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90% of the time I pick up an acoustic, so it's nearly always the instrumental bit from Neil Young's Tell Me Why or a few bars of Stephan Grossman's Matesa, to the point where my kids ask 'don't you know any other songs?'
Electric is rare but usually something I learned 30 years ago, eg the beginning of 'Start Choppin' by dinosaur
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You're doing well, I don't bother learning any new stuff anymore. It made me think of the first thing I do whenever I pick up my acoustic, I'll always strum an open G chord then go into the outro of The Ballad of El Goodo which I segue into this little Chet Atkins style thing in G7 I made up years ago. I do that every single time I pick the Martin up.
What about everyone else? What's the first thing you do when you pick up a guitar? A very Uncle Larry question time type thing. 🙃