Guitar Techniques

Jimmy Page Full style analysis!

Jimmy Page began his professional career in the early 60s and quickly gained a reputation as a formidable London session guitarist. He appeared, uncredited, on hundreds of hit singles and albums of the top chart bands of the day.

In 1966 he joined Jeff Beck in rhythm and blues stalwarts The Yardbirds (standing in on bass before he and Beck combined for a twin guitar assault), in which Eric Clapton had first tasted success. When The Yardbirds fell apart in 1968 Page took control and, with John Paul Jones on bass, John Bonham on drums and vocalist Robert Plant, toured briefly as The New Yardbirds before Page changed the name to the Keith Moon inspired ‘Led Zeppelin’.

Here we aim to identify many of Page’s key techniques from Led

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