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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 12:44 pm
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my first songs came out of the Mel Bay beginner book around 1962 I was 12 yr. old, I think it was Down in the valley, when I was in 8th grade I played "Never On Sunday" on stage in front of all the students 1st through 8th grades, the Mother Superior got her nickers in a twist because the song was a bit to racy at that time, after 8th grade I was in a neighborhood band, found out about the stones, yardbirds ,ventures, chuck berry and a whole lot of others and the rest as they say is history

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Welcome to the forum.
My first tunes and indeed many from my era and in the UK were nice easy tunes by The Shadows. e.g. Wonderful Land, Theme For Young Lovers etc


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First song on the bass would have been some beatles song,

First song on guitar would have been Mr Jones

First solo on guitar would have been Victoria by dance exponents.

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welcome dood! after learning the basics. like chords and stuff. i learned Brainstew by Green Day

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The first song I learned was "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground" by The White Stripes. I was so excited. And constant practice minimum of 3 hours a day lead me to where I am now. :D


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Smoke On The Water. :D


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been learning the Alkaline Trio version of "Wake Up, Exhausted" originally done by Tegan & Sarah

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Post subject: Good list, anyone know a great songbook to capture them
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:30 pm
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Great list. I am a beginner and wondered if anyone had a favorite songbook with as many of these as possible.

My first electric... Wahoo!!

By the way, if you are a movie buff you should go see "The Guitar". It just screened at the Denver Film Festival. Not only a great movie, it inspired me to make the leap. :D


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I'm looking at all these 1st songs and thinking wow some place to start.

My teacher started me with simple things like old english folk tunes like Greensleeves before progressing onto old Chicago blues tunes and classical Spanish stuff.

It was much later before we got into anything like Hotel California or Back in Black.

I look at this from a great grounding point of view and think that the ease I can start to learn a new tune now is because of all the styles i have been taught


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Long ago while messing around on friends' guitars I worked out the chords to Louie Louie and the lead part in Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing by Chris Isaak.

Now that I'm in lessons my first chord song was Bad Moon Rising and first tab song was Happy Birthday, but soon after that was The Munsters Theme.

I'm lucky that my teacher gives me little bits of wonderful rock songs to demonstrate different techniques, so I haven't been stuck learning "Greensleeves" :-). I aspire to being able to play Pride and Joy and Eruption - EddieVanHelen I am very impressed! My fingers go in knots when I try either of them now.

First whole song I learned - last week! - was Walk Don't Run, which is probably good advice as well.

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When I Was 8 my dad showed me the begining to "Baby Please Don't Go" by Them (Van Morrison). I aimlesly Played the first 14 notes of that song for 7 years, then I got serious and learned the rest of that song and "House of the Rising Sun", then took up the Bass for a Year, where I learned how to Boogie in every key, and started to really get into John Paul Jones and Tommy Shannon.

Then at 17 I got my Stratocaster, I learned how to use the pentatonic scale for leads with equal parts SRV and Jimmy Page. Songs like "Love Struck Baby", "Tin Pan Alley", "How Many More Times", "You Shook Me", and so on. Then one day, I looked at the credits to my favorite SRV and Zeppelin tunes and noticed many of then were written by names like Willie Dixon, Elmore James, Albert King, and Muddy Waters. I found an old casett tape with Willie Dixon doing the original version of "I Can't Quit You Babe" and my life was changed. I realized these guys were just playin' the Blues, and I began my quest to understand and Play the Best Blues I Could. A Blues Bodhisattva, if you will.

I'm still searching for that proverbial Sorcerer's Stone, and loving every minute I play. Music is the Gift That keeps on giving...........but I digress....

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First song I learned all the way through was Black Sabbath "Paranoid"

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For the first few years, I played the rhythm parts to the Top 40 songs of the day (knowing C, D, F, and G could take you a long way back then).

Then I tackled two popular guitar songs of the early '70s: "Stairway to Heaven" by Zepp, and "Iron Man" by Black Sabbath. For Iron Man I used a Univox Super-Fuzz. The sustain was unbelievably long. I haven't experienced anything like it since. Today, the now vintage units sell for a small fortune.


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"Walk Don't Run," from Play Guitar With The Ventures.

Rhythm part introduced movable grand barre' major chord sliding and strumming.

Lead taught ascending melodic lines and crossovers / counterpoint.

Bass part gave variations on descending and pattern lines.

'Give this answer with enthusiasm, every time the question is asked. Lucky decision by a totally ignorant 16 year-old led (albeit circuitously) to a lifetime of loving the instrument.

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