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whats the first song you play when you pick up a guitar?

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by sharp_yet_blunt

or what song do you play the most? Also could someone suggest some songs that start with a B chord please.

sharp_yet_blunt | 22 Apr '08, 17:47 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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i nearly always play "needle and the damage done" by Neil Young. It's just so nice to play!!


I always play rockin in the free world

Neil Young is the master of simple things sounding amazing. i'm going to look up needle and the damage done now. (apologies to mr young for when i brutalise it)


choon.


bingo

I can't resist a run through of needle and the damage done either, the finger movements are very satisfying


I always play

Airbag. Song with B start, off the top of my head, Samson by Regina.


Freakscene or Random Rules

usually. Though recently its been Battery.


usually dinosaur jr songs.

mostly 'kracked', 'little fury things', 'almost ready' and 'the lung'.

and 'avon' by queens of the stone age! i fucking love playing 'avon'!


The intro to Today

then I put the guitar down for people who can actually play.


it changes

but the first chord i play is always A minor, and it's usually followed by E


actually

i do tend to continue that chord sequence into Things Behind The Sun by Nick Drake (although that's played with a capo on 4)


A chord

i even try to do it on the bass sometimes. then i notice the missing strings


this ^^

it's soooo fucking satisfying to play that song.


That's exactly what I do...

genrally. It's like my guitar hand in neutral before I put it into first.


it's...

hard to tell.


Good thread...

at the moment I just can't help play the guitar line from 'Carousel' off the last Iron and Wine album...it's just so...flowy.


probably Eugene's Trick Bag

or Cliffs of Dover by Eric Johnson.


2x4

The Fall - well, the bassline anyway...


Nice choice.

Jansch is incredible. You've also reminded me that I'm going to see Pentangle at the end of June. Cannot. Fucking. Wait.


changes depending on what i've been learning

but at the moment usually range life or the black amnesias


Usually the chord of Em to check tuning and stuff

Then morning theft by Jeff Buckley or that wicked riff at the start of airbag


Fire Back About Your New Baby's Sex

or Slice Where You Live Like Pie by Don Caballero


^i play these as well

also, corona by the minutemen.
brilliant riff and i think the first chord is B.


..

pretty much always Neon, by John Mayer. Drop C tuning though


at the moment

Lion's Mane by Iron & Wine, coz it's nice and easy but sounds really good.


Radiohead

The Bends. The noisy guitar at the start and then into the cleaner verse then that awesome guitar solo by Greenwood


Screwing around with power chords on bass

or Link Wray stuff on bass with my Whoolly Mammoth and DD-6 boss digi delay, but mostly just screw around.


Mosquito Song - Queens of the stone age

Or the riff from More than a Feeling

....well it is the greatest song ever


B-Chord

Start off with warm-ups, boringly enough.
As for b-chord songs, having to learn a few (bad) covers for a charity gig, I can think of Turn Back Time by Cher, Dancing in the Dark by Springstien and Faith by George Michael.


Made Up Lovesong #43

I play the little synth riff in a fingerpicking style. its so fun.


Talk Tonight by oasis

, if any, because its the first song i learn't to play. And it's piss easy.


Nirvana songs

because i'm a fud. Normally Come As You Are or SLTS because i'm ovb a cliched bastart


Street Spirit

It involves Am, my favourite chord, and cos it's fast it makes me sound like I play better than I really do.


Dead Roses - Stones

in all it's three chord glory was first.

Queen Bitch by Bowie most. Maybe Ziggy.


Friday I'm in Love - The Cure

I've played it every day for years and cannot remember a single occasion when playing it has failed to cheer me up


2:45 AM by Elliott Smith

It starts with a little scale run.


Hyper Music by Muse

mostly songs by Muse, Feeder and Hole as they were my fave bands at 16 <3


Five string serenade ...

by Mazzy Star, I'm shit at guitar (as in can't play in the slightest) but i remember this being the first song I learnt properly so if i ever pick one up this is it.

It's purdeeeee.


yay :D

i like to play that too


fade into you

the sweet little guitar riff in it is just too beautiful, and fairly easy to play!

also: shadowplay by joy division


Lemonheads stuff

is lovely to play if it's an acoustic. "Into Your Arms". Or The Cure's "Just Like Heaven", which "Into Your Arms" cheekily borrows a rather amazing chord change from.


Everytime

Its Lemonheads - Hannah and Gabbi.


OOps

I meant "It's About Time", not "Into Your Arms". Dyslexic drunken madness there.


Paradise City

or This Charming Man.


Music when the lights go out

or sally cinnamon


At the moment it's You! Me! Dancing!

but usually it's the Knights Of Cydonia opening riff


Good thread.

Either Neil Young's 'Heart Of Gold' or 'Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Feet'.


dream brother

jeff buckley.

Tis nice.


usually

ball and biscuit by white stripes. jammy and lovably sloppy


stairway to heaven

or the intro to Hey Joe ad nauseam .


Usually something I've written

SORRY. Occasionally 'Awful Bliss' by Guided By Voices. I don't really play songs by other people anymore. SORRY.


Something easy like Dragonforce: Through the Fire and Flames.........

then once I've warmed up I'll get all tech with some Status Quo


i...

usually start with a few scales and a bit of fingerwork to warm up.

then i maybe work on some stuff for my band.

i find that if i learn anyone elses songs, i become anti-creative. anyone else find this?


Nah, I'm exactly the opposite!

I use other people's work to develop my own by just taking a little musical phrase or something and expanding on it in one way or another, turning into something new!


Good King Wenceslas

it's all i can play on guitar, so i just play it over and over again :D


Depends on how I've left

me guitars tuned. acoustic of late it's been 'Black waterside'. Always play a few bars of 'little wing' or 'Stone free' electricwise, or play along to whatevers on the wireless.


i

always try and play something ive never played/heard before, never works so on goes the distortion and the Iron Maiden gallop.


asilos magdalena

by the mars volta, the ladies love it cause it sounds like julio iglesias or some shit!


Victoria by the kinks

if it's my electric, Tell me why Neil Young if it's my acoustic


The Verve and Oasis for me.

I was into the verve at the time I decided to pick up a guitar and also i was decidedly easier to try their songs than try and start off with some Zeppelin/Hendrix. Also quite a lot of Beatles numbers.


I read this wrong......

the verve and oasis are what I learnt to play when I first picked up a guitar.
Now when I play I seem to play a lot of Creedence and Arcade Fire.


Either

Stuck Inside Of Mobile... by Bob Dylan or Fade Into You by Mazzy Star.

If you'd asked me this 10 years ago I'd have said Wonderwall.


whicheer riff i wrote when i was stoned 3 years ago that i wish was good

that i'd been thinking about most recently


depends what kind of mood i'm in

usually one of:

elliott smith - angeles
simon and garfunkel - april come she will
maybe an iron and wine song.

if i'm clowning about, then it'll be the skatalites - guns of navarone (complete with mouth-trumpet noises)


Pearl Jam

Better Man or Rearviewmirror


Used to always play

Born Under a Bad Sign by Hendrix as it's a blues in B.
Also Steady as She Goes I think that's in B.
Nowdays... Just pretty much anything (bar Dragonforce!)


cherub rock

pumpkins


what the fuck

is up with this piece of shit website?


well

hunted by a freak - mogwai
or
NYC - interpol

not the most taxing pieces


leif erricson

By Interpol or Fine + 2pts by Minus the Bear

Songs with a B Chord are gay, its all about B Minor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_minor


Usually

'Seven Deadly Sins' by the Libertines, but at the minute it's the riff from 'Sir Duke' - I learned it on bass though so I cheat and only play with four strings.


Oh Well by Fleetwood Mac

Such a great simple riff with many satisfying hammer ons and pull offs.


Kumbaya

At least that what Mum thinks everything I play is... :(


completely

out of touch with what actually play, the first things I'll do to warm up is play <ahem> 'are you gonna go my way', the cock rock riff by Lenny "fucking" Kravitz, or the theme tune from Top Gun, or Geek USA by the pumpkins, fretwanktastic before I have to get down to being all moody and introspective.


Smoke On The Water

Duh Duh Duuuuh Duh Duh Da Dahhhh... Duh Duh Duuuuh Du Dahhhhhh.


Consolation Prize

by Orange Juice is what I always play when I pick up a guitar, for some reason. Or "Day Tripper".


I hit out the hendrix chord

then widdle about on the top strings, tunelessly, for a bit. Then I just hit the open E whilst harmonising with it on the other strings. Then I get bored and put the guitar down.


usually

the first song from South of Boredom by Beezewax, very nice sounding chords.