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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | If you can remember that far back... :rolleyes:
For me, it was The Lion Sleeps Tonight (D G D A), followed shortly afterwards by House of the Rising Sun, when my uncle also showed me some 'fancy' strumming. |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | GI Blues - E.P. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | House |
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Location: CA | Great question!
The first one I actually learned from maybe five sessions with a guitar teacher (before Mom pulled the plug because I didn't practice) was "Two Brothers" (about Civil War . . . "Two brothers on their waaaaay, one wore blue and one wore gray"
First song that I WANTED to learn and did: House of the Rising Sun. I practiced the pee out of that puppy.
followed closely by
Wipe Out and Gloria
Song I most regret learning: Puff. Having had daughters, I must have played that thing 5 million times. I probably hate performing it more than Peter Paul and Mary. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Oddie,
That's scary... :eek: except for the first and last sentences, that's my story.
My first few learned notes were "The Peter Gun Theme" intro. :rolleyes: |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | At about 15, the Lead intro to Secret Agent Man.
it was a struggle!! |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Leaving on a Jet Plane...
But I'll be damned if I can play it right now!
[okay... I figured it out. D G a bunch o' times, then D G Em A7, then back to D G :D ] |
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Location: Jet City | First song ever? On my Carlos student 3/4 nylon string...
Take Me Home Country Roads |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Oh Damon...
Mine was on a Guild with a rope strap, cracks, and 16 signatures on the back from previous owners. |
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Location: Tennessee | Kingston Town (A-D-E). |
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Location: closely held secret | I Saw Her Standing There |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | It was either Shilo, Solitary Man or Song,Sung,Blue... I can't remember which was first.
Mom was a big Neil Diamond fan... can ya tell??
Maybe Cherry, Cherry? |
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Location: Jet City | CL, same boat. Mom loved Neil, so that was my first concert ever. Don't remember exactly when, but it was mid 70s at the Cow Palace in SF. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | It was my first concert as well... Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in NY - sometime in the early to mid '70s. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | For me I believe it was an original song shortly titled by my older Sister whose guitar I was banging on. If memory serves me it was called "Get the !#%#$ away from my guitar and stay out of my room you little @$#$%!"
The chorus went something like "Mom, why didn't you learn to practice birth control earlier?" |
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Location: big island | this one ...but on guitar rather than banjo |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Diary, by Bread. Somebody wasn't playing it right, so I got my brother's little beginner guitar and figured it out. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I really can't remember.
I can't remember what I played before the third guitar teacher. That's when I learned Bad Moon Rising, followed by Loud Mary.
Johnny Johnson: an inspiring and brilliant teacher!
(also gave me my first paying gig. Hired me to play bass in his band one year into lessons.) |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | Heart of Gold -- Neil Young |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Man thats a long time ago!!
House of the Rising Sun comes to mind, probably not the first but the first I remember.
On an Eston(Eko)12 string that I still own.
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Location: Vernon CT | I think it was Margaritaville for strictly strumming chords, but fingerpicking basically at the same time it was "Dust in the Wind" |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | "King Of The Road" by Roger Miller. |
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| I started playing when I was in grade 6 which would have been mid 1960s I guess - maybe a little later.
I could read basic notes then and I remember picking out some of the songs from the class music book while other kids sang. I Don't remember the names of any of the songs though and chords were a mystery at that time. I had an elementary guitar lessons book as well but I don't remember what was in it either.
A little later I learned to play House of the Rising Sun which was really a pretty good first song because once you learned those chords you could mix them around for your own stuff and the picking part of that song was good practice too.
The lead intro to Secret Agent Man was in there somewhere as well..lol |
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Location: GA USA | Mine was "The Wizard" by Uriah Heep. The lyrics kinda have that 70's "I'd like to buy the world a coke" message to them... corny. |
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Location: UK | Classical Gas.
One evening a year or so ago I was watching Frasier on TV. It was the one where he's re-arranging his furniture while Classical Gas is playing.
Next day I discovered TAB (I'd never seen tab before) I downloaded the tab for CG, bought my Ovation and started playing... (again)
OK, I did 'play' just a little way back in the 70's but the internet didn't exist and the only written notation was proper music with those little chord symbols for strummers. I can't sing so preferred picking the intros (Dust in the Wind etc) but I'd also discovered cars and girls so I'd only ever pick up a guitar if I happened to be visiting someone who had one lying around (and I'd play House of the rising sun followed by the intro to Dust in the wind.. Yawn) but basically rarely ever touched a guitar till the day after hearing classical gas on Frasier. |
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What's the first ever song you learned on the guitar?
