How to play “Going to California” By Led Zeppelin on Guitar | Lesson 3-3
Video Title: How to play “Going to California” By Led Zeppelin on Guitar | Lesson 3-3
Hey everyone and welcome back to circuit our lessons today we’re going to be covering the final segment of my three-part series led zeppelin’s going to California now we’re going to get started with the review then I’ll break down how to play the bridge in a minor
Key real quick I want to thank everyone who’s putting your suggestions and song requests if you have a song that you’d like for me to teach in the coming weeks click through the link and put in your request today now let’s get started with your lesson ok click at the fretboard
And also my right hand and if you recall we began with both of our E string tuned to D getting started with our intro picking pattern and a little run then we jumped into our verse occasionally reaching for the higher frets to expand then the instrumental fills sometimes thrown in the mandoline lion
Then we had a little bit of an instrumental section starting with a minor chord we finished all that but reaching up into the high frets for a short interlude okay now we’re ready for the minor bridge it’s going to sound something like this okay now I’ll demonstrate the exact same
Thing with lyrics one two three four seems that the wrath of the gods got a punch on the nose started to blow I think I might ease throw me a line for each in time Miche up there with a path on straight and then we finish up back up on the hi friends
Okay getting started with this section we’re gripping up a D minor chord shape in this tune in my middle finger is on the seventh fret of the g my first finger is on the sixth fret of the B and then my ring finger is on the high E string seventh fret
So it’s kind of like a d7 shape up on the sixth fret position we’re going to use the same finger picking pattern it’s been recurring throughout the tune so that begins by plucking both of our east rings which are tuned to D bend the B string and then the D string that’s
The first step after that we’re just going to separate our east rings high E string low string so far we have then we need to go to the B string with our middle finger and then the thumb back on the d-string to keep that baseline going you’re going to repeat the second part
Of that over and over again that e eb d pattern all the way through if we are ready to go on to an a major chord but I like to throw in my pinkie right here onto the eighth fret of the high E string so I’m adding that pinkie to the eighth fret
High E string on the word punch seems that the wrath of the god got a punch on the nose started to blow think I might be before going to the a major chord now sometimes I throw in a little brick right after I put that pinkie in
And then start all over again with the double pick then go to the a major chord we’re all throw-in a technique called a rasgueado or a fan strum this is when we take our well we’re going to be reversing it’s that way we can get back into our finger picking
Pattern so it’s our first finger flicking out followed by the middle followed by the ring followed that by the pinkie and to practice as you can just basically go flick flick flick flick when you have the guitar on your hands which I go for a nice even strokes
I throw this in just for dramatic effect obviously this is not what’s going on the actual track but the point of this lesson is to give you a version of going to California that’s suitable for solo performance for a singer-songwriter okay so on this a major chord we’re going to
Begin in with the fan strum then go into a finger picking pattern that’s very similar to the other patterns that we can play in throughout the tune the only difference is that we’re going to be bouncing back and forth on the a and D strings rather than the E and D strings
So begin with the a major chord our reverse fan strum then we’re going to go right to the a string high E string D string B string any string that’s your first step allow little space after that rasgueado or that fan strum one more times you can listen
From there you just need to keep looping these string D string B string a string before repeating or sound like this mmm so the rasgueado a II DP then EDP et penis you it’s got a loop it three times before you’re ready to repeat and then you go
Up into your D minor shape again or if you’re all done the section you’re going to head back up into the 12th fret area for your D major active okay Congrats everyone you’ve mastered all the sections to our singer-songwriter version of going to California the next step is to jam along with the
Track and a lyric sheet to make sure you understand the way the song is going to flow in the overall structure r21 thanks so much for checking out this three-part series on Led Zeppelin’s going to California I hope you enjoyed it thanks so much for subscribing and
Put in your song requests I got many more lessons coming up in the days and weeks ahead so keep checking back this is Robert Swift guitar lessons in Philadelphia saying happy picking
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Great Lesson, you explain it very well. There are hundreds of these videos on this song, yours is the best and the only one I play to. Thanks to you I am finally leaning whole songs. No more bits and picecs. Thank you.
Bro you are actually amazing. Keep up the good work 👍
Why 2 finger on G string?
this is amazing. thank you for being so careful with adding fingerpicking tab and guiding learners through the vocals.
Great lesson! Thanks.
To the 40k of us we made it till the end im proud of all of us 🙏🙏😂
This lesson just popped up on my phone but I'm not seeing lessons one and two of this song
This is wonderful! Thank you so much for all the help!
great lesson!
Brilliant lesson! The tabs are so helpful. Love the cat cameo.
Update: My mistake, at 1:28, it was a dog cameo.
Talks fast but plays great.taught me some things on that song.thanks
Talks way to fast
Thankyou very much!!
Thnx man i like how you teach
fast n good – thx so much – 40 yrs late for me!
dude, I have a dog that looks just like yours, …and thanks for the lesson, I am getting there, love this song
Thank you so much for awesome lesson !
Many thanks
Getting all the parts is the easy part. Playing along with the song is the difficult…and then singing along with it is a ways down the road.
Great lesson. I have been using guitar lesson 365 but switched over to you for this song. I like how you post the tab and then break down every peice into 3 parts, subbed and thumbs up
Thank you very much, Robert. Your lessons are the best!
You are an incredible teacher!! I’ve learned one of my favorite songs in its entirety thanks to you. Keep up the amazing work.
Thank you so much for this lesson series!!!! Literally had these three videos loaded up the last week, and they've helped me more than any other guitar videos I've ever watched online. Thanks dude.
stairway to heaven by led zepplin? finger style please
Great teacher.. I suck at guitar but Thanks to you I can play it a Little slower and it still sound great. I just finished part 2 and it gets easier .
Thanks
Don't stop what you are doing…. I've followed Justin Sandercoe and Marty Schwartz and I would say you are up there with them…… Everything you are doing is right…… don't change it or complicate it…… tabs great, demo great, tutorial and enthusiasm great. Thanks!
Thank you!! Absolutely great
Thank you brother. O learned to play this song sawing your video. Thanks !!!!! Check my channel if u want …