The 1st Guitar Riff You Learned was?

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The year was 1965. I heard "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" on the radio for the first time. OMG ! 59 years ago.
I raced home, grabbed my Silvertone and figured out how to play the riff in less than a minute. Ten minutes more to learn the chords. The internet didn't exist....YouTube videos didn't exist.


I do appreciate this man's take on the definition of Riffs.


Back to the question. What's the 1st guitar riff you learned how to play?
 
Started on acoustic. Migrating to electric, chords & finger picking to riffsville? Probably Black Dog. Sbeen a long time ago, I may have already learned Over the Hills and Far Away on acoustic as of that point, if that counts. Whatever it was, it was likely Page, Zeppelin.
 
60's guy said:
The year was 1965. I heard "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" on the radio for the first time. OMG ! 59 years ago.
I raced home, grabbed my Silvertone and figured out how to play the riff in less than a minute. Ten minutes more to learn the chords. The internet didn't exist....YouTube videos didn't exist.


I do appreciate this man's take on the definition of Riffs.


Back to the question. What's the 1st guitar riff you learned how to play?
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That is the first riff I learned too!
Man, it would have been nice to have the internet guitar tutorials back then.
All you had was the Mel Bay guitar course or albums and a turntable.
I chose albums and a turn table. I quickly learned that 16 speed on the turntable was half speed and an octave lower. I scratched the fuck out of "allman brothers at fillmore east" but I learned a lot from that album. I also learned a lot from "Johnny Winter And Live". When VHS came out and you could pause the video it was revolutionary for me. I could pause the video on chords I didn't know and slow mo fast single note guitar work.
Now you can youtube practically every guitar solo known to man and pull up an In depth tutorial.
Young guitar players don't know how good they have it now!
 
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Rock n Roll- led zepplin

my oldest brother pushed me to learn it and within a week was in his band at practice as a useless novice rhythm in a well established band...but he need a rhythm replacement fast and wanted a large band, like Chicago or something with keys and horns and that never really happened. I was 15 playing in bars and back then the bands drank for free!
and everyone smoked ...a lot. what a trip..

interesting thread!
 
Man, talk about murky memories.
I don't remember the first riff.
The first guitar was an acoustic that mom gave me.
I think I was 12.
One night they came home from the post with a guest.
The guest had a guitar.
He tested my ability to detect a key change - I think.
It's murky, but I remember him sitting in the living room with an acoustic guitar and strumming something.
Then he looks at mom and said "he's tone deaf".
Well I knew what that shit meant.
So I go down to my room and picked out the melody to Roll out the barrel.
So I'm going with Roll Out The Barrel @1:15
 
The first songs that I learned that I WANTED to play were Wipe Out (my brother played drums), Money (Kingsmen) and All Day and All of the Night (Kinks). I vaguely remember playing them for a PTA meeting at my grade school around 6th or 7th grade. I don't remember getting a standing ovation!

Before that, it was stuff in the music book that my teacher gave me, which were old songs from that NOBODY knew.
 
The very first lick I learned was Dirty Water.



Shortly after I learned Gloria, Louie Louie, and House of the Rising Sun
 
Scott Baxendale said:
The very first lick I learned was Dirty Water.



Shortly after I learned Gloria, Louie Louie, and House of the Rising Sun
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Dirty Water? Oh yeah. Totally forgot about that tune. The riff is predominant!
Good one, Scott! ?
 
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