First Song

[Blake]

The first song I ever learned was Smoke On The Water.

[Coldchillin]

Grey Street, I had the guitar on my lap and played it like a steel almost

[Blake]

The first DMB song I learned was Seek Up.

[i like tictacs]

I gotta say, anyone that is saying the first song they learned how to play was a Dave song is full of it (with the exception of something like Proudest Monkey). Are you kidding me? First songs that people learn are a couple of cords that are easily strummed.

Crash? I don't believe it.

Uh. Okay. I disagree. If someone doesn't have lessons and wants to learn a DMB song, they're going to do it.

First for me was Grey Street, then Crash, and probably Satellite.

I played bass before I picked up guitar, so my fingers were pretty dextrous at that point.

[lozthegreat]

Either Blackbird (Beatles) or Wanted Dead or Alive (Bon Jovi) minus the intro. First Dave song -- Typical Situation

[paulaitchison]

41, first time i had ever picked up a guitar, i couldnt reach/ remember the fingering so i put a load of different coloured sitckers, my sister got mad as it was her guitar

[Kukini]

I'm not ripping on everybody who learned Dave first. I guess I just assumed that most people start off by learning the basic chords, strumming patterns, etc. like I did. I think that to jump right to Dave's unorthodox style of play immeidately will only slow you down in the long run.

But I guess that's why most of us play. We heard a song that we thought was great, and wanted to be able to play it.

That's how I learned to play guitar was through Dave. And I'm not trying to brag or anything, but without lessons, I've come pretty far in just over 2 years. It was basically like learning the basics of guitar through Dave. Now I can look at any song and figure it out pretty easily.

I learned basic chords/names through play Dave songs. IE: LIOG intro ends on Em, A, G. That's how I learned the names for those chords.

I don't remember the first song I learned, but it's not impossible.

[TaylorGuy110]

I gotta say, anyone that is saying the first song they learned how to play was a Dave song is full of it (with the exception of something like Proudest Monkey). Are you kidding me? First songs that people learn are a couple of cords that are easily strummed.

Crash? I don't believe it.

Uh. Okay. I disagree. If someone doesn't have lessons and wants to learn a DMB song, they're going to do it.

First for me was Grey Street, then Crash, and probably Satellite.

I played bass before I picked up guitar, so my fingers were pretty dextrous at that point.

i agree with what your saying there but also they are going to miss alot of small stuff like knowing exactly what they are playing, i also believe that this will slow you down, starting off playing a hard song will only get u so far. i have a couple of friends that did this and i look at them now and for the amount of time that they have been playing they should have more "guitar knowledge" then they do! just my opinion

[Merisam Yutho]

The Christmas Song.....I'm crazy

[dmfollower]

First dave song i learned on guitar was Crash.

First song i learned on guitar was Angry Chair by Aic.

[czech]

bass line to Summer Lovin'
dave song: ants

[filmdude100cms]

first in general, was sunshine of my love, first dave was typical situations

[J_Clark]

dave song: lie in our graves
first ever: good ridiance (sp?) by green day

[JTMGR]

first dave song...satellite

[dmbgorge609]

watchtower and i still cant play it like dave