Led Zeppelin - Dancing Days Guitar Lesson

Led Zeppelin "Dancing Days" guitar lesson. Today we're using the Wampler Plexi-Drive to deliver the midrange "honk" and note definition of an early Marshall amp. When playing this song live, Jimmy Page keeps the guitar in Open G tuning but leaves off the slide so he can include some overdubs which are tricky with a bottleneck on. Open G chords tend to sound happier but Dancing Days uses some interesting phrasing that strays from your familiar Stones riffs. Multiple pull-offs are used on the B string and can be a challenge to play clean while keeping with this song's heavy groove. Page's live version also bounces between the main rhythm and the overdubbed arpeggio with keeps the bare essentials in the tune with just one guitarist. Enjoy your riff of the day guitar lesson.
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[reecedoyleguitar]

It never ceases to amaze me how fresh and interesting Zeppelin licks still sound to this day. Timeless music!

[CaptSpaulding]

The more Led Zep songs I learn makes realize how bad ass that guy really was and what he did with a guitar is way above what others can do. Much respect to Mr. Page

[kicknadeadcat]

Now that's the way to teach a song. He's not mentioning what finger on what string and what fret. He just takes you through it like a friend might show you at home. You hear it and see where and how to gets there. Great

[everonlyallforthee]

Dancing Days is a perfect testament to Jimmy Page's amazing composition skills. Nobody else comes with parts quite like he does. And Andy, you're a beast!

[nonyabizniss]

I have to say that this is the best lesson I have ever seen... No BS, no endless rambling or repeating the part 27, 000 times. Just a close up of playing each part with some accurate tab.

I get very frustrated with a lot of these youtube lessons because they are too basic, and they ramble and take forever.

Awesome job!!!

[reecedoyleguitar]

It never ceases to amaze me how refreshing Led Zeppelin licks can sound even after they're 40 years old. Timeless band.

[drockreal]

This presentation is perfect. He gets right to it and the combination of showing the fingering along with the tab snippets gives everything needed without any lengthy, wordy descriptions. Bravo.

[zjah]

i think this and bring it on home are jimmy best ever riffs, u can listen to em for years their just infectious.

[runrin_]

Andy always dials in the sweetest tone for these videos. Spot on.

[toms]

Your Guitar playing and teaching is spot on. awesome. !! Always love the Gibson Les Pauls.

[darinengland]

Great Lesson. The slow tempo really helps for getting it down. Thanks.

[Reckless]

Nice, used to play it with standard tuning years ago, way before Youtube. What a nice tool and way to see that you were completely wrong when trying to figure it out on your cassette tape. Thanks! 

[andrzej-kvcm]

Wszystko doskonałe! Brzmienie gitary, genialnie podpatrzona maniera Page'a i równie dobrze zagrana. Do tego "porozkładanie na detale" pozornie łatwego riffu. Tymczasem dopiero wówczas widać (i słychać) jak fantastycznym gitarzystą jest Jimi Page.
Brawo!

[majesticprimate]

The first time you listen to this song on the album closely it blows everything you've ever heard out the window. So you go look for a live version as it sounds at first like it might be slide or part slide, but you can't find anything showing page playing it live (can you?).  So it's great to see this at slow speed and confirm it's really the open tuning and finger slide that make it.  Some sort of magic to a 5 year period with Jimmy Page around 1968-1973 that still works even when explained.

[ronengel]

Great arrangement Andy and it’s such a great song. This song flies under the radar a bit but it really shows Page’s genius, very proggy!!

[alanhowell]

Andy does some of the best tutorials. Great job

[Frankincensedjb]

I use a little less gain, but sounds great. Ya just gotta love Page's instrumentation, effects, and layering. I know it may sound sacrilegious, but I always wanted Jimmy to hire another guitarist when he played live. Zep did so after Bonzo's death and, of course, with the Black Crows, and I'll tell ya, the songs sounded good. Again, great job on the lesson.

[ratsnestfm]

Funny that the live arrangement on HTWWW doesn't include the arpeggiated part and subsequent licks that Andy plays, but as usual Andy made a great call in including them here.

The tone is definitely more geared towards emulating Page's live sound, but that's completely understandable. The studio version of Dancing Days has a pretty far out, shrill tone that I've never heard on any rendition of the song other than the HOTH cut.

[Matthew-ezze]

Andy's demos of classic songs are always insanely great!

[OZHKAR]

STP got so much inspiration from this song, it sounds very similar to their style