First cover song(s) you learned

beats me · Post by **beats me** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:37 pm

I'm sure somewhere in the beginning your musical path you were either taught or figured out how to play some big hit song of the time. For me:

Keyboard
Send Me An Angel by Real Life
The Final Countdown by Europe

Guitar
More Than Words by Extreme. I still bust that one out for giggles.

Around the same time you couldn't walk into a music store without hearing a guitarist playing Metallica's Master of Puppets or Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven and a keyboardist playing Van Halen's Jump. Sadly now all you hear in the keyboard department is somebody hitting Hip Hop loop presets on a Korg keyboard.

jez3122 · Post by **jez3122** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:42 pm

Guitar: Knocking on hevans door

Keyboard : Let it be ( still the only thing i can play on the piano,besides chopsticks)

and of course Axel F by harold faltamire.....

greta · Post by **greta** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:03 pm

keyboard - it's a sin by the pet shop boys
guitar - the opening chords of gnr's Paradise City (although i didn't get the f chord nailed for a long while)

polyslax · Post by **polyslax** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:34 am

It was 1975, and my sister taught me to play Sunshine of Your Love on my new guitar.

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:01 pm

jez3122 wrote:Guitar: Knocking on hevans door

Who's hevan?

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:03 pm

Machinate wrote:
jez3122 wrote:Guitar: Knocking on hevans door
Who's hevan?

Funny pun actually! You gotta see "Evan Almighty"

Yeh · Post by **Yeh** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 4:03 pm

It was 1976: House of the Rising Sun (The Animals) on an acoustic guitar with steel snares. Got my fingers bleeding (I don't count the riff of Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water).

hacktheplanet · Post by **hacktheplanet** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 4:52 pm

Green Day - Longview
I play bass!

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 4:53 pm

Guitar: My Right by Screaching Weasel.

Keyboard: Some Enya song, I think it was No Holly For Miss Quinn?

brightonalex · Post by **brightonalex** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 4:59 pm

Guitar: Blowing in the wind

Keyboard: Dougie Hoswer/Theme from casualty (self taught

)

Sales Dude McBoob · Post by **Sales Dude McBoob** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 5:28 pm

At age 15 I tried to learn Bad Brains I Against I.

It didn't really work. No one could tell what the song was I was trying to recreate. So my band at the time reworked what I had come up with and made a new song out of it.

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 6:07 pm

beats me wrote:Guitar
More Than Words by Extreme.

LOL the classic 'panty dropper' song.

guitar - hotel california (sans solos)
bass - longview (damn fun riff)

sqook · Post by **sqook** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 6:08 pm

It was "yellow submarine" on the guitar for me. Altohugh, it's been so long since I've picked one up, I don't think I could play it anymore...

mdme_sadie · Post by **mdme_sadie** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 6:47 pm

I'm thinking that it was either La bamba or Helter-Skelter on the guitar,I do know that Helter Skelter was the reason I moved up from 9's to 10's (you break so many strings playing that tune if you us 9's, you have to really dig in to get that bwaaaiing guitar sound on the White Album).

Atomikat · Post by **Atomikat** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:34 am

1978...
Guitar : Hey Jude...
Keyboard : Radioactivity by Kraftwerk...

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