Chords for Hey Hey What Can I Do Lesson - Led Zeppelin

_ [Abm] Hey y'all we're gonna do a lesson today on
_ Hey, hey, what can I do [E] and _
[Ab] You're gonna probably hear Sid running around the room chasing after the reflections _ _ _ _ _ _
_ But _ _ but the first thing to know is there's a lot of confusion around the song
I think probably because [Gb] of the the way the guitar sounds because it sounds like it's in G
But [B] he's actually playing it [N] in a so what I suspect is he
Recorded it in standard pitch in a and then slow the tape down one of the things is there's a few giveaways to that for starters
[Ab] _ _
_ That's [Bb] not a riff you do in G.
That's just not
[Bm] _ [Db] That's an a riff so that that's one thing
Sid watch the camera dude and _ the
[Ab] _ The other thing is listen to things like the way the symbols in those dead spaces and the symbol just kind of
_ Flows gorgeously over the empty space that that just sounds like a slowdown
Symbol to me not not your natural sounding
Symbol, so things like [Gb] that
Lead [Bm] me to believe it's it's this in fact.
I know it's this it's not done G
So throw out anything you've ever heard about it being played in G
_ So here's how it starts it [B] starts with this [Ab] little thing _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and does [Bm] that I think three or four times or whatever it is
So the way that little riff goes is you got your a?
You're a good playing on a and then this little intro riff goes _ a string third fret [B] to fourth [Cm] fret
[Ab] So _ _ [B] those third fret third [C] fret fourth fret then [Bm] the D string [Eb] second or fourth [Fm] [Ab] and _ then that G string [B] at that second [Ab] fret
_ _ [B] And he I think he kind of is picking [Gb] it pretty indiscriminately so you're [Bm] getting multiple strings It's [Ab] not
[B] It's not that [Ab] it's
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Cm] You know you're kind of getting [Gb] most of the chord into [Ab] it at least _
The a D [E] and G strings for each of that so you do that what [Cm] four [Ab] times?
_ And then it [Gb] goes _ [Db] _
[Gb] which is just G to D
[Db] _ And then the verse [E] is those
No, it's the same kind of
_ _ _ Eight days a week chord progression, and there's some Tom Petty songs.
I think the waiting is another [Ab] one of these it does a [Eb] a
_ [Gb] G [Db] D _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] _
[Ab] _ [Ebm] a
E [Gb] G [Db] E, and that just doesn't I'm off _ on the high E string _
_ _ _ [B] _ [Abm] Right [Em] and that's just [Db] the ace the
So _ _ _
_ [B] _ [Ab] _ _ _ [E] that's on the a string you do three [B] four
[Ab] Then back to an a chord _
[Eb] [Ab] So I'll do that part one more time
[Eb] _ _ [Gb] _
_ [Db] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ [Ab] _ [Eb] Right goes through it [Gb] again
[Db] And _ the second time through it does it
[Abm] _ _ _
[Ab] _ Which is kind of [G] similar to the [E] other one, but it just ends to [G] me you do a string third to fourth fret
[C] _
[Eb] [F] So [B] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [B] it just goes back down on [Ab] it on [Bm] that a string third fret
[Ab] _ [B] [Cm] So [B] _ [Ab] _ the [B] first time through you would be
[Ab] _ [B] in that [Ab] intro _
And you'd end up on that a note, [B] but at this time instead you do
_ [Ab] _ _ _ [Eb] _ [Gb] _
_ [Db] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] And then I think it goes directly to the
[Cm] _ _
[Fm] _ [Db] _ _ _ Right to go it into that's sort of the bridge into the court, which is [Ab] an a up here _ _ _
[N] _ _ Let's see that's your same a as if you were borrowing it, but you're only doing the the
_ Four strings the highest four strings and leave the a string open for that
[Ab] _ _ _ [Cm] _
_ [E] That's a C sharp minor, but you can play it on the top four strings.
You can do these anyway you want you [Ab] could do
[Cm] But _ [Fm] _
[Db] _ _ I just [Ab] do them as a more of a walk down
So it's a C [Cm] sharp minor [B] F [Fm] sharp minor
_ _ [Db] D
Gonna leave you and you get to play and then the [Ab] course is just _ [B] a
[Gb] [Db] So _ [Ab] goes a a [Gb] [Db] G D
_ So [Dbm] for that D chord in the [D] course you take your finger out your middle finger off the high E string put back [Ebm] on the same
Thing you've been doing in between
[Ab] that _ [Gb] _
[Db] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
[Ab] _ [B] same thing in [Ab] between _ _ _
[Gb] _ [Db] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Gb] _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Gb] _ [Db] _ _ _
_ There's a mention [B] won't be
[Ab] _ [B] [Ab] And [Eb] it goes back into [Gb] another [Db] verse
[N] And that's that's the whole that's the whole tune
Again, the only trick if you call it that is once you figure out that it's actually [B] a and not G
That becomes a really simple song
That's not to take anything away [E] from it.
It's brilliant, but
It's not exactly Paganini, right?
So if you have any trouble with it
Let me know and send me a note