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No Rhythm
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1/26/2008 7:01:09 AM
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Name the first song you ever learnt to play.
I was just wondering how some of you guys and gals started out. What was the first song you learned, what instrument was it on, who taught you?
Mine was Gloria, by Them, (not Laura Branigan.)
Playing an electric guitar
Shown to me by the bloke I bought the guitar from.
I remember being quite proud, my girlfriend wasn't as excited for some reason.
May have had something to do with the hours of false starts leading up to the big moment which she had to endure in our one bedroom flat.
Cheers Mark
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satch
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1/26/2008 7:05:25 AM
House of the rising sun - eric burdon and the animals
Learnt it myself on a borrowed guitar, aged about 11 :)
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BJ
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1/26/2008 7:08:39 AM
Gloria was the first song I learned on guitar too - Jimmy Page was the session muso "Them" used for guitar for the recording.
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No Rhythm
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1/26/2008 7:11:55 AM
Thanks Satch
Thats an impressive effort for an 11yo
I was a late bloomer got my first guitar at 29 didn't have a clue how to play it....still don't
Cheers Mark
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TNT
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1/26/2008 7:19:11 AM
The first song I ever learned all the way through was Point Blank, off Bruce Springsteen The River album. I was about 10 or 11 and it took me a while to figure it out. Once I did I didn't stop playing and sing it for weeks.
As a piano based tune it lways sounded a little different on the guitar, but I'm going to go off now and re-learn it again.
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Verity
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1/26/2008 7:25:18 AM
Twinkle, twinkle little star on the recorder aged 6
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Steve Ison
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1/26/2008 7:41:18 AM
The first song i learnt to play i wrote myself..Called 'social masterbation' (a pun on social intercourse)
Talking to myself now
No place left to go
Social Masterbation
Makes me want to throw
A real classic ..
I couldn't do an e-bar chord so just used to move the e up and down the neck-and playing the electric thru my dads stereo when he was out..
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Spank Momma
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1/26/2008 8:23:10 AM
I was in Morocco in the navy and met this black, left handed guitar player, I was 18.
He showed me freebird form beginning to end. I learned it in a week, Just the rhythm, I remember getting pissed off at how much my fingers hurt from playing all those chords on an acoustic. How I hate that song now. The second was stairway to hell.
Good stuff to learn early. Lots of cool chords I still use.
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Duane Flock
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1/26/2008 8:56:29 AM
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At around 8 or 9 my dad taught me a couple of country tunes on the bass so he can play guitar and mandolin to them. Hank Williams Sr. type stuff.
My first guitar tune was also House of the Rising Sun, which sometimes I still do in an occasional gig.
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Chris Hance
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1/26/2008 8:57:45 AM
Mary Had A Little Lamb
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LyinDan
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1/26/2008 9:13:15 AM
"Walk, Don't Run" by the Ventures. Instrumental, circa 1960.
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Steve Ison
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1/26/2008 9:27:38 AM
"He showed me freebird form beginning to end. I learned it in a week, Just the rhythm, I remember getting pissed off at how much my fingers hurt from playing all those chords on an acoustic. How I hate that song now"
Freebird..The most overrated song of all time?
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Tony Vani and Debbie Hoskin
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1/26/2008 9:32:00 AM
My training was in classical violin.............about age 7 or 8, couldn't tell you the song as they were mostly excersize scales and then into classical orchestra pieces. I played for many years in a state wide orchestra as first violinist. At 12, I took up guitar, just wanted to be a folk singer. My Mom bought me a classical gibson. I still use it for writing. First songs were songs that I wrote. I sold 2 songs to Milos Forman at age 14 or something. He used them in a bit part movie. I made $50 per song. LOL The song titles were "plastic people" and "Trinity Ward." Trinity Ward was a soldier.
At age 18, I became a jazz singer, played in a jazz trio in NYC until coming to Canada. Once in Canada, did the baby thing then tried country music, (LOL) then moved into rock. Lately I've been having fun with percussion instruments. I'm leaning into going jazz again. (Very condensed version) I was a gospel choir singer for years too. LOL
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TNT
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1/26/2008 9:35:58 AM
Freebird..The most overrated song of all time?
Ooohh! That's fightin' talk here. he he he.
A song written as a homage to dwayne almann as one of the greatest slide guitar players ever, and it went on to be one of the best known slide guitar parts ever.
I've been playing it for years and still love it, but...... lord knows I can't change!
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THE JACK PADDLE COVER BAND
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1/26/2008 11:45:46 AM
Me never heard any music!!.......It was years later that me's was introduced to music from others!! Years after me'd mastered a number of instruments including me 'shavarak' and written me own music!!!........only I called this creation of sounds 'Haloovallet'(don't pronounce the 'H'), not music.
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the kozy king
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1/26/2008 11:58:56 AM
"Freebird..The most overrated song of all time?"
Could be, could be. I rejected that one in our cover band.
However I just listened to "That Smell" by Lnrd Sknrd this week I think that may the most under-rated! It'll be a great test for us...
MY FIRST TOON: "walk don't run" of course.
And Mark, I find your guitar playing is very pleasant -- tasteful and interesting -- so don't put yourself down, bud.
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the kozy king
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1/26/2008 12:06:11 PM
Larree
You are righteous to love Freebird, forgive my error.
TT
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Black Velvet Lace
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1/26/2008 1:33:14 PM
My Country Tis of Thee.. on piano.. by my elderly next-door neighbor.. I was 4.
Tho I tried, I could NOT play guitar until I was 18. And then one (tipsy) night in another next-door neighbor's place (dorm room at college), lo and behold, it all came together and the acoustic became my *instrument of choice* to this day.
~Lace~
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1/26/2008 1:37:03 PM
Levon, by Elton John, on the piano. btw I still sing that one pretty good, and still love the song.
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1/26/2008 1:38:58 PM
Steve, you're just plain wrong about Free Bird. :)
btw the best version of that ever done was the 45 single version which doesn't seem to be around much.
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Hop On Pop
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1/26/2008 1:42:36 PM
Mine was a Talking Heads song that I taught myself.
It was the single off of True Stories, and I cannot, for the life of me remember what it was called.
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the kozy king
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1/26/2008 1:51:03 PM
Todd:
"life in wartime'?????
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SILVERWOODSTUDIO
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1/26/2008 2:04:59 PM
Rock Island Line-------- Lonnie Donegan---I was about 9 years old
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Magnetfisch
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1/27/2008 3:18:53 AM
while still learning to play the piano (7-14), I remember liking improvising on "stay on these roads" by a-ha, and disliking having to learn Bach or Bartok.
when I found my first band (with our actual guitarist Patrick) in 1994, we made a first tape record of "A Forest" by The Cure
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Vartan
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1/27/2008 12:03:02 PM
Well the FIRST song I learned was probably Mary Had a Little Lamb. That was on Trombone in the 4th grade.
The first song I learned when figuring out guitar at 14 years of age was Polly by Nirvana. hehe
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Steve Ison
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1/27/2008 12:07:45 PM
Its weird why Freebird is held up in such great esteem-like its on a creative par with A Day In The Life or something..I just can't fathom it..
The endless,endless,endless repetition..
The fact its played TO DEATH here on any classic radio thing or T,V (I'm guessing it must be even worse in the U.S..)
There's a version from an old British show called The Old Grey Whistle Test with the band soloing out for about 15 minutes over the same 3 chord loop on that frikkin' song...Its hailed as an absoloutly classic performance..
Unbelivable
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qelizabeth
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1/27/2008 12:11:36 PM
Violet by Hole. Then I stopped there.
It's spelled masturbation. I think it's charming that you spelled it wrong tho.
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Jack Heinicke
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1/27/2008 12:38:11 PM
Teach Your Children by CSNY. I was about 11-12 at the time and learned it straight from the record. Then I heard Neil Young's Harvest and learned the whole album.
Then it was off to the races...
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1/27/2008 12:41:13 PM
Steve, I don't think Free Bird is ever put on a plane with A Day in the Life, 2 entirely different realms there. So how do you feel about the song minus the long solo, cause if you're not a fan of long solos, there you go. You'd probably hate a Neil Young/Crazy Horse Concert cause he usually has 3 songs or so that push the 20 minute mark when he goes into a zone. I got hooked on Free Bird with the single version that didn't really have that long of a solo on it, it's a great blues rock hook. I can take or leave the long concert version myself.
The first song I ever remember playing on guitar was one I wrote, called You're An Asshole, about this girlfriend I threw out of our summer beach house cause she was too wild for me. heh Strangely, I have a shitty portastudio version of that song that's kind of a mess but it got more listens than any other song in 2001, the year I had more action on my page than any other time, excepting maybe this past year.
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Steve Ison
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1/27/2008 1:38:26 PM
Its just because its so desperately over-played FT...Like Hotel California or Stairway (that Larree mentioned) i just can't imagine anymore what its like to hear them for the first time..
Freebird and (especially) the intensely annoying Sweet Home Alabama have had their chord changes,vocal lines,style and attitude plagiarised and re-hashed by a zillion bands n songs since, they've just lost all meaning to me..
Plus they're in the top 5 songs i constantly get asked to play when i'm busking (the other 3 being Hotel California,American Pie and Wonderwall...I always tell people i don't know them)
There's a couple of 70s classic rock standards (Layla and Born To Run) that are so great that i still get a buzz from and can connect with-but its not many..
I wish the radio where i work'd play Born To Run rather than frikkin' dancing in the dark for the 500th time,thats f'sure..
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The CODE
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1/27/2008 1:47:15 PM
Stick to originals boy's - that is the way forward!!!!
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Jeff Allen Myers
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1/27/2008 1:50:37 PM
"Longer" Dan Fogleberg..
Rest in peace Dan!
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Two Silo Complex
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1/27/2008 2:46:55 PM
Well the first song I learned was "wild thing"
Ah the days of youth.
TSC
Ken
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Free Man Lee (Comedy)
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1/28/2008 4:03:44 AM
acousticversion of 'big love' by Lindsey Buckingham/fleetwood mac. i can play well wen i want. and spel good 2. FML
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Monkey68
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1/28/2008 4:23:31 AM
Freebird..The most overrated song of all time?
You should hear Dash Riprock's "Stairway to Freebird" - a moment of transcendence (don't know if they're still playing it - I haven't seen them live since the late 80s).
I think 'The most overrated song of all time' is a great thread in and of itself - look for it further up the threads!
Vince (M68)
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srm
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1/28/2008 4:52:55 AM
The first song I learned to play on guitar was "Smoke on the Water". The first song on bass was "Dazed and Confused".
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srm
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1/28/2008 6:38:26 AM
Btw, the "Smoke on the Water" was JUST the rhythm part, obviously.
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