Learn to play Over the Hills and Far Away by Led Zeppelin on guitar.
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Today’s famous riff is a big one, the classic acoustic opening riff to Led Zeppelin’s “Over the Hills and Far Away”.
With liberal use of hammer-ons and pull-offs and some quick chord strumming the great Jimmy Page created an intro that sets the mood of the song up perfectly for the latter more aggressive full band sections.
But the trouble with that is that we have to play all those tricky little hammer-ons or pull-offs on an acoustic guitar, something many guitar players would rather avoid. 🙂
But fret not (pun intended), in this Over The Hills And Far Away Guitar Lesson I will break down all those tricky little guitar parts into an easy to understand pattern. I think learning this riff is a great opportunity for just about every guitarist to strengthen their fret hands while playing a riff that sounds really cool. And if you are playing this riff well it definitely is a head turner. 🙂
I think my favorite playing of Jimmy Page is usually with his acoustic stuff. He seems to be at his best both technically and creatively with an acoustic guitar in his hands. That is very apparent with this opening riff to “Over the Hills and Far Away”.
But if you would like to learn not only this acoustic intro but the full band electric parts as well just help me get 600 YouTube likes for this video and I will then teach the entire song note-for-note. Sound like a plan? So I will be waiting for all of those likes and in the meantime try to focus on mastering this great acoustic intro to one of Led Zeppelin’s greatest songs.