come to mind.
first pop tune I leard was Wendy by the association and if you ask me late some night when I am in a drunken haze I may even remmeber some of it.
that was the first sheet music I bought |
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Location: Chicago | "Old Joe Clark" "Gloria" |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | " Third man " by Anton Karas , after I`d seen the movie by Orson Wells , that was a million yrs. ago , and I`m still struggling / fiddling with it , fantastic piece.
Vic |
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Location: Georgia | Bad Moon Rising |
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Location: Crossville, TN | I learned to play the Rhythm for Smoke on the Water on an old acoustic that had such high action it could have easily been mistaken for a dobro lol, and after proving I was really interested in playing I got my 1st electric and learned Knockin on Heaven's door live at Ritz by GnR. |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | Ticket to Ride by The Beatles |
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Location: Hong Kong | It was "Today"... |
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| I'm impressed by the fact that you all remember that far back.
I think it was Mr Tambourine Man, but I wouldn't bet on it. |
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| Party Doll (Buddy Knox) |
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Location: Round Rock, TX | House of the Rising Sun and Born on the Bayou were the 1st two. Both impressed the hell out of my friends and confirmed me forever as a guitar player. |
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Location: SoCal | Crawdad song (I was about 7 and it was in a book my mom bought me). Only 3 chords. Hey, it's still in my chordal range...... |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I was either Three Blind Mice , On Top Of Old Smokey, or Clementine. Whatever the first few tunes in Mel Bay's course in the mid 60's.
Other "real" tunes after I started to play were House of the Rising Sun, This Land Is Your Land (with a Hank Williams twist), He Ain't Heavy, Raindrops Fallin on My Head... Ahh yes, the 60's it was a strumming paradise. |
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Location: Slightly northwest of Trader Jim | Don't know, still trying to learn it! :rolleyes: |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | Walk Don't Run. Boy was I bad at 14 years old. |
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Location: Indiana | As I remember, it was either "Pipeline" or "Let's Go" from a "Learn to play with the Ventures" album. Strangely enough it was Vol II. Ther were 4 songs on it. "Let's Go","Pipeline", "Wipe Out" and "Out of Limit". It was actually my brother's labum. He never did learn how to play.
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Location: Midland, MI | Walk Don't Run. |
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| Krusty - you're alive! |
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Location: closely held secret | John! Where ya been? |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Hope everything is well, Crusty! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Little Red Riding Hood by Sam the Sham and House of the Rising Sun. |
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Location: closely held secret | Ahhh-Oooooo! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | :D |
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Location: closely held secret | ...I mean, "Baaaahhh"... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | :cool: :cool:
(I thought it deserved 2!) |
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Location: South of most, North of few | GLOR I A |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | "Sleep Walk" by Santo & Johnny |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Songs? .....E minor..... :rolleyes:
(I started out impressively...and stayed there.)
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Location: San Ramon/Canandaigua | I started out with either What I like about you, Free Fallin' or Mary Jane's Last Dance... they were all within about a week. |
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Location: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida | Scarborough Fair, arranged by Russ Shipton, in "The Complete Guitar Player Songbook" Great song book with 180 songs from 60's and 70's !!! Anyone else use this song book ???
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Originally posted by Abendicum:
Scarborough Fair, arranged by Russ Shipton, in "The Complete Guitar Player Songbook" Great song book with 180 songs from 60's and 70's !!! Anyone else use this song book ???
Ab I've used that book, but the best version of that song was in a book called "The Guitar styles of Simon & Garfunkel". Unfortunately I have lent that and it never came back. Anyone have a copy they'd be willing to sell (or make a copy of)? |
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What's the first ever song you learned on the guitar?