TARGET Members will have any Charts, TAB, and Guitar Pro Files
Over The Hills And Far Away is from Led Zeppelin's fifth album Houses Of The Holy, and is a great example of Jimmy Page's effective use of syncopation and complex acoustic picking and strumming, as well as quick hammer-ons and pull-offs. This lesson focuses mostly on the acoustic intro but also addresses the power chord riffs that appear later.
Rip off Neil, I paid for a whole song not just half of it!!!
written by kegmont, April 04, 2012
Great stuff but I can listen to the song and guess at it on the more intricate parts. I was hoping I would have a more detailed and slower breakdown (strumming and all the good intricate stuff Jimmy does on this song.) I think this format is perfect to get into that stuff vs a quick brushover.
written by Chris Burke, May 17, 2010
Sonny,
Your observations are correct, and so is the TAB. Strokes on the "ands" of beats in this song are downs because there are faster notes, 16ths. This means every quarter note is broken up into 4 strokes: D-U-D-U. The arrows in TAB show the direction across the strings that the pick moves. An arrow toward the top of the page means across the strings from low to high- 6th string toward 1st string. In physical space this is towards the floor of the room and referred to as a downstroke.
I hope this clears it up.
Neil
written by Neil, August 02, 2009
I'm trying to observe Neil's "up-and-down" picking instructions to improve my timing, etc. But in measure 3 of Over the Hills it looks to me that the D string should he picked with an up on the "and" of count 1, then the D chord should be strummed up on the "and" of count 2. He's playing them with downs. Am I missing something? Or is the tab wrong?
written by Sonny R., August 02, 2009
Neal,
The in conclusion page of your lesson appears to be cut short. You are discussing the importance of getting the pull offs and hammer ons right and your lesson ends with you in the middle of talking about the pull off the f#. What else were you going to talk about?
thx
written by Glen Volk, May 16, 2009
Neal,
I see you have this in tab. Can you provide the sheet music as well.
thx
written by Glen Volk, May 07, 2009
I second that, love all the history stuff !
written by Mike T, April 27, 2009
Neil- I love your digressions on guitar playing, history, culture, etc.. It's not too much info- let it rip!
Put your face in our book
Follow Our Tweets
Visit Our blog
