Fool in the Rain - Led Zeppelin | Guitar Lesson

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Learn how to play Fool in the Rain, as performed by Led Zeppelin released on their 1979 final studio album "In Through the Out Door". A truly unique song arrangement for LZ standards, and Jimmy has some super interesting parts on this song. There are basically 3 electric guitar parts, and two 12 string acoustic parts.
The lesson covers all the electric and acoustic parts he plays in this song, and I'll spend some time talking about the octave fuzz effect that he uses on the solo. Many people say its the MXR Blue Box, but Jimmy Page himself says otherwise (he says he used an "Octavider" which is different from the Blue Box). I'll use a blue box on here and also an alternate method with a Fulltone Fuzz pedal running into a Boss OC3 Super Octave.
Gear used in this video (if you purchase via these links I will earn a small commission):
Gibson Les Paul Classic imp.i114863.net/Vy5mAk (mine is actually a 2011 R8)
1985 Yamaha FG 460-S 12-string Acoustic (here's modern equivalent - sweetwater.sjv.io/ZQXZzk)
Fulltone Ultimate Octave (tome 10 o'clock, fuzz 2 o'clock, fat fuzz switch)
Boss OC3 Super Octave (Oct 2 mode, oct 2 at 3 o'clock, direct level 3 o'clock
MXR Blue Box: sweetwater.sjv.io/3e1OMK (level and blend at 5 o'clock)
TC Elec. Hall of Fame Reverb: imp.i114863.net/5bdEX2 (plate setting)
Into 1963 Fender Bassman, Vol 5.5, Treble 6, Bass 7, Presence 6
Fryette Power Station 2 attenuator
00:00 Introduction / What to Expect
01:47 Getting your tone
03:16 Lesson - Primary Electric Rhythm Guitar part
05:15 Lead Guitar section - G Mixolydian scale approach
09:34 How Jimmy got that Fuzz low octave effect
11:06 Demo of MXR Script blue box
12:58 Demo of Fulltone Fuzz into Boss OC-3
13:34 Lesson - Guitar Solo - option 1
18:30 Lesson - Guitar Solo - option 2
20:13 Back to back comparison demo of both fuzz octave effects
21:30 Lesson - Outro electric guitar
24:26 Lesson - Acoustic 12 string - verse parts
26:35 Lesson - Acoustic 12 string - outro part
28:57 Final thoughts
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[@muanjoca]

This has always been my favorite Page solo. It just sounds like he’s having a great time playing it. Great lesson 🤘

[@brianboyle3998]

I was 18 when this album came out. My friends asked me what I thought. I said I thought John Paul Jones was the major influence on the album. I'm 62 now and so glad you said the same thing.

[@DemnRaig80]

You're so glad you got validated.

[@halloweenjack2562]

Statospheres above my level! But fascinating and great to watch and learn. Anything Jimmy Page related will always be appreciated. Cheers!

[@autk]

I used a blue box when the band I was in did the song in 1981, I got the MXR in 1980 at my local music store, nobody had bought it in a year so he gave it to me for 25 bucks...sounded great... occasionally the sub octave would sound like it was ping ponging, not staying underneath...but very infrequently...love the lesson...way back then I was twenty in 1980 when ITTOD came out...we also did Caroselambra and All of My Love, great album.

[@lastofthe4horsemen279]

Way to go 0

[@johnmerrill4717]

Just gonna say right off the bat. I love it!

[@goodthings07]

One of my fav zeppelin songs

[@mitchellcutler2888]

Yet another stellar lesson and playing lesson. Thank you.

[@Weshopwizard]

Holy cow man, I think you’ve been reading my mind. Been thinking about this song a bit lately. Please keep any other stray info you pick up from my noggin to yourself.

[@jamiecampbell1981]

No, don’t be too amazed that you’re thinking the same thing that the guy the guy thinking and what I’m thinking I’ve been thinking all the same bubble of 10 because it’s called the collective consciousness I didn’t even know what I was gonna call it. I said it right now I swear to God it wasn’t like I said I was gonna tell this guy about the collective consciousness in my mind is it was I was saying it said thing everyone thinking the same thing and I just typed the comment and boomer came to me That took a way to put it but it’s probably been used before I heard it but it happens to me all the freaking time my band back in the early early 2000s I made them learn just where I needed by the cars like I don’t wanna play that I’m like shut up and listen it’s a bad song. Meaning bad good it’s a really good song great song, best song of the 80s so good so anyways men learn myself learn it really good and the clubs next thing you know movies with it in the movie in the movie I didn’t see the movie throwback movie and then it was there happened the other way around OK that’s just my theory Amazing lead I love it always have loved it always have loved the song. I actually have a story of that song. I carry my little radio down to see my little girlfriend when I was in eighth grade 8th grade I was kissing girls 54 years old. I went to go see Lisa Dela Camera I’m gonna put her name onreconnected on Facebook and she still beautiful. I went to go see her she lived about over a mile from my house but I walked. We both went to the same school Sacred Heart in Rosendale, which is in Boston. I walked to Sacred Heart in her house was about 3/4 of a mile the world meeting there was 3/4 a mile. From that spot I’m sitting there and I happen to have into the outdoor plane on my radio. I just grabbed the radio it was in this that’s all Led Zeppelin is it fine I probably would’ve changed it to physical graffiti but anyways I didn’t. I sat there waiting for her and it was raining and guess what She was on one corner and I was on the other corner all right how freaky is that and I was getting so agitated no cell phones no you know there was a payphone anywhere nearby I was out I ended up seeing her cause I ended up towards her actual house. She said I’ve told you here, and I’m like I thought you said here the other corner was just out of side of each other because of a hill that’s my story sticking to it, God bless guys

[@johnnyboo8243]

awesome lesson thanks

[@c.h.r.i.s2253]

Thank you! You are the only person to show "tabs" properly. For some reason people have flipped them so they always show low e in the wrong place unless you play a left handed guitar

[@straycatflauter5377]

Great ear and fantastic execution. Well played

[@sampopkin]

Nice one Doug! Always have loved his solo on it. That Blue Box is an acquired taste for a pedal haha

[@brucehelppie6119]

i like all of these lessons. thanks, doug!

[@pgquin]

Magic lesson. Thank you.

[@ThomasColeFZ]

Amazing 🤩 thanks so much for making this 🎉

[@dtwenty5114]

Like the home base approach ! that's how i dig deeper into these great groves PLUS remember fret board economics" if Your running all over the place its mostly wrong" great players conserve energy

[@jimmyhaynes8298]

Thanks a lot man! Good lesson, good tips. Jimmy

[@lastofthe4horsemen279]

MxR is my favorite effects company.Love your channel always cool

[@jclark42796]

Great lesson of one of my favorite Zep songs! A lot going on with this song! I'm playing this for a jam soon. I tried the reissue blue box but just sounded awful to me so I've been using a some fuzz along with a micro POG for that octave effect. That's been working well for me.

[@sukoshikanatomo]

Your channel is so fun

[@johndodson4527]

Audio n visual are very good!

[@kimalexander3914]

Friday Night & 12' chain = rock out time.Thanks Doug, from Les Paul's hometown.

[@nickforbus378]

Awesome!

[@doug941]

Thank you sir!

[@guydouglas6094]

I always thought this was the pre 'The Police' sounding led Zeppelin song. Cool lesson along with the mixolydian G mode from the Ionian scale of C - the song is G based. I always thought the solo was keyboard but on closer listening, I can hear a distinct guitar string definition. Great lesson and video.

[@tenlittleindians]

I picked this album up on cassette when it first came out and played the crap out of it in my car. I always thought it was some of the best Led Zeppelin ever and I still think that. I read somewhere decades ago that Jimmy hated this record. Most of the stuff was already finished and he came in later to lay his parts over the top. I think Robert Plant's Principal Of Moments is in this album's style too.

[@kgjb2003]

Thanks!

[@12footchain]

Thank you!

[@aminahmed2220]

What a fantastic video have a wonderful day Doug also today is my friends birthday ❤😊

[@axe-ologist]

cool - I think either effects works - but I prefer your Fulltone / Super Octave effect - tonally. Nice presentation!

[@andrewcorbett5729]

Theres also some nice acoustic passages on the chorus

[@goodthings07]

I agree, I have the boss octave pedal and I do think it sounds better than the blue box

[@user-et2fj8xm5l]

Some of Roberts best lyrics.

[@chappym2]

One more Zep fan wondering if Jones wrote most of this album. I think Page may have still been struggling with drugs (or recovering) and his genius may have faltered on Presence, making him inclined to share songwriting duties... and Jones' talents may have gone to the next level simply from him being around some of the best songwriters rock has ever seen. I was looking at the label of the vinyl one night, where the songwriters are credited, and saw Jones/Plant/Page listed several times. And many of the songs start with keys instead of guitar... anyway. Just a thought. Thanks for another excellent lesson.

[@12footchain]

Yeah for sure this is a much more Jones influenced album. I've read that Presence was the ultimate "Jimmy/guitar" influence album and In through the out door was the ultimate "JPJ" driven album. Yeah Jimmy's drug battle for sure played a role here, I think JPJ provided most of the material on that one

[@mayuuii6254]

Please make a lessons for Badfinger - Walk Out In The Rain

[@fju1107]

Great lesson! I'm going to believe Sir Jimmy that it was an Octivider since he was there. Your OC3/Fuzz combo is the better approximation, IMHO. The Blue Box just sounds muddy and washed out.

[@jricoc3475]

Great job handling a track that few guitarists embrace. But we need to talk about whatever the opposite of The Elephant in the Room is and mention that Jimmy's work here is almost a backing track for Bonzo's magnum opus ...

[@12footchain]

true

[@doncalvert8053]

wow

[@geezerbliz]

AWESOME! What about the samba section?!!!!

[@joeperry4631]

So about a lesson on Dear Mr. Fantasy some Traffic. Thanks

[@pauldbrown1010]

Doug, gotta say, over the Interwebby, the Blue Box sounds much better. Maybe not authentic, but wow, the other combo just sounds like annoying AM radio static. Great effects analysis!

[@waynegram8907]

Jimmy Page didn't use the MXR Blue Box Octave and didn't use the Mutron Octidiver, it explains he ran his guitar straight into the EMS Synthi Hi Fli processor which has a built in Sub Octave pedal and also a Fuzz pedal. Pink Floyd David Gilmour uses the EMS Hi Fli Processor also

[@thesolarengineer]

Great, GREAT video... however, what do I have to do to get you to put the poker chip back on that toggle switch? It's driving me nuts! 🤣

[@12footchain]

Nah, I like it without. 😀

[@counterbalancelife4305]

What's the year/make and name of the red color of your Les Paul? I like it.

[@12footchain]

2011 R8 Les Paul, translucent Red

[@counterbalancelife4305]

​ Wow. I wouldn't have guessed translucent. I have a classic with translucent red, but yours looks more solid colored. Must be the lighting. Looks great. Thank you for all you do!

[@brianboyle3998]

Question: He does this and then Hot Dog is a mess. Thoughts?

[@IrishBog]

Can i suggest you demo the bits before you start describing - kind of frustrating wondering what it is you’re getting to.

[@jamiecampbell1981]

I haven’t looked at the other comments, honest goodness I just want to say what I think that affect is I know of it don’t know the name of it’ll describe it though it’s built into the guitar and it’s like a digital thing. It’s like a digital port, and I forget what it runs through, I think it’s like this is what been told to me by my brother-in-law very good musician, but he doesn’t Led Zeppelin like I do but he’s not a guitar player but he can play guitar. He’s a drama he’s a good drummer, some the best drummer in Massachusetts in Boston anyway, his name is David Matthews throw them out there so David but he told me that he had the name for it but it’s 5 AM or something like that so I’m not call him and ask him what it was. I’m just gonna stick my neck out and say that Like describe it. Keep unified keep going through my head and know it’s not a unified. I know it’s not a Leslie anyways I’m gonna suit the climate. I love this song by the way I’ve always always thought this solo was nasty a little kid around doing it with my mouth, ha ha ha

[@sweetpain67]

Hmm. Love me some 12 foot…but something, or by my ear multiple things are off here both in chords and sounds. Mark my words…there will be an update. 🙏

[@sterlingmcvay2469]

Play STEREO... , Use Both Sets of EFFECTS, Each to a Different Amp - Make them Work Together. I Actually Like Te TONALITY of Both of Them, sometimes the Blue BoxCuts Thru Better. Give it a Try.... ?

[@12footchain]

Goos idea

[@rhinomechanics8423]

👍👍👍👍👍love you brother, thanks for ALL these Great Lessons. SUBSCRIBE NOW ! 😎

[@rhinomechanics8423]

Jimmy Page,..Jeff Beck, .. Adrian Belew.

[@darrint3573]

Technically "Coda" was their last studio album release. With all due respect, the running chord progression sounds nothing like the fluid signature time in the song.

[@davidbaron8330]

Jimmy's been known to lie about his gear. 😆

[@Mikkeyboyy]

probably uses wet dry wet mixes

[@bigdaddydaddy3203]

People love throwing daggers at jimmy for drug use around this time in zep i know a thing or two of what that vise is like leaving it at that u know how fkn hard that must have been to make it all pull together with that fish hook in ur cheek and still pull it off as beautiful as he did it in this song and the others on this album it’s not easy at all so don’t throw daggers like I’ve seen people do let’s see how good u are under the circumstances jimmy page baby the best that ever did it ♥️✌🏼

[@12footchain]

Well said

[@damonkatos4271]

Ok great I can play it, but I know no one including myself that can sing this tune properly.

[@12footchain]

True

[@galelongputt]

This is my least favorite Zep tune. Because of the winey Plant vocals 😢 Thanks anyway. I'll catch you on the next one 😊

[@Rivasblues]

Eres un pesado, no hables tanto q aburres al personal

[@Jonesy1978]

Thank you for always choosing the deep tracks... Achilles Last Stand 🙏🏼please 😁

[@autk]

Yes! We never did this one waaaaay back in the day and I've never taken the time to learn it! That whole dang album man, James Patrick Page Gold!

[@Jonesy1978]

@@autk I agree with you, the whole presence album would be fun 🙌🏽

[@Stereostupid]

This is awesome i love the attention to tone and details!what is the white and blue little amp or box on top of your fender amp head?!

[@12footchain]

It's a 60s era Bogen P.A. that is converted into guitar amp. Not great for clean, but distortion tones are incredible