Led Zeppelin – Babe I’m Gonna Leave You

Learn how to play Led Zeppelin – Babe I’m Gonna Leave You note-for-note on guitar.
Difficulty level: Advanced. There are unavoidable thumb-over chords, some big stretches and a couple of barre chords
Barre chords: No
Thumb over chords: Yes
Playing Style: Fingerpicked (some strumming with fingers required). It’s a mixture of finger picking and strumming.
Tuning: Standard
The lesson teaches the main acoustic guitar part from the album version of the track. It doesn’t teach the electric parts or lead overdubs. The preview video shows the introduction taken from the full lesson.
The complete file contains 4 lesson videos (one per section of the song), 4 performance play thru videos, full tabs, chords and lyrics. You’ll receive a link to download the lesson which will download as 5 zip files totalling 500 Mb containing all the lesson content.
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You’ll receive at least two videos per song, one lesson and one performance-standard play-through. You’ll receive the chords/lyrics and guitar tabs as PDF files.
The videos are mp4 format and should play on PC’s, Macs and most mobile devices.
They will download as Zip files. If you don’t have a Zip program on your PC you’ll need to install one to open the file.
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Mark says
Hi, Jerry:
Just FYI, the sound isn’t working on this video lesson preview. Not sure if that’s also true of the actual lesson.
Alan Thomas says
Preview sound OK on my computer.
Christopher Kueny says
My sound is OK, but I have a vague memory of maybe trouble with the preview before, not sure. I’ve seen repeated instances of Led Zeppelin guitar lessons on YouTube having their sound removed (even though the lessons don’t contain any actual recording of the artist). In one case, the sound eventually returned. In any case, I bought this lesson and it’s fine!
Christopher Kueny says
PS. You can view the video either directly on Jerry’s site or on YouTube. Try both and see if one of them works.
Jerry says
That seems to be what happened here. The lesson is fine but the sound was removed on YouTube. I’ve re-uploaded it and unlisted it but we’ll keep an eye on it.
Robert Mansfield says
Jerry, your lessons are the best! Please keep up the good work!