First song you taught yourself?

[casualofender]

What was the first song you taught yourself without any help? No sheet music or help from friends.
Mine was "Basing Street" by Nick Lowe.
Great song about a dead body on the pavement.

 

[sevycat]

The first song I hacked my way thru with no help was Led Zepplin's want a whole lotta love. God Bless 8-Track tape players. Not!

 

[Axis29]

Man, I can't remember that far back!

It was probably a Clapton tune, I bet it was Old Love. The version from 24 Nights maybe? Maybe...

 

[jerryo]

Man on the silver mountain

 

[S. Rock]

What was the first song you taught yourself without any help? No sheet music or help from friends.

that's almost 43 years ago for me ! it was probably something by "Cream". I used to listen to them alot.

 

[rocks]

Mine was "Train kept a rollin" - the aerosmith version. I learned it on bass.

 

[bowhunter]

Neil Young, Down by the river,,,, lol

 

[Giant]

time pink floyd

 

[elementlax]

seven nation army-- the white stripes

 

[nezha]

I learned only my favorite riffs and solos of songs for a while when I started. The first song I learned all the way through was Jeff Beck's version of "A Day in the Life"

 

[ActionFletch]

I remember trying to work out the Beatles `Birthday` riff, and realising about a year later it wasn`t right!

Kids these days won`t understand you couldn`t just look up the Tab!

 

[StratmanNick]

Not an easy one as it was so long ago.

I think it was Elvis Presley's "All Shook Up"

 

[CandyAppleHead]

Remember it well - I got my first guitar, a cheapo nylon string acoustic I bought from a kid at school, in the morning, and in the afternoon I'd just about figured out the riff from Pink Floyd's Interstellar Overdrive.

 

[Sleepy]

no sheet music?
hmmmm.
probably bad bad Leroy at the request of my aunt

 

[PorkRollExpress]

House of the rising sun - Animals.

 

[ToneMonkey]

Doctor, Doctor - UFO

 

[Jefro]

I honestly cannot remember but I believe it could have been Come As You Are by Nirvana

 

[SDStrat]

Can't remember specifically either, probably Take it Easy by the Eagles or something like that. I used to sit in my bedroom with an old cassette recorder and record songs off the AM radio, then repeatedly play them back to figure them out.

 

[Astro1176]

I first worked out and learnt a Roy Harper tune, either 'I Hate The Whiteman' (a song from the perspective of American Indians) or 'Don't You Grieve' (a song from the perspective of Judas Iscariot)