Tabs
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Track: Black Dog
Album: (untitled fourth album, Atlantic- 1971©)
Original Transcriber: Charles Eric Horowitz.
"Corrections" made by: Tate McCallum.
I thank Charles Eric Horowitz for putting the FULL version of "Black Dog" on
my own ways to play a few of the parts. I have just made a few changes to
Charles' tab.
-Tate McCallum
Triple Tracked Elec plays main riffs:
e---------------------------------------------------------------------------
B--------------------5------------------------------------------------------
G-----------5s6----7----5h7p5------5s6--------------------------------------
D---5-6-7-------7--------------7-7------7--5-7-7----------2--2-(2)----------
A-7-------7--------------------------------------5--7-3-5-0--0-(0)----------
E---------------------------------------------------------------------------
The last two 
A5A5 chords that are played at the end of the main riff, I posted
in parenthesis an extra one- dont play this! Just sure as hell make it ring
out all the way until you play again- dont make it all choppy and well um,
shitty.
After you play the Main Riff(above) three times, you will play this:
e-------------------------------------------------------------|-------------
b-------------------------------------------------------------|-------------
g-------------------------------------------------------------|-------------
d-----------5s6--------------5s6--------------5s6-------------|-------------
a---5-6-7-------7----5-6-7-------7----5-6-7-------7----5-6-7-5|-------------
E-7-------7--------7-------7--------7-------7--------7--------|-------------
Now head back to the main riff.
"Oh yeah! Oh yeah!" riff:
e---------------------------------------------------------------------------
b---------------------------------------------------------------------------
g---2--2-4^6^4p2-4-2-------2--2-4^6^4p2-4-2------------2-2-4^6^4p2----------
d---2----------------------2---------------------2--5--2-----------4-2------
a-3-0------------------3b4-0-----------------3s4-0--3--0--------------------
E---------------------------------------------------------------------------
e---------------------------------------------------------------------------
b---------------------------------------------------------------------------
g---------2-4^6^4p2--4-2--------2-4^6^4p2-4-2----------------2--------------
d------2----------------------2-------------------2--5--2----2--------------
a--3b4-0------------------3b4-0---------------3b4-0--3--0-------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------3b5--------------
On the last verse, the main riff is doubled with this:
e---------------------------------------------------------------------------
b----0-1-2----4^5--2--7-9--5h7p5--2-2--4^5--2--0-2-2------------------------
g--2-0-1-2-2--5^6--2--7-9--5h7p5--2-2--5^6--2--0-2-2--0-2-2-------2-2-------
d--2-------2------------------------------------------0-2-2--2/4--2-2-------
a------------------------------------------------------------3/5--0-0-------
E---------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Hey baby, woah baby" riff(also riff for solo):
e-----------------------------------------3---2-----------------------------
b-----------------------------------------3---3-----------------------------
g------2----2------2--5--2------2----2----0---2-----------------------------
d------2----2------2--5--2------2----2----0---0-----------------------------
a------0----0------0--3--0------0----0---(0)--------------------------------
E--3b-----3-----3b----------3b-----3b---------------------------------------
Above, all the bends for the most part are very slight. It just helps get
that dirty sound. I'm sure Charles' verson is much more accurate to the way
that Jimmy plays it, but- I mean- we all grow tired eventually and this is
a bit easier way to play it.
OK, thats it- Everything else I play the same way as Charles. I didnt even
really need to make those slight changes, but for some people- like me, it
is a tid bit easier to hit the 5th fret on the 
BB string, then go the 9th
fret on the 
G+G string (during the main riff).
Feel free to email me at [email protected] to talk about Led Zeppelin,
Jimmy Page, or anything about my tab. And to the original poster, Charles,
thank you a lot- and sorry for messing with your tab!
-
Tate McCallum
Ok, I've never seen anybody post this eighther, and it plagued me
until I finally (hopefully) figured it out this summer..
E:------------------------5-
B:------------------3^4^5---
G:------------2---2---------
D:--------2-4---4-----------
A:--0-3^4-------------------
E:--------------------------
Incidentally, Page uses this lick at the beggining of his accompanied
solo on 'Heartbreaker'.
Most of the rest of the solo to Black Dog is fairly straight forward..
Black Dog tab
Released on their fourth album, Black dog was written as the band wanted a song that it was impossible to dance to. The result was a the famous winding riff and a tune full of complex rhythm changes. Hard to dance to, yes, but these Led Zeppelin Black dog guitar tabs are always fun to play.
The main key to a song like this is the switching from complex riffs and music to a a-cappella sections with only Plants voice. The band came up with the songname after they saw a dog wandering outside of their studio. The lyrics have another theme. Page once said that they spent some time to get the right guitarsound, but with today’s equipments it should be a lot easier to get the right sound and distortion when playing Black dog guitar tabs. The guitar solo an the album consists of four overdubbed Gibson Les Paul fills.
