Playing 'Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You' on Guitar

Series Summary

Have you ever wanted to learn to play guitar? Maybe it is time to try picking up a new hobby and learn to play the guitar. The birth of the guitar is one that is not exact but guitar-like instruments have been used since ancient times. Through the years people have learned to play this instrument with some practice and determination. You too can learn to play this instrument if you are willing to put some work into it!

Here in this free video clip series our expert, Joe Wiles, is going to show you step by step, note by note how to play the 20 top searched for songs online for guitar tab. You will learn songs such as 'Nothing Else matters' by Metallics, 'Dammit' by Blink 182, 'Hotel California' by the Eagles, 'Tears in Heaven' by Eric Clapton and many more. Theses songs are all pretty easy to play and will surely wow your friends the next time you're jamming together.

Video Transcript

"JOE WILES: We're going to take a look at number 20 on our top 80 most downloaded guitar tablature on the Internet, and it's "Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You" by Led Zeppelin. Let's take a look. All right, we're going to start off the whole thing with an open A note on the A string, your middle finger on the 2nd fret of the D string, your ring finger on the 2nd fret of the G string and your pinkie on the 3rd fret of the B string. Okay? Now, with our index finger, we're going to put them on the 1st fret of the B string under our pinkie, in other words, on the other side. Okay? Because we're going to release this up to access another note. Now, watch my strumming pattern. Then I release my pinkie to the index finger that's on the 1st fret of the B string. That segment again. Okay? Next one, we're going to take our ring finger, put it up to the 3rd fret of the low E string. Okay? And we're going to put our pinkie back down in that same position. Now, when we strum this time, we're going to hit the low E string, skip the A string and then go these three in order, okay? It sounds like this. Okay? The next bit, we're going to switch these two fingers kind of. We're going to put the ring finger where our middle finger is on the 2nd fret of the D string, then we're going to take our middle finger and put it on the 2nd fret of the low E string. Put our pinkie back in place. In this chord, we're going to pick it the same way as the last one, skipping the A string. Okay? The next chord is a complete reformation. We're going to put our index finger on the 1st fret of the low E string, our middle finger on the 1st fret of the B string, our ring finger on the 2nd fret of the G string and our pinkie on the 3rd fret of the B string. And the strumming pattern will go low E, skip the A, D, G, B, like this. There will only be four in a row. And then we're going to hit the open E string, ring finger on the 2nd fret of our D string, middle finger on the 1st fret of our G string and then an open B string. The strumming pattern for this one will sound like this. Okay? The sequence of those five chords, slowly, it sounds like this. I hope you'll join me in our next segment. It's number 19 on our list, "Dammit" by Blink 182. I'll see you there."