What was the first song you learned to play ?

[grimtraveller]

Can you remember the first song you ever learned to play on an instrument ? Was it a triumphant moment ?

 

[Armistice]

LOL - Brain Damage by Pink Floyd.... I've ever been one for the obscure... I think I impressed myself more than those I was playing the song to, who, of course, had never heard it...

 

[c7sus]

Dog Blue.

 

[Track Rat]

A song called Honky Tonk" I thought I was burning up the neck. I think I was 7.

 

[mdainsd]

Hey Joe

 

[bongoboy]

The Mule by Deep Purple. Well, i tried. Learned a whole lot about stick control.

 

[jonny deep]

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.

 

[gecko zzed]

"As Tears Go By", Rolling Stones, mid sixties. "House of the Rising Sun" was second!

 

[Armand Piecuch]

Smells Like Teen Spirit. Back when I was ten. I was a dirty skateboard punk who thought himself a badass.

 

[JMac52]

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.

 

[grimtraveller]

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.

 

[ShanPeyton]

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.

 

[rayc]

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.

 

[dervish riff]

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.

 

[Telegram Sam]

Three Blind Mice, followed closely by A-Tisket, A-Tasket.

 

[Steve Mac]

Pop goes the weasel on a recorder aged 5

 

[fat_fleet]

Iron Maiden Flight of Icarus , 1983

 

[Telegram Sam]

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.

 

[Pinky]

Guitar, House of the Rising Sun.

 

[cakewalkKaKed]

PUTTING ON THE STYLE PUTTING ON THE STYLE - Lyrics - International Lyrics Playground the book i was learning from had slightly different and better lyrics ... what a hoot