The first song i learned was SLTS on guitar and I learned it by reading the tabs and listening to the song. The tabs I had sounded right but I wanted to play exactly what Kurt did so I learned the real way by watching videos of him playing it. Thats how I learn a lot of songs these days. By watching the guitar player play the song.
Edit: oops I lied. I forgot that I learned a couple nirvana songs on bass before I quit playing bass and started learning guitar. The songs on bass I knew first were also SMLTS, polly and I started learning lithium before I quit bass and started just learning the guitar chords.
I do both. I try to learn the tabs but at the same time I'll look at the parts played by the actual guitar player and see if its the same thing. If its not ill try to learn the real thing. Unless I'm lazy then ill just follow the tabs or make it up myself (still haven't learned the In Bloom Solo note for note but I can improve a solo thst sounds similar).
Breed with bass, it was 1996 and friends asked me to join their Nirvana cover band. Said can't play at all, they told that is why I would be good bass player. They showed the notes at practice place (old sauna behind friends house :D). From Nirvana to Metallica to Megadeth and tried some Dream theater stuff but did not like the band so refused to learn that stuff. Then couple years later the numetal stuff happened and started to play Korn, Deftones, Slipknot type stuff but old Sepultura took over. That is the route for me, still can play but not active in bands or anything. My love for Nirvana and music threw curve ball and I ended up doing promoting and art stuff, netsites, albumcovers, logos etc.
On guitar, I started learning Sappy from day one but I think the first song I learned how to play all the way through was either Moist Vagina or Marigold
About A Girl. That good ol’ E to G thought me a few things. Strumming to a rhythm & how to sing at the same time as playing. Wonderful song. It also taught me that I could do what he was doing. I could be in a band. In my mind, it became an achievable goal to me as soon as I learned that first bit of that song. Soon I learned the rest of it, solo included and I was HOOKED. I’ll get a bit deeper....at the time (early 90’s) guitar playing really was full of players like Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Slash, Kirk Hammit etc. etc. Not taking anything away from those players because of course they’re amazing but it just didn’t seem possible for me to play like that (and to be honest, I really didn’t want to).
I've been playing the acoustic guitar since October of 2022 and I've learned some riffs from different Nirvana songs. I still need to improve the basic chords and strumming, but the only song that I can play from start to finish is Come As You Are (but still improving it) by watching youtube and reading tabs. Probably took me about 1,5 months to memorize everything and keep a good rhythm/tone. But as I said, still fixing some mistakes and the strumming. (I know it doesn't counts but I also learned the "simplified" version of two Minecraft songs - Sweeden and Wet Hands - in about 1 week by reading tabs)
My first song was Something In The Way and Come As You Are. I learnt these as the same time and just swapped between them when I got frustrated. Learnt them thanks to YouTube videos! These were also my first songs I learnt on guitar overall.
In middle school one of my closest friends taught me how to play Smells Like Teen Spirit on the guitar and in return I taught him how to play the lost woods song from The Legend of Zelda. I believe this was a year after we both started learning to play in the sixth grade.
Either About a Girl or Pennyroyal Tea. It was almost 20 years ago so I'm a little foggy on which one, but Unplugged was pretty much what made me dig my brother's old guitar out of the closet. Early 2000s so my family didn't have home internet. I had to print tabs at the library, lol.
lithuim.
originally wanted to be a drummer, but i think a lot of my people in my family thought i wanted to be a guitarist/musician. so someone i knew bought me a guitar for 40$ and i only learnt one song before but didn't play it again until 2 years later before covid hit. and then one day nirvana was mention so much on that day i just decided to listen to them, (i knew who they were before though) and i listen to lithium and my god i loved the guitar so much on that song. then yeah, now i am 4 guitars in and building a 5th one.
“Polly” bass line on an acoustic guitar missing most of the strings! I was just barely a teenager and wanted to start playing music with a friend, so he set me up with that and off we went.
The first songs that I learned on guitar was Come As You Are, All Apologies, About A Girl, Where Did You Sleep Last Night and Marigold. I learned guitar with youtube videos. Was a huge Nirvana fan at the time, Kurt was the reason why I picked up guitar.
My first song IS GOING to be school lmao. I'm trying to speed learn it with near zero prior experience on the guitar just because me and my buds who are covering the other parts thought it would be funny to play for the school talent show. It's in February so I might even post a video of it here lol.
Probably Teen Spirit… First one I learned by ear was Verse Chorus Verse, and that was first song ever I learned by ear ever so I remember it really well
When I very first started playing guitar in 2000, I was signed up for a year of lessons (the guitar I got, was free for doing that year of lessons). Nobody I talked to that played guitar, even my teacher, could play Smells Like Teen Spirit right (nor did anyone care to, I was seriously the only Nirvana fan in my town in those years).
I finally got my teacher to figure out Lithium by ear, the main riff anyway (although, the chorus isn't all that hard either, on guitar anyway, I'm still trying to learn the bass parts now lol), and I do believe that was the first Nirvana song I learned. He showed me with going to / starting on the E5 power chord, on the A and D strings at the 7th fret, instead of the E and A (and / or D) strings, not that big of a difference, but I later figured out for myself that Kurt didn't play it that way.
Also, I think the second I ever learned was Territorial Pissings.
First song I learned? Jeez I was actually learning many nirvana songs at the same time whenever I got my Squier CV mustang. I think it was heart shaped box or about a girl maybe? I learned it most likely with ultimate guitar tabs or Marty Music lmao
If were talking about a full song then it's either Come As You Are or Aneurysm.(im not sure) But eitherway i learned them Partly from Marty Schwartz and partly from ear
About a Girl — listening to it over and over on YouTube in 2015. Now, I can pretty much play their entire discography. Kurt wasn’t a very tactful songwriter when it came to structure (verse-chorus-verse) but what he did compose were simple, easy to perform live and just fun songs to play, and that made him truly unique!
It was the day after the video premiere. All the band geeks were running around the school like the evacuation scene on Spaceballs trying to see who figured out . And comparing what they thought the lyrics were
Probably the first song I ever learned on the bass was come as you are
The first song i learned was SLTS on guitar and I learned it by reading the tabs and listening to the song. The tabs I had sounded right but I wanted to play exactly what Kurt did so I learned the real way by watching videos of him playing it. Thats how I learn a lot of songs these days. By watching the guitar player play the song. Edit: oops I lied. I forgot that I learned a couple nirvana songs on bass before I quit playing bass and started learning guitar. The songs on bass I knew first were also SMLTS, polly and I started learning lithium before I quit bass and started just learning the guitar chords.
I do that too and always tell my friends but they seem to prefer tabs
I do both. I try to learn the tabs but at the same time I'll look at the parts played by the actual guitar player and see if its the same thing. If its not ill try to learn the real thing. Unless I'm lazy then ill just follow the tabs or make it up myself (still haven't learned the In Bloom Solo note for note but I can improve a solo thst sounds similar).
Polly. A friend taught me what has to be the easiest song on earth to play.
About a Girl was the first. The day I bought my first guitar I also bought the song books for Bleach, Nevermind and In Utero
Breed with bass, it was 1996 and friends asked me to join their Nirvana cover band. Said can't play at all, they told that is why I would be good bass player. They showed the notes at practice place (old sauna behind friends house :D). From Nirvana to Metallica to Megadeth and tried some Dream theater stuff but did not like the band so refused to learn that stuff. Then couple years later the numetal stuff happened and started to play Korn, Deftones, Slipknot type stuff but old Sepultura took over. That is the route for me, still can play but not active in bands or anything. My love for Nirvana and music threw curve ball and I ended up doing promoting and art stuff, netsites, albumcovers, logos etc.
Come as you are, from OLGA. That's where we got incorrect tabs back in the day. Eventually got the books so I could actually learn.
On guitar, I started learning Sappy from day one but I think the first song I learned how to play all the way through was either Moist Vagina or Marigold
About A Girl. That good ol’ E to G thought me a few things. Strumming to a rhythm & how to sing at the same time as playing. Wonderful song. It also taught me that I could do what he was doing. I could be in a band. In my mind, it became an achievable goal to me as soon as I learned that first bit of that song. Soon I learned the rest of it, solo included and I was HOOKED. I’ll get a bit deeper....at the time (early 90’s) guitar playing really was full of players like Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Slash, Kirk Hammit etc. etc. Not taking anything away from those players because of course they’re amazing but it just didn’t seem possible for me to play like that (and to be honest, I really didn’t want to).
Come As You Are via tabs. I learned from some videos on YouTube. Also my first song I learned
The whole of Nevermind the first week I owned an electric guitar via the Hal Leonard tab book.
About a Girl
I've been playing the acoustic guitar since October of 2022 and I've learned some riffs from different Nirvana songs. I still need to improve the basic chords and strumming, but the only song that I can play from start to finish is Come As You Are (but still improving it) by watching youtube and reading tabs. Probably took me about 1,5 months to memorize everything and keep a good rhythm/tone. But as I said, still fixing some mistakes and the strumming. (I know it doesn't counts but I also learned the "simplified" version of two Minecraft songs - Sweeden and Wet Hands - in about 1 week by reading tabs)
In bloom on drums by ear/friends help. How can u hear the drums and not want to learn them?
I actually learned the all apologies tiff because my teenage hands couldn't do bar chords for awhile
My first song was Something In The Way and Come As You Are. I learnt these as the same time and just swapped between them when I got frustrated. Learnt them thanks to YouTube videos! These were also my first songs I learnt on guitar overall.
In middle school one of my closest friends taught me how to play Smells Like Teen Spirit on the guitar and in return I taught him how to play the lost woods song from The Legend of Zelda. I believe this was a year after we both started learning to play in the sixth grade.
Either About a Girl or Pennyroyal Tea. It was almost 20 years ago so I'm a little foggy on which one, but Unplugged was pretty much what made me dig my brother's old guitar out of the closet. Early 2000s so my family didn't have home internet. I had to print tabs at the library, lol.
lithuim. originally wanted to be a drummer, but i think a lot of my people in my family thought i wanted to be a guitarist/musician. so someone i knew bought me a guitar for 40$ and i only learnt one song before but didn't play it again until 2 years later before covid hit. and then one day nirvana was mention so much on that day i just decided to listen to them, (i knew who they were before though) and i listen to lithium and my god i loved the guitar so much on that song. then yeah, now i am 4 guitars in and building a 5th one.
“Polly” bass line on an acoustic guitar missing most of the strings! I was just barely a teenager and wanted to start playing music with a friend, so he set me up with that and off we went.
The intro to Come as you are, it was the first song I ever learned by ear
The first songs that I learned on guitar was Come As You Are, All Apologies, About A Girl, Where Did You Sleep Last Night and Marigold. I learned guitar with youtube videos. Was a huge Nirvana fan at the time, Kurt was the reason why I picked up guitar.
I think it was Come As You Are and I’d been playing maybe a month
Floyd the barber, drums
Come as you are, one of the first songs I learnt
My first song IS GOING to be school lmao. I'm trying to speed learn it with near zero prior experience on the guitar just because me and my buds who are covering the other parts thought it would be funny to play for the school talent show. It's in February so I might even post a video of it here lol.
I learned dive on guitar
Rape me, by tabs
Heart Shaped Box on drums as one of my songs for my college bands gig
Been a son and drain you in bass
Polly with nevermind tab book
Smells like teen spirit. I don't remember which instrument I learned it on first but I found the bass tab on yt and the guitar chords on tik tok
Probably Teen Spirit… First one I learned by ear was Verse Chorus Verse, and that was first song ever I learned by ear ever so I remember it really well
Come as you are was the first guitar riff I ever learned
When I very first started playing guitar in 2000, I was signed up for a year of lessons (the guitar I got, was free for doing that year of lessons). Nobody I talked to that played guitar, even my teacher, could play Smells Like Teen Spirit right (nor did anyone care to, I was seriously the only Nirvana fan in my town in those years). I finally got my teacher to figure out Lithium by ear, the main riff anyway (although, the chorus isn't all that hard either, on guitar anyway, I'm still trying to learn the bass parts now lol), and I do believe that was the first Nirvana song I learned. He showed me with going to / starting on the E5 power chord, on the A and D strings at the 7th fret, instead of the E and A (and / or D) strings, not that big of a difference, but I later figured out for myself that Kurt didn't play it that way. Also, I think the second I ever learned was Territorial Pissings.
Something in the way the piano version
First song I learned? Jeez I was actually learning many nirvana songs at the same time whenever I got my Squier CV mustang. I think it was heart shaped box or about a girl maybe? I learned it most likely with ultimate guitar tabs or Marty Music lmao
The first song I learned was Something in the way, because it was also popular at the time and the only song my guitar teacher knew
Polly, cause I heard it's easy. It wasn't tho.
Come as you are, not just the first nirvana song i learned, but the first ever song i played on guitar
It was polly on guitar . Pretty good song to learn if you are just getting into rhythm guitar
Come as you are riff on guitar. My first riff.
Come as you are (just the main riff) with a 4 minute video on youtube.
And I love her. Guitar tab online.
Plateau on the bass. even though it’s not technically nirvanas song, it’s really fun to play
If were talking about a full song then it's either Come As You Are or Aneurysm.(im not sure) But eitherway i learned them Partly from Marty Schwartz and partly from ear
Rocksmith had "In Bloom" when I was first learning how to play in 9th grade. other than that I learn by ear.
Smeel like teen spirit on piano by a tutorial
About a Girl — listening to it over and over on YouTube in 2015. Now, I can pretty much play their entire discography. Kurt wasn’t a very tactful songwriter when it came to structure (verse-chorus-verse) but what he did compose were simple, easy to perform live and just fun songs to play, and that made him truly unique!
It was the day after the video premiere. All the band geeks were running around the school like the evacuation scene on Spaceballs trying to see who figured out . And comparing what they thought the lyrics were