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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!!
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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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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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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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OT- 1st song I ever learned on guitar
