Topic: First song you ever learned (Read 15741 times)

Luke C · « **on:** 23 Aug 2006, 09:16 »

Ok people what is the first song you ever learned on your chosen instrument. For me I first learnt the Titanic theme tune on guitar (I didn't choose that btw, we were forced to learn it).

Also today I learnt the Death March on bass. Which though quite possibly one of the shortest and simplest things I could have learned Im still proud of myself.

Thrillho · « **Reply #1 on:** 23 Aug 2006, 09:17 »

About eight Linkin Park songs. I realised a few years later that I was shockingly bad at playing them, in fact, as I was in the wrong tuning.

Mikendher · « **Reply #2 on:** 23 Aug 2006, 09:27 »

Lifehouse - storm

although not a strong song lyrically, it greatly influenced the direction of my guitar playing.

charlesegabel · « **Reply #3 on:** 23 Aug 2006, 09:52 »

On guitar it was Creep by Radiohead.

On bass it was Autumn Leaves (or Michael by Franz Ferdinand if we're talking on our own).

On piano it was some junky tune in my beginning piano class, but on my own I learned End of the Movie by Cake and Lover I Don't Have To Love by Bright Eyes. I'm not sure which came first.

ALoveSupreme · « **Reply #4 on:** 23 Aug 2006, 10:24 »

Something by Blink 182... actually, I learned pretty much everything off Budda, Cheshire Cat and Dude Ranch before I did anything else.

Slick · « **Reply #5 on:** 23 Aug 2006, 10:43 »

I also learnt everything by blink 182, by virtue of the other three guys in the band loving them. And by learnt everything, I mean, jammed along with them not knowing which song it was, but as far is bass goes, they're all the same.

Not including lesson stuff, the first song I played & sung for performance with piano would by Desperado by The Eagles.
In my band, it'd be Wondering Where the Lions Are, by Bruce Cockburn.

Luke C · « **Reply #6 on:** 23 Aug 2006, 10:48 »

Quote from: charlesegabel

On guitar it was Creep by Radiohead.

Good choice, Creep is my favourite Radiohead song.

penpen17 · « **Reply #7 on:** 23 Aug 2006, 10:51 »

Viola - Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
Piano - who knows? I was like 4.

mysteriousbriefcase · « **Reply #8 on:** 23 Aug 2006, 11:41 »

first song i learned on bass, or attempted to learn, was bombtrack by RATM

Spinless · « **Reply #9 on:** 23 Aug 2006, 12:37 »

After the retcon, the first song I ever learned on geetar was Mote by Sonic Youth.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #10 on:** 23 Aug 2006, 12:41 »

Mayhem - Deathcrush on electric guitar. Streets of London on the acoustic.

Mikendher · « **Reply #11 on:** 23 Aug 2006, 12:45 »

I forgot to mention all the other instruments:

violin: the arcade fire - rebellion (lies)
bass guitar: broken social scene - stars and sons
piano: scott joplin - the entertainer
recorder: twinkle twinkle little star
glockenspiel: architecture in helsinki - souvenir
ukulele: the postal service - such great heights
mandolin: same as ukulele (such great heights)

Luke C · « **Reply #12 on:** 23 Aug 2006, 12:45 »

Quote from: Mikendher

I forgot to mention all the other instruments:

violin: the arcade fire - rebellion (lies)
bass guitar: broken social scene - stars and sons
piano: scott joplin - the entertainer
recorder: twinkle twinkle little star
glockenspiel: architecture in helsinki - souvenir
ukulele: the postal service - such great heights
mandolin: same as ukulele (such great heights)

Man is there anything you DONT play?

Marked · « **Reply #13 on:** 23 Aug 2006, 13:18 »

Bass: Take Power Back - Rage Against the Machine
Trombone: Soul Man - Lou Reed
Trumpet: One Chance - Modest Mouse
Guitar: Old Time Rock & Roll - Bob Segar

Kai · « **Reply #14 on:** 23 Aug 2006, 13:33 »

Either Sabbath's Into the Void, or Cream's Sunshine of Your Love. I think it was Into the Void though.

Kid Modernist · « **Reply #15 on:** 23 Aug 2006, 13:55 »

For me, on guitar, it was most definitely a Bob Dylan song, but I can't remember which. Maybe Mr. Tambourine Man, or else Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall.

Trollstormur · « **Reply #16 on:** 23 Aug 2006, 14:23 »

the first song I learned how to play on two instruments is Deathcrush by mayhem (drums and guitar)

the second song is Immortal - Damned in Black

Johnny C · « **Reply #17 on:** 23 Aug 2006, 14:32 »

Piano: The song on the black keys that goes "doodle-doo, doo doo, doodle-doo, doo doo!"

Guitar: "The Good Fight" and "Hands Down" by Dashboard Confessional, songs I learned simultaneously. Yeah, Dashboard got me into guitar. Whatever.

Bass: "Gigantic" by the Pixies was the first song I ever fully played on a bass, but I'd been playing guitar for a couple of years before that.

Drums: I'm proud of this one. The first song I ever played all the way through was "Entertain" by Sleater-Kinney, which by the way is a fuckin' blast to play.

Spartan Pho3nix · « **Reply #18 on:** 23 Aug 2006, 15:27 »

I'm not gonna lie...

Guitar:
Good Riddance.

Endust · « **Reply #19 on:** 23 Aug 2006, 16:08 »

On Bass - Either Debaser or the Zeppelin Dazed and Confused.

On Drums - Some crappy song.

ChaosTriangle · « **Reply #20 on:** 23 Aug 2006, 16:21 »

Bass - Godzilla, by Blue Öyster Cult.

Rubby · « **Reply #21 on:** 23 Aug 2006, 16:36 »

I really dont have a clue with any of the instruments I play.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #22 on:** 23 Aug 2006, 16:43 »

i could play any Misfits (old misfits, obviously) song on drums before i even started playing. but theyre stupidly simple so i dunno if that counts or not.
oh well whatever; i count it.

ALoveSupreme · « **Reply #23 on:** 23 Aug 2006, 17:37 »

if we're prattling on about other instruments we play:

flute- if scales don't count, probably something rudimentary (as it was 5th grade)
Sax- probably hot cross buns, as it was 7th grade
Bass- probably the same blink songs I already knew on guitar, as the bass lines were just simplified versions of the guitar lines
piano- after being taught I-IV-V7 chord changes in every key, we were forced to write our own piece, if that counts. I've yet to learn anything by anyone else
Accordion (with stradella bass accompaniment)- Jason Webley's "Music That Puts Everything Together
Trumpet- never learned anyone else's songs other than horn lines already written in the band I just joined

Narr · « **Reply #24 on:** 23 Aug 2006, 17:43 »

I only kind of play the guitar. I used to try to play it a lot more, but I stopped practicing. I might start up again though.

First song I learned how to play was Enter Sandman by Metallica. Sandman has been my online screenname for a long time (cept for here) probably because of that. I learned a lot of the rythym guitar portions to a lot of Metallica songs, although I probably couldn't play most of them from memory anymore.

Lately, I've been learning riffs from RATM and Audioslave songs. I'm not even going to pretend I can do Morello's sound magic during his solos, but the riffs are pretty simple for the most part. Killing In The Name is fun.

Scytale · « **Reply #25 on:** 23 Aug 2006, 21:13 »

On Piano it was "Us and Them" by Pink Floyd.

On Guitar it was Iron Man by Black Sabbath

I much prefer playing the piano, I just don't think my hands are right for guitar and I've never really felt comfortable playing it.

squawk · « **Reply #26 on:** 23 Aug 2006, 22:27 »

Piano: i was eight, i worked out of those color-coded books with the letters in the notation and stuff. so i don't know.
Guitar: I donno either! I think it was some Beatles song because we have a beatles fake book with all the chords and stuff. Or it might have been Street Spirit.
bass: eight days a week - beatles
saxomaphone: i think baby elephant walk was the first actual song.
drums: neighborhood#2 by the arcade fire.

imapiratearg · « **Reply #27 on:** 23 Aug 2006, 22:30 »

like the first whole song? because i have yet to learn a whole song.
well...i can play "Hopeless Love" by Daphne Loves Derby with the wrong strum pattern, but i can play it from start to finish, with mostly the right chords.

Hat · « **Reply #28 on:** 24 Aug 2006, 02:27 »

The first song I ever learnt to play on bass was Plastic by Spiderbait. The first song I ever learnt to play that wasn't a complete piece of piss I knocked over in ten minutes was Carry On My Wayward Son by Kansas. That was a pain in the balls, but completely worth it.

TrueNeutral · « **Reply #29 on:** 24 Aug 2006, 03:00 »

Acoustic Guitar: Dashboard Confessional - This Old Wound

I suck.

Thnikkaman · « **Reply #30 on:** 24 Aug 2006, 03:23 »

Piano: First piece ever, I think, was a beginner's piece consisting of four semibreves (on the same note). First self-taught piece was either a Bryan Adams number or the Moonlight Sonata.

Guitar: Once, there was an attempt made to show me how to play the intro to Nirvana's Come As You Are. I failed miserably.

RallyMonkey · « **Reply #31 on:** 24 Aug 2006, 11:45 »

Let's see, for guitar it was Came As a Rat - Modest Mouse.

Then I had a friend who had been taking guitar lessons for a year or so, when I had been playing on my own for a week. I went over to his house so he could teach me some things, the only thing that ended up happening was I taught him how to properly play Iron Man and Smoke on the Water.

2 Years Later and I'm not much better than I was.

strawberry_gashes · « **Reply #32 on:** 24 Aug 2006, 12:13 »

*blush* My Name Is Jonas [by Weezer] on the drums. I'm not such a big Weezer fan, but the guys in my band are, so they kind of peer pressured me into learning it.

minkles · « **Reply #33 on:** 24 Aug 2006, 12:32 »

"You are a Runner and I Am My Father's Son" by Wolf Parade, on the piano. It's really easy to play.

Guitar: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel. Again, pretty easy.

Thrillho · « **Reply #34 on:** 24 Aug 2006, 13:51 »

Quote from: strawberry_gashes

*blush* My Name Is Jonas [by Weezer] on the drums. I'm not such a big Weezer fan, but the guys in my band are, so they kind of peer pressured me into learning it.

Interesting that you learned a song that's in 6/8 time as your first track.

onewheelwizzard · « **Reply #35 on:** 24 Aug 2006, 14:01 »

Either Into The Void, Sunshine of Your Love, or Parchman Farm by Blue Cheer.

Kai · « **Reply #36 on:** 24 Aug 2006, 14:04 »

Quote from: Kai

Either Sabbath's Into the Void, or Cream's Sunshine of Your Love. I think it was Into the Void though.

Quote from: onewheelwizard

Either Into The Void, Sunshine of Your Love, or Parchman Farm by Blue Cheer.

COPY CAT

No, but seriously, yay for Into the Void.

onewheelwizzard · « **Reply #37 on:** 24 Aug 2006, 14:32 »

Some riffs are just too good NOT to learn.

Kai, download "Parchman Farm" by Blue Cheer, wait for the bass breakdown in the middle, and tell me you wouldn't make it the first thing you tried to learn on a bass if you were just starting out. I think you'll understand.

Kai · « **Reply #38 on:** 24 Aug 2006, 14:37 »

Yeah, that riff is pretty boss. Actually, if I ever get a band together we are totally covering it. This is non negotiable.

And I will totally check it out.

Narr · « **Reply #39 on:** 24 Aug 2006, 17:16 »

I should mention that one of the first songs I ever learned to play without looking up tabs or anything was the Dr. Wily Stage #2 music from Mega Man 2. I can also play Bubble Man and at one point could play parts of Quick Man's stage music.

=\

YAY NERDERY

Night Rocker · « **Reply #40 on:** 24 Aug 2006, 17:20 »

House of the rising sun by the Animals

nuisance · « **Reply #41 on:** 24 Aug 2006, 18:09 »

If programming is an instrument, then the first time I learned another person's song was to do an acid house cover of Sisters of Mercy's 'Temple of Love' in 93.

Edit: Actually at school my best friend taught me the bassline to 'Country Death Song' by the Femmes on an acoustic guitar. Funny.

MajinTrunkz · « **Reply #42 on:** 24 Aug 2006, 18:24 »

Many years ago when I bought my first guitar (which was a horrible guitar), my cousin taught me to play "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star". However, that's pretty much all I learned at the time and I eventually forgot it. When I got my current guitar and started playing seriously, the first full song I learned was "3rd Planet" by Modest Mouse.

charlesegabel · « **Reply #43 on:** 24 Aug 2006, 18:43 »

Quote from: Luke C

Quote from: charlesegabel
On guitar it was Creep by Radiohead.

Good choice, Creep is my favourite Radiohead song.

Not my favorite by a long shot, but definitely a great tune. I learned the acoustic version that's really just all barred chords, so that was kinda hard, but I had played bass pretty seriously for a long time before that, so I had the hand strength.

Ravenbomb · « **Reply #44 on:** 24 Aug 2006, 19:44 »

unless we're counting stuff like Jingle Bells, first thing I learned on guitar was Stairway to Heaven and the chord progression to Riding the Storm Out by REO Speedwagon

imapiratearg · « **Reply #45 on:** 24 Aug 2006, 20:16 »

yea, if we're counting like...beginner's stuff...lol it'd be Yankee Doodle for me. the songs i'm trying to learn as of now are:

on my acoustic:

"Hey There Delilah" by The Plain White T's
"Hands Down" by Dashboard
"The Best of Me" by The Starting Line
"Penelope" by Pinback (it's really easy actually. and fun)
"Midnight Highway", "Hopeless Love", "Pollen And Salt", "A Year On An Airplane", all by Daphne Loves Derby
"Your Guardian Angel" by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
"A Farewell To A Friendship" by A Change of Pace
"The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot" by Brand New (really easy)
"Play Crack The Sky" by Brand New"
my friend shane showed me how to play "The Tide" by The Spill Canvas and "Dinner At The Money Table" by The Early November

yea.

on my electric:

"Makedamnsure" by TBS
"The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows" by Brand New
"Seventy Times Seven" by Brand New

and i think that's it.

yup.

i write really long posts

ruyi · « **Reply #46 on:** 24 Aug 2006, 22:06 »

for piano: three blind mice. (i was three.)

for recorder: two note tune. (5th grade.)

for clarinet: probably the same. (also 5th grade.)

for guitar: opening riff of death cab for cutie's title and registration. (maybe a couple of years ago.)

thelightguy · « **Reply #47 on:** 24 Aug 2006, 23:21 »

Guitar: hmmm... first riff I learned was classical guitar. Bach... can't remember the name of the tune, tho.

My first full song however, was Green Day - Good Riddance. Sounds great on acoustic.

Violin: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Piano: Indiana Jones Theme

--Nick

space_oddity · « **Reply #48 on:** 25 Aug 2006, 08:00 »

I first learned "Gigantic" and "Come Together" on my bass. Fun, fun stuff, if only because my truly horrible voice prevents me from learning songs with more complex vocal parts.

mango lassi · « **Reply #49 on:** 25 Aug 2006, 09:49 »

I learned twinkle twinkle first on the violin, probably the first thing anyone learns. Either that or Ode to Joy

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Mikendher

charlesegabel

penpen17

mysteriousbriefcase

Spinless

Mikendher

Marked

Kid Modernist

Spartan Pho3nix

ChaosTriangle

Narr

Scytale

TrueNeutral

strawberry_gashes

Narr

Night Rocker

nuisance

charlesegabel

Ravenbomb

space_oddity