Black Dog – Led Zeppelin | Guitar Lesson
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Learn how to play Black Dog, as performed by Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page on guitar) released as the opening track on their 4th studio album.
The lesson covers the rhythm and lead guitar parts.
00:00 Black Dog panting
00:10 Introduction/What to expect
01:42 Getting your tone
02:47 Lesson – Primary Riff (Part A)
04:16 Lesson – Primary Riff (Part B)
07:00 Lesson – “Oh Yeah” chords
08:20 Lesson – “Hey Baby” chords
09:30 Lesson – Harmony Riff & how to fake it on one guitar
11:44 Guitar solo approach
13:25 Lesson – Guitar Solo
19:53 Demo – Guitar Solo
21:26 Final thoughts
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Fender Telecaster (lead guitar) https://imp.i114863.net/15nAom
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Boss EQ https://imp.i114863.net/AoOO0o 400k and 800k boost 1 tic
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Neo Instruments Ventilator II slow speed https://sweetwater.sjv.io/g1RAM2
Marshall 1987x https://imp.i114863.net/oeYKZY Pres 3, Bass 5, mid 6, treb 6 normal channel vol 4
Freyette Power Station attenuator
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Originally posted by UCXDZQk1-SA9tDIvKi56Qb6A at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjQxGZz-_Os
ok so according to andy johns, who engineered the album, the guitar was triple tracked! and he did something with compressors that I don't understand too well, but it sounds interesting – maybe you will have a point of view ..
A is Andy Johns …
A:
Would you like the “Black Dog” guitar tone story?
Q:
Absolutely! Which Led Zeppelin album was that?
A:
That is the fourth one, the really, really big one. “Stairway To Heaven,” “When The Levee Breaks,” and “Black Dog.” It sold about 18 million — something bloody ridiculous. Who would have known, you know? I had been trying to get this sound from Buffalo Springfield for a long time and I met Bill House. He said, “I just put two of them in series.” He didn’t really want to let me know what “they” were.
It was a direct sound and I thought that I knew what to do. There were three guitars on “Black Dog” so I triple tracked it. When I mixed it, these three guitars were down here and the rest of the tracks were up here. Since the sound was so loud, it gave me much more room for the other stuff. Anyways, he meant two 1176s in series, one of which has the compression buttons punched out, so it is like an amp. You hit the front of the next compressor really hard and make the mic amp distort a bit with the EQ —a bit of bottom to make it sing. So “Black Dog” has a direct Gibson Les Paul Sunburst 52 or something, going right into the mic amps on the mixer, which is going through two 1176s, and it sounds like some guy in the Albert Hall with a bunch of Marshalls. I couldn’t have done it without the 1176s. There is not another compressor that will do that, because you can take out the compression stuff.
https://www.uaudio.com/blog/artist-interview-andy-johns
Yes, the 'part'. Probably the most difficult riff of all riffs to play correctly. Great job.
Thanks!
That album is between LZ the 3-th and "Houses of the holy" but untitled, truth be told.????????
Ok great job thanks beautiful. You said you’d hear in the comments so here goes – no it’s not a telecaster, it’s a les Paul. But he may have triple tracked the part so maybe it’s both … 🙂
Living loving maid.
Love it.
A ha!
Great lesson and explanation of "that part" .. What adds so much to these classic songs are the subtleties – Black Dog, Sweet Home Alabama, Walk This Way – these songs have the fingerprints of the guitarists all over them, and each are unique .. Thanks for rolling up you sleeves !!
I'm watching u play n not learning anything!
You still didn’t get it bro , a few hundred times more, you might get it, it takes a lifetime to get that one , top ten of rock songs of all time ! I’m still working it out with the band . We’re getting real close !
Awesome vid as usual . Love Zeppelin!! .. Got a request .. my chance of turn to stone by joe Walsh ? ????????????????
Why do they de- monitize? It’s not like we’re all gonna go out and start a band to top LZ. They should remember all the old blues music musicians they ripped off to come up with their awesome songs. We’re all just trying to learn it so we can jamb along!!! The Simpsons put it best “ Jimmy Page – the greatest thief of American black music”. Still so one of the greatest rock bands to ever live- next to ZZ Top of course!
Jimmy used a tele & Strat on a lot of studio work. Tele on Black Dog? Probably yes because those sessions he played his tele on Stairway solo as well. ????????
I have to agree that the solo was probably played on his Tele. It has a different bite to it than the LP. There's definitely a bit more top end to it and you kind of a bit of the Tele country tone but with distortion. Maybe he played it through his Supro amp? Jimmy knew how to get big sound without having to use high powered amps. Great lesson as usual. ????
Can you do a guitar lesson hair of the dog by Nazareth
Too much bla blabla really annoying
TIMELESS
Third guitar from the left!!!
Life is not fair. Your LITTLE FINGER is as long as my Middle finger.
Another great lesson thanks. Need to dial up the bombast to 11 though!????
Man, who's playing Black Dog, and why? Why should any of these kids touch a guitar? They should be wrecking the internet with their minds…
Now play it on a Telecaster, like Jimi. He only played the LP after Joe Walsh gave it to him.
Awesome thanks for this. Got it. Leads were definitely done on a tele. I agree with you. I think he used the tele for recording even after 1 and 2. Not on stage but definitely in the studio. You can hear the twang.
Great video
@5:45 there’s a dead note there.
So intracate Jimmy and the boys themselves had a hell of a time doing it live. Good job.