What was the first song you learned to play?

[olfunk]

Daytripper!!!

 

[jhughs]

Oddly enough, the first guitar lead was something off of an Emerson, Lake and Palmer song. Keith Emerson inspired me to play guitar because at 14 years old I realized that if I'd kept playing piano for the last 7 years I might be able to do some of that stuff. So I taught myself guitar instead and worked on Aerosmith "Walk this Way" too.

Shortly after I bought Jeff Beck's "Blow by Blow" and consoled myself with the thought that at some point in his life he couldn't play any better than I could right then. I suppose that's ALWAYS true no matter how bad you are.

 

[ronsmith]

first song

1966 maybe ,an old radio shows theme song WILD WEEKEND. The kid next door started taking lessons and like a previous post said all he could do was scales and little brown jug! I was showing him some Beatles and Stones and his music teacher told him I was a bad influence! used to go with him to lessons and sit and laugh in lobby while he picked O Sushanna! HA!

 

[jhughs]

Brutal. I hope music teachers have learned that a great way to teach an instrument is to help the student learn that they can play the music they enjoy listening to. I only took lessons for about 3 months because everything I wanted to learn to play wasn't written down in sheet music form anyway. (Not like today when you can get guitar tabs - if you could get the sheet music it was usually transposed for piano with some basic guitar chords and never a clue about the riffs.)

 

[dragonworks]

I was playing in drum and bugle corps in 59 but I don't really remember the tunes. Played drums and horn. I guess the first guitar tunes were, secret agent,
I'm crying by the Animals, I think it was probably one of those two and I still remember both of them along with about five hundred other tunes. Then I started playing keys and sax and dabbling in some others but now it is almost all guitar and keys, once in awhile I play bass.

 

[dirtythermos]

I think the first song I could play all the way through was "Turn it On" by The Flaming Lips.

 

[tremblayj]

Time of your life by greenday. First the strumming than the picking.

 

[toemaster]

Take It Easy

 

[Toki987]

lol I'm going to be well respected for this, but the first song I learned was When the Saints go Marching in... I had one of those teachers that wanted me to learn every scale and chord before he'd really teach me songs, so I only got to learn the ones out of a book full of crappy songs. The first serious one I learned was Purple Haze.

Now you could do a really pimped out version of "When the Saint's.." and send a copy to your old teacher.

 

[MK-Ultra]

Rocky Raccoon and Across the Universe.

 

[BentRabbit]

Livin Lovin Maid - Zeppelin... All except Page's solo, but I'm a drummer so no one seemed to care

 

[juststartingout]

For those of you who sing while you play, was the first song that you could sing and play, the same as the first you learned. For me it was, I found that interesting.

 

[apl]

First song that I could play all the way through was "Submission" by the Sex Pistols. It didn't have a solo.

 

[goldtopchas]

Showing my age here!!!

The first thing I learned was the lick in ''25 or 6 to 4'' by Chicago.
Then probably "Horse with no name" by America.(it only had two chords)which I found in a "cheater" book.

Years later the first song I played in a band was one by a "new" band called Van Halen. ''You really got me''. I was a sophmore in high school.
Really thought I was hot shit standing there in the school gym. I have a picture of that "first gig". I keep it in my guitar case to remind me why I love
the guitar.

 

[wichitastraw]

wipeout by the ventures
smoke on the water
iron man
paranoid
funk 49

 

[Newbie-Doo]

Day Tripper - The Beatles.

 

[lbanks]

And "Funky Broadway", also.

 

[hixmix]

The theme from "Peter Gun" was the first lick I learned. It was all downhill from there.

 

[crazydoc]

Long Black Rifle

 

[adamo_musica]

the *MASH* theme song!!...well it wasnt much of a song...the first "song" was probably some metallica