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djwayne
Little Black Egg, I was really proud of that one......then it was Kicks by Paul Revere and the Raiders....Louie Louie.....My versions always sounded like crap though...I had a cheap amp.

You had an amp?
 
I had to make do with a cheap (and I mean CHEAP) acoustic for years

 
I started out with a dirt cheap acoustic that my dad had bought for my mother. I tried to take lessons with it, but the guitar teacher kept mocking me and said that guitar was only good for paddling a canoe. After a while I got sick of the jokes and decided to buy a really nice green hollow body with three pick-ups and a whammy bar. However I need a loan from my dad and he and the music store owner sold me a crappy looking yellow sunburst Gibson Melody Maker and a small Kalamazo amp instead. I didn't like the Melody Maker cause it sounded bad thru the amp, and I had to wash dishes 6 times a week for 6 months to pay it off. I wanted the green guitar but my dad wouldn't lend me the money for that, he insisted I get the Gibson, because it was a Gibson. I was only 14 and had no money of my own, so I had to make the deal his way.

yorolpal
The "duet version" of Heart and Soul on piano.  My aunt would play the chordal parts and I'd play the solo...then we'd switch.
 
But really the first thing I learned how to play was a fairly-common-for-the-time little nothing that I never even knew the title of.  You make your right hand into a fist and "roll it upwards across" the black keys F#, G# and A#  then strike the C# twice.  Then you reverse the process rolling your fist downward A#, G# and F# and strike the D# twice.  There's also a little ending thingy.  I could probably play it were I sitting at a piano now.  But it's hard to describe.  Definitely a childs thing.  I was 4 years old at the time.

I know that one! Not being a keyboard player, this is my 'go-to' when I find myself with the ivories in front of me.

Get Off My Cloud by The Rolling Stone. Was taught to me by a guy two years older than me by the name of Mike Kidwell.
 
I was in the 8th grade. Makes me about 14 then. I was playing rhythm guitar then.
 
I switched to bass right after Hendrix hit the scene ad I realized I could never do that. Tried to decide what to switch to.
 
Went to high school dance and some friends asked me to play bass on Sunshine Of Your Love (on a Hofner rip off bass) and I decided then and there that bass was what I could mess up on the least.

the theme from Jaws

djwayne
Little Black Egg, I was really proud of that one......then it was Kicks by Paul Revere and the Raiders....Louie Louie.....My versions always sounded like crap though...I had a cheap amp.

I met the (alledged) composer of that song. He carried around a copy of the 45 and his copyright in his guitar case. I was about 15 when I met him. 

What...no one's first was Smoke On The Water...I thought everyone worked out those bass string notes the minute they picked up their first guitar!  LOL
 
I can't remember the first song that I learned the strum chords too.  It had to be an early Beatles tune, though.  I think the first song I really worked hard on learning the riff to was Day Tripper.  

Where are all the classics?
 
Beethoven?
Brahms?
Zappa?
Buddy Holly?
 

MakeShift
What...no one's first was Smoke On The Water...I thought everyone worked out those bass string notes the minute they picked up their first guitar!  LOL
 

I saw a documentary about the making of Machine Head recently and RB said that almost everyone plays it wrong.

bapu
Where are all the classics?
 
Beethoven?
Brahms?
Zappa?
Buddy Holly?
 

 
I can offer you Franz Xaver Gruber.