What was the first song you learned to play ?

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If only for a moment.....
Can you remember the first song you ever learned to play on an instrument ? Was it a triumphant moment ?
 
LOL - Brain Damage by Pink Floyd.... I've ever been one for the obscure...:D I think I impressed myself more than those I was playing the song to, who, of course, had never heard it... :laughings:
 
A song called Honky Tonk" I thought I was burning up the neck. I think I was 7.
 
The Mule by Deep Purple. Well, i tried. Learned a whole lot about stick control.
 
On the guitar, Apache by The Shadows. I'd learned other stuff on the recorder before that at school, but don't remember any of it.
 
"As Tears Go By", Rolling Stones, mid sixties. "House of the Rising Sun" was second!
 
Smells Like Teen Spirit. Back when I was ten. I was a dirty skateboard punk who thought himself a badass.
 
I played King of the Road for a piano recital when I was about 9. That was a triumphant moment. Then I quit piano. Guitar was either Smoke On The Water or Eighteen.
 
The first song I learned to play was "Rain" by Status Quo. {I did once improvise "The House is rocking" by Cheap Trick on my sister's violin but that doesn't count}.
I had just bought a 4th hand bass and borrowed an amp and I plugged in and tuned it like a cello. I picked out the riff and the verses and it was a seismic moment when I made the chord change to the chorus.
It wasn't until 8 years later when I actually listened to the bass part that I realized that what I had learned to play wasn't the bass part at all, but a mixture of the lead and rhythm guitar. But it was a watershed moment because from the kick off, it defined my bass style which has always had a huge chunk of the melodic and improvisational. I never thought of the bass as simply part of the rhythm section or low end. Writing songs on bass was second nature from that first day because after I 'learned' "Rain", I wrote my first piece, "The virgin and the whore".
All in a nights work.
 
First song i learned to play was one i wrote, just an E, A and D chord marvel of musicry. Then i learned Egg Raid on Mojo by the Beastie Boys.
 
In my "free" bass lessons after finally getting my Coronet EB short scale copy bass out of lay-by i learnt the riff to Black Knight by Deep Purple because the "band" I bought the bass to play in wanted that one. It's still fun to play but the band passed on it - in fact the band didn't band together at all.
 
Mostly just the bits and pieces of songs in my lesson book, but I had been working on scales and stuff before I started lessons. At least my teacher was impressed, lol.
 
Then it was Little Brown Egg and Pipeline.
We took second place in the Talent Contest with Pipeline - 12 kids in a line playing guitars.
 
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