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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2020 19:30:37 GMT -5
My buddy taught me the melody of Sunshine Of Your Love by Cream. I learned it using single note lines at first, But the first full song I learned using full chords on my Stella guitar was House Of The Rising Sun, The Animals version. This was back in the mid 1960's.
Later on when I joined one of my first band efforts I learned Sunshine Of Your Love in full chords and leads to complete my learning of that song.
What about y'all? What was the first song on your instrument that you learned and played.
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Post by whitefang on Aug 1, 2020 10:28:04 GMT -5
I told the story of my stepsister, who was my first guitar teacher, helped me learn a song she had on an old 78 which was Hank Williams' "Move It On Over." And how it helped my win a free joint on a bet years later when George Thurogood covered it years later,.
That was the early '60's. Whitefang
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Post by jbone on Aug 1, 2020 23:35:30 GMT -5
Being a harp improv guy it's hard to think what I may have learned to play all the way by myself first. I do recall one night after a jam in Denton Tx at a place, I had sat in with the house band quite a bit as there were no other harp guys out. After it was all done I was chatting with a couple who had brought their kids out for supper and stayed to hear the music. The 10 year old boy kept asking me to play him something on harp. Eventually he bummed a buck from his dad and handed it to me and asked again. Okay, so I'd sat in on Texas Flood like 300 times by then being in Texas near Dallas. SRV territory. So I improvved the song on harp and sang the lyrics. Kid was happy, I was happy. Stevie may have been spinning in his grave!
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Post by earleg on Aug 3, 2020 15:31:56 GMT -5
It was either a song called "Zombie Jamboree" or a R&R type 1/4/5 progression that used "slide ons" for each chord.. I learned Zombie from a neighbors friend and but didn't know was also done by the Kingston Trio.
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Post by whitefang on Aug 4, 2020 9:32:24 GMT -5
Y'all live and learn. Funniest tale I heard was of the guy I know who one day decided to sit through that old movie musical "THE MUSIC MAN" and was surprised to hear a Lennon/McCartney tune in it! ( "Till There Was You") Much to his surprise however.... Whitefang
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Post by whitefang on Aug 5, 2020 9:39:27 GMT -5
And to push on further, the first "instrumental" tune I learned to play on guitar was Duane Eddy's "Rebel Rouser". Followed closely by "Wildwood Flower". Would be years until I learned the latter's lyrics.
Whitefang
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Post by jbone on Aug 5, 2020 10:44:42 GMT -5
Come to think of it, a few years ago I got my hands on a square neck Regal acoustic guitar. The frets were numbered and all and I was working on Roll and Tumble just kind of by instinct. Jolene I think pitied me when she saw I was not doing chords or even any fingerpicking really. I lost the guitar in our disaster 3 years ago. If I'd kept it I may have actually learned the right way to play some stuff. The plan was we'd be in the middle of a song and we'd stop and Jo would grab a harp and I'd grab that guitar and we'd finish the song that way. I was also looking forward to doing dual guitars and having a rack harp in the mix as well.
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Post by whitefang on Aug 6, 2020 9:31:14 GMT -5
Should be able to find a cheap enough axe in a pawn shop, so give it another go. Whitefang
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Post by jbone on Aug 6, 2020 14:52:43 GMT -5
"Should be able to find a cheap enough axe in a pawn shop, so give it another go."
I don't know, maybe the moment has passed.
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Post by whitefang on Aug 7, 2020 9:16:44 GMT -5
My wife once said(and claimed to have heard it from her Father) that the only time it's too late for most anything is when you die.
Whitefang
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Post by whitefang on Aug 12, 2020 9:45:41 GMT -5
Seems to me, that back in "the day" this would be the first song(or "riff" if you will) that most guys learned to play on a guitar.....
Whitefang
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2020 19:48:11 GMT -5
Seems to me, that back in "the day" this would be the first song(or "riff" if you will) that most guys learned to play on a guitar..... Whitefang Pretty close, I learned that single note riff thing that everyone played at first back then. We never jammed on Honky Tonk but lots of us just jammed to that riff over and over as a sort of blues jam. I still do play a souped up version to that riff to this day when warming up in my daily routine.
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Post by whitefang on Aug 19, 2020 10:19:16 GMT -5
HA! Remember when you( or somebody) thought you were so "cool" when you picked up "Walk, Don't Run"? Or discovered the Am-G-F-E progression you THOUGHT was right wasn't? Whitefang
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2020 13:19:02 GMT -5
HA! Remember when you( or somebody) thought you were so "cool" when you picked up "Walk, Don't Run"? Or discovered the Am-G-F-E progression you THOUGHT was right wasn't? Whitefang I never got that he is "cool" because of my playing compliment. Other players either thought I sucked or did not want to compliment me (I come from a highly competitive area for guitarists), and no one wanted to compliment anyone else, (I assume competitive jealousy is the cause for the latter). I still to this day never get much of a compliment from the other players from my era/area. I only play for my own amusement, if I was a serious performer wannabe, I would have to practice a whole bunch more to get by without too many clams, and a more fluency and smoothness in my playing that only comes with serious practice.
I do get some great feedback from the player forums and the guys/gals on them, but not a single bit of compliment from the local yokels of my home area.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2020 18:28:38 GMT -5
HA! Remember when you( or somebody) thought you were so "cool" when you picked up "Walk, Don't Run"? Or discovered the Am-G-F-E progression you THOUGHT was right wasn't? WhitefangI never got that "he is cool" because of my playing compliment. Other players either thought I sucked or did not want to compliment me (I come from a highly competitive area for guitarists), and no one wanted to compliment anyone else, (I assume competitive jealousy is the cause for the latter). I still to this day never get much of a compliment from the other players from my era/area. I only play for my own amusement, if I was a serious performer wannabe, I would have to practice a whole bunch more to get by without too many clams, and a more fluency and smoothness in my playing that only comes with serious practice.
I do get some great feedback from the player forums and the guys/gals on them, but not a single bit of compliment from the local yokels of my home area.
I goofed on the quote above
I was once in a band back in the late 60's or early seventies with a guitar player, Walt Renken, the band was called SeeWeed (neither of ever kept that name for another bands use) and he actually just a week or two ago, posted a compliment about my musical skills on Facebook see Below; So not all my old crony guitarists were jealous or envious. He was a super rhythm player and I of course always played the single note stuff, or the leads if you will..
Walt Renken "You are a talented man"
My Response; Walt, I always admired your guitar work as well as your musicianship. So a compliment from you is meaningful. (Walt's late brother John Renkin a drummer was the other jammer in that band. RIP John Cancer got him I think)
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