Guide Note

This page contains links to guitar and bass tabs as well as instructional videos for the band Led Zeppelin.

Fast Facts

1. Genre: Rock, Blues, Classic Rock
2. Origin: London, England
3. Formed: 1968
4. Disbanded: 1980
5. Albums: 9
6. Label: Swan Song Records
7. The movie Almost Famous is loosely based on the band

Led Zeppelin's music incorporated elements of rock, blues, folk and on later albums funk.

Guitarist Jimmy Page incorporated open tunings, particularly open G tuning, and often used a cello bow on his guitar to simulate the sound of a classical-stringed instrument.

Page favored Marshall amps and Gibson guitars, especially his trademark Les Paul though he did use a Fender Telecaster during 1968 and 1969 and a Danelectro Guitar.

• 1969: Led Zeppelin
• 1969: Led Zeppelin II
• 1970: Led Zeppelin III
• 1971: Led Zeppelin IV
• 1973: Houses of the Holy
• 1975: Physical Graffiti
• 1976: Presence
• 1979: In Through the Out Door
• 1982: Coda

• "Jimmy Page was drawn to guitar in the 1950s by Lonnie Donegan's skiffle sounds and Elvis Presley's sexualized rockabilly, and by the 1960s he was a major player in the London pop scene. He made a reputation playing on sessions for the Kinks, the Who, Them, the Pretty Things, Herman's Hermits and Donovan, among others".—Rolling Stone Magazine¹