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24 Aug 14 - 05:34 PM (#3653633) Subject: First song you practised From: Leadbelly Hi there, to all people making music: which was the first song you practised? Do you remember? Can remeber my first efforts: I still miss someone (J. Cash). Long time ago. |
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24 Aug 14 - 06:18 PM (#3653645) Subject: RE: First song you practised From: The Sandman the cunning cobbler |
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24 Aug 14 - 06:28 PM (#3653650) Subject: RE: First song you practised From: Lighter Skip to My Lou. |
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24 Aug 14 - 06:50 PM (#3653662) Subject: RE: First song you practised From: Don Firth 1952. "The Fox," which I learned from my girl friend at the time, and who taught me my first chords on the guitar. Then I struggled with "Greensleeves," which I learned from a folio of twenty songs sung by Richard Dyer-Bennet. Don Firth |
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24 Aug 14 - 07:44 PM (#3653676) Subject: RE: First song you practised From: Bill D I played some tunes on recorder before adopting a cheap autoharp my ex-wife was ignoring. First attempt? "Wildwood Flower" of course! |
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24 Aug 14 - 09:53 PM (#3653715) Subject: RE: First song you practised From: GUEST,.gargoyle First piece. practiced, memorized, and performed before a general, non-musical audience...."Jet Cadets"' It was a flamboyant string of arpeggio that led to my transfer to a new piano teacher. Sincerely,, Gargoyle It became apparent...I could memorize but could not read notes, and had zero understanding of basic theory. |
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24 Aug 14 - 10:36 PM (#3653722) Subject: RE: First song you practised From: Phil Cooper Lou Marsh (by Phil Ochs), before I got my first guitar. I was noodling on an old gibson at my cousin's house. Before I knew anything about tuning it, or chord progressions. |
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25 Aug 14 - 12:28 AM (#3653733) Subject: RE: First song you practised From: MGM·Lion Barbara Allen {The 'Scarlet Town where I was born' version} ≈M≈ |
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25 Aug 14 - 12:44 AM (#3653734) Subject: RE: First song you practised From: PHJim For my accordion lesson, I still recall: Music so sweet and so gay CDE,CDE,F//,/// On my accordion I play DEF,DEF,G//,/// Try to improve every day CDE,CDE,F//,/// And you will soon know the way. DEF,GFE,C//,/// |
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25 Aug 14 - 03:11 AM (#3653752) Subject: RE: First song you practised From: Musket I started out with violin in classical music as a child so the first music would be the contents of The Eta Cohen Method, the book my tutor used. Regarding guitar, I suppose the contents of The Bert Weedon Play with Yourself in a Day book, (Bobby Shafto, When the Saints and the ubiquitous Guitar Boogie Shuffle! My first get up in a folk club, therefore practice a first song? I knocked up an acoustic version of a rock song I wrote called Concrete Jungle. I don't recall what I followed it with, but I did have a book called Ireland Sings and many of my early traditional songs came from it. |
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25 Aug 14 - 05:29 AM (#3653774) Subject: RE: First song you practised From: G-Force Practice? What's that then? |
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25 Aug 14 - 05:38 AM (#3653777) Subject: RE: First song you practised From: Jack Blandiver I practise folk song. Sounds nice & vocational. 'I'm a vocational singer of Traditional Song, don't you know. It is a calling in my soul needs must I follow!' My first was probably Lucy Wan which nearly got me expelled until I showed the beak my battered copy of TPBOEFS which justified it in terms of worthy scholarship. |
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25 Aug 14 - 09:09 AM (#3653829) Subject: RE: First song you practised From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker Approx 1973, after school round my mates house. He was a big "The Shadows" fan, so he'd just got a cheap electric guitar. I used his ropey old spanish guitar, and together we struggled to master "FBI" and "Apache" Satisfied with our progress, we then studiously worked our way through the bulk of The Shadows' greatest hits. We then roped in a couple of schoolmates and started trying to learn to play as a group with Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues" & "C'mon Everybody" The Beatles/Stones "I Wanna be Your Man" and Marc Bolan/T.Rex's "Hot Love" and "Ride a White Swan" Plus a few more of the usual old 1950s Rock 'n' Roll standards.... and oddly enough, some Donovan and Lindisfarne songs*.. [*there you go, my 'Folk Roots' !!!] Couple of years later when we were good enough, we became basicaly a Dr Feelgood/Wilko Johnson covers band. A perfect foundation course for the punk band we were to become a short while after......... The teenage dream of being local College Disco and Town & Village Hall legends... Shame it all got so serious, with predatory wannabe managers and dodgy record label deals... |
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25 Aug 14 - 01:20 PM (#3653909) Subject: RE: First song you practised From: Sean Belt Gosh. The first thing I can ever remember trying to learn and practice was The Beatles' "Ticket To Ride". I just had to learn that opening riff on the P.O.S. Stella guitar with the 1/2" high action that my parents had given me. |
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25 Aug 14 - 02:03 PM (#3653932) Subject: RE: First song you practised From: MikeL2 Hi Like Musk I started with Bert Weedon's Bobbie Shafto. I played it so much that I hated it and still do to this day. First song I got ready to sing in public was The Gypsy Rover. I used to listen on the radio to Elton Hayes and his songs to a small guitar. "Those were the days my friend". Cheers MikeL2 |
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25 Aug 14 - 02:15 PM (#3653939) Subject: RE: First song you practised From: Andy7 As a teenager, with one of my first pay packets, I bought a cheap guitar, and a 'teach yourself guitar' book, I think it was written by John Pease. Thanks to John, I learned to fingerpick 'Home on the Range', and played it, in the dark, at a beach barbecue in Wales; and despite my slow and careful picking and nervous singing, everyone sang along. I really felt, then, that I'd arrived in the 'music scene'! :-) |
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25 Aug 14 - 02:43 PM (#3653950) Subject: RE: First song you practised From: GUEST,kendall Wreck on the highway |
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25 Aug 14 - 02:51 PM (#3653955) Subject: RE: First song you practised From: cptsnapper Living Doll by Cliff Richard |
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25 Aug 14 - 03:02 PM (#3653960) Subject: RE: First song you practised From: RTim Excluding the few songs my father taught me - It was most likely the opening Chorus song in The Mikado!! when at school. " If you want to know who we are, we are gentlemen of Japan" As far as a Folk song is concerned - I would guess Whip Jamboree!! Tim Radford |
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25 Aug 14 - 03:49 PM (#3653981) Subject: RE: First song you practised From: GUEST,ketchdana The Fox (went out on a chilly night) OR The Bold Fisherman (Took a long while to figure out what was going wrong, with that single measure of 4 beats in the middle of a 3/4 song. Music notes would have helped.)
Practiced until I got it right (at least once, more or less).
First song "practiced until I couldn't get it wrong"? None so far. |
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25 Aug 14 - 06:42 PM (#3654030) Subject: RE: First song you practised From: Andy7 "First song "practiced until I couldn't get it wrong"? None so far." Hahaha! I'm glad I'm not alone! :-) |
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25 Aug 14 - 07:06 PM (#3654036) Subject: RE: First song you practised From: Tattie Bogle Oh sinner man - only 2 chords! |
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25 Aug 14 - 09:12 PM (#3654053) Subject: RE: First song you practised From: Deckman "The Foggy, Foggy Dew", under the guidance of the late Bill Higley. It was probably in 1950 ... bob(deckman)nelson |
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25 Aug 14 - 09:20 PM (#3654054) Subject: RE: First song you practised From: Little Robyn Apart from the songs we had to learn at school, the first self chosen song was The Virgin Mary Had a One Son - which we pinched from the Newport FF record - Joan Baez and Bob Gibson. Robyn |
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25 Aug 14 - 09:21 PM (#3654055) Subject: RE: First song you practised From: Mooh On piano or vocals I have no idea, it was a very long time ago and I was very young. On guitar, Greensleeves, House Of The Rising Sun, maybe Paint It Black, and lots of tunes from the folkie songbooks around the house. Peace, Mooh. |
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26 Aug 14 - 09:10 AM (#3654232) Subject: RE: First song you practised From: GUEST,Desi C First I practised and performed was Eric Bogle's Now I'm easy, followed by a lot of Hank Williams songs which were more suited to my talent limitations |
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26 Aug 14 - 09:48 AM (#3654237) Subject: RE: First song you practised From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker This is a really great 'memory therapy' thread... Just recalled 2 more of the batch of songs our band of 15 year old school mates initially set ourselves to try to learn... [it'd be a another 2 or 3 years before our band settled into a 'fixed' line-up and our own musical identity, writing our own songs] The Moody Blues "Nights In White Satin" Rare Bird "Sympathy" A pretty diverse bunch of songs reflecting the tastes of 4 or 5 provincial teenagers. The drummer was out of luck though. He was heavily into Steely Dan. .. no effin way could we ever have hoped to attempt to play any of those songs. |
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26 Aug 14 - 11:11 AM (#3654264) Subject: RE: First song you practised From: GUEST,gillymor Spike Driver's Blues Fingerpicked out of a first position G chord. I still play it. Great song. |
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26 Aug 14 - 02:24 PM (#3654319) Subject: RE: First song you practised From: Alan Day For me it was Shepherd's Hey played on a Hohner CG concertina that I purchased from Bell Accordions at Surbiton for ten quid. Al |
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27 Aug 14 - 10:55 PM (#3654336) Subject: RE: First song you practised From: Elmore Banks of Marble. |
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28 Aug 14 - 08:10 AM (#3654434) Subject: RE: First song you practised From: GUEST Dont think Twice |
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28 Aug 14 - 08:54 AM (#3654444) Subject: RE: First song you practised From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker oh dear.. digging even deeper into long repressed memories... "Edelweiss" from "The Sound of Music" - word & note perfect for an infant school annual music festival. The one and only time I have ever sung solo in a public performance. Apparently I was quite good ??? [if you say so mum] |
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28 Aug 14 - 11:07 AM (#3654508) Subject: RE: First song you practised From: Bill D The first 'folkish' songs I remember having to sing (in school) were "Little Mohee" and "Polly Wolly Doodle". Can't say I ever seriously 'practiced' them... pieces of them are still embedded in very ancient brain cells. Even before going to school, I sort of memorized "Sioux City Sue" from Gene Autry...but I can't say I really tried to sing it. |
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28 Aug 14 - 07:50 PM (#3654753) Subject: RE: First song you practised From: GUEST,Jackie Boyce Lord Gregory, 1977, tape recorded from the singing of John Flanagan, Corofin, Co Clare, Ireland. |