What was the first song you learned to play ?

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On accordion......(Italian kid from the northeast......stop laughing)........."Drink To Me Only". On guitar........."Bad Moon Rising" by Creedence Clearwater. On drums......"Wipeout".
 
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Wrecking Ball - Miley Cyrus
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Sorry, Greg, I think I might have lost some respect for you. I can't even name a Miley Cyrus song. lol
Just kiddin, but I reaaly can't!
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Incense and peppermint by the Strawberry alarm clock.
Then was followed closely by Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.

Before the rock and roll there were many country and western songs that were all pretty easy to pick up but was left in the dust till my sunset years and now I play them frequently.
 
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It was waaaaaay too many years ago to remember. As a drummer, I'm guessing it was probably an old Elvis song (Blue Suede Shoes or something like that). On guitar I have to guess it was a Ventures song (maybe Walk Don't Run)
 
bongoboy said:
The Mule by Deep Purple. Well, i tried. Learned a whole lot about stick control.
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I reckon there are many that would use this song as an example of why clicks, wonderful and necessary as they can be for home recording for many lone wolves, shouldn't be necessary for a band tracking. Ian Paice's drumming in this track is ridiculous in it's steady magnificence.

arcaxis said:
House of the Rising Sun around 1968.
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gecko zzed said:
"House of the Rising Sun" was second!
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Pinky said:
Guitar, House of the Rising Sun.
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In my opinion, this was the first truly great British single. There had been some very good ones and some good ones by the likes of the Shadows, Cliff Richard, the Beatles {one of their 1963 B sides I consider great} and Johnny Kidd & the Pirates but the Animals "House of the rising sun" was a true great. They never reached those heights again as far as I'm concerned.

Greg_L said:
Wrecking Ball - Miley Cyrus
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I love your version of that. The way you turn it into a rhumba in 16/12 abruptly jerking into that bossa nova cha cha cha with it's deceptive slide into 9/8 with 16 Indian raga beat rhythms is pure genius. I don't know why Miley never saw it like that in the first place.......
 
My guitar lessons book had all the old standards (you know from the 40 an 50's) cheezy and eazy
 
On guitar it was House of the Rising Sun - a friend taught me the song OVER THE PHONE - I will never forger it - I think 1968 or 69 - A side note, I still have & play (now & then) the Gibson LG-0 guitar I learned that song on. 1 strum on that guitar transports me back 45 years - D.
 
Hot Crossed Buns. 2nd or 3rd grade, I learned on recorder........The first I ever learned on guitar was Sound of Silence.
 
This is to the person who said "Honky Tonk" - Bill Doggett instrumental, parts 1 and 2.



Great song! Billy Butler, guitar player, really gave me a hundred ideas, just from his one solo on that! A classic. My first was "Raunchy".
 
QUOTE: In my opinion, this was the first truly great British single.

First crossover to USA hit, I believe, was "Telstar" by the incredible Joe Meek (producer and writer)




In my opinion, this was the first truly great British single. There had been some very good ones and some good ones by the likes of the Shadows, Cliff Richard, the Beatles {one of their 1963 B sides I consider great} and Johnny Kidd & the Pirates but the Animals "House of the rising sun" was a true great. They never reached those heights again as far as I'm concerned.

I love your version of that. The way you turn it into a rhumba in 16/12 abruptly jerking into that bossa nova cha cha cha with it's deceptive slide into 9/8 with 16 Indian raga beat rhythms is pure genius. I don't know why Miley never saw it like that in the first place.......[/QUOTE]
 
Charlie Messing said:
First crossover to USA hit, I believe, was "Telstar" by the incredible Joe Meek (producer and writer)
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As far as I'm aware "Telstar" by the Tornados and produced by Joe Meek, was the first British no.1 in the USA. In those days, British songs and acts just use to stiff in the States. Few people could take British music or British anything seriously. Apparently, it was Margaret Thatcher's favourite song. But that's not why I don't like it. I just don't !
 
I started violin at age 7; cornet and flugelhorn at 12 and guitar at 14. The last sticks in my mind the most, and on day one I had mastered three chord shapes (G, G7 and C), and My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean. That was 45 years ago.
 
first song I learned

on guitar-Joy the the World by Three Dog Night on piano-Messin' Around by Ray Charles
 
I Still Miss Someone, Johnny Cash. Someone had told me that A, D, and E were pretty common - I took their word for it and ran with it.
And playing it through the first time was one of the more surreal and exciting moments of my adult life.
 
Ignoring the few bits I did on the recordse in the Infants.. the first piece would have been Minuet in G.... Bach, I believe. It was pure hard slog.... but when I finally did it right, I felt like I was getting somewhere.... I was 9 at the time
 
Piano would be hard to tell (I was only 4 when I started). Bass was Smoke on the Water @ age 12. Drums would be hard to tell as I was always doing something...Hawaii 5-0 theme we did in pep band strikes out, but that probably wasn't the first. The first thing I really learned on the Guitar was God of Wonder by Third Day. Sat with my brother for hours learning the chords. Now it seems really simple.
 
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