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He's been featured here before (notable for his awesome WRS). Here's his take on The Rain Song. Unsurprisingly, this version sounds nothing like mine and I don't think it's because he's got a nicer guitar than I do. :)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qU9HiwmcLWQ

Damn.....he's good. I'm going to go sell my guitar now.

Pretty impressive. You can almost hear Bonham kicking in with the tympani.

Anyone know the tuning used here?

i tried to learn this song once and ended up breaking 2 strings (mainly through complete idiocy). this guy does it SO much better than i could i'm never gonna try that tuning again

great job, never really liked that song that much, but he does it good

Fuckin' love it. That dude is an inspiration and makes me feel like worthless dog shit all at the same time. Weird how that works.

tigerstrat wrote:Pretty impressive. You can almost hear Bonham kicking in with the tympani.

Anyone know the tuning used here?

: dgcgcd (this matches the 6 string used in the recording, not the 12 string tuning. I believe it also corresponds to the tuning on the 6-string neck of the double neck used in concert. If you give a hoot about this sort of information, see the wikipedia.org article on this song for more.)

yes troubleclef was the second channel i subscribed to after jdarks, actually jdarks reccomended that i check him out. that Rain Song is actually a repost. my fave vid from troubleclef is "Im only Sleeping" which is my fave Bealtes tune.

troubleclef:

http://www.youtube.com/user/troubleclef

greyful

http://www.youtube.com/user/Greyful

jdarks

http://www.youtube.com/user/JDarks

sneakypower - check these guys out seriously!

http://www.youtube.com/user/sneakypower

afterfivemidnight - The Dead stuff

http://www.youtube.com/user/AfterFiveMidnight

jckstraw - some canuck

http://www.youtube.com/user/jkstraw

Ovidio - phenominal Brazilian guitarist

http://www.youtube.com/user/ovidiov

RUKIND.ORG

http://www.youtube.com/user/rukinddotcom

LazyLightnin wrote:
jckstraw - some canuck

http://www.youtube.com/user/jkstraw

GREAT

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the covers of BEW and of IKYR are exceptional

Anyone know the tuning used here?

This is how I play the song. It's not as hard as it looks, once you have the right tuning and the tab. I can't play it as good as he can, though! I have the Zeppelin tab book for Houses of the Holy and it's pretty much spot on from what he plays. Highly recommended book, and the tuning is:

654321
DGCGCD

Sorry Panda, saw your post after I already submitted mine.

amyjared wrote:I have the Zeppelin tab book for Houses of the Holy and it's pretty much spot on from what he plays. Highly recommended book

is this the book?

http://www.amazon.com/Zeppelin-Houses-A ... 938&sr=1-1

Wow the tone from the guitar is sweet. I wonder how it was recorded.
Thanks for the link,

subscribed to it


and +1 for

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the covers of BEW and of IKYR are exceptional

great playing j

is this the book?

Not quite. Alfred publishing took over some of the other publishers and put out some new books. The one I have is from a box set of Zeppelin tab books, 1-4+Houses of the Holy, and here is a link to the single one:

http://www.musicdispatch.com/item_detai ... d+zeppelin

My guess is that they're probably the same book, but the other Alfred ones I've looked at seem to be thinner, and include less than the other books. Not sure why.

If anyone's interested in the tab, I could probably scan it and pm it.