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Joined: January 2009 Posts: 4535
Location: Flahdaw | I was watching American Idol last week, and Haley sang the first song I ever learned on guitar. I thought it was gonna be a bomb, but she KILLED it!!!
So, of course, I figured I had to pull out my guitar and try it again. I fooled around and came up with this...
House of the Rising Sun |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Cool DB!!
That was the first song I remember learning as well!!
AJ |
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Location: Ohio | Me also........ |
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| Hazy memories from that time, but if not the first, one of the first I learned, too. Of course now that I've heard your version, I won't bother trying to play it anymore. Great job. |
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Location: NJ | something in the mel bay book |
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Location: south east Michigan | Geez... very well done there DB.
That's a nice spin you put on it.
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For me it was G.L.O.R.I.A. |
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Joined: January 2009 Posts: 4535
Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by alpep:
something in the mel bay book The Mel Bay way was too tough for me. I had to cheat with this easy, shitty version. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | For me it was Leaving on a Jet Plane...
HOTRS was my second song. |
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Location: Veedersburg, Indiana | Can't remember which number this one was, but it was one of the early ones for me. This was back in the day that The Animals had a huge hit with it. I learned it from a book called "Sing-Out" that use to be published monthly and was pretty much devoted to folk music. I have since taken the song and rewritten the words to it and made a christian themed song out of it I call "The Rising Son". People that have heard it seem to like it. BTW I really like your verson! |
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Location: Utah | Nice, DB. |
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Location: NH | Originally posted by Old Man Arthur:
For me it was Leaving on a Jet Plane...
Me too! :cool: |
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Location: Tennessee | Nice bluesy thing you got going there, including the shades. You could play that with PEZ down on Rue Royale. But you need to do something about the shirt.
I can't remember what song I learned first, but it wasn't House. It had to be only two or three chords, and might have been Jamaica Farewell or the banana boat song. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" for me...
...and it seems I STILL can't! |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | After the Mel Bay's single note versions of "Three Blind Mice" and "On Top of Old Smokey" came... "House of the Rising Sun."
.... and I agree that while the "short-version" arrangements take a bit out of the tunes on Idol, Haley nailed it. I also thought the Gaga tune she did first was a brilliant choice, and more risky for the Lady G to let her do it first to an International audience. Then again... garnering royalties for a tune you haven't released yet is a pretty slick move I guess. |
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Location: NJ | ok after mel bay
I think it was windy by the association |
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Joined: July 2004 Posts: 812
Location: Hicksville, NY | Mine was "Teach Your Children" by CSN&Y.
when I finally learned how to finger pick, the first song I learned was "Photographs and Memories" by Jim Croce. |
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Location: Flahdaw | If we are talking fingerpicked, I'd have to say either...
Dust in the Wind, or
Danny's Song |
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Location: south east Michigan | Finger picked???
Hold Your Head Up.... Argent |
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Location: CA | My first was a thing called "Two Brothers" about two brothers "one wore blue and one wore gray" in the civil war. HOTRS was the first GOOD song I learned.
Seems like everyone of a certain age learned HOTRS as one of their first songs. Many of the younger set I've talked to learned Dust in the Wind first. |
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Location: New Hampshire, USA | I can't remember the very first song I learned, but one of the earlier ones was Well Respected Man by the Kinks (C-Em-Am...). |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I can't remember that far back, but I suspect it was Red River Valley, then Red river Rock. |
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Location: closely held secret | Nobody else started with "Little Brown Jug"? |
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Location: Flahdaw | Getting back to the original intent of this thread, I found it fun to resurrect that 1st song, (now that I have a bit more experience)and try to do something interesting with it to make it more current. I can now envision actually adding it to a set list and playing it live somewhere. If anyone had ever even suggested House of the Rising Sun before, I would have laughed it off.
Now to try, "Can't get no Satisfaction", slowed by 1/3rd and with a blues twist..... |
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Location: Newington, CT | Listen to the Music -- Doobie Brothers. |
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Location: Jet City | Nice job on that DB. Good luck with the Stones tune.
I've been re-working/twisitng a some tunes too. BIlly Preston's "Will It Go Round In Cirles" and Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" are the 2 most recent |
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Location: Flahdaw | The Preston tune would be real fun.... |
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Joined: June 2005 Posts: 488
Location: California | -Am,C, G, C, G, C, E, Am, (E, Am)
-F, G, C; F, G, C, E, Am (E, Am)then on and on.
Growing up in South, America, my first song "El Condor Pasa" Simon and Garfunkel made it popular ~ 67? I still have with me the small round back 10 string charango instrument (spruce top, redwood bowl, ebony fretboard) Got custom made in Cuenca, Ecuador. |
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Joined: October 2008 Posts: 639
Location: NW of Philadelphia | From Mel Bays books... Tom Dooley
by Ear... China Grove - Doobie Bros. |
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Location: Connersville, Indiana | Mine was Proud Mary....CCR played until my fingers bled, put on bandaids and keep playing. :D |
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Joined: November 2009
| Tom Dooley. Two chords.
I knew how to tune a guitar but that's all. I worked out the two chords on my own, but had no idea what they were called or how they functioned. That was much more satisfying than if I'd looked it up on line, and served as the beginning of my ear training. |
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