The Rain Song...

tennis_nick · Post by **tennis_nick** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 4:33 pm

...Is a fantastic song to play!

It'd be a great clip if the low G hadn't fallen out of tune by the end there.

Pardon the stupid face, I lose alot of facial muscle control when I play guitar.

If anyone wants to give this song a try, I GREATLY encourage you too! It's a great left hand workout, and it sounds fantastic!

Easily one of my fav Zep Tunes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CawiTsv2OXM

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 5:04 pm

Very nice job, Nick! Moodfull. Don't be shy when playing, you're good. Facials are fine!

lyle_from_minneapolis · Fri Jul 06, 2007 5:33 pm

Those chords are a b*tch to play. Nice job!

sloop_john_b · Post by **sloop_john_b** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:11 pm

I'm not into Zep very much, but The Rain Song is such a joy to play - a really cool tuning and some gorgeous inversions, stuff that simply could only be achieved in that tuning.

sloop_john_b · Post by **sloop_john_b** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:15 pm

Oh, just watched the video Nick, great job! That SG sounds great. I've gotta try this song on my 660/12 someday!

teb · Post by **teb** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:59 pm

Very nice Nick. Ahhhh... to be young and talented again (at this point, I'd take either one). Your face is fine. In fact, about three seconds into the video your face and your haircut strongly reminded me of another guitar player that I knew back when he and I were about 20 years old. He made plenty of interesting musical faces when he played, too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djCUfGVd9lY

studiotwosession · Post by **studiotwosession** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 4:52 am

Is that one of the ones Page and Plant wrote, or stole?:

http://www.furious.com/perfect/jimmypage.html

kcole4001 · Post by **kcole4001** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 5:41 am

Very nicely done!

I wish I was a better guitar player!

kcole4001 · Post by **kcole4001** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 5:46 am

I learned Black Mountain Side a number of years ago. Not that difficult if you have a feel for off time stuff.
Alternate tunings are a world all to themselves.
Great fun.

sloop_john_b · Post by **sloop_john_b** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 6:26 am

Another Little Games album track, the modish "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor" opens with a guitar riff that Page would later use as the opening chords on Led Zeppelin's "The Rain Song." Yes, it is his music, but his proclivity for recycling his own and others work shows a distinct lack of originality.

tennis_nick · Post by **tennis_nick** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 8:43 am

I dno'T think this one is recycled... He got the opening chords from "Something". major, major 7th, dom 7th.

It was apparently George who told Page and Plant "Great band, but you don't play enough ballads"

which prompted the writting of the rain song!

Thanks for the listens and comments!

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 5:36 pm

Nice job on that song Nick. Jimmy Page is a great guitar player and writer and you did a great song on one of his more intricate tunes.

tennis_nick · Post by **tennis_nick** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 5:37 pm

"those who imitate nothing, produce nothing"

- famous person

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 6:00 pm

Yes agreed, Zep stole a few things from the old blues players but then again they used to steal from each other all the time, even names; such as Rice Miller (who was one of the greats) stealing Sonny Boy Williamson's name. The one we all know as Sonny Boy Williamson is really Rice Miller, the real Sonny Boy was never very famous.
Music is an evolving thing, it builds upon what comes before. Zep's problem was that Plant stole some lyrics for Whole Lotta Love.
I saw them in 1969 in Boston in a club right after their first album was released, they were monsters.

lyle_from_minneapolis · Sun Jul 08, 2007 6:26 am

Alternate tuning! Gah!

No wonder it's so damn hard for me. Only took me 30 years to learn this... so what's the tuning??