Mine was Wonderwall, because I heard it was really easy to play, not because I was a big fan of the song.
what about you?
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It's impossible to start learning guitar and not play at least one of the following:
1) Wonderwall
2) Smells Like Teen Spirit
3) The riff from Satisfaction
or as of recent times
Seven Nation Army
I've never played any of these songs
While everyone else was having teenage years full of Nirvana and rocking out, I was playing Bert Jansch tunes, and Tears in Heaven. Oh god, that was the first thing, actually. Ew.
The reason I learned guitar was so I could play I Will Dare by the Replacements
so that. Chords first, then the riff.
Da-dum-dum-dum dum-da-da-dum
good choice!
Nirvana's sliver bass line
smells like teen spirit
ha
mine was come as you are
Nevermind should have been subtitled 'Easy Pieces for Little Fingers'
Stereophonics 'Traffic'
cast no shadow
by oasis
^^^Hey me too!
Wild Thing
It doesn't get much easier than that :)
i learnt how to play stairway to heaven backwards
stairway from heaven?
:)
james bond!!
^5
it was a creepily accurate prophesy of my later life
AS A SUPERSPY
urghhhhhh
This was the first thing I remember my brother learning on guitar.
He just played the main riff over and over and over again for fucking months. Until I told him to shut up or learn something new and how to play it properly.
He went on to get a degree in music :-)
the
first i could play properly and learned myself was psychosis safari by 80s matchbox. its probably still the only proper song i can play!
i learnt this early on too
but like, by ear. so it's probably wrong
space oddity
still cant play all of it though :S
Bowie songs aren't easy
and Space Oddity has ..what? Bm7 and all sorts of crazy chords, eh. You must be the overachiever type!
Me = Dead Flowers - Rolling Stones.
/stupid type
I then learnt how to play a forest by the cure.
Far easier :)
1. Smells like teen spirit
2. Islands in the sun
3. Dammit :)
All the way through?
"It's A Shame About Ray" By Lemonheads
something in an old "how to play guitar"
book that my parents had from the 80s. I think it had something by Dylan, Mull of Kintyre, and some other songs I didn't know at the time so I just strummed the chords randomly on an out of tune Spanish guitar.
Then lots of Oasis.
First song I played on stage was There She Goes by the Las.
oh noel gallagher
thank you for writing all of your songs around the same 4 chords so that i could play nearly your entire back catalogue by the time i was 16 :)
The Complete How to Play Guitar
My first was 'Summertime Blues' by Eddie Cochran. Followed by Mull of Kintyre I think.
Trigger Cut
By Pavement. From a tab on Ultimate Guitar. I now know that it wasn't a very good one. Right chords but in the wrong octave.
Staaandard
Wonderwall, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Everybody Hurts (and Bonnie and Clyde)
sunset rubdown - us ones in between
and neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane over the sea
learnt them both around the same time.
i still play both very often.
the obvious one...
smoke on the water riff - surely that's everyone's first...
^ yup
Smells Like Teen Spirit
duh
The Young Ones
By Cliff Richard.
Followed by Jean Genie by Bowie. That song is the reason I started playing guitar.
I just realised I started playing guitar 11 years ago. I should really be better at it than I am...
i thought
it was always smoke on the water?
Oasis: the reason for a generation of bedroom guitarists
For me it was Live Forever.
I had an Oasis Song Book and remember having trouble with anything with an F chord in it. Oh how I can look back and laugh.
Big Me
\Foo Fighters
Start All Over
Kula Shaker
yup.
Nirvana Heavy...
(in this order) About A Girl, Polly, Come As You Are, Smells Like Teen Spirit.
XYU by the Smashing Pumpkins
or so I'm told by my mate.
I'd always assumed it was 'Come as you are'...
Hey Mr Tambourine Man, aged 15
Fuck, amazed I didn't become a hippy.
Hey Joe
I think it was Apache by The Shadows
(I was having lessons).
The first song I learned myself was, unsurprisingly, Wonderwall.
Predictably, it was Smoke On The Water
but it wasn't very good.
ziggy
stardust
of course
Nick Cave - "The Ship Song"
you win this thread
foo fighters
everlong
and i still can't play it that well!
Walk this Way - Aerosmith
Polly - Nirvana
R.E.M.
Everybody Hurts - what a morbid teenager I was
The chord changes to...
Knockin' On Heavens Door - Bob Dylan
'sonic reducer'
by the Dead Boys.
-
great!
penny royal tea
Who's got the crack - moldy peaches
i'm fairly certain i could play it better than them after about a week
Dont Look Back In Anger
and 'History' by the Verve i think.
Run to You
Bryan Adams. 19 years of age I was. haha
erm...
stand by me i think.
Embarrassingly
It was Inside by Stiltskin
I started on bass guitar
the first thing I ever learned was Gigantic by the Pixies.
(I first attempted Monkey Gone to Heaven, but the tab I downloaded was wrong- how anyone managed to screw that up is beyond me!)
Cliff Richard
Mistletoe and Wine
Really.
respect.
Cliff has some classics
My Sharona solo
I wish!
hmm
I think it was something 'classic' like wish you were here or house of the rising sun.
Lol @ 'Run To You'
RATM
'Killing In The Name Of'
Learnt loads of other RATM songs when I started too, the riffs are easy.
Ball & Chain
Social Distortion (first song singing and playing guitar anyways... piece of piss for both parts together)
Local Boy In The Photograph
By The Stereophonics! You Know the Intro? took my 5 days to get iy down. Then was laughed out the room by my friends when I tried to play it infront of them.
i 'learned' in that i know the chords
but struggle to play them :
The spiderman theme
Sweet jane
Smells like teen spirit
yesterday is here
the chain
that was some afternoon
Street Spirit
It was within the first 5 songs anyway along with the obvious teen spirit and probably some green day/offspring rubbish.
The riff from Come As You Are
Kumbaya
It's a lways a hit when my neice is round or on camping trips
Rock and Roll!!
Queen Bitch
after watching the life aquatic.
come up and see me
make me smiiiiiiiiiiiiiiile
because, said the teacher, it had a 'good scale to learn as well as basic open chords'.
makes sense.
Mad World...
It was about the time that you couldn't move for hearing Gary Jules' version of it somewhere.
It was closely followed by Seven Nation Army.
maggot brain
heheheh
Mr Jones
counting crows
Street spirit, radiohead
yep
wonderwall was the first "cool" (normal)song i learned on acoustic guitar when i was about 9 or 10.
Blink 182
all the small things,
with my thumb on the low E
was awful!
;)
It's impossible to start learning guitar and not play at least one of the following:
1) Wonderwall
2) Smells Like Teen Spirit
3) The riff from Satisfaction
or as of recent times
Seven Nation Army
I've never played any of these songs
While everyone else was having teenage years full of Nirvana and rocking out, I was playing Bert Jansch tunes, and Tears in Heaven. Oh god, that was the first thing, actually. Ew.
The reason I learned guitar was so I could play I Will Dare by the Replacements
so that. Chords first, then the riff.
Da-dum-dum-dum dum-da-da-dum
good choice!
Nirvana's sliver bass line
smells like teen spirit
ha
mine was come as you are
Nevermind should have been subtitled 'Easy Pieces for Little Fingers'
Stereophonics 'Traffic'
cast no shadow
by oasis
^^^Hey me too!
Wild Thing
It doesn't get much easier than that :)
i learnt how to play stairway to heaven backwards
stairway from heaven?
:)
james bond!!
^5
it was a creepily accurate prophesy of my later life
AS A SUPERSPY
urghhhhhh
This was the first thing I remember my brother learning on guitar.
He just played the main riff over and over and over again for fucking months. Until I told him to shut up or learn something new and how to play it properly.
He went on to get a degree in music :-)
the
first i could play properly and learned myself was psychosis safari by 80s matchbox. its probably still the only proper song i can play!
i learnt this early on too
but like, by ear. so it's probably wrong
space oddity
still cant play all of it though :S
Bowie songs aren't easy
and Space Oddity has ..what? Bm7 and all sorts of crazy chords, eh. You must be the overachiever type!
Me = Dead Flowers - Rolling Stones.
/stupid type
I then learnt how to play a forest by the cure.
Far easier :)
1. Smells like teen spirit
2. Islands in the sun
3. Dammit :)
All the way through?
"It's A Shame About Ray" By Lemonheads
something in an old "how to play guitar"
book that my parents had from the 80s. I think it had something by Dylan, Mull of Kintyre, and some other songs I didn't know at the time so I just strummed the chords randomly on an out of tune Spanish guitar.
Then lots of Oasis.
First song I played on stage was There She Goes by the Las.
oh noel gallagher
thank you for writing all of your songs around the same 4 chords so that i could play nearly your entire back catalogue by the time i was 16 :)
The Complete How to Play Guitar
My first was 'Summertime Blues' by Eddie Cochran. Followed by Mull of Kintyre I think.
Trigger Cut
By Pavement. From a tab on Ultimate Guitar. I now know that it wasn't a very good one. Right chords but in the wrong octave.
Staaandard
Wonderwall, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Everybody Hurts (and Bonnie and Clyde)
sunset rubdown - us ones in between
and neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane over the sea
learnt them both around the same time.
i still play both very often.
the obvious one...
smoke on the water riff - surely that's everyone's first...
^ yup
Smells Like Teen Spirit
duh
The Young Ones
By Cliff Richard.
Followed by Jean Genie by Bowie. That song is the reason I started playing guitar.
I just realised I started playing guitar 11 years ago. I should really be better at it than I am...
i thought
it was always smoke on the water?
Oasis: the reason for a generation of bedroom guitarists
For me it was Live Forever.
I had an Oasis Song Book and remember having trouble with anything with an F chord in it. Oh how I can look back and laugh.
Big Me
\Foo Fighters
Start All Over
Kula Shaker
yup.
Nirvana Heavy...
(in this order) About A Girl, Polly, Come As You Are, Smells Like Teen Spirit.
XYU by the Smashing Pumpkins
or so I'm told by my mate.
I'd always assumed it was 'Come as you are'...
Hey Mr Tambourine Man, aged 15
Fuck, amazed I didn't become a hippy.
Hey Joe
I think it was Apache by The Shadows
(I was having lessons).
The first song I learned myself was, unsurprisingly, Wonderwall.
Predictably, it was Smoke On The Water
but it wasn't very good.
ziggy
stardust
of course
Nick Cave - "The Ship Song"
you win this thread
foo fighters
everlong
and i still can't play it that well!
Walk this Way - Aerosmith
Polly - Nirvana
R.E.M.
Everybody Hurts - what a morbid teenager I was
The chord changes to...
Knockin' On Heavens Door - Bob Dylan
'sonic reducer'
by the Dead Boys.
-
great!
penny royal tea
Who's got the crack - moldy peaches
i'm fairly certain i could play it better than them after about a week
Dont Look Back In Anger
and 'History' by the Verve i think.
Run to You
Bryan Adams. 19 years of age I was. haha
erm...
stand by me i think.
Embarrassingly
It was Inside by Stiltskin
I started on bass guitar
the first thing I ever learned was Gigantic by the Pixies.
(I first attempted Monkey Gone to Heaven, but the tab I downloaded was wrong- how anyone managed to screw that up is beyond me!)
Cliff Richard
Mistletoe and Wine
Really.
respect.
Cliff has some classics
My Sharona solo
I wish!
hmm
I think it was something 'classic' like wish you were here or house of the rising sun.
Lol @ 'Run To You'
RATM
'Killing In The Name Of'
Learnt loads of other RATM songs when I started too, the riffs are easy.
Ball & Chain
Social Distortion (first song singing and playing guitar anyways... piece of piss for both parts together)
Local Boy In The Photograph
By The Stereophonics! You Know the Intro? took my 5 days to get iy down. Then was laughed out the room by my friends when I tried to play it infront of them.
i 'learned' in that i know the chords
but struggle to play them :
The spiderman theme
Sweet jane
Smells like teen spirit
yesterday is here
the chain
that was some afternoon
Street Spirit
It was within the first 5 songs anyway along with the obvious teen spirit and probably some green day/offspring rubbish.
The riff from Come As You Are
Kumbaya
It's a lways a hit when my neice is round or on camping trips
Rock and Roll!!
Queen Bitch
after watching the life aquatic.
come up and see me
make me smiiiiiiiiiiiiiiile
because, said the teacher, it had a 'good scale to learn as well as basic open chords'.
makes sense.
Mad World...
It was about the time that you couldn't move for hearing Gary Jules' version of it somewhere.
It was closely followed by Seven Nation Army.
maggot brain
heheheh
Mr Jones
counting crows
Street spirit, radiohead
yep
wonderwall was the first "cool" (normal)song i learned on acoustic guitar when i was about 9 or 10.
Blink 182
all the small things,
with my thumb on the low E
was awful!
;)