What was the first song/piece of music you tried learning

[Slowerhand]

Was on Youtube today listening to music and one thing led to another and I wound up listening to the Yardbirds "Heart Full of Soul". This reminded me of when I first picked up the guitar. I never learned the chords when I first started but instead tried to learn the solo. I practiced and played that solo so damn often I even used it to tune my guitar's strings to the notes of the solo because I knew what they were supposed to sound like lol. playing it now it seems so easy but back then...lol. Anyway what was your first song/music piece/ part of a song that you learned? Have you tried playing it recently?

Cheers,
Mike

 

[Lowlife]

When I started my big goal was the first solo in "I could have lied" by Red Hot Chili Peppers...and since this was back in '93 various metallica and slayer things

 

[Far Rider]

House Of The Rising Sun (The Animals version)
I still can't play it properly

 

[bvoris]

My cousin taught me this song on my Fender Squire Strat through my 10watt fender amp
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTuD8k3JvxQ]Alice In Chains - Them Bones - YouTube[/ame]

 

[GIBSON67]

House of the Rising Sun...I remember learning that one, too.

Wild Thing was my first real jam song and Purple Haze was the first song I sat down and learned all the way through.

 

[Nochboa]

"nothing else matters", at least the intro

my parents were so sick of my attempts, they finally paid me lessons so I could learn guitar properly

 

[33KHD]

Don't remember first song...first solo was Snowblind. Yeah...pretty basic but I sucked....

 

[poeman33]

I can't remember. All I remember is that my older brother was trying to learn guitar and was frustrated with it. He had a borrowed guitar and tons of song books. I pick up the guitar and a song book and learned a song by looking at the chord diagrams. Pissed him off to no end that I did it so fast. I have no idea what song it was...American Pie or something...maybe earlier than that.

 

[SonVolt]

Nothing Else Matters or Silent Lucidity

 

[DirtySteve]

The first song I learned all the way through on acoustic long before I had my first electric guitar was REM -Driver 8. The first song I learned on Electric guitar was Lil Devil by the Cult.

The Cult - Lil' Devil - YouTube

 

[V-man]

First thing I learned was One, by Metallica... the song that was responsible both for starting my playing and ending theirs. The next was Crazy Train.... something I still struggle with over 20 years later

 

[Far Rider]

Nothing Else Matters or Silent Lucidity

Years ago my sister-in-law said that Silent Lucidity reminded her of me. I could never figure out how

 

[Lucifuge]

The first song I learned all the way through on acoustic long before I had my first electric guitar was REM -Driver 8. The first song I learned on Electric guitar was Lil Devil by the Cult.

The Cult - Lil' Devil - YouTube

That was the first song I learned to play and sing all the way through...

Surprised it wasn't a SD song...

 

[DirtySteve]

That was the first song I learned to play and sing all the way through...

Surprised it wasn't a SD song...

I didn't discover SD until "somewhere between heaven and hell" in '92.

 

[Lucifuge]

Beat ya by four years!!

First song electric was You Got Another Thing Coming from Priest!

 

[Reckless_Life]

For me it was "Apache" by The Shadows.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNAyPK2O4fk[/ame]

 

[Blokkadeleider]

Started with house of the rising sun, then when the saints go marching in and then AC/DC's highway to hell entirely.


Gr,

Gerrit.

 

[paul-e-mann]

Both my brothers and dad all had guitars around the house, so naturally I picked them up to fool with. Me being a lefty I would hold their guitars upside down but it didnt stop me from learning Smoke on the Water, then Paranoid and Sunshine of My Life. I played like this for 10 years until I was 16 and realized I should buy a lefty guitar and really learn to play. First songs I learned were Heart of Gold and then Purple Haze.

So the very first song I learned then was Smoke on the Water.

 

[Alt Freak]

Come as you are. Then I started getting lessons

 

[crossroadsnyc]

This is the first song I learned on guitar (still enjoy playing it to this day) ...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSDNA5xB_-I]Billy Squier - Lonely Is The Night (Studio Version) - YouTube[/ame]