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Transcription of arrangement of this beautiful piece of music in a peculiar tuning!

If you're not familiar with the song and had Led Zeppelin down at a heavy hitting blues/rock power house, this one might surprise you!

Very easy to play, but beautiful, rich and full sounding as a solo guitar piece.

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“The Rain Song" - Led Zeppelin. Stereo acoustic guitar recorded with O.P.R ribbon microphones

* Due to popular demand, you can now download my TAB for this at the link below.. https://smogfalls.gumroad.com/l/bkbrjn Since receiving 3 fantastic new O.P.R microphones, I’ve been looking for any excuse to record acoustic guitar. This Led Zeppelin tune has always been one I’ve enjoyed playing, and the open Cadd9 tuning really makes this beautiful Martin OM21 shine. I’m using 2 ribbon mics for this to create a nice wide stereo spread.. so please do listen through some good headphones or studio monitors if you can! I went with the O.P.R “4038” pointed at where the neck and the body of the guitar join, and the O.P.R “Grill U-Mod” pointed at the bridge. When mixing, I panned the 4038 hard left and the Grill hard right. I cut some of the lows and boosted the highs with a shelf around 12k. I then applied a couple of very light stages of compression and blended a few different reverbs in. I’m really happy with the end result! The strings are D’addario 80/20 bronze 12 gauge and I’m using a 2mm “hornet” Honeypick. The OM21 is from 2012 and I’ve owned it from new. Do check out the Open Plan Recording (O.P.R) microphones.. they’re all extremely high quality, hand built microphones from Australia. Based on classic vintage mic designs and full of character: https://www.openplanrecording.com If you’d like to support the work I do, feel free to buy me a coffee at this link; https://www.buymeacoffee.com/alexfarran I post most days on insta: https://www.instagram.com/alexfarranguitar #ledzeppelin #jimmypage #rainsong #1970s #classicrock #progrock #housesoftheholy #acousticguitar #acoustic #martinom21 #martinguitar #guitar #guitarist #music #musician #robertplant #classicrock

Comments

David

Great tune Alex. Can you share the tuning and chord changes with us Patreon members? Many thanks

David

Whoops, I found the transcription. Cheers.

Alex Farran Guitar

glad you spotted the zip file David .. have fun with this one, it's a beauty to play!

Rob Brazier

The stereo micing sounds incredible. What's reverb are you using?

Alex Farran Guitar

Thanks Rob! For this I was using a couple of reverbs.. the waves abbey Road chambers plugin for a fairly low key room reverb sound, and the universal audio Capitol chambers for the bigger, deeper reverb

Manfred Stenzel

thanks a lot - great arrangement. Working on it since yesterday evening, a bit stuck with the C part (the 16th notes line) but slowly getting there ... ;-)

Alex Farran Guitar

Nice one Manfred.. you'll get that part down in no time! Feel free to share your progress with audio/video over on the discourse forum ;)

TinchoLegarra

What a great song Alex! Thanks a lot! Next mission after Charlie Christian 👏💪

Zohar

Sounds great! What software do you use to record your audio? ps, I didn't spot the zip file :)

Alex Farran Guitar

thanks dude! I use Logic Pro always.. have done since 1999 way back when it was made by eMagic 👌🏻

Zohar

You’ve really mastered it! Recording so well is no small feat.💪

Alex Farran Guitar

Thank you Zohar, I've long been as passionate about production and mixing as I am about playing, so that means a lot. Worked in studios as a mixing engineer for quite a long time :)

Zohar

Well, your passion, knowledge and experience really shows. Q&A request number #100000 (and I’ll keep them coming😜) share your recording setup and some tips with us.

Trevor Grant

I’m 63 and bought this album on U.K. release date. I worked out most of the songs, and not knowing open tunings did this in standard. I’ll pop a video of it up later!

Alex Farran Guitar

That’s cool Trevor! Would like to hear how it sounds in standard for sure! Will check out forum for it later on. 🙏🏻🍻

Pinchshot

Been playing this one for a while but I will try your arrangement. Great song.