First Learned Song On Guitar?

[MrNylon]

What was the first song you learned to play on the guitar? By yourself, by a friend or relative, in a guitar lesson, any way you learned it. Mine was "Row Row Your Boat", in a group guitar lesson in old Shoemaker's Music store, in old downtown Fort Lauderdale about 1967. Four people with their guitars and the teacher in a real small room upstairs. It's not there anymore, it's all gone actually.

[ChanMan]

Fully, knowing what chords I was playing all the way through and performed with vocal would be "Can't Help Falling in Love" on my Yamaha acoustic.

 

I'd played Electric for awhile before that though doing 2 string overdriven power chords, but couldn't have told you what the chords were.... if those count, then "Crimson and Clover"? Maybe Smoke on the Water?

 

Too many years ago....

[neilpanda]

the very first song I learned fully was "you shook me all night long" AC/DC yea it took me like a month to learn it

[Jeff-7]

Glycerine by Bush.

[duane v]

I think it was Day Tripper

 

Learned it by myself... Wrote the notes out by playing it on trumpet first..

[GIANTRobOT42O]

Cissy Strut by The Meters

[Artie Owl]

I don't remember what the firs song I learned on my own when I first got my guitar was, but I do remember that the first song I learned in guitar lessons was "That Smell" by Lynyrd Skynyrd. At least I think that's what it was.

[swleary]

Seek and Destroy by Metallica ..oh ya !!!!

[sparky scott 29]

It wasn't quite the whole song, just most of it at the time... Led Stairway.... of course.

[davidl]

Smoke on the water. ( Not even the whole song)

No question.

 

Dave

[Mr. Natural]

House of the Rising Sun

[Whitmore Willy]

First song on Guitar?

 

Pipeline...Ventures version...

1963 B.C. (Before Cassettes)

 

Willy

[damian]

Day Tripper

[Sinner 13]

Blowin' in the wind-Dylan

Age 11

[neilpanda]

Smoke on the water. ( Not even the whole song)

No question.

 

Dave

very first riff I learned. I learned it the day I got my first guitar

[MrNylon]

Smoke On The Water seems to have been very popular to go for. Great song to play, then or now.

[G McBride]

Louie Louie

[charlie brown]

Louie Louie

 

 

+1 My God, that was almost 47 years ago! Yikes!!! "Little Latin Lupe Lu" would

have been 2nd, on the learning ladder. ;>)

 

CB

[mcmurray]

Is there anybody out there - Pink Floyd.

[Jon S.]

Love Me Tender

[Whitmore Willy]

Louie Louie

+1 My God, that was almost 47 years ago! Yikes!!! "Little Latin Lupe Lu" would

have been 2nd, on the learning ladder. ;>)

 

Lets not forget: G-L-O-R-I-A....Gloria and

Kink's: All Day and All of The Night

 

Sounds like we all had the same set lists back then. LOL

 

Willy

[Steven Tari]

Proud Mary- CCR

[ChanMan]

Love Me Tender

 

 

Woot!

 

Another Elvis 1st song!

[badbluesplayer]

House of the Rising Sun

 

Me too.

[T Bone]

FIrst attempt at learning guitar, I think it was "my dog has fleas", sight reading music etc. Horrible teacher (wouldn't think of introducing chords until much more crap was gone through, no wonder I quit- think I was about 8). Mel Bay method if I recall, and she wanted to string it out as long as possible.

 

Next attempt, maybe a year or two later, along with first band, and first performance in front of my elementary school class was Sunshine of your love. But I ended up switching to drums briefly in there.

 

First song learned correctly all the way through, and the third attempt at becoming a guitarist was around 13 or 14, taught by a friend of my older sister, "My Sweet Lord" on acoustic by George Harrison. Much Cat Stevens and Jim Croce and other popular acoustic stuff followed, then I got him into electric.