Black Mountain Side

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.

A higher quality version on this video is available for download at the Mike O'Hara website: http://www.michaelohara.co.uk

Category:

Music

Tags:

• jimmy
• page
• led
• zeppelin
• acoustic
• guitar
• fingerpicking
• DADGAD
• Black
• Mountain
• Side
• Mike
• O'Hara

[snowfeilds]

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

[mpfcoh]

@snowfeilds cheers, I intend to!

[Davefingers]

Very nicely done.... Great job !

[mpfcoh]

@Davefingers thank you :)

[Ankhaking]

this cover is totally awsome! :)

[mpfcoh]

@Ankhaking cheers

[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.

[pisstroll88]

@snowfeilds

You are a trippy dude for saying that

[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 !