When I was first starting out playing guitar, my guitar teacher taught me lots of fingerpicking, which I was not very interested at the time, but I am very thankful for that skill now!
She taught me acoustic songs like, "Puff the Magic Dragon", "Mr. Bojangles", and "Blackbird" by the Beatles.
Technically those were some of the first songs I learned, but I don't really claim them as my first song.
I remember after about 3 years of never practicing and not being any good at all, I got a guitar instructional video showing Classic Rock riffs. Most of them were way too hard, but the one that I really got a hold of was "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple. I imagine that was a lot of players' first song. I was able to pick up on how to play that one and it really boosted my confidence. After that, I would find another riff from the video that I could do, and so on and so on.
But, "Smoke on the Water" is the song I claim as the first one I could
really play.
What about everyone else? What was your first song?
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