Chords for D'Yer Mak'er Lesson - Led Zeppelin

Hey all, today's lesson is [B] Led Zeppelin.
_ _ _ _ I'm gonna do Jermaker and it's actually
kind of I guess sort of a 50s kind of chord progression.
It's, if you're
just gonna play [E] it say you're strumming on an acoustic [C] you play C, _ [Am] _ A minor, [F] F, [G] G. _
It's kind of that Duke of Earl kind of progression [B] but the way _ Jimmy
kind of made it a little bit more sophisticated than that is he played
second position sort of barre [C] chords.
[Bm]
That's Sid at the door trying to get [C] in.
_ So if you, [C#] hold on, _ _ _ _ [Bm] [B] okay relax.
Okay so we're gonna do it like this.
[B] The second
position ones, don't think of this, don't think of that high E string thing yet.
The main thing is to know what the [C] chords are.
This first one's a C so it's
like you were barring a C, [B] right, but only do the [Bm] top four strings of it so it's
like an F position, [C] an F shape all the way up here to C at the, what is that, 3, 5, 7, 8th fret.
And then it [Am] goes to A minor [B] which would [Am] be this, [A]
barre, but you're only again doing
those top four strings [B] [F] and then F [G] to _ G.
[Bm] So those are the four main chords of [B] the
verse.
So when you're sort of arpeggiating I guess that each chord so
you kind of run through [C] it. _
[B] The [A] main thing is to get that high E. _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ That's what
you're gonna end up doing on that high E string.
So [C#] whatever you're doing for the
arpeggiating, make sure that's what the high E sounds like and the rest is sort
of negotiable because I don't even know, I haven't listened to it that closely.
You can if you want.
[E] If he's actually picking it the [B] same all the way through
on every time through, so I have no idea if that's what he's doing or not, [C] but I
don't think [Bm] that's so essential to how you play it.
So [C] when you pick through [Bm] like _
[C] that, [Bm] _ the main thing on that is [B] make sure you don't do what sort of a little bit
of what I just did because when you do that slide up on the E string each time
through, that's the only string you want to be [C] sounding.
Otherwise it's gonna
sound like this. _ _
_ _ You know what I mean?
You don't want all the strings going.
You only
want that high E one.
So once you [F] get to that high E, you kind of
deaden the other strings with [B] your fretting fingers or I guess you can do
with this hand if you can.
But right, _ it goes, the E string goes up two then
slides up two more and _ ends up at the third. _ _
[Am] _ _ [B] _ Now the one that's different is the A
minor because it only goes up two frets and then one.
So it doesn't do this. _
You
know, up [Am] two, it just goes [B] like that, up one.
So _ from five to seven to eight.
[Am] _ _ _ [F] _
_ [G] _ _ [B] _ [N] So
the F and the G are done just [F] like the C.
Start at the [G] first fret on the F [B] to
the third, third to fifth.
[G] _ _ [Bm] _ Same with the G.
So then you have [C] all four of those that
goes through many many times and then dial [G] _
_ [Am] in.
_ That's just an A minor.
You can do it as that.
[E] Just like that same chord from [A] Starry to Heaven that [Am] opens it. _
_ _ [E] And then it'll
start over with another verse and then the second time through [B] and _ [Am] _ [A] then you get
into that. _
_ [D] _ _ [Bm] _ That's actually an A minor to [Am] G.
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ [E] Right, but [G] I do it, I do them both as
fifth chords.
So I'm [B] only playing the E, A and the G strings.
But you can do it as a
full-blown [Bm] sort of barred F on and off with those two fingers.
This one stays, the
[A] barred finger stays.
_ _ _ [G] _
_ Make sure that one's major.
_ [Am] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
So then it goes down to an F and that little
bridge part.
_ I [B] actually do it only with two fingers but he may be doing all
three, all three of [A] those on the B string at the [F] first, G at the second, D at the
third.
_ [Am] _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ Right, so you're just [F] sliding that F to _ _ [G] _ _ _ G and then [Bm] _ _ _ [C] that last part is on the D
string [G] at the third fret.
_ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [C] _ [G] That starts over again.
And that's all the parts to it.
[Bm] There's kind of a, [G] _ that kind of cheesy [B] sounding guitar
song in it.
But [G] that's really the whole [B] tune.
So if you have any trouble with [N] it,
let me