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Re: What was the first song you learned how to play?
« Reply #30 on: February 26, 2012, 12:25:38 AM »
My first songs were from groups from Spain from the 60's and 70's since that's what the guy that taught me use to play.

The first song I figured out on my own was It don't come easy by Ringo Star.
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Re: What was the first song you learned how to play?
« Reply #31 on: February 26, 2012, 10:45:11 AM »
When I was just messing around with the guitar as a kid, it was Lucky Man by ELP. When I picked it up again seriously, last summer, it was The  Long Ride Home - Patty Griffin.
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Re: What was the first song you learned how to play?
« Reply #32 on: February 26, 2012, 01:15:15 PM »
Don't remember but I'm certain it came from a Peter, Paul & Mary songbook....
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Re: What was the first song you learned how to play?
« Reply #33 on: February 26, 2012, 01:39:38 PM »
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Re: What was the first song you learned how to play?
« Reply #34 on: February 26, 2012, 02:15:48 PM »
Quote from: M19 on February 26, 2012, 01:39:38 PM
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Oh, yeah!  I loved playing that song!
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Re: What was the first song you learned how to play?
« Reply #35 on: February 26, 2012, 03:50:06 PM »
Quote from: acmeseed on February 26, 2012, 12:25:38 AM
My first songs were from groups from Spain from the 60's and 70's since that's what the guy that taught me use to play.

The first song I figured out on my own was It don't come easy by Ringo Star.


It would be interesting to know the titles of the first few Spanish songs you learned. What were they?
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Re: What was the first song you learned how to play?
« Reply #36 on: February 27, 2012, 12:31:49 PM »
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It would be interesting to know the titles of the first few Spanish songs you learned. What were they?

This is one of the first ones my buddy got me to learn, Cuentame by Formula V. There were a lot  of these types of groups out of Spain, I think all of them wanted to look like the Beatles!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzxAfLZXWyY

This one also was one of the first ones:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFYND4MN8fk

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Re: What was the first song you learned how to play?
« Reply #37 on: February 28, 2012, 10:57:41 AM »
Quote from: Sludgefactory on February 22, 2012, 11:18:15 AM
Comes a Time - Neil Young

Great song! I love playng Neil Young music. Last night I was playing songs from Decade. Luckily it doesn take a lot of effort to play songe like It's Gonna' Take a Lot of Love...

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Re: What was the first song you learned how to play?
« Reply #38 on: February 29, 2012, 12:04:02 PM »
Give My Love To Rose - Johnny Cash. My first song I kind of learned to strum... (sorry Johnny)
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Re: What was the first song you learned how to play?
« Reply #39 on: February 29, 2012, 01:00:17 PM »
"This Time of Year" by Better Than Ezra.  That is still one of the fist things I tend to play when I first pick up a guitar, usually without even thinking about it.
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Re: What was the first song you learned how to play?
« Reply #40 on: March 01, 2012, 02:04:35 PM »
I think I remember working on three over and over (and over and over and over).
Country Roads
Gentle On My Mind
Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
Thes songs seemed to use a good deal of open chord progressions.
First barre chord down the neck attempts was some Gordon Lightfoot and Neil Young stuff
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Re: What was the first song you learned how to play?
« Reply #41 on: March 02, 2012, 11:06:14 AM »
This is really sad but it was Sister Christian a Night Ranger tune.   I still can play those single notes from memory.   I must have been about 13 then, now I am 39.
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Re: What was the first song you learned how to play?
« Reply #42 on: March 02, 2012, 08:32:13 PM »
Quote from: wooglins on March 02, 2012, 11:06:14 AM
This is really sad but it was Sister Christian a Night Ranger tune.   I still can play those single notes from memory.   I must have been about 13 then, now I am 39.
the video was actually shot outside & around the surrounding area of our rival high school & inside of Sam's restaurant -
i'd heard rumors about 'blind tiger' shooting a video back then (def leppard), but sure enough when it aired ...  :o
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Re: What was the first song you learned how to play?
« Reply #43 on: March 03, 2012, 10:58:01 AM »
Quote from: Igniten on February 22, 2012, 01:58:02 AM
Tom Dooley ;D

I really hate that song now
Oooh, can I give an AMEN!??

That and Old Gray Goose . . . although I still like to play the old gray goose song.
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Re: What was the first song you learned how to play?
« Reply #44 on: March 04, 2012, 11:41:04 PM »
I have no idea.  That was back in the late 60s/early 70s (before the earth's crust had cooled . . .)
Likely candidates:
Something by the Beatles (probably "I saw her standing there")
Fire and Rain (James Taylor)
Leaving on a Jet Plane (PP&M)
A really poor rendition of some Simon & Garfunkel song (actually, I still do that today)
Teach Your Children (CSN)
House of the Rising Sun (Animals)
Ballad of John and Yoko
Something by Creedence

You get the drift.

John
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