Clicked on just to see if he would do the riff correctly, (bending the A string up at fifth fret while hitting the open D string) and he did! Awesome. He then proceeded to demonstrate the proper way to play the rest of the song. You can trust this guy y'all, he knows what he's doing.
I am always amazed at the detail you can hear in all of your lessons that my old ears can't seem to hear anymore. Saw Led Zeppelin in the 1970's and it was one of the most memorable shows I went to. Everything about it was fantastic. You are right that Bonham was more than just a drummer that kept the beat for the band he did so much more and to see it all in person was just great for me.Thanks for the fine lesson.
On "It might get loud", Jimmy himself talks about playing that riff and he actually bends the A string on the 5th fret as you've pointed out, and many yet get that nuance wrong.
Being a Page freak myself , I love the knowledge you share with us. Thank you so much! Hope the shoulder is doing well. PEACE from Southwest Michigan!!! 🐉🎸🎶🎵🌌🧠
Page and Plant played the St Austell Coliseum, Cornwall, UK on 15 July 1995. It sounds like an impressive venue, but realistically it was just a large sports hall, with a small stage at one end, about 3 foot off the floor. It was standing room only. I spent the whole night about 6ft from Pagey. They opened the set with A Whole Lotta Love and they blew the place apart. An amazing gig...best I've been to. Sadly, the Coliseum is no more.
JJ is so perfectly correct in this video when talking about live vs studio. It's so obvious he loves playing, and doesn't put up with half assed attempts. All of this instruction is spot on. Crap, I've been playing along time. Sometimes it just takes patience to chug along with rhythm until you get it right...instead of half assed distortion soaked crap to make little Suzy and Jimmy think you're a rockstar! JJ...I salute you.😁
It actually indeed sounds a lot closer to recording when you play it that way. Like the slide from A string 7th to 5th fret small thing but huge difference
This is why I am so thankful you do this. Taking the time to figure out all the subtleties of a song. This is not one of my Zeppelin favorites but I will listen to it with completely different ears now. The A string bend with the open D is key to why so many covers don’t sound like Page and that’s the beauty of finding those subtle tricks to what seems like a simple riff. Well done, sir. I must give a shoutout to Jaclyn Smith. She’s was my favorite Angel. I always liked brunettes.
Great video as always ! You’ve been the single biggest driver in my picking up my guitars after sitting un played for years . I love the discussion piece too, very informative and fun , . Long time follower and I believe my first or second comment . thank you John
Awesome...from the best sophomore album in the history of rock, IMO. Listen closely at the beginning of the song there is a very slight audible laugh. Thanks for posting.
Brilliant lesson James, I live near Jimmy in Holland Park London and last week he was in the garden at Tower House and told me that he had been re-visiting a lot of the Zep stuff on guitar recently.
This is a really good lesson. I really like (and spent a lot of time learning from records) African music of various styles from the '50s through the '90s, and it was always clear to me that when I thought I had it, and it seemed pretty simple, I really didn't have it. Same for a lot of rock stuff. Most things on records have a lot more subtlety than it seems on a surface examination.
Dude you deserve way more views than you have, you're my go to guy for guitar covers! Keep up the good work because it inspires me to try and get better and better all the time :)
Not sure if you still peek at your comments incognito every now and then, but any time I need a guitar lesson the first person I still look for is James James 👍🏻
Awesome lesson. As a side note I'm really digging the t-shirt. I was one of the millions of teenage boys who had that poster on his wall as a teenager.
Totally agree on the isolated drum track. It's as heavy as freight train and somehow manages to be groovy AF at the same time. It's Bonzo magic on full display.
The overlords at my Catholic Opus Dei boys junior high in the ‘70s sent a letter to all the parents with their concerns warning how the boys’ watching of “Charlie’s Angels” was leading to moral decay. 😂
Look, I know about the live inconsistencies, the nose-wiping et al. but haven’t the ‘critics’ missed a lot of the details he put in? The two most valuable ears on YT demonstrate they have.
First, great lesson, as always, James! Love the way you teach and explain things. Next, I had a poster of that Farrah photo on my wall when I was 13. I suppose a heck of lot of us did back them. Finally, I’m off to hunt for those isolated tracks, thanks!
Great video, nice to see and hear the subtleties being discussed. I'd have to go back and listen, but I also recall, as well as the up the neck outro mod to the main riff, there's also another subtle variation within the riff (just one note?), but again Page never seems to keep that regular and doesn't always play it that way live. I could be wrong but I'll try and go back and find out. All time great track, Page must have been delighted that after the collapse of the Yardbirds, something even better came about.
Ha! Farrah!! I had this t-shirt in grade school [1977-ish]....my father was a Lutheran Pastor and I wasn't allowed to wear it to school. [Yeah right] So I'd have a different shirt on when I left the house, and would change it while walking to school. Years later at my 20 year HS Reunion, a classmate of mine said "I remember in grade school you LOVED and always wore that Farrah Fawcett T-shirt!" True story, and I'm sticking by it. Seriously though...great lesson JJ...and thanks for what you do. - RT
Page 142 of his Anthology book shows his Whole Lotta Love gear. It says he used his number 1 sunburst Les Paul, along with the Tele, and Danelectro (with the Vox UL amp, Transonic Cabs, and Vox Long Tom echo). Just sayin.
I'm always amazed with Jimmy's ingenuity: the A bend is so subtle but it also makes the riff so great. Btw, I never thought of the slide back from E to D on the A string at 6:00. Thanks!
You’ve got a great ear to be able to hear the middle pickup. I can maybe hear when an LP is on the neck position. Otherwise I got nothing. I played this wrong for years. Always felt I was missing something. Then I watched the joe Walsh CZcams video where he shows you how to setup a guitar. At the end of the video he shows how to really play this riff they way you’re playing it by bending that A string into the note. I was in my late 20s when I realized this was a cover. And I was in my forties when I first heard killing floor.
Coming out of the solo you can hear him hit the high part of the E chord. (B and G strings at the 9th fret) I believe he's tracking 2 or 3 guitar parts on top of each other, (as he did most of the timein the studio )
On the little riff after the E bar chord he hits that D note on the 5th fret A string with the open D next to it simultaneous and he bends the D note a little bit
@@jamesjames9275 Sorry, I only watched the first few minutes and you weren't doing it when I wrote the comment... Didn't realize you explained it later on when I watched the rest.. 🙂
I keep waiting for Robert Plant's otherworldly crescendo to pipe in, but, hey, it's a guitar lesson. But like a junkie needing that fix, I now have to go find my favorite live version and feed that crave...thanks James!✌️
I realize this comment is a few months late, when you mention screaming to protect hearing it reminds me of a pre-crash safety feature that Mercedes uses: they play pink noise through the stereo to protect hearing by triggering the acoustic reflex.
@@jamesjames9275 there are many different tones in live versions from 69 to 73 and then 75-77-79-80 tours of zeppelin... he never uses the custom. I think it was stolen and then he found it again... he plays it at the O2
hi James, big fan of LZ and what you do in your channel. amazing contribution to teaching music! love the version of WLL live at the RAH 1970, if you ever accept a pettition, can you do a tutorial just for the outro you have a very good well developed ears to figure it out
Great material, I agree with you in 100%. I have always heard more than one pickup on this track. I don't know actually why everybody plays it only with bridge... Pretty sure that Jimmy have used bridge pickup + middle pickup in his black beauty. You can easily reproduce that sound by using middle position in standard two-humbucker guitar and rolling down volume pot in neck humbucker a little bit. It should sound very close with some tube amp. For some reason most guitarists play this song totally wrong. I am not only sure if Jimmy used tone bender for a rhythm track or it was just cranked amp. What do you think?
It'd be great to have a peter green pickup mod on a three pickup guitar. It should allow many tone options, more I imagine than a regular three pickup guitar. I've never had a three pickup guitar- so I'm just speculating.
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No Bonham no Led Zeppelin it's that simple . The fact they retired the band after his death is testament that he couldn't be replaced .
True but Jason's one off substitute for his dad was pretty awesome!
@@DanielC__ He played with them at the Atlantic 40th anniversary as well 😘
Well, Zeppelin played in London with Jason...
Douglas- Not to be pedantic, but Jimmy, JPJ and Robert played with Jason. There is no "Zeppelin" without Bonzo.
@@acm1350 What did they call themselves on that occasion?
Clicked on just to see if he would do the riff correctly, (bending the A string up at fifth fret while hitting the open D string) and he did! Awesome. He then proceeded to demonstrate the proper way to play the rest of the song. You can trust this guy y'all, he knows what he's doing.
Great tee shirt 👍
I am always amazed at the detail you can hear in all of your lessons that my old ears can't seem to hear anymore. Saw Led Zeppelin in the 1970's and it was one of the most memorable shows I went to. Everything about it was fantastic. You are right that Bonham was more than just a drummer that kept the beat for the band he did so much more and to see it all in person was just great for me.Thanks for the fine lesson.
On "It might get loud", Jimmy himself talks about playing that riff and he actually bends the A string on the 5th fret as you've pointed out, and many yet get that nuance wrong.
You nailed the nuances. and easy to hear so much early sabbath guitar in these nuances.
JPJ's isolated bass should be 18 and over.
You have an incredible ear for the nuances of sound , perhaps in an earlier life you were a bat . Lol , thanks young fella , I musta been a groundhog.
Being a Page freak myself , I love the knowledge you share with us. Thank you so much!
Hope the shoulder is doing well.
PEACE from Southwest Michigan!!!
🐉🎸🎶🎵🌌🧠
I don’t think you realize how amazingly good you are at this. Thank you.
Si alguien conoce un guitarrista mejor q James James que lo diga, es el número 1....es un fenómeno con un oído increíble....es un G E N I O !!!
La verdad, alguien que entendió todo
Your lessons have helped me immensely. I greatly appreciate the educational content you’ve put out. You’ve made my music journey flourish, thank you!
Thank you for picking up on the subtlety of Jimmy Page's guitar work.
Yes, Farrah... brings back 80’s memories....
70s even
But his guitar was blocking the part every testosterone-crazed 70s HS and college dude loved the best!
Page and Plant played the St Austell Coliseum, Cornwall, UK on 15 July 1995. It sounds like an impressive venue, but realistically it was just a large sports hall, with a small stage at one end, about 3 foot off the floor. It was standing room only. I spent the whole night about 6ft from Pagey. They opened the set with A Whole Lotta Love and they blew the place apart. An amazing gig...best I've been to. Sadly, the Coliseum is no more.
James is sooooo far ahead of others who do tutorials that I just come here. I don't bother with them now.
I saw a Joe Walsh video where he explained the intro bend on the A string with the open D. Most players don’t do it right but of course you do.
So love that Farah FT shirt ...its as iconic as the three pickup custom
JJ: without question the best guitar tutorial account on YT. This man breaks down more hits than Dee Dee Ramone’s spoon.
Wow !!! thats Awesome. 👏👏👏 love from inspiring Guitarist from the Philippines🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
Open CZcams and realise how much you miss this guys videos when he takes a break! Hope it’s healing well
JJ is so perfectly correct in this video when talking about live vs studio. It's so obvious he loves playing, and doesn't put up with half assed attempts. All of this instruction is spot on. Crap, I've been playing along time. Sometimes it just takes patience to chug along with rhythm until you get it right...instead of half assed distortion soaked crap to make little Suzy and Jimmy think you're a rockstar! JJ...I salute you.😁
I had that shirt as a poster when I was a kid👍
It actually indeed sounds a lot closer to recording when you play it that way. Like the slide from A string 7th to 5th fret small thing but huge difference
This is why I am so thankful you do this. Taking the time to figure out all the subtleties of a song. This is not one of my Zeppelin favorites but I will listen to it with completely different ears now. The A string bend with the open D is key to why so many covers don’t sound like Page and that’s the beauty of finding those subtle tricks to what seems like a simple riff. Well done, sir.
I must give a shoutout to Jaclyn Smith. She’s was my favorite Angel. I always liked brunettes.
Well that was fun on a raining Sunday afternoon. Have listened to that riff for a long long time, now I can almost play it. Thx JJ
That tee shirt is a perfect backdrop to this song.
Amazing Farrah Fawcett tutorial! She was hanging on my wall along with Jimmy back when I was kid 🤣 the awesome content
As a die hard Page fan, this is the most comprehensive and in depth lesson on this song that I've seen.
Glad to see your shoulder is feeling better. Great lesson as always.
Thanks for this great lesson! For years I’ve been playing it somewhat, but you put all the pieces of the puzzle together for me!
and finally the master uploads again !!!!
when it comes to cock rock posing / strutting - jagger, page, plant, and bolan... personally i just fuckin love it...
You nailed that opening riff, James!
Great video as always ! You’ve been the single biggest driver in my picking up my guitars after sitting un played for years . I love the discussion piece too, very informative and fun , . Long time follower and I believe my first or second comment . thank you John
Awesome...from the best sophomore album in the history of rock, IMO. Listen closely at the beginning of the song there is a very slight audible laugh. Thanks for posting.
Brilliant lesson James, I live near Jimmy in Holland Park London and last week he was in the garden at Tower House and told me that he had been re-visiting a lot of the Zep stuff on guitar recently.
Wow, you are lucky.
This was awesome, so fun to play along with.
Middle PU all the way. I noticed that when Norms Guitars demoed a J.P. custom on YT.
Whole lotta love for ❤Tina❤
This is a really good lesson. I really like (and spent a lot of time learning from records) African music of various styles from the '50s through the '90s, and it was always clear to me that when I thought I had it, and it seemed pretty simple, I really didn't have it. Same for a lot of rock stuff. Most things on records have a lot more subtlety than it seems on a surface examination.
Brilliant as always
Wow, great title clicked imminently. love the song and talks. Thanks
Dude you deserve way more views than you have, you're my go to guy for guitar covers! Keep up the good work because it inspires me to try and get better and better all the time :)
Really cool analysis.
Thank you very much, this is the best of the best, I really needed this.
I had that poster way after I discovered the Led Zepp,thanks for the lesson..you taught me a tune on acoustic 🎸
You got the coolest guitars and T shirts!
Got a Whole Lotta Love for that tshirt!!! Thanks JJ!!!
congrats on 100k!
Shirt is first class
That is one sweet guitar Gibson triple Gold Pickups Les Paul Custom with hardwares aka Black Beauty.
Great lesson. Great shirt.
The music of my youth.
Not sure if you still peek at your comments incognito every now and then, but any time I need a guitar lesson the first person I still look for is James James 👍🏻
I hear a lot of Eddie Cochran ‘come on everybody’ in the riff. Great video!
Enjoyed that many thanks, from Wales.
Awesome lesson. As a side note I'm really digging the t-shirt. I was one of the millions of teenage boys who had that poster on his wall as a teenager.
Totally agree on the isolated drum track. It's as heavy as freight train and somehow manages to be groovy AF at the same time. It's Bonzo magic on full display.
One of my favourite songs, even more so 😁
The overlords at my Catholic Opus Dei boys junior high in the ‘70s sent a letter to all the parents with their concerns warning how the boys’ watching of “Charlie’s Angels” was leading to moral decay. 😂
...and how right they were!
I would’ve loved to experience some moral decay with Farrah!!
I have an , 86 model custom its wine red but it's got its ups and downs . Ultimately its pretty solid sounding guitar
Look, I know about the live inconsistencies, the nose-wiping et al. but haven’t the ‘critics’ missed a lot of the details he put in? The two most valuable ears on YT demonstrate they have.
First, great lesson, as always, James! Love the way you teach and explain things. Next, I had a poster of that Farrah photo on my wall when I was 13. I suppose a heck of lot of us did back them. Finally, I’m off to hunt for those isolated tracks, thanks!
It looks like Farrah is feeling it.
Great video, nice to see and hear the subtleties being discussed. I'd have to go back and listen, but I also recall, as well as the up the neck outro mod to the main riff, there's also another subtle variation within the riff (just one note?), but again Page never seems to keep that regular and doesn't always play it that way live. I could be wrong but I'll try and go back and find out. All time great track, Page must have been delighted that after the collapse of the Yardbirds, something even better came about.
Ha! Farrah!! I had this t-shirt in grade school [1977-ish]....my father was a Lutheran Pastor and I wasn't allowed to wear it to school. [Yeah right] So I'd have a different shirt on when I left the house, and would change it while walking to school. Years later at my 20 year HS Reunion, a classmate of mine said "I remember in grade school you LOVED and always wore that Farrah Fawcett T-shirt!" True story, and I'm sticking by it. Seriously though...great lesson JJ...and thanks for what you do. - RT
Great stuff!
Super cool, love the new notes I never heard. Checked out isolated Boham,....killer!
Best... t-shirt... ever! 👍
...The BEST T-shirt ever!....
Page 142 of his Anthology book shows his Whole Lotta Love gear. It says he used his number 1 sunburst Les Paul, along with the Tele, and Danelectro (with the Vox UL amp, Transonic Cabs, and Vox Long Tom echo). Just sayin.
There's nothing I could possibly learn about this song that I don't already know, watches video, WOW!! I learned 3 things I wasn't doing NICE
FFM. ♥️ Great lesson. Thanks.
Vox Superbeatle head and Rickenbacker Transonic cabs, according to Page currently.
Very cool man
Love that Farrah shirt bro 👍🏻
Thanks J J. gracias from your amigo Ancho Poblano; in Tombstone, AZ
My personal pick for the greatest rock riff ever! Nice job pointing out all the nuance that
divides the men from the boys on playing it correctly.
Love your shirt.
I'm always amazed with Jimmy's ingenuity: the A bend is so subtle but it also makes the riff so great.
Btw, I never thought of the slide back from E to D on the A string at 6:00. Thanks!
The T shirt of the poster that pitched a million pup tents.
And then it rained and mine collapsed.......
Great lesson! Btw, love your shirt! I had a poster on my wall similar to that back in the day, lol! 🎸 ✌🏻
You’ve got a great ear to be able to hear the middle pickup. I can maybe hear when an LP is on the neck position. Otherwise I got nothing.
I played this wrong for years. Always felt I was missing something. Then I watched the joe Walsh CZcams video where he shows you how to setup a guitar. At the end of the video he shows how to really play this riff they way you’re playing it by bending that A string into the note.
I was in my late 20s when I realized this was a cover. And I was in my forties when I first heard killing floor.
fantastic
thanks
Excellent
Got a love that T-shirt
whole lotta love!
Prive hayrani bir baska türk mü ???
Coming out of the solo you can hear him hit the high part of the E chord. (B and G strings at the 9th fret) I believe he's tracking 2 or 3 guitar parts on top of each other, (as he did most of the timein the studio )
On the little riff after the E bar chord he hits that D note on the 5th fret A string with the open D next to it simultaneous and he bends the D note a little bit
Dude. Seriously?
@@jamesjames9275
Sorry, I only watched the first few minutes and you weren't doing it when I wrote the comment... Didn't realize you explained it later on when I watched the rest.. 🙂
cool shirt!
Very impressive, thanks for posting this video. Kudos to you James
I keep waiting for Robert Plant's otherworldly crescendo to pipe in, but, hey, it's a guitar lesson. But like a junkie needing that fix, I now have to go find my favorite live version and feed that crave...thanks James!✌️
I realize this comment is a few months late, when you mention screaming to protect hearing it reminds me of a pre-crash safety feature that Mercedes uses: they play pink noise through the stereo to protect hearing by triggering the acoustic reflex.
0:52 he’s on the middle in live versions for sure
One of the reasons I don't like the live version so much, to be honest. I don't think the burst LP gets anything close to the Custom's tone.
@@jamesjames9275 there are many different tones in live versions from 69 to 73 and then 75-77-79-80 tours of zeppelin... he never uses the custom. I think it was stolen and then he found it again... he plays it at the O2
The shirt!!!
Great, thx a lot ! LG from lower saxony
As far as that extra embellishment 2 note riff (A-->Ab) at the end, one could also have some fun, & make up their own to fit in for added variety.
hi James, big fan of LZ and what you do in your channel. amazing contribution to teaching music!
love the version of WLL live at the RAH 1970, if you ever accept a pettition, can you do a tutorial just for the outro
you have a very good well developed ears to figure it out
Great material, I agree with you in 100%. I have always heard more than one pickup on this track. I don't know actually why everybody plays it only with bridge... Pretty sure that Jimmy have used bridge pickup + middle pickup in his black beauty. You can easily reproduce that sound by using middle position in standard two-humbucker guitar and rolling down volume pot in neck humbucker a little bit. It should sound very close with some tube amp. For some reason most guitarists play this song totally wrong. I am not only sure if Jimmy used tone bender for a rhythm track or it was just cranked amp. What do you think?
It sounds to me like a cranked supro or super lead
Super Beatle with Rickenbacker Transonic cabinets. Jimmy talked about it recently.
It'd be great to have a peter green pickup mod on a three pickup guitar. It should allow many tone options, more I imagine than a regular three pickup guitar. I've never had a three pickup guitar- so I'm just speculating.