Chords for Jimmy Page Repeating Licks

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_ _ _ _ _ Hey blues [E] fans, this is Anthony from [F] SteamySnacks.com.
It's time for Free Lesson Friday.
This week we're going to take a look at Jimmy Page.
And he had these little four note licks that he would do in the song, I Can't Quit You Baby.
We're going to take a look at those.
_ I'm teaching some Jimmy Page licks because I just had these Juicy Bucker pickups from
Zexcoil put into my guitar.
These are humbucker strength pickups.
And I thought what better way to celebrate humbucker strength tone than to teach some
Jimmy Page licks, one of the most well known humbucking pickup players in the history of blues rock.
Anyway, enough talking, let's get on with the lesson.
Because Jimmy Page tuned in standard tuning, [A] at least for this song, we're going to be
in standard tuning and we're going to be in the key of A.
That puts our root marker down here at the [Ab] fifth fret.
_ And midway through the song, there's a little break where everything gets quiet and it's
just Jimmy [B] soloing almost silently.
_ [G] _ _ He [C] does that whole thing and then when they come back in, everybody together, he slides
up here to the box one shape an octave up.
And [A] he's like_
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Then he [Em] goes into this lick.
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_ And it sounds really, really impressive, but it's actually fairly easy to play.
[Db] What we're going to be doing is you want to find your [F] box one shape anchored at the 17th fret here.
[B] _ _ [Am] _ _ And you want [G] to go to the top of box one here at the [C] 20th fret, _ _ [Am] pull off to 17 on the E
string and then drop to 17 on the B string.
_ And you want to get that [G] motion down.
You can do it with one picking stroke like this. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ And you can keep the other string muted by resting your picking hand on the strings there. _ _ _
_ _ But now we're going to mix it up and we're going to alternate between the 20th fret and
the 19th fret. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] That way the lick has a little bit more complexity, a little bit more [Am] depth to it. _ _ _ _ _
_ So it may take you a while to get up to that speed, but that's the basic motion. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ But that's not where we have to end.
We can actually do it another way, which is to slide up one fret instead of down one fret. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ And then a third option would be to skip over the 20th fret [A] altogether and just go from
21 to 19. _
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Okay, [G] so they each have a slightly different sound and if you really want to make things
cool you can just kind of mix them up in the course of playing [Am] the lick. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Okay, [A] obviously you wouldn't want to rest there for an entire solo, but now you have
a couple of different options if you want to throw that into your solo.
Now the second one _ happens here if you find the box one shape at the original starting
location down here at the 5th [E] fret.
_ [C] _ _ One thing that Jimmy would do is sometimes when he was playing fast, [Am] _ _ _ he would do that
lick and then slide up here and go.
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [G] And sometimes he went by it so fast and sometimes it was a little bit sloppy, so it's hard to
pick out, but I isolated one area where he did it fairly clean.
And what we're doing here is we're going to the box two shape. _
And [Ab] that's typically where we play from, but he was actually sliding up one half step to
the 10th fret, or sorry, the 11th fret, pulling off to 8, [Bb] _ [A] and then going up to 10 and [Cm] pulling
off, _ _ followed [Am] by a hit here at the 10th fret on the B string and [Ab] back up to 8 on the B
string or the E string.
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_ _ _ _ _ [A] Now this one requires a little bit more [B] picking than the other one.
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_ _ _ _ [C] You may have a little [Ab] trouble with the other strings ringing out, so that's where your
palm muting [G] comes in handy.
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Now [B] the B string, obviously you can't palm mute that [Am] because you need to play the note
here at the 10th fret.
But what you got to make sure of is that your index [G] finger is over the E string enough so
that it mutes the B [A] string based on proximity.
_ [G] _ _ So that when you go back up here, you can see the B string [C] try and ring out, but it's
touching my [Am] fingertip there, so it can't.
All right, so the two licks again with all the different variations. _ _ _ _
[A] And then down here.
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But here's one [Em] trick is that you can actually use the first pattern down [G] here.
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Okay, [Gbm] so you can actually use that technique in two places here.
So what you would do then is you'd get your middle finger on the 10th fret of the B string
and your index finger [Am] on the 8th fret of the E string and hold them [C] there and then you
would just alternate with your [G] ring finger.
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It's a little bit hard to keep that clean.
You could actually, _ [A] if you want to use your pinky there at the 11th fret, you can.
Okay, _ _ _ _ [E] but anyway, so there's just two little four note licks that Jimmy Page would do in
the song, I Can't Quit You [N] Baby, and they each have a distinct Jimmy Page feel to them.
And if you're a fan of Led Zeppelin, you know exactly what I mean.
He had a certain sound, and so you want to get your bridge pickup on, you want to crank
up the treble and you want to just go to town on those.
Learn how to use them tastefully, listen to how he used them.
But anyway, those should make sense to you now if you hear him play those in the middle
of a complicated solo.
Anyway, I hope that's useful to you and until next time, thanks for watching. _ _ _
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