Chords for How to play Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin

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_ _ Hey guys, it's Karl Brown from _ GuitarLessons365.com.
Today we're going to learn how to play the Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin.
So this one's pretty short.
It's not a lot to learn to it.
It's just kind of a driving song.
_ It doesn't have a solo or anything in it.
So let's just take a look at it.
I'm going to break down this intro here and then show you the different chords and stuff
and any variations you'll do on it.
So we're going to start here on this octave.
It's off of this F sharp.
So we're in standard tuning.
You can have just the second fret on the low E string and the fourth fret on the D.
Those
are the two notes that are being used here in this main riff.
So we have_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ So the picking I'm using is down, then down up.
_ So we have this. _
Start it.
_ Then you're going to hit with a downstroke [E] that fourth fret on the fourth string.
[F#] _ And then an [G] upstroke on the low E string [F#] again on that second fret.
So we have this.
_ _ _ _ Then the pattern has one more note, one more upstroke.
_ So altogether the pattern is this.
_ _ _ _ _ _ One more time.
_ _ _ _ _ _ Now you just repeat that pattern over and over again. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ Now you're slightly muting the notes, but you're still letting them ring.
[E] There's still some [F#] resonance to them. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ That [G] top note's kind [E] of accented too.
From there we're going to go to the [A] A.
It's pretty much an A power chord to the [E] E major chord. _ _
_ Then you can hit that E again, _ _ [A]
back to the A, and back to [F#] the riff. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [E] So we have a lot of that going [A] on.
And then from there we go to this next part. _ _ _
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[A] So that's just an A major chord to _ [B] a B major chord.
_ Now you can hold that just with the fourth fret on the B string, G and D string.
Like that.
You can [E] borrow it like that with your third finger.
I like to borrow it with my [B] little finger.
_ Then up one [C] fret, same chord shape. _
_ _ _ [F#] And then we're back to the riff. _ _
_ _ _ _ Now the [Em] only other variation you're going [C] to see of that is at the end of the song where
he's going to incorporate a C dominant 9 chord in there.
So it sounds like [F#] this. _ _ _ _
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_ _ [C] _ [F#] _ _ _ [C] _ [F#] _
_ _ Kind of that [E] kind of thing.
So this chord that he's jumping into there, [C] third fret on the fifth string, second fret
on the D string, and then the third fret barred across with your [D] ring finger across [E] the [A#] B
and the G string.
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_ _ So just those four middle strings. _
[F#] So he plays the pattern a little longer at first. _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ So it's right in the middle of the fourth time [B] of playing that riff.
So he jumps into it there.
[F#] _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ And then he'll [F#] just do it _ _ [C] _ [F#] _ _ one and a [Em] half times and jump [F#] into it every time.
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_ [C] _ [C#] The best way to really get that nail is don't think about what beat this is on and stuff.
Just simply know the chord form that he's hitting there and play the same riff, the
same driving riff just repeatedly and just know by ear where to throw that chord in.
And then you'll just jump back to the riff and just go back and forth.
So that's pretty much it for the track.
Like I said, it's pretty short but sweet, but it's got some cool rhythms to it.
And it's a good kind of technique workout on string skipping, that main riff.
All right, I hope you enjoyed it.
I'll see you again soon for guitarlessons365.com.
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