What was the first song you learneed to play?

[69buickman]

I started off with Deep Purple, but the first song i could show off to was Purple Haze, easy but classic and i would always fake the solo until i could actually get it down....geeze i miss those days

[RobRR]

Sadly, Nirvana - Come as you Are

[YetAnotherOne]

Wipeout followed closely by Sweet Georgia Brown. Paranoid was the first decent song I could play all the way through.

[skorb]

House of the Rising Sun
The Animals

on my first acoustic Kay pos at 11 yrs old

[El_Kabong]

Cocaine, Sunshine of your Love, Sweet Home Alabama, Smoke on the Water, and Iron Man were the staples for those born in the late 60's and earlt 70's.

[levantin]

Must have been a lame nirvana song... can't remember which one.

[Drake S.]

VanHallens version of Pretty woman, then Paranoid, & Dee by Mr. Randy Rhoads!

[rattojack]

Hit Me With Your Best Shot by Pat Benatar.

[Nazgul]

It was For whom the bells tolls by Metallica IIRC.

[Cleveland Metal]

Black Sabbath, by well... Black Sabbath... Then went on to the Wizard and NIB I seem to remember...

[Harry Krisna]

The FIRST song i learned was on piano,a skynerd tune,(can't rember which one though,it was like 34 years ago!)before i switched to bass,that one was Rush's fly by night,on guitar my first was Anthrax's Only,still my favorite tune to play!

[danastas]

Children of the Sea

A very, very, very easy song to play. It should be suggestion #1 in the teaching kids thread.

[Ralph E.]

Sadly, Nirvana - Come as you Are

At least you didn't have to worry about tuning up before practicing... :ROTF:

If I remember right it was "I Love Rock and Roll" by Joan Jett for me...

[Cleveland Metal]

Yeah, tuning to Black Sabbath with a cheap assed guitar was horridly rough... Amazing I kept it up...

[SRD86]

That I figured out myself, Detriot Rock City - Kiss
Thought I was the sh*t because I figured out the solo too!