Posts Tagged ‘guitar’

The Second Step

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

The second instalment of my attempt at learning Stairway to Heaven. The tab is not 100% the same as how I play it, but close enough.

E------------0-2-----2-|-0-----0---------|---------3-----3-|-3^2-2-2---------|
B----------------3-----|---1-----0-------|-1-----1---0-----|-----3-3---------|
G----------0-------2---|-----2-----2-----|---0---------0---|-----------------|
D--------2-----0-------|-3---------------|-----2-----------|-0---0-0---------|
A-0-2--3---------------|---------0---0-2-|-3---------------|-----------------|
E----------------------|-----------------|---------3-------|-----------------|

E---------2-----2-|-0-----0---------|---------------2-|-0-0-0-----------|
B-------1---3-----|---1-----0-------|-------1-----3---|-1-1-1-----------|
G-----0-------2---|-----2-----2-----|-----0-----2-----|-2-2-2-----------|
D---2-----0-------|-3---------------|---2-----0-------|-3-3-3-----------|
A-3---------------|---------0---0-2-|-3---------------|-----------------|
E-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|

It’s uncertain whether I’ll continue with this song, but this should give anyone a good starting point to teach themselves the rest.

Good luck!

Learning to Climb the Stairway to Heaven

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

Usually one of the first songs learned by the budding guitarist, I however only just decided a few days ago that it was about bloody time I actually learnt how to play Stairway to Heaven, now that I’ve started geting into Led Zeppelin a little more.

So Stairway is from their fourth album, which I keep telling Fletch is their best, but he won’t have any of it — although admittedly, I’m yet to hear his favourite, Led Zeppelin III, in order to compare. Hope to acquire it sometime soon.

To learn, I thought I might see if there were any tutorial videos on YouTube. I found one, but the guy seemed to be getting it obviously wrong in a few places. What better time to do my own video than while I’m learning myself? So I found a tab which seems to be passably accurate, and set up my camera.

Only just getting my fingers around the introduction right now. It’s quite a well crafted piece I must say; hats off to Jimmy Page.

Here’s the tab for the first part of the into anyway:

E-------5-7-----7-|-8-----8-2-----2-|-0---------0-----|-----------------|
B-----5-----5-----|---5-------4-----|---1---1-----1---|---1-1-----------|
G---5---------5---|-----5-------2---|-----2---------2-|-0-2-2-----------|
D-7-------6-------|-5-------4-------|-3---------------|-----------------|
A-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-2-0-0---0--/8-7-|
E-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|

And the video:

Enjoy! More to come…