 The first song Pope learned to play was "Tuesday's Gone" by Lynyrd Skynyrd.He had not yet figured out all of the chords for the song, but he learned to mimic the lead guitar parts, originally created/played by Lynyrd Skynyrd's Gary Rossington.Pope would not give up until he learned what would become the very first song he taught himself to strum, one of his favorites, Alabama's "My Home's in Alabama".