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🎸 Acoustic Led Zeppelin! 3 Ways to Play the "Ramble On" Bassline
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LESSON #625 ▶️ Click to watch free video lesson​ In this week's new lesson I’ll teach you a fun acoustic guitar arrangement of Led Zeppelin’s Ramble On iconic bassline. My focus isn’t simply teaching the individual notes (which I will do), but additionally I’ll give you several tips on how you can add strumming between many of these bass notes. Using this approach, you end up with a very engaging and full-sounding guitar groove that is an absolute blast to play and repeat. Don’t miss my “secret stash” version of things, where I modify the second half of the bassline to make it even more strum-friendly.
👉 Watch the video lesson and get the bonus materials »​ ​ I will admit with no shame, when I watched Wayne's World on repeat as a kid... this Stairway to Heaven joke was lost on me. I didn't know the song, and probably hadn't been to a guitar store yet. Twenty years later, I recorded a nice lesson teaching of the intro riff to Stairway to Heaven. It's one of the earlier videos on my channel, but I think the step-by-step approach holds up well: A few years later I followed it up with another Stairway lesson, tackling the interlude section: You can find these videos, plus my practice notes, over on my lesson #69 page on my Song Notes website. ​ I do have a sing & strum lesson teaching Ramble On coming up in the next few weeks... stay tuned for that! It was inspired by this recent Robert Plant performance, with the band Saving Grace, on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert: My upcoming lesson will show (mostly) how Jimmy Page plays the main riff, and then segue into a slightly simplified way to strum through the entire song in a way that's much more attainable for us mere mortals. I think you'll dig it. Until then, have a great weekend and happy picking ✌️ David Browse all my lessons at songnotes.net​ |
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Learn to play guitar with weekly video lessons & print-friendly guides! Learn your favorite songs & techniques with step-by-step tutorials that actually explain how to get from here to there.
Hey there, friends – I'm excited to share TWO new lessons with you today! They both tackle the all-time classic Love Me Tender, but take very different approaches. Take your pick, or learn 'em both! –David LESSON #623Sing & Strum (Key of D) ▶️ Click to watch lesson #623 This first lesson teaches you to sing & strum Love Me Tender as it's heard in the Elvis recording. I'll start by teaching you the chords, measure-by-measure... then shift into the world of alternating bass notes. There are a...
LESSON #622Using Melodic Triads to play Happy Birthday ▶️ Click to watch free video lesson Hey there, my friends... new lesson for you to kick off the weekend! This one spontaneously found itself in my playing rotation after my daughter’s birthday celebration last week. The topic here is triads, where I use the good ole’ familiar song Happy Birthday as the melodic inspiration. I’ll show you TWO ways to play the melody to Happy Birthday using triads. For the most part, this is all done with...
Learn Guitar Faster Using Jam Tracks This week I have a couple fun updates involving the video jam tracks on my Song Notes website. These play-along tracks are an incredibly helpful way to get more out of your practice sessions, while also having fun along the way. My video jam track for Soulful Lead Guitar over America the Beautiful Don't miss my new video lesson (showing how I make jam tracks) below, but first let me show you how to find my jam track library... BROWSE ALL MY JAM TRACKS I've...