Black Mountain Side

[Luciferminusone]

I never got an opportunity due to a lot of reasons out of my control to take music courses so I am not familiar with a lot of terms.

I assume cover means using your own instrument in synch with someone else playing.

[Luciferminusone]

What does the word *cover* mean?  Whatever it means you did a nice job.

[HailCostanza]

Like it! How hard would you say this is to learn?

[jsilence418]

Everybody that learns DADGAD I think tries this out, you do a really nice version more like Bert Jansch's Black waterside, keep it up, we can always use another good musician !

[MButler67]

Great cover man!! Nice job!

[mcdowch]

Nice job.  Nicely produced as well.

[minarifabio]

i didn t know about Bert Jansch..... however congratulations to you! ciao!

[jazdrum68]

Great job I love that song and you done did it justice!!!!! I love that southern sound and it would've been cool for Jimmy Page to sit in with the Allman Bros!!!!!!

[xJimmyleex]

mabie you can make a tutorial how too play that?

it sound realy nice !

[namaste91]

superb..I'm excited about the work you did! I have also a question: Is it standard D and A tuning? I've also have a steel-acoustic now, and i don't want that the strings blow up in my face,when i tune it like that ^^. Cheers,too.

[snowfeilds]

you have a great talent, may you grow old and use it well.

[mpfcoh]

@snowfeilds cheers, I intend to!

[pisstroll88]

@snowfeilds

You are a trippy dude for saying that

[Davefingers]

Very nicely done.... Great job !

[mpfcoh]

@Davefingers thank you :)

[Ankhaking]

this cover is totally awsome! :)

[mpfcoh]

@Ankhaking cheers

[ilovecallum123]

Umm perhaps Jansch deserves a little credit too... lovely playing

[mpfcoh]

@ilovecallum123 aye, Bert's the man!

[Dizzyman888]

Its a brilliant guitar to play! I should know, I have the same one :D

[ReluctantSpider]

Really enjoyed it and it helped clarify a couple of the parts for me.

[muslimrere]

nice job man, where did you get the tabs?

[morrizadoniz]

@muslimrere and everybody who wants to play that famous tune:

if you still want the tabs I´ll send you - they are read- and playable with open freeware "TuxGuitar" - but take care:

Black Mountain Side is in DADGAD tuning !!!

well, so write me ...

[nickodood]

What kind of guitar is that?

[morrizadoniz]

hi my dear musicianfriend so far away ...

do you know, last but not least I bought my third acoustic guitar, tuned her down to DADGAD and just started to do the same what you did, what I ever wanted to do since years - to learn BLACK MOUNTAIN SIDE hehehe ...

I´ll upload next time - cu ...

greetings from stuttgart / germany ...

morriz (stevie .....)

[mpfcoh]

@morrizadoniz how you getting on with it? Look forward to seeing the vid

[cmfrico]

Hey mpfcoh, nice work.

Don'y worry about this #$#@@*&( punk " anonymousrelease" He's not Pagey.

Keep doing what you do. Later....cmf

[mpfcoh]

@cmfrico no worries mate I think he was responding to the comment from dr400z1 with words of encouragement

[concerto1959]

hi, i1ve just viewed your splendid version of black mountain side.can you confirm that the tuning is DADGAD. AND WHATIS THE THE PULL OFFS TO THE BEGIN THE TUNE IN THE 2ND FRET POISITION THAT YOU ARE DOING. thanks .

[Timothydlol]

gr8

[dr400z1]

Nice work! No matter how much I try, I can't do it. That was nice.

[anonymousrelease]

keep trying. slow it right down make sure you can play slow first. work on each and every little bit you make a mistake on untill they are all perfect then put it all together and speed it up!

[mpfcoh]

@anonymousrelease great advice mate, that's the way to do it, cheers!

[mpfcoh]

@dr400z1 like anonymousrelease says, just keep practicing, you'll get there

[LookItsSully]

tanglewood guitars are sickie woo. Im getting one in January when i get my tax return! gonna be siiiiick

[mpfcoh]

@LookItsSully yeah, tanglewoods are great guitars for the money. Hope you enjoy it

[JohnStachowski]

I like this song, i like your version.

[oddcyd]

good stuff, nice sound, people should check out bert jansch's version of this traditional song (black waterside) if they've never heard it...awesome guitarist!

[mpfcoh]

@oddcyd yeah bert is a legend. I saw him live a couple of years ago. Awesome guitarist

[Killerjh10]

what model tanglewood is that

[littlecarl1967]

i think this is the best version of this tune ive heard yet.your guitar sounds really nice.what is it and are you using any fx

[mpfcoh]

Cheers!

I'm playing a Tanglewood acoustic into Cubase, going through the "Roomworks" reverb on the "Room with a View" setting.

[gigglegigggle]

Kickass man [=

[mpfcoh]

@gigglegigggle cheers!

[oldbetsyM]

Super Dope....any possibility re-recording showing your fretwork,so we can see the changes???

Best version ive seen yet!!

[mpfcoh]

Yeah, maybe one day when I get some time.

Cheers

[nitts90210]

very nice, I see practice pays off.

[mpfcoh]

cheers! I only wish I had the time to practice some more....

[panblastic]

Well done.

[Jackts9999]

pretty awesome  mate, sounds great!

[didis97]

Awesome! I just recorded a version myself, but I need a bit more practice. Yours is perfect :)

[mpfcoh]

Cheers! Dunno about perfect, but it's the best I can do at the mo.

Just checked yours out. Excellent!

[vince33450]

good job. Great song

[JesseSoda]

Bad ass.

[goingwithzed]

great playing and man that thing records well.

great dude. recording quality is a standard for youtube.

[mpfcoh]

Cheers mate. Glad you think so. I was quite pleased with the recording quality myself, I must admit!

[costa1953]

very well done mate

greetings and a happy new year from costa@rome.italy

[mpfcoh]

Grazi! E un felice anno nuovo anche a voi!

[costa1953]

Si dice "Grazie" ... ;O)

[splutch49]

yeah dude you rock ! it's a great pleasure to hear it. tanglewood guitars seems to have a very good sound. what do you think about the TW155AS super jumbo? it's not too expensive, and I think that it's a good instrument to play folk, or irish folk music. what's your opinion?

[mpfcoh]

Hello mate. I haven't tried the super jumbo. The Tanglewood I played here was a nice guitar but I traded it in recently for a Walden cause I was having problems with the pickup.

[splutch49]

what kind of problem?

[mpfcoh]

lost power.

[GoldTone07]

Wonderful!

[ZosoTownshend07]

Great job!

[spareaxe]

you must have taken the same drugs as Page to even try this one.

[mpfcoh]

aye, maybe that's what I need....

[fergusof]

Nice work. I would like to see a tutorial on that tune, step by painful step, so us newbs could learn it.

[mpfcoh]

Cheers! I learnt it by picking up the tab from somewhere (can't remember where exactly but if you google "Black Mountain Side tab" you should find plenty of places to get it) and by listening closely to the original and trying to play along.

Good luck!

[onedaythecubs]

Very, very nice. Check out my version if you get a chance. It's funny how people can take different approaches to very similar sounds. I picked up a couple things from you, thanks.

[DerisedEgami]

very nice. I like the tone of that guitar.

[aimspader]

That was superb!

[Darknvo]

hey can u help me out? i want to learn this song but lol i dont have any idea how to get my guitar into that tuning. if u could help me out send me a msg ^^ thanks.

[mpfcoh]

I play it in DADGAD (tuning from the lowest to the highest). Jimmy actually plays it a semitone lower in C# G# C# F# G# C#.

Good luck!

[pimpslap1000]

props

[Gort121]

Dude, that is INSANE!

[mpfcoh]

lol, I think i did go a bit insane tryin to learn this piece. Think I'm alright now though....

[Gort121]

You've managed to put Jimmy Page one rung down on "guitar god" status - not that it's a bad thing. It just makes him a little more real - I supposed he's still many rungs above the rest of us mortals.

Your rendition of Black Mountain Side is flawless. Nice sounding guitar - has a good, deep resonance - top looks like a Martin but the body doesn't (sounds like a lot of girls I know...). What specific open tuning did you use on this?

[mpfcoh]

Oooh, I still think he's a guitar god myself. And thanks for the compliments, although listening back now I notice I have a tendency to speed up and slow down a bit. Something to work on I suppose.

The guitar is a 200 quid Tanglewood, nothing special but it plays nicely and records well. The open tuning is DADGAD. On the LedZep recording Jimmy tunes it a semitone lower at C# G# C# F# G# C#, but my guitar starts to sound a bit rattly if I tune it down there.

[LedZeppelinV8]

GREAT JOB!

Jimmy would be proud.

[mpfcoh]

Cheers mate, appreciate it