One of my New Year’s resolutions is to finally learn how to play the guitar I bought many, many years ago. So far (all 10 days of the year), it’s been going pretty well. My fingers hurt and my nails are entirely gone (I thought I could have them just short like they were when I played piano, but apparently, I have to cut them to bleeding length), but I can now make it from D to A and back without pausing overly long between them.
Still, I want to ask those of you who have already gone through this part of the learning curve, what was the first song you ever played?
In terms of actual chords, yeah, same here: stuff like Leaving on a Jet Plane, Abilene, that Kingston Trio song that longhair75 mentioned…all the usual suspects.
Almost certainly an AC/DC song (possibly You Shook Me All Night Long or Back In Black) because they really are just about the simplest hard hitting songs to play. They’re the perfect choice for beginning guitar players because they have a great catalog of hard rocking songs and they are extremely easy to learn, much mose so than say Van Halen or Metallica.
Aside from some individual riffs on one string (like the main riffs from “Smoke On the Water” and “Iron Man”), I think the first song I learned all the way through was “Freebird.” “Horse With No Name” was a pretty early one too, though. It 's only two easy chords.
