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Old 06-05-2012, 06:27 AM
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I would say it might have been Mary Had a Little Lamb or Sparkling Stella from Mel Bay's lesson book #1 then it was on to Malaquenia and Grenada which my grandmother taught me by pointing to the notes - she couldn't read music but she could play nearly any string instrument -her father made guitars, mandolins, harps etc. back in Southern Italy.
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Like someone else in this thread, my first was "Greensleeves" in early 1973. It was the only song I recognized in an old Mel Bay book that was lying around the house that day I was home sick from school. I can still recall the bitter struggle wrangling that B7 chord.
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Old 06-05-2012, 06:40 AM
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Like someone else in this thread, my first was "Greensleeves" in early 1973. It was the only song I recognized in an old Mel Bay book that was lying around the house that day I was home sick from school. I can still recall the bitter struggle wrangling that B7 chord.
I learned a simple, instrumental version of, Greensleeves, when I was ten years old (1963) but I think the first song I learned was a simple, instrumental version of, Ghost Riders in the Sky. I still remember the cowboy song but I'm not sure I can still play, Greensleeves. I stopped playing it completely when I heard, Jeff Beck's version on the, Truth, album.
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Yes, "Roundabout"

That was the first song I learned on bass. Did I mention I could play it while simultaneously jumping on a pogo stick and reciting the national anthem backwards after three days of practice ? >:P~

I think my first song was "Rainbow in the Dark" by Dio. I had a Guitar for the Practicing Musician magazine with the tab in it. I was so ecstatic that it actually sounded like the song, I was beside myself. However, if I could have sang the vocals half as good as Ronnie Dio, I would have done the best Pete Townsend impression ever and turned the guitar into splinters. Man Ronnie Dio could sing RIP !!!

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I doubt tat anyone ill even know the first song the I learned on guitar.
Son Don't Go Near The Indians, by Rex Allen Senior. [G-C-D]
Here it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsLaTC6bGdo
I do very well, an interesting song, cleverly if tacitly addressing racism and inter racial relationships especially for that time 1968. Funny how country music in the past has had some truly great insightful songs and hits examining these types of social issues. including "Skip a Rope by Henson Cargill " , "The Getto by Elvis" and "Out Among the Stars" by Waylon Jennings.
Pity how it seems like current country is consumed with produicing stereotypical, pop teen female angst, Party Hardy, or I'm so country fried, I drive to town on my tractor wrapped in the flag. " It's a strange strange world we live in Master Jack"

The song I first learned was a smash it in 1964, again the prototypical first for many babyboomers "House of the Rising Sun" considered as the launch song of Folk Rock.
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Stand By Me - Oasis (acoustic version) First one I learned start to finish.
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Tom Petty....Won't Back Down
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Can't recall exactly, but it was probably from Pete Seeger's "America's Favorite Ballads," maybe Careless Love.
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When I was about 10 I picked out the Pink Panther theme, (poorly), but many years later, I think the first song I could play and sing was "Dear Abby", by John Prine, or it might have been "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry", by Hank Williams.
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Old 06-05-2012, 08:28 AM
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Smoke on the Water. No open chords. No chords that started on anything other than low E. It still took me a day or two to get it right.
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I think it was "House of the Rising Sun". That might still explain my love for the Em...

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I remember going to my high school guitar club and they were teaching "House of the Rising Sun". For some reason I didn't get it figured out then. Now in hindsight if I would have stuck it out I would have picked up basics a lot faster. All basic chords.
My first song was "Daytripper"
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The theme from "Bonanza".
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Old 06-05-2012, 10:24 AM
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Eleanor Rigby. It only takes C and Em... I played keyboards in a band that wanted to do a Beatles medley and swap instruments during the songs. Eleanor Rigby became my guitar part because it was the easiest to teach me, the only non guitar player of the 5 of us.

I got hooked and bought my first guitar about a month later.
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Old 06-05-2012, 11:12 AM
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"Teach Your Children" by CSN was the first song I remember playing. The 2nd song was, I think, was Peaceful Easy Feeling by Jackson Browne (and the Eagles)
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