Hello and welcome to this week’s lesson, where I will be showing you how to play the intro to When The Levee Breaks by Led Zeppelin.
You will need a harmonica in the key of Bb, and we will be playing in 2nd position in the key of F.
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Super Rough
The original recording is quite hard to hear so this is an approximation of what I think Robert Plant is playing. In my opinion the most important thing is to recreate the rough harmonica rather than play exactly the same phrases.
Lick 1
Slow
Lick 2
Slow
Lick 3
Slow
Lick 4
Slow
Lick 5
Slow
Lick 6
Slow
Lick 7
Slow
Lick 8
Slow
Lick 9
Slow
Play-through
Slow
Full Speed
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Thank you to Now You Shred
I want to say a massive ‘Thank You’ to Now You Shred for providing the backing track for this lesson. I suggest you go and check out their channel on Youtube for a bunch of awesome backing tracks to play along to – Now You Shred.
Thank you
Thank you so much for taking part in this lesson. I hope it was useful for you. If you enjoyed it please feel free to share it with your friends on Facebook and/or Twitter.
See you next Wednesday for the next harmonica lesson!