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| Beginner Tabs? What was your first song? | Rate Topic |
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| Posted: Sat Nov 6th, 2004 08:17 pm |
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living a delusion Approved 
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please don't flame at me. i need responses before the weekend is out and no one's been on the beginner forum fo almost a week. i'd just like to hear waht some good beginner tabs are, or what your first song learned was. thanks. kitty
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| Posted: Sat Nov 6th, 2004 11:59 pm |
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or what your first song learned was 20 something years ago, I got a guitar and a beginner book. The first song I ever learned was "Dream" by the Everly Brothers. Then came Hotel California and American Pie. I didn't last long and gave up the guitar. I recently picked it back up and have gotten into improv blues and making up my own songs. If I'm ever asked where a great place to start on guitar is, I would have to say learn 12 bar blues. It's the most fun the quickest.
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| Posted: Sun Nov 7th, 2004 01:22 am |
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living a delusion Approved
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nice... dream is a favorite of mine, the others too. ill look that 12 bar blues up.
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| Posted: Sun Nov 7th, 2004 10:46 am |
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Here's something I did up for a friend of mine who had just got a guitar and wanted to play some blues http://www.ukeblue.com/simpleblues.html
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| Posted: Sun Nov 7th, 2004 01:54 pm |
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living a delusion Approved
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sweetness. "having fun with your guitar right away" thas what i was looking for, getting tired of just strumming nothingness. *squee* even i can understand it. thanks.
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| Posted: Sat Dec 11th, 2004 05:48 am |
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Hi Kitty, when I was tired of strumming, many many years ago, I went into fingerpicking world!  The firsts songs I've learned were: If - Pink Floyd The Lee Shore - D. Crosby (without the intro  )Genesis - J. Kaukonen Judy - J. Renbourn (just the 1st section  )Hope this helps. Cheers. AB
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| Posted: Sat Dec 11th, 2004 07:56 am |
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living a delusion Approved
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thanks-- im definitely going to check some of these out. i love pink floyd, but it never really dawned on me to learn the stuff. my weekend is stocked  thanks
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| Posted: Thu Dec 16th, 2004 03:58 am |
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banjo brad Super Moderator 
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Boy! You people all went whole hog on a first tune, didn't you? When I decided to try to learn the guitar, I had an old arch-top that my older brother had tried to play. Since I know how to read music, I had a song book, and painstakingly picked out "Old Chisolm Trail" in the key of C (That was one of the few songs in the book with no sharps or flats). It was a single-note-at-a-time thing, but it got me involved (read: hooked). 'Course, that was way back in the last century 'round 'bout 1957-58.  Keep on pickin'Brad
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| Posted: Sat Dec 18th, 2004 07:16 am |
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AB Approved
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Brad, you're right! Totally forgotten of the old good single-note songs! LOL... Happy Birthday, Greensleeves, Oh Suzanna...then...Satisfaction! Back in the past century!  Happy picking. AB ps: Kitty, if you like Pink Floyd you could try to play ''Is Anybody out There?''. It's easy and with a good bass-line.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 8th, 2005 02:41 pm |
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iseker Approved
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Nirvana - polly http://www.MyGuitarWorkshop.com
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| Posted: Fri Jul 8th, 2005 03:52 pm |
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Geauga Bob Approved 
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I probably go back a few years more than most of you, but I started with Peter Paul & Mary stuff. Still do a lot of their music. Here's a very good link if you're interested: http://members.fortunecity.com/fretman/rock/ppm.htm#25 Good luck, Bob
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| Posted: Fri Jul 8th, 2005 11:31 pm |
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madog99 Approved 
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The first song I learned all the way through I think was "don't think twice " by dylan . I just faked the fingerpicking with my thumb and index finger and I was so proud of myself.the reason I mention this song is that is has a lot of chords ( I was using a book with the little chord diagrams) but I could play all the chords and the song used most of the ones I could play . It was a great thing to practice chord changes and such . 30 years later I still remember how to play it , if only I could remember the song I tried to learn last week ?????
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| Posted: Sun Jul 10th, 2005 08:23 pm |
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banjo brad Super Moderator
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Bob- Not as far as some of us! I remember a lot of Burl Ives stuff. I was in my last years of High School before PP&M got real popular. I even saw them in concert in Fresno in (I think) 61 or 62! (I can also remember hearing Leadbelly on the radio a few times).  Keep on pickin'Brad
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| Posted: Mon Aug 15th, 2005 10:42 am |
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countrydirt Approved 
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First fingerstyle song was "Dust in the Wind" followed by "Blackbird" and "Silent Night". Otherwise I strum almost any chord progression and am working on Carter Style bass melodies.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 9th, 2005 12:12 am |
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Darkhodge Approved 
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Probably a bit late now but my first song was Muse - Plug in baby. I just heard my friend playing it and was amazed! Took me ages to get the hang of it though!
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| Posted: Sun Oct 16th, 2005 04:02 am |
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Rob Approved 
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My first song, played probably about 10 minutes after I picked up my mom's 1952 Martin 0-18, was the bass line for Marvin Gaye's "I Heard it Through the Grapevine". The most popular first songs I teach my students who are total beginners are "Eleanor Rigby" by the Beatles and "For What it's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield. The former can be played on the first, second, and third stings only (you can slip a piece of felt or cloth under the bass strings to mute them) using only one finger. "For What it's Worth" can be played with just two chords, E and A, if you simplify the chorus. They've been a great, easy introduction to guitar for about 30 of my students.
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| Posted: Fri Dec 2nd, 2005 05:11 am |
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DireWolf Approved 
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The first song I learned how to play all the way through and sing was Baby What You Want Me To Do -- the old Jimmy Reed song. That was about eight years ago. I still like to jam to it on my Strat.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 26th, 2006 02:25 pm |
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viking Approved 
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Hi Kitty Don't laugh everyone but I was dating a classical guitar student back in my teens and the first thing I learnt was that first 20 odd bars of CLASSICAL GAS parrot fashion complete with hammer ons, pull ofs the lot. I didn't know a single chord or note just played it monkey see monkey do. About 4 years latter I nicked my younger brothers classical trainer and learnt all the basic chords in the complete Beatles song book and had a lot of fun learning those songs. The first breakthrough came with a Leonard Cohen songbook with tab, those early parrot style lessons and the discipline of thumb and 3 fingers for the right hand really helped and Leonard's clear languid picking patterns have been at the route of so much of what I've learnt and played since. My top tip when starting out is play songs you enjoy hearing, be influenced by what you like, not by what tutorials say play next. Fine take the lesson but practice it on your terms and avoid the god I'm sick of this crappy song factor. Have fun MARK
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| Posted: Fri Jan 27th, 2006 12:59 am |
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Graywolf71 Approved 
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The first songs on mandolin: "Old Joe Clark", "Soldiers Joy", "Annies Song"
____________________ They can't take away our music because it's in our hearts, so keep on pickin' and smilin' for it's the one TRUE way to stay free. |
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| Posted: Wed Aug 23rd, 2006 07:14 pm |
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ShadyHarrison Approved 
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Probably my first "song" was Yellow Submarine-  I am deeply embarrassed by that, but the week after I redeemed myself with George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord"- he rules in my musical world! 
____________________ "If I'm going to see the light, maybe I will be alright, for now I'm headin' down that centre line" Mike McLaren. http://ezfolk.com/audio/Shady my ezfolk audio site- Yahoo! |
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