What was the first tune you learned?

Evan Searcy · From: Oklahoma, USA

Hi all, long time lurker, first time poster as a member. What was the first song/lick you ever learned? The first one I tried to learn was Pete's solo on Sin City. Not sure I ever did!

Brett Day · From: Pickens, SC

The first tune I learned to play on steel was "Cold Cold Heart" by Hank Williams, and then I taught myself to play "Look At Us".

Jon Voth · From: Virginia, USA

CS&N "Teach Your Children" My first performance, 6 years ago, with US Army "Country Roads" summer concert on the Capitol steps.

It was by rote memorized, I didn't know what I was doing, and my A pedal rod fell off near the end of the song. But it was an OK performance.

Christopher Peck · From: Seattle

IIRC, the first full tune I learned enough to play all the way through was The Wallflower's "I Wish I Felt Nothing".

The first 'lick' was the intro to "Teach Your Children".

Richard Alderson · From: Illinois, USA

San Antonio Rose on straight up C6th A C E G A C E G, of course! What else is there?
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Dennis Detweiler · From: Solon, Iowa, US

Bud's Bounce on a d-8 Fender that had a changer bolted onto the end of one neck. A and B pedals only. Crude.
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Per Berner · From: Skovde, Sweden

Summer Clouds by Lloyd Green, I think the tab was from Scotty's.

Jack Hanson · From: San Luis Valley, USA

Red Wing, in the basement of Suneson's Music Center on East Lake Street, Mpls, MN, as instructed by the great Cal Hand, aka the wylie butler.

Ricky Davis · From: Bertram, Texas USA

Well since my Neighbor when I got home from College in 1981 was Tom Brumley and he gave me my very first lessons and of course the first song he taught me was "Together Again".
I'll never forget.
Ricky
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Samuel Phillippe · From: Douglas Michigan, USA

"Quinton's Theme" ....my wife always hums it as a lullaby to the grand, and great grand kids. She was humming it when I unloaded my psg so I played the first few notes and then learned it pesal steel way.

Sam

Bob Shilling · From: Berkeley, CA, USA

Walkin' After Midnight
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scott murray · From: Asheville, NC

Pete Drake - Pleading
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Larry Allen · From: Kapaa, Kauai,Hawaii

Stu Schumann taught me Over the Rainbow on his steel.. had to buy one then!!
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Bobby Martin · From: Virginia, USA

Our hero Buddy Charleton taught all of his students, myself included how to play Bud's Bounce correctly in key of F. And hold that right elbow in tight to your side!!
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Colin Boutilier · From: Nova Scotia, Canada

I'm still working on it, but the first piece I've been tackling was Kim Deschamps' brilliant work on Blue Rodeo's Hasn't Hit Me Yet.
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John Larson · From: Pennsyltucky, USA

The intro to The Marshall Tucker Band's "Fire on the Mountain" first thing I ever played once I setup my pedal steel for the first time.
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Bobby D. Jones · From: West Virginia, USA

When I first started on steel, My fiddle playing uncle asked me to learn "Faded Love" He had been stationed in Amarilla and played a lot of Texas fiddle music.

Fred Treece · From: California, USA

I tried to play Bobby Black’s intro on Truck Drivin’ Man, about 45 years ago on a Fender Stringmaster D8. I was so bad my bandmates made me stop playing it. About 9 years ago I finally bought a new Stage One and learned Streets Of Laredo from the Winnie Winston book. Killed it.

Roger Rettig · From: Naples, FL

Wichita Lineman: the very first! (This was around 1973-ish.)

I wasn't much of a country music fan back then (I am now) so, hearing those lovely chord changes on the Ray Charles 'cover' of this wonderful Webb composition (it was, of course, Buddy Emmons), lured me in. Gerry Hogan helped me here: he invited me to bring my new Student model ZB to his house and he asked what I'd like him to show me.

He thought 'Wichita...' a trifle ambitious, but my reasoning was that the musical scope of a complex song would teach me much more about the pedals (and the tuning) than, say, 'Jambalaya' might.

I still have my scribbled notes from that 'lesson'.

I'd do the same if I were starting today.
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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles, Martins, and a Gibson Super 400!
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Frank Freniere · From: The First Coast

"Red River Valley" right out of Winnie's "Pedal Steel Guitar." Check out Lloyd's take on RRV some time.

First self-taught: "Sleepwalk."

Jason Altshuler · From: Brooklyn, NY

Hey, Sin City was mine too!

Jim Arnold · From: Texas USA

Herb Remington's version of Danny Boy.

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