What Is The First Song You Ever Learned On Guitar?
Bear Rose
Sep 17 2010, 10:31 PM
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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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Gabriel Leopardi
Jul 20 2011, 07:29 PM
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I remember starting with the main riffs of these songs:

Smoke on the water - Deep Purple
Dead Horse - Guns and Roses
Satisfaction - Rolling Stones
Come as you are - Nirvana

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- Bear Rose   What Is The First Song You Ever Learned On Guitar?   Sep 17 2010, 10:31 PM
- - ZakkWylde   For Whom the Bell tolls by Metallica   Sep 17 2010, 10:34 PM
- - Mudbone   Puff the Magic Dragon eh? Actually thats what I wa...   Sep 17 2010, 10:51 PM
- - Sollesnes   I think the first song I tried learning was Gandal...   Sep 17 2010, 11:01 PM
- - Fran   Singing and strumming a few chords to play Springs...   Sep 18 2010, 12:28 AM
- - Azzaboi   The first full song I learnt was 'Hell Bells b...   Sep 18 2010, 02:08 AM
- - thefireball   Canon Rock The reason I started guitar.   Sep 18 2010, 05:08 AM
- - MickeM   Got a big surprise coming here, Smoke on the water   Sep 18 2010, 10:31 AM
- - Gitarrero   I admit: Rhinestone Cowboy! I was eleven and m...   Sep 18 2010, 11:55 AM
- - tonymiro   First two I was shown how to play: Free 'Wishi...   Sep 18 2010, 12:09 PM
- - Fran   QUOTE (tonymiro @ Sep 18 2010, 01:09 PM) ...   Sep 18 2010, 01:23 PM
- - Bogdan Radovic   First songs I learned on guitar was definitely sol...   Sep 18 2010, 01:50 PM
- - Jasonius   Chord strumming "Lyin Eyes" by the Eagle...   Sep 19 2010, 01:27 AM
- - slash48   Sweet Home Alabama. I was just playing the chords ...   Sep 19 2010, 01:48 AM
- - Azzaboi   @ Puff the Magic Dragon - you do know that's a...   Sep 19 2010, 01:53 AM
- - Jasonius   So that's what happened to me!   Sep 19 2010, 02:02 AM
- - JamesT   Stairway to Heaven. Spent way too much time learn...   Sep 19 2010, 02:26 AM
- - BedroomBozo   The first song I TRIED to play was Fade to Black b...   Oct 2 2010, 08:26 AM
- - Bear Rose   QUOTE (BedroomBozo @ Oct 2 2010, 03:26 AM...   Oct 20 2010, 06:01 PM
- - NoSkill   First go 'round, when I was 8 or so? The Yell...   Oct 20 2010, 07:34 PM
- - superize   Some of the songs i first tried to play was Lordi...   Oct 20 2010, 09:21 PM
- - Karl-ss   This might seem silly. But the first song I learnt...   Oct 20 2010, 11:20 PM
- - Todd Simpson   When I first started playing I learned the cheese ...   Oct 21 2010, 02:01 AM
- - Daniel Robinson   Hrm, That was a long time ago...let me see if my ...   Oct 21 2010, 08:26 AM
|- - purple hayes   QUOTE (Daniel Robinson @ Oct 21 2010, 03...   Oct 21 2010, 02:47 PM
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- - LasseHenriksen   Black Sabbath - Ironman and ac/dc TNT and Thunders...   Oct 21 2010, 04:17 PM
- - Nielzsz   I think my first accoustic songs were Clocks by co...   Nov 11 2010, 10:49 AM
- - MonkeyDAthos   wish you were here - pink floyd and shook me all ...   Nov 11 2010, 01:37 PM
- - JkB   I first picked up my father's classical guitar...   Nov 11 2010, 02:50 PM
- - Bogdan Radovic   Hey guys check out the latest video and topic on t...   Nov 12 2010, 01:41 PM
- - loundzilla   The first song i learnt to play from start to fini...   Mar 15 2011, 09:30 PM
- - JamesT   Stairway   Mar 16 2011, 03:00 AM
|- - Bear Rose   QUOTE (JamesT @ Mar 15 2011, 10:00 PM) St...   Apr 4 2011, 09:34 PM
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- - bill95   Knockin' on heaven's door , i learned it a...   May 11 2011, 07:15 PM
- - nikeman64   Yep, ... Knockin' On Heaven's door --- GNR...   Jul 20 2011, 06:29 PM
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