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Post subject: Do You Remember the First Song You Learned to Play?
Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2015 8:22 pm
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I started taking guitar lessons about six weeks ago. I've learned the chords and notes of the CMaj scale in the first position...now my instructor has me learning how to play When the Saints Go Marching In. Of course this is exciting for me; this will forever be the first song I learned to play on the guitar. I can imagine I'll be playing it forever.

I was wondering if your first song is still near and dear to your heart or is it a long forgotten memory?

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Post subject: Re: Do You Remember the First Song You Learned to Play?
Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2015 8:49 pm
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"Michael Row the Boat Ashore" (C-D-G) - 1975 on my first guitar, an acoustic that I got for Christmas. If memory serves, the model number of the guitar was G-75, but I don't remember the make.

The song was more like; (strum first chord) Michael-row-the-boat-ashore, halle........(looong pause to change to next chord).....luuuuuuujah, ........more pause for hurting fingers......resume..... :lol:

After taking lessons for a couple of months, I could play that song and one other, couldn't tell you the second song, and then lost interest in guitar for many years, then picked it up again and since has been self-taught. I really enjoy playing now, although just mediocre, but wonder how good I could be if I had stuck with it from the age of 12. :?:

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Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2015 8:51 pm
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Ummmmm.... Nope.

Long forgotten memory.

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Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2015 8:54 pm
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I'm pretty sure Apache was the first song I learned. That would have been about '63 or '64. No I don't ever try to play it anymore.

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Post subject: Re: Do You Remember the First Song You Learned to Play?
Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2015 9:41 pm
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Guessing it was something along the lines of Red River Valley or Camptown Races that my Dad taught me when I was about 10. Then they got divorced and we moved. When I picked up the guitar again and started learning I picked Heart of Gold by Neil Young as my first self taught song. My older brother stayed with my Dad and ended up playing bass for a living. Sometimes makes me wonder if I should have.


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Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2015 10:09 pm
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shimmilou wrote:
The song was more like; (strum first chord) Michael-row-the-boat-ashore, halle........(looong pause to change to next chord).....luuuuuuujah, ........more pause for hurting fingers......resume..... :lol:



:lol: :lol: :lol:
The long pauses for chord changes...isn't that the truth.


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Post subject: Re: Do You Remember the First Song You Learned to Play?
Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2015 10:11 pm
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John L Rose wrote:
Ummmmm.... Nope.

Long forgotten memory.


How about the last song you learned???


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Post subject: Re: Do You Remember the First Song You Learned to Play?
Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2015 10:19 pm
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Drew365 wrote:
I'm pretty sure Apache was the first song I learned. That would have been about '63 or '64. No I don't ever try to play it anymore.



By the Shadows???
I just listened to it on YouTube.
I can see that being a good first tune to learn.


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Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2015 10:50 pm
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The first song I ever taught myself to play was either "Hang On Sloopy" by the McCoys or "Gloria" by Them (the data banks are a little rusty on that).

The first song that someone taught me to play was Wilson Pickett's "In The Midnight Hour".

Of course all this occurred during the Pliocene era when dinosaurs still roamed the planet's five continents and Colonel Sanders hadn't quite yet mastered the recipe for Kentucky Fried Pterodactyl.

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Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2015 12:15 am
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Post subject: Re: Do You Remember the First Song You Learned to Play?
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shimmilou wrote:
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Post subject: Re: Do You Remember the First Song You Learned to Play?
Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2015 7:18 am
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No, I don't remember, but it had to have been a song with C, D7, G and/or G7. They were the first chords I learned back in 1967.


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Post subject: Re: Do You Remember the First Song You Learned to Play?
Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2015 9:16 am
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This made me think for a moment.

It was "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" out of Mel Bay's Modern Guitar Method. Although for some reason or other he called it, "Sparkling Stella".

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Post subject: Re: Do You Remember the First Song You Learned to Play?
Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2015 11:12 am
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I remember à thread like this a few years back, sure I said House of the Rising Sun, 101 songs made easy for guitar book, sure it was in there somewhere along with Proud Mary and 99 others


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Taking guitar lessons, the first song was the old time gospel tune "Rock A My Soul" (at least it had the word "rock" in the title ...)

The first rock song was AC/DC's "Problem Child". I was shocked at how simple and repetitive it was to play. Is this really right?? I was a twelve-year old huge AC/DC fan (this was a few years before Bon died) and started to lose interest in AC/DC as I learned how simplistic their music was ... which propelled me further into more progressive bands like Led Zeppelin, the Who, and Yes. It was right around that time I discovered Rush (the "A Farewell To Kings" era for my Rush brethren), and -- to this day -- they are still my favorite band.

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