My attempt at playing “Black Mountain Side”, a Jimmy Page acoustic instrumental from Led Zeppelin’s first album.
The track is supposedly Jimmy’s interpretation of “Blackwaterside”, a folk song recorded by singer-songwriter Bert Jansch.
This version of Black Mountain Side uses the DADGAD tuning, popular amongst folk guitarists (although on the Led Zeppelin album, Jimmy Page actually drops it down a further semitone to C# G# C# F# G# C#).
I’m playing a Tanglewood acoustic into Cubase, going through the “Roomworks” reverb on the “Room with a View” setting.
This video is also available on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahZtynSJT7U
