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Your First Song Learned On The Guitar

EchoMinor	Date: March 30, 2006 @ 11:42 PM so what is everyones first song they learned how to play on the guitar when they first started out? i thank MelBay lol for showing me how to play House of The Rising Sun!
tsand19151	Date: March 31, 2006 @ 12:26 AM "Sex Machine" by Sly and the Family Stone. Just got my Kimbery guitar and a wha-wha pedal. Learned the whole song note for note in about a month.
leedsquietman	Date: March 31, 2006 @ 12:39 AM mull of kintyre - wings - mostly 2 chords and single downstrokes !!!
EchoMinor	Date: March 31, 2006 @ 12:45 AM i had a vintage rickenbacker 660/12 from the 50's i was using to learn on...would eventually take it down to a six string once i figured out 12 were a pain in the ass to tune for a beginner... to this day i curse my folks for eventually selling it to someone.
leedsquietman	Date: March 31, 2006 @ 1:14 AM House Of The Rising Sun is always a classic, one of the best songs to learn arpeggios, etc.
mattbanx	Date: March 31, 2006 @ 2:00 AM "Dust In The Wind" - Kansas I learned that from a guitar instructor from a music store. The chords were a lot more basic than I thought. I tried learning "Hotel California" on my own from a book. The chords to that song seem pretty basic too. I can't always read tab good so I had to guess partially. But that type of rythmn was hard to catch on to for me. Subtle, intricate changes in the timing signature of that song. I always would have loved to learn "House Of The Rising Sun" on guitar. I learned it on keyboard though. Well at least somewhat.
EvilPicnic	Date: March 31, 2006 @ 7:54 AM Mull of Kintyre.
Alstroph	Date: March 31, 2006 @ 8:18 AM I think Iron Man was my first. Smoke on the water came soon after
JeraldHenry	Date: March 31, 2006 @ 11:42 AM Wow, I'm not sure I can remember back that far. Hmm, the first song I learned? Um, I think it was I'm A New Creation by David Ingles.
GTOriginal	Date: March 31, 2006 @ 4:57 PM I was like 10 years old and learned the chords to "Blackberry Blossom" to back up my 1/2 brother's banjo. Goes like this: G/D/C/G//A/D7/ and Em/G/Em/B7/Em/G/CDG First rock tune was "Friend of the Devil" by the Grateful Dead, basically a bunch of descending G major scales and G/C/D/Am
Alecs	Date: March 31, 2006 @ 5:13 PM http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail58.html
EvilPicnic	Date: March 31, 2006 @ 5:16 PM Expanding on my above post; I played nothing but chords for a whole year and a half, for some reason, starting with Mull of Kintyre & working my way up through jazz standards. Then the guitarist in one of the bands at school left and they needed someone to fill in and play Feeder's Buck Rogers, & they'd seen me strumming jazzy chords, knew I played piano & assumed I was good, so gave me a tab book with the song in. I remember taking it to the music teacher and asking what the weird notation meant (I got confused by bends). I played the gig sitting on the amp, I'd always played my acoustic sitting down. This was 2 years ago. Then I started taking the guitar seriously.
Firefly	Date: March 31, 2006 @ 6:15 PM eh god... half the world away by oasis. after that experience i did nothing but make up my own. they were all crap like but at least i couldn't get them wrong.. was whati thought... if only i'd stuck to learning chords i'd .. well i'd be able to play more for sure...
SimonWaldram	Date: March 31, 2006 @ 6:59 PM I know the first one I learned to sing and play at the same time to was 'Houses on the Hill' by Whiskeytown. I had a pretty good version of it but when I tried to re-learn it not long ago it sounded terrible
evansorchid	Date: March 31, 2006 @ 11:18 PM I'd learned to play lots of songs before I picked up the guitar b/c I was taking piano lessons as a kid. But, I believe the very first song that a friend showed me on the guitar was 'Country Roads' by John Denver. Then shortly after that I figured out the chords to 'Pinball Wizard' by The Who.
Droquen	Date: April 1, 2006 @ 2:30 AM ...Leaving On A Jet Plane, sadly enough. The website told me to do it!
EvalLin	Date: April 1, 2006 @ 2:36 AM "smoke on the water" and a part of the "Ode to Joy"
zedsalt	Date: April 1, 2006 @ 10:29 AM Mountain's "Mississippi Queen"
tooles	Date: April 1, 2006 @ 6:49 PM I can't remember if the first song I actually learned was "Who'll Stop The Rain" by CCR or "Space Oddity" by David Bowie...but the first thing I learned that I was proud of was "Yesterday" by The Beatles.
xXOppressioNXx	Date: April 2, 2006 @ 4:30 PM lol, Skip to the lou, took me like 30 mins to get it down, love my self taught skills. But my first real song would have to be Rock N Roll by Led Zepplin
icomeformusic	Date: April 2, 2006 @ 8:21 PM i learned a few easy songs with basic chords of dylan, and a few riffs of the stones but my first complete song was stairway to heavan
Traf	Date: April 9, 2006 @ 4:04 PM For the love of god, Steve Vai only joking.. errr, Walk don't run by the Ventures.. Still can't play it properly.
Mojosnake	Date: April 12, 2006 @ 9:25 PM ya'll might nit belive this but i'm still learnig my first songs and i've been playing for year the song are hey joe-hendrix and thrill is gone bb king there both covers he he
shadowself	Date: April 12, 2006 @ 9:38 PM Proud Mary. Taught myself, too. I have never learned a single chord from another person. Or a book. (You should see the way I mangle the fingering!!)
headwound	Date: April 17, 2006 @ 1:52 AM Nothing Else Matters was my first song.
SuperBlob	Date: April 17, 2006 @ 7:58 AM I think it was Micheal by Franz Ferdinand
poetix	Date: April 22, 2006 @ 8:39 PM smoke on the water by deep purple, but then i learned my own summer(shove it) by the deftones. nice!!
hate9wicket	Date: April 22, 2006 @ 8:53 PM I think it was "When I'm 64" which most of my brothers sang as a toast at the wedding reception of our brother (I have four). Either that or "I will Follow"...which would explain my open string habit.
Intergalacti...	Date: April 23, 2006 @ 6:35 AM Michael Row your boat ashore when i became cool thats when smells like teen spirit came into play and of course deep purple ohhhh yeaaahh
billrhynes	Date: April 23, 2006 @ 4:14 PM I think...My Sharona??? -Gad
Snoogans775	Date: April 23, 2006 @ 6:54 PM Hall of the mountain king, wait, no. the first song I really sat downa nd learned was "pawn shop" by sublime.
wesme	Date: April 28, 2006 @ 12:33 AM come as you are - nirvana
Alexsy	Date: April 28, 2006 @ 12:47 AM about a girl -- nirvana
RocShaman	Date: May 2, 2006 @ 6:34 AM I think it was Neil Young's Heart Of Gold, but it's been a long time.
HerSweetSoli...	Date: May 2, 2006 @ 8:16 PM "Cailin" by Unwritten Law
AMGram	Date: May 2, 2006 @ 8:20 PM Oh, I remember learning "Come as you are"
DeadraveN	Date: May 2, 2006 @ 8:21 PM "dammit" by Blink182.. and a slew of other "punk" stuff,.. but in my defense I bought a guitar before even knowing what a chord was.. ha haI just wanted to be loud... I of course, had to learn stairway and blackbird, and a few other classics sometime later to vindicate myself..
jof1029	Date: May 3, 2006 @ 5:07 PM i think the first song i learned to play was let her cry by hootie and the blowfish. sure it was just the chords, but at the time i was proud of myself. probably the first full song i learned was Californication by RHCP, and its still one of my favorite songs to play.
further21	Date: May 3, 2006 @ 11:57 PM 'Glycerine' by bush i think. The first song i figured out by my self was 'Steadier Footing' by death cab for cutie.
further21	Date: May 3, 2006 @ 11:59 PM 'Glycerine' by bush i think. The first song i figured out by my self was 'Steadier Footing' by death cab for cutie.
Dutchlike	Date: May 4, 2006 @ 8:01 AM "Michelle" by anouk
BasicBoy	Date: May 4, 2006 @ 11:25 AM deep purple - smoke on the water
Nuttbuster	Date: May 5, 2006 @ 12:16 AM crazy train baby!
lazrpo1nt3r	Date: May 7, 2006 @ 5:13 PM A Ramones song called "Outsider"... or at least I tried it, I gave up on it( Wow... that's emberassing) So I watched my dad play Iron Man and that's my first song.
GeneHilbert	Date: May 7, 2006 @ 6:04 PM I really can not remember, Satisfaction maybe, Green Onions, Theme to Bonanza........ LOL – could have been any of those..... I do remember however that when Santana's first album and then Abraxas' w/ Samba Pa Ti – that shit changed my whole musical direction and focus.
RocShaman	Date: May 9, 2006 @ 8:13 AM Abraxas rocks
RFox	Date: May 9, 2006 @ 8:57 AM First song i learned was Otherside, by the peppers
supermoose89	Date: May 20, 2006 @ 7:47 AM "Londons Burning" when I was about 5 years old. But that was it for like 7 years, then I started relearning with part of "song of joy." First electric was the begining of Voodoo Child. But I don't really play electric.
KitRumble	Date: May 20, 2006 @ 7:57 AM dammit...i feel like the '40yr old virgin' cos i havent learnt a song on guitar yet.
coopster	Date: May 20, 2006 @ 9:12 AM paranoid... either that or old mcdonald. no, wait, it was paranoid.
litesenseative	Date: May 20, 2006 @ 9:26 AM leaving on a jet plane