1st song we ever wrote

I thought it might be cool if everyone posted the first song, progression, melody, or whatever they ever wrote. Doesn't have to be a complete song...whatever the first thing you put together yourself that you could call yours. Just to get everyone's comments on where they were then as a player, versus now. And if there's more than a few entries, I'll edit-post 'em here for convenience.

I started with an acoustic for the most of 2 years, so mine's just a peaceful fingerpicking exploration I made sometime in that 1st year. I was still getting the basics down of strumming/picking the alternate bass strings of a single chord. So alot of this melody is a walking bassline with open chords. Still, I think it's pretty good considering where I was as a player then. It was definitely my first creative breakthrough.

This recording is recent, but the song hasn't changed in 13 years or so. Oh, and I never really gave it a name, so I guess it's just 1st song.

That was some damn good finger picking Rustee, :cool: The first song I ever wrote was the backing melody to the song "Overnighter" on my SC page. It didn't have the lead over it 7 years ago but the chord progression is the same. www.soundclick.com/magicninja

you guys wud have probbaly heard this one...i forgot i updated it with a new singing voice...i think...i was too lazy to go thru the whole song...so there might be mistakes in there...even i fell asleep listening to it...

http://www.purevolume.com/backend/jeffhx2/music

Originally Posted by: magicninjaThat was some damn good finger picking Rustee, :cool:

Twas only with thumb and index going down/up, and fretted only on 2nd and 3rd frets. Perhaps I could name it something to that effect...Deuce maybe? Nah, sounds dumb.

And Jeff:
Your link sent me to some kinda sign-in page. I didn't think Purevolume made you do that (and I don't have an id there), but I found your page with your name. Also I was assuming it was the top song of the list? It wasn't as bad as you were saying though. I actually saw some similarity between that song and mine, as far as open string chords and picking.

*searching through a bunch of trash ive recorded*

when I was just starting, I recorded just about everything that came into my mind. so, most of it was that I would write some lyric, then make up a guitar line, and once I got started I'd just improvise from there.

...that leads to pretty sucky music.

but It's alright, I guess.

I think this was my very first improv instrumental.
I really wish I had an electric, in retrospect.
"Carry me away"

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=426944

Originally Posted by: Akira...I was in the phase where I thought if you played everything fast it sounded cool and got you mad rep, yeah...

I'll have to dig it up.

That's pretty much guitar playing... Playing fast always sounds cool to the player, and I play music for myself first and everyone else second.

I've only learnt to temper it a bit - but I can only play about 30 seconds of blues type shuffle before I'm on the trem arm and fingers flailing!

I'll dig up some of my early stuff.... the later stuff isn't much better really, but the compositions are getting increasingly (over?)complex...

Oddly enough, it's the only one there so far. I'm hoping to have more up prior to heading to Iraq. This one is a bit repetitive and is being reworked. This is the original recording.

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=570532

Great progression there bud! And I especially liked the harmonics in the beginning...I might've liked to have heard them repeated in the solo too. But regardless, cool stuff.

Originally Posted by: R. ShackleferdGreat progression there bud! And I especially liked the harmonics in the beginning...I might've liked to have heard them repeated in the solo too. But regardless, cool stuff.

Thanks. Still working on it. Gonna try the harmonics over the solo, great suggestion!

Ok, here ya go. The first song I ever wrote on a Fostex 250 4 track with a Yamaha RX11 drum machine, original Midiverb and my old Yamaha Acoustic and guitar synth, recorded in about 1987.
I didn't have any lyrics for it, but my brother use to sit at the dining room table and make fun of me and singing stupid stuff like "Snowy Rivers... Flowing So Gently"
... mainly cause it sounded so gay. So I said to hell with it and call the song "Snowy Rivers"

Snowy Rivers
©1993 by whoever

I'm in the bath washing my hair
There's no water in it but I don't care
I sit outside and breathe the air
I've got a comb, but I don't care.
I think I love me....

...check out the guitar solo.... there's only 2 notes cause it wasn't worth writing anything to it.

We actually made a video about 10 years ago, going around model homes and using their bathrooms to wash my hair in. The answering message at the end of the song is an actual recording of a guy at work calling me to wake me up cause I slept in. I was up all night doing this song so I was majorly crashed out.

Later on (years later) we took the instrumental tracks that were sitting around in the closet, and took them into a 16 track studio to use them for a real track for a band we joined years later called 'Slime Dogs from Hell'. (later named Bitch'n Boys) We wrote new lyrics and had our singer Joanne do new vocals for us. (she had no idea about the Snowy Rivers vocals so she always wondered why me and my bro were always snickering our asses off....

So anyways, here's both versions:

Snowy Rivers (original version)
http://s93744050.onlinehome.us/Snowy.mp3

On Our Own (Joanne's Version)
http://s93744050.onlinehome.us/OnOurOwn.mp3

Funny thing was, we ended up doing 'On Our Own' at the Hard Rock Cafe in Skydome in Toronto and we were laughing so hard cause the rest of us were singing 'Snowy Rivers' in the background during the whole song...
People were coming up to us saying it was their favorite song and we were breaking up and falling off our chairs from laughing so hard.

I never wrote songs until about a year ago. Been playing many years, just never had the urge to write.

Got a burst of creativity about a year ago when I started learning how to record.
I heard this weird far off sounding guitar tone and it made me think of a Camel moving through the desert.

Next thing I know, I wrote Camel ride.
I re-mixed this a few months ago but I am still not happy with it.
I'll re-do it again down the road.

Comes complete with Camel Belching effects.
Camel Ride link

Originally Posted by: EL34XYZI never wrote songs until about a year ago. Been playing many years, just never had the urge to write.


I heard this weird far off sounding guitar tone and it made me think of a Camel moving through the desert.

Comes complete with Camel Belching effects.
Camel Ride link

Hi EL34XYZ , so you got a camel song too :)
Here's mine: < http://www.purevolume.com/rgx312l >

The main melody is really good, it has that ariabian/rock feel :)
And the break at the 3rd section , the camels' sound, WOW! :)

Did you use a pitch shifter on the main melody?

I love that Arabian feel, glad you like it too.

I am using Guitar Rig 2 for the guitar sounds.

Not sure what I had stacked up, but I usually have from two to four guitar tracks going at any one time.

I sometimes do a track with an Octavia thrown in and that gives it a real cool sound.

Here's a link to Guitar Rig 2.
Guitar Rig 2

I checked out your Camel tune and commented in your other post, cool.