Your first REAL song...

[MilkshakeFiend]

Run to the Hills by Iron Maiden, 2002. Took me about 2 weeks to get used to power chords and get the horse-trot rhythm. I think I learnt the solo (badly) about a year later. I played that song so much when I first got my guitar and for my first band that I'm now sick of it.

[Ryan350DX]

Originally Posted by CosmicDebris

and porno music.

I take it you had a Wah then

My first song was 'State of Grace - Liquid Tension Experiment'

[Knightmeir]

Originally Posted by Ryan350DX

My first song was 'State of Grace - Liquid Tension Experiment'

Same here

[GLG421]

I learned a lot of parts to real songs, but Breaking the law was probably the first for me to nail all the way through.

I'm dating myself as well, but a lot of early Priest and Sabbath songs had fairly simple rhythms that weren't too hard to follow along with.

It wasn't until later that I discovered a lot of the intricacies of those songs and learned I'd been playing them wrong for years.

[jaxadam]

Rainbow in the Dark by Dio.

[LonePhantom]

Originally Posted by richard1973

same time as the Guns n roses one, did you learn theirs or the original?

First song all the way through for me was Metallica's 'Where ever I may Roam' that would of been in early 1993 time (was in Guitar for the practising musician magazine)

I learned the Bob Dylan version, then later on worked out the GnR one from that.

[ScottB]

Stealin' by Uriah Heep. Now that's old!

[Brosa]

Seek and destroy from Metallica.

Got to love the oldies from them

[Left Lane]

"Metal Health" Quiet Riot and "You Really Got Me" Van Halen (late 1983)

[jim777]

Either "Walk, Don't Run" or "Wipe Out" by The Ventures, around about '71-'72

[jim777]

Originally Posted by Knightmeir

Same here

Dude, where the hell have you been!? Good seeing you

[ken_r152]

First song I learned from a music teacher was "And I Love Her" by The Beatles. First song I learned on my own was either "Hole In My Life" or "Can't Stand Losing You" by The Police.

[rob777vdy]

mine was opening riff from crazy train and aint talking about love van halen.

[JohnnyRG1527]

Rage against the machine- bombtrack in 1996(i think)
jimi- voodoo child
then just about every nirvana song ever written

Oh and the first solo i learned was Metallica- One