What is the first song you learned to play?

Flamencology said:
Dunno. Been playing piano since before memory.
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If we are going there, then probably "Broken Record Boogie", though there may have been some little exercise or song before that. I still have the Broken Record Boogie sheet music somewhere, along with a lot of other sheet music that my teacher put "Peanuts" stickers on if I did a good job.



I tried to make it sound kinda 60's Batman.
 
I bought a Beatles chord book at the same time I saved up $25 and bought a Teisco electric guitar from the drug store. Possibly Rocky Raccoon, but I seem to remember a song with a diminished chord in it. Probably a Harrison song. I also saw someone playing a barre chord for the first time before I had lessons, sat down at the piano with my guitar and worked out the chord shape from what I thought I saw and what I could translate from a piano chord to guitar. I was 10.
 
On guitar, it was "Electric Funeral" by Black Sabbath. I learned it after playing for about 3 months, & it was really difficult for me at the time. On bass, I think it was "Space Truckin" by Deep Purple , or maybe "Money" by Pink Floyd. On keys it was "Jesus, joy of Man's Desiring" by J.S. Bach- probably the easiest Bach piece in his entire output- it has a fairly unforgettable melody though.
 
xStonr said:
Camptown Races courtesy of Mel Bay.
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My mother bought an instruction book when she bought my guitar. Lesson one taught two chords, then said "Now play this song." The song had four chords; one from lesson five and one from lesson seven. That's when I bought the Dylan book.
 
Chad said:
Proud Mary. My dad had a songs of the 60's songbook and it had the fewest chords in it. I wasn't even really playing guitar then, I was trying to figure out how to so since it had 3 chords (without the intro part, which I never learned). I don't think I've played it in 30 years.
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That was the second I learned to play and sing because the acoustic guitar I started on belonged to my uncle and had a couple of pieces of loose leaf paper with this, Take It Easy, and Peaceful Easy Feeling.

The first I learned was Take It Easy. I was so floored that I was playing and singing a song, I must have played it for hours.
 
rhino said:
That was the second I learned to play and sing because the acoustic guitar I started on belonged to my uncle and had a couple of pieces of loose leaf paper with this, Take It Easy, and Peaceful Easy Feeling.

The first I learned was Take It Easy. I was so floored that I was playing and singing a song, I must have played it for hours.
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Thanks for reminding me of that feeling. It was over 50 years ago, and I almost forgot it.
 
rhino said:
That was the second I learned to play and sing because the acoustic guitar I started on belonged to my uncle and had a couple of pieces of loose leaf paper with this, Take It Easy, and Peaceful Easy Feeling.

The first I learned was Take It Easy. I was so floored that I was playing and singing a song, I must have played it for hours.
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I remember that feeling. For me it was when my first band made it through a song for the first time. We must have played it 20 times after nailing it.
 
rhino said:
That was the second I learned to play and sing because the acoustic guitar I started on belonged to my uncle and had a couple of pieces of loose leaf paper with this, Take It Easy, and Peaceful Easy Feeling.

The first I learned was Take It Easy. I was so floored that I was playing and singing a song, I must have played it for hours.
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i remember the same sort of feeling, but it was after i taught a friend how to play House of the Rising Sun and we finally played it together (pretty close) to correctly. 1972
 
The riffs to This is My Life by the Animals. I had a cheesy nylon string that I picked near the bridge to get the cool electric sound.
 
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