1. It is not sloppy 2. excellent tutorial 3. I don't give a damn how anyone else plays it 4. I trust my ear when learning music . sounds spot on (ingrained in memory since it came out) 5. If I want tutorials on how to play something I come to this channel first. 6. Thank You 7. you the best
Jimmy Page wasn’t a mandolin player and wrote great mandolin tunes. REM did Losing My Religion and they just picked up the mandolin as well, so new players bring a creativity to the instrument. It is a fun instrument to play. I got my mandolins from the Late and Great Mandolin Brothers.
Was staying with Peter Buck as he was producing our Band , Run Westy Run at the time they were just completing Losing my Religion. Our Record is "Run Westy Run Green Cat Island." Recorded at John Keane's studio in Athens 1990. Remember R.E.M filmed a clip of Losing my Religion on Pete's porch. Peter uses a 12 string in said clip. It's on RU-vid somewhere. Love Pete's Mandolin playing .
BTW the best part of the video is he last 35 seconds where you do the alternate intro version! It sounds perfect to me! Thanks for doing this tutorial. Fellow guitarist learning mandolin songs here.
Excellent. Thanks for the eye opener. This is a new realm for me. The 70's music was so much more innovative than today's crap. It is work listening to the earlier stuff. Aarre Peltomaa of Mississauga, Ontario
You're making the intro harder than it needs to be. It's a picking pattern that plays on the open A and E strings with your third finger on the D string 10th fret. That allows you to then play the descending notes on the 9th, 8th, and 7th frets on the G string with your third, second, and first finger while still playing that pattern using the open A and E.
Yes, That may not be right, but that's how I've always played it. It's simple and very effective. Now what are the other chords? 4503 and 0405 then 0320 and 0230?
Thank you, that's THE only way to play the intro (which, btw, you never see Page do live, he makes up a completely different chordal arrangement) where you can let the individual notes ring out together...hats off to the poster of this video, he nails it, but that intro he does, while the correct notes, is too difficult for me (as a guitarist turned beginner mandolin player) to pull off cleanly. Cheers to all from a Zeppelin fan since their first album came out, who saw them live, in '73 AND '75 (in Pittsburgh), who was luckly enough to meet Jimmy at his former residence in Windsor while I was on a business trip to England in 1999. Cheers from the Zepman!
Brilliant guitar players viewpoint of playing this wonderful song.. tuned up and had a go and wife came in and danced along.. her fave Zep song.. immensely enjoyable cheers mate.. all tyhe best to you and family from UK
Cool change of pace James. Nice job explaining the parts to us non mandolin players. I have 2 mandolins but really struggle to play them with those tiny frets.I will give this a go as you motivated me.Thanks. Now you just need a 12 string to add to your collection of 20 or so Guitars to give a few lessons on 12 string orientated songs. Keep up your great work. I look forward to very new video and I have gone through most of your former privatetracker stuff also. Your the best on you tube doing these demo/lessons A BIG Thank You
I watched one of your vids yesterday as I do most days I don’t think I’ve ever committed but it was your new fake les Paul vid and you said “one day someone else will own your guitars” I’ve never thought about that but your right. I have a dozen or so guitars and the thought of someone else owning one never else came into my mind. That’s a tough pill so swallow but ya your right. Hope they take good care and enjoy them as much as I have. I’m going to put a note in each one of them behind back plates about little history on what I did what I paid where they went who they played with just some fun stuff for the new owner. Like I said that’s a tough pull to swallow! Any way enjoy your vids Sense of humor and attitude! Thanks!🎸
Excellent! I’ve always been perplexed by the studio version. I got a Harmony “batwing” electric mandolin like Jonesy’s from Earl’s Court and I’m still god-awful at it. My wife can’t stand me playing mandolin because it’s so loud acoustically...I get the stink-eye when I bring it out!
another fun one along with the Battle of evermore to work on is the similarity from heart Little Queen the Sylvan song dream of the Archer segue tune another fun mando tune.
I bought an Acoustic guitar so I could play John Barleycorn🙈 You caan also play lots more on it of course😂 But now I’ve seen this I’m thinking??. I tend to just do crazy stuff for something I like. I always watch Nancy Wilson and always think. Nah I just couldn’t learn that. Plus I’m not sure my fingers are slim enough to attempt this. But got me pondering?? Good stuff as always my man👍👍
When I first heard this song I thought it’s a big disappointment coming from my favourite band. But a friend played it once on a speaker and I thought how stupid I was to not realise such a masterpiece. After that time I listened to it many times and still listen for a medieval and nature vibe. I will buy a mandolin someday soon and gonna band this song.
I don't care if its a 15th Century Lute, I still have to play Led Zeppelin on it! Jimmy Page experiments with lots of different instruments. Great Instruction James!
I agree 100%! His work with mandolin was incredible. But I believe that this song was Page that created/played the mandolin part, and Jonesy did the acoustic guitar. They switched instruments in Going to California.
Great but calling out strings by notes confuses me. What if instructors called out strings by number instead of note? Strings one to four instead of e string to g string.
I’m pretty sure Jonesy played mandolin on all the other Zeppelin tunes except this one. Some say Jimmy played it on Boogie with Stu, but I think that’s also Jonesy.
@@jamesjames9275 According to Wiki: The song was written by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant at Headley Grange while Page was experimenting on the mandolin owned by John Paul Jones.[5][6] Page explained in 1977 that "'Battle of Evermore' was made up on the spot by Robert [Plant] and myself. I just picked up John Paul Jones's mandolin, never having played a mandolin before, and just wrote up the chords and the whole thing in one sitting."[7] That's amazing...
@@jamesjames9275 I play the Moveable D Chord at the 14th Fret, moving back and forth. D, D sus2, D, D sus4. The only fret changes occur on the E String. Those chords can be used for the entire song. I guess that one could use a Capo, but, I never bothered with it.
@@petersullivan3001 Jimmy has said many times that he played the mandolin part on this song. You can see a video recording from the 77 tour in Seattle where Jimmy plays it. You can see him playing it on the Page/Plant shows in 95. There's even a recent video of him demonstrating how he played it. There is no debate on this.
