# Guitar Players:  First Song You Learned?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitar-players-first-song-you-learned/433215>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 12, 2008, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitar-players-first-song-you-learned/433215 "2008-01-12T00:49:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitar-players-first-song-you-learned/433215/41 "2008-01-14T16:59:02Z")

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Sweet Home Alabama- Lynyrd Skynyrd, followed closely by Bob Seger’s Night Moves.

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**Author:** ![Lunar\_Saltlick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/977dab/32.png) [@Lunar\_Saltlick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lunar_Saltlick)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitar-players-first-song-you-learned/433215/42 "2008-01-14T16:59:06Z")

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I learned melodies and I learned chords, and I learned bits and pieces, but the first actual real song that I learned all the way through and could play competently was a pickin’ piece, Coney Island Cakewalk. I found picking easier, because the notes (and often the TAB) were written clearly on paper. Ask me to strum through a three-chord Eagles or Beatles song and I was lost, even when I knew every chord perfectly. It had to be written precisely, none of this “come in hard on the D there, and then do a little fill-in with the A…” I just couldn’t do it.

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