Mark RobergeFounder, Artist Strategy, Make Our Music · Your A&R. Without the Gatekeepers.

From 'Hot Cross Buns' to Korn: My Guitar Journey #shorts

27 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short, the speaker recounts his early guitar learning experience, beginning with basic acoustic lessons and simple songs like "Hot Cross Buns," then quickly moving on to more challenging pop‑punk tracks (Blink‑182) and eventually heavy‑rock solos from Randy Rhoads and Steve Ray Vaughan. He describes how a teacher showed him finger placement, which sparked a binge of guitar magazines and instructional books. The narrative highlights the pivotal moment of acquiring his first "real" electric guitar, which opened the door to learning the music he truly wanted to play. The tone is informal and enthusiastic, emphasizing personal growth and the excitement of discovering new musical styles.

It shows you where to put your fingers. Yeah. So I, I brought it in
and I was like, hey, like, how do I do this song? And he's like, oh, like, you know, that's blah, blah, blah. And as soon as he taught me that, I was, like, going, getting all the guitar world books and learning all the little, like, songs I wanted to learn. Not Hot Cross Buns on my acoustic, I was learning, you know, like, corn songs and blink 182 songs. And then like, learning, like, Randy Rhodes solos and Steve Ray Von tracks. And then that's what really, like, started, you know, where I really started getting into guitar. When I was able to play stuff that I wanted to learn versus,
by the way, those magazines, I would do the exact same thing. Same, same situation. It was, it was good, Good thing. Yeah. Absolutely.
Yeah. So, like, that, it took, it took that because I was like, ah, this acoustic. And these ants go marching one by one, like, what is this? This is not what I, this is not what I saw.
I can't jump around on my, on my.
Yeah, this sucks. So. But yeah, once I, I, I got into that realm, then it was like, okay, this is, you know, this is what I wanted to learn.
Well, yeah, you have a pretty cool story, too, about how you got your first, like, real guitar, right?