When the Levee Breaks guitar lesson - riffs standard and open tuning. 1 of 3. Gretchen Menn for ZLC

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[@gabrieljohannson6777]

Gretchen Menn is a legitimate guitar god. Her individual work is awesome & I recommend everybody check that out. Thank you for an awesome lesson.

[@gretchenmenn]

Aw, you made my day! Thank you, from the bottom of my heart!!!

[@notthatdonald1385]

I want to see Gretchen and Tom Morello jam together. In the 60's we'd say "they proceeded to tear that hotel down!"(

[@davidbernal4027]

Love zeperella

[@jackrobinson6880]

Guitar Goddess!!!!!

[@mtrich8113]

Goddess not God.

[@flamencoprof]

A very generous sharing of knowledge. Every now and then when my old bones are feeling tired, Zepparella's version of this song really cranks up my energy levels.

[@MilkieJ0e]

Gretchen Menn,Thank you and Zepperella,for all the work that's gone into this series. an articulate and considered tutorial.Your love of guitar and music,is inspirational.

[@jamesabbott6307]

Standard tuning 8:22 👍🏼

[@mrVinnyVengeance]

So glad I found you... You've inspired me! Lately it seems the music inside me has been fading away. Stumbling upon your videos I found myself entranced and brought back to a place I was beginning to think was gone for ever. Thank you so much!!!!!!

[@MA-vr8gp]

Thank you so much for taking the time for showing all of us this and breaking it all down!!...great...thanks!

[@kevinrobinson2154]

Gretchen, Thank you for taking the time to share one of my top 5 favs. I really enjoyed the video and play it from time to time.

[@follkiej]

Love this series so far!! Great stuff Thank you Gretchen!!

[@gretchenmenn]

Thank you so much!!

[@stewieiommi]

To begin, I'm 65... After a lifetime of eschewing slide, I decided to learn some slide/open tuning songs. Levee came first to mind, and it's so easy to 'cheat' and learn from those here on YT. The problem was the broad variances of approaches the YT instructors employed. Very many of them play everything, verses and all, with the slide, and my ears told me that is not correct. It was actually your Zepparella video performance I used for instruction. Ironic that you don't play it in open tuning normally, but I get it. I'm playing a Danelectro 12-string for the song, with the signal split to a dirty and clean amp, and a bit of chorus thrown in for good measure. What a pleasure to find you here instructing that very song. I read your father for many years, it's great to see the next Menn generation's contribution to the art. Cheers! John

[@gretchenmenn]

Hey, John! Yes, there are SO many ways to play this, and I'm VERY flattered if I was one of the people you consulted when going on your Levee journey. I'd love to hear your rendition! I'm always learning and hearing things better as I grow as a musician. And doing this series is encouraging me to dive deeper. My goal is to share GOOD information, and, as the daughter of a journalist, I really try to keep skeptical, check my sources, and use my ears. How cool you read my dad's stuff! I'll tell him that! :-)

[@normannoriega9557]

You exsplan this song perfect. Your teaching is outstanding. I appreciate your time. ☺🎶🌸

[@d1sp0sabl3H3r0]

This is such a great song and a great lesson to teach it! Thank you for posting this!

[@stevesharpz3692]

You Ladies are Awesome! Thank you all for sharing your talent, both on stage, and here, helping the young, or those trying to learn. I’ve been a fan for a long time, y’all ROCK! I think it’s Really Classy, to share your talent this way-you’re in a great position to inspire those starting out!

[@bigo8524]

Thanks for doing this series on LZ. You are a great player and teacher. Us amateurs truly appreciate you.

[@carolbotelho5840]

I appreciate your training and education! My husband is a drummer and bought me my first real guitar…2021 Les Paul Trad Pro 5! It is whole new world for us. Thank you for your beautiful music and kindness.

[@carlpop2324]

Tremendous playing skill, excellent teaching style and content, and KILLER tone!

[@gezortenplotz]

Outstanding. The Levee is my go-to song when I’m jogging or have a task that’s a drudge. The song keeps me heady down and on task. I can’t wait to try it on 12-string.

[@jamesjackson5580]

Thank you. You blessed us all with this wonderful display and explanation of the greatest slide song. Now to play it on the porch in a late night rain storm.

[@philvanduyn]

Nice lesson. I love the way you guys do this song. I hope you keep up the lessons.

[@mode1charlie170]

Thanks Gretchen you are a great teacher! You definitely pick a more challenging way of playing that song for the live gigs.....one of my many zeppelin favourites. Always loved the trance type rhythm to it ....

[@azdh85224]

One of my fav Zeppelin songs. Great job - you are fantastic!

[@butterfly.933]

Wish I had a teacher like Gretchen. You can hear how smart she really is and her feel for what she does is so smooth. She never seems to miss either.

[@Guitarzzzzzzz173]

Love this awesome guitarist!🎸

[@kyle_wagner_music]

Thanks for the great lesson for this iconic song! I'm really glad you learned (and taught) this in standard tuning since that makes it easier for me to get around to practicing it!

[@johnbobo6625]

Gretchen is incredible. Love Her guitar work.

[@davidescozzi9885]

How wonderful to see how the favourite songs are played. So I am going to give it a try. You are a good wonderful teacher Gretchen. Thank You Marvellous

[@barbeque44]

She is Brilliant, WOW!!! Such an excellent communicator!!! THANK YOU!!! HUG

[@markweber4469]

Thanks for this lesson! I like how you teach. Very clear.

[@guitarsandcheesecake1632]

Fantastic song and explained brilliantly thank you Gretchen......

[@ronhedblad2415]

Thank you, Gretchen - great lesson! I'm a fan!!

[@tomm4678]

Thanks for posting Gretchen. Amazing job on such an iconic driving sound. Keep jammin and sharing!!!! Subscribing now!

[@drewski363]

Nice one Gretchen. Love it👍

[@pbeckster307]

Super cool idea for a channel! Looking forward to more songs coming!

[@paulster14]

Very cool Gretchen. These are cool segments for the band! 😊

[@kenarutunian499]

Thank you Gretchen! Awesome lesson!!!

[@carloseduardosoaresdemorai3679]

Excellent guitar lesson!

[@THUNDERWORX]

Great lesson. You have a great teaching style. Thanks much!!!

[@gretchenmenn]

Thank you so much! Really glad if the tutorial is helpful!

[@clutch1141]

This great! I first discovered you guys around 2013 or so and wished you would put up more stuff. I'm following along with you now, thanks!

[@jamesjackson5580]

Ty , you have demonstrated a easy way to play an old classic iconic song from a time when music was real. Bless you. You guys rock, I hope to see you and friends playing in the future. Ty 🙏

[@jamesjackson5580]

If I were to want you to autograph a steel dobro slide guitar, how could I ever get to? Love your playing. Sincerely. 🤘

[@johnnywomack548]

Gretchen, you RULE! Thanks for the lesson!

[@siddtalesara5391]

So well made and explained, thank you so much for this. You guys freakin' rock!

[@gretchenmenn]

Thank you so much! I'll do my very best with all of these. Really happy if it's helpful so far!

[@joesnose1647]

Sure like the way you give various options playing this song. TY and I thank my YT algorithm for sending Zepperela my way!

[@timrod1984]

Thank you so much. The lesson is laid out very well

[@jonpage4029]

great job live and thank you for the explanation

[@ronnielane6903]

YOU ARE LITERALLY THE BEST

[@danwilhite]

Great lesson! This might might be my favorite channel now!

[@TommySG1]

Hi ya, I just stumbled across your feed here and it’s such a good tutorial. Thanks for sharing your work 😊🤙

[@demi12342002]

Awesome and thanks for the lesson!

[@CaptTSam]

For what it’s worth, thanks to older siblings I have been an Zeppelin fan for 40 years, but it was Zeperella’s cover of ‘When the Levee Breaks’ is what motivated me to learn this song. Thank you!

[@gretchenmenn]

Wow! What a huge compliment! We are most honored, indeed!

[@hillaryforincarceration4404]

Thanks for the tips Gretchen.

[@edzeppelin1018]

Awesome video! Wicked helpful. Thanks a bunch!

[@johnman3272]

Great lesson!

[@RJ-bn5uw]

Your awesome ! Thanks for your time .

[@edwardcantillo7243]

Wow!! Great lesson Thank you for making this video

[@cheapcharlieredhorse2286]

Beautiful lesson! Thanks :)

[@bluetopguitar1104]

Good lesson. Very well explained and easy to see what you are doing. You are a great player and teacher. My compliments as a fellow guitar teacher. I'm going to show this to my students.

[@jaguarnavarro6608]

I’ll be practicing, thank you so much

[@elvisoliveedits]

Great lesson! Thank you!

[@RemoteAbductionArm]

Wow, you really have a way with words, You inspired me to try and play this right.

[@darleneschefler6561]

Nice job Gretchen!!

[@eightman92]

You are an outstanding communicator!

[@chocodiledundee1]

I love your stuff you’re so good I am impressed 👏🏼👏🏼, thank you from Australia 🇦🇺

[@musicgearnetwork]

Great lesson and great chatting with you last week. Gonna add this tuning to my Variax so I can try this song with both standard tuning and open tuning on the same guitar and switch tunings with snapshots on my Helix. Thanks for the tutorial!

[@DavidSmith-ss1cg]

Great job on this video, Gretchen! Thanks for your thoughtful break-down of the different riffs and tuning variations. I can remember trying to learn "Levee" in F#m from the vinyl record, and finally giving up. I knew that Pagey wouldn't have made it all that difficult to play! As soon as I saw the third part, that you call a bridge, the light bulb came on over my head! I'm so glad to have found your instruction videos. I think that all young players should learn the Zeppelin core catalog; they set the standard for rock guitar as we know it today. I remember what a big splash Zeppelin made when they first started out. After the Beatles movie, everyone wanted to play guitar and be in a band. There was lots of different types of rock music, and some was pretty weird. But Zeppelin raised the bar, so to speak, that standard for competence, that many groups had(or had gotten away with) for playing. I can remember seeing Jimi Hendrix on a TV talk show, saying he didn't get Led Zeppelin(he did say that he liked the guitar player for the Burrito Brothers). I think that he meant that Jimmy Page thought like a producer, when coming up with songs like "Ramble On" and "Good Times, Bad Times," and the "light and shade" were part of the design of the song. Anyway, great job, and keep up the good work! Thanks again.

[@imertarreip3311]

My new guitar teacher is a tiny but amazing fiery red-haired woman !! Her talent is equaled only by her beauty ! I make many people envious, and i'm quite happy with it ! But i must confess that i often have difficulty staying focused on the guitar :)

[@allanwarren2407]

Thanks Gretchen! Nice breakdown. You're talented and beautiful!

[@gretchenmenn]

That's very kind! Glad if the tutorial is helpful!

[@padams827]

It has been said many times on many videos, access to fantastic videos like this one is simply amazing. Yet another song I struggled with as a youth in the early 80’s. I was close but... now in 5 minutes, i have the riff down. Thanks! Kids these days... lucky bastards

[@TheDominos1]

I have loved all things Zeppelin since High School and my very first guitar over 50 Years ago. My first guitar mentor was a Delta Blues Man. He played all the classics the old way as they were put down on the recordings. I learned to finger pick right up front. Mississippi John Hurt, Blind Lemon, Bessie Smith, Howling Wolf and Muddy Waters along with Robert Johnson took me for many walks down dark country roads. When I found Zeppelin, The Stones and Clapton I knew I was home. Folks Ms. Menn get it, she feels the chords and the notes in her soul and makes them her very own. She is a very respectable player in her own right, I don't know if she has ever sat down with Mr. Page and traded Riffs but I do believe she would make him proud very much so.

[@vintagesounds5150]

Awesome Gretchen Thanks 😉🎶☮️

[@samuelleevallongo9752]

Awesome lesson ur a beautiful teacher

[@wildbill2122]

My life long friend turned me on to these Ladies (Zepparella) a while back and ICNFB I'm now taking a lesson from one of them, LOL!! I would guess that Ms Gretchen was not even alive when I saw Zeppelin in '75 & '77 ! N E WAY, YOU ROCK SWEETHEART ! YES YOU DO !

[@marshallposey2063]

Love your style!

[@mkivy]

I’m so glad and lucky to have seen them on there tour back in the day...”The Song remains the Same”

[@TheHurricanz]

Omg Sheer treat for both ears and eyes.. 3 cheers 😻✨👏

[@joedurushia4008]

Sweet! Thank you so much!

[@JimTate]

Thank you Gretchen for keeping the music alive of one of the greatest bands of all time. You are a remarkable guitarist and your band is one of the best Zep covers I have seen. I would love to see you ladies LIVE and loud. Any upcoming tours to San Diego?

[@bhasley5224]

Thank you for sharing! Badass...

[@TheChrisfinley1]

Thank you so much Gretchen this is an amazing lesson I cannot wait to see the next lesson this was really a great lesson and will help my playing skills I’m a huge fan of yours,zeppelin and zepparella ❤️🎸 you’re a really great teacher again thank you all for taking the time to set down with us and and teach us your amazing skills 💜💙

[@gretchenmenn]

Thank you so very much, Chris! Your enduring support means the world! Hope this series proves helpful/interesting/amusing.

[@jamesnicholson9392]

I think you' re amazing,I'm 49 and consider myself somewhat of a master of PAGES open TUNINGS...I have a 25 open TUNINGS I've spent my life playing!!! BRON- YAUR,GOING TO CALI,RAIN SONG,etc.....You caught me off guard with OPEN " F" I sat patiently looking over them,wasn't there...lol awesome tuning I'm in heaven".THANKS A MILLION LOVE YOUR LIGHT HEARTED APPROACH.....KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK...JAMES,SCOTT,NICHOLSON,ONTARIO,CANADA

[@BarryCarstetter]

Kudos , Gretchen! I love your instructional method and the assignment is a great reinforcement for mastering the open tuning. I did something similar to that when I learned the Chris Cornell tune, Seasons which is in open F. I then wrote a piece with that open tuning . After completing that, I felt I had a gut-level grasp of open "F". Thank you for the lesson! !!

[@rbswansong]

What a beautiful guitar!

[@NoOne-xw1sc]

Thank you from Australia

[@jeffslaven]

This is the first song that I have heard by you band all thoughs few years ago. Was blown away by it, and still am! Opened tuning is scary to me, because if I want to wander off into the cosmos on a solo, I find it almost inevitable to get lost. But with standard tuning, I'm all good. I soooo love your work and your band!

[@condocows7635]

Like your style, great video lesson. Love Zep.

[@deadlegs187]

This is gonna be a good test of my playing level I believe. Thanks for the video

[@TomTom-kv5nf]

Thanks Gretchen, brilliantly taught and great to get the perspective of a gigging musician.....and you said persnickety! 😊

[@gretchenmenn]

Haha! My geekery slips out sometimes... I'm sure there will be more of that, though I do try to keep it in check.

[@moboei]

Thanks for this much appreciated

[@douglasbeck5863]

One of my faves!!! Hopefully The Rover sometime this year.

[@gretchenmenn]

That's one of my favorites! I've already voted to include it ASAP.

[@joemc8488]

Gretchen, your sound although slightly different is just as powerful! Having seen LZ in 1977 I love to rotate your rendition with the original! Your lesson is way ahead of my skills but I love to watch and learn. Thank you for your insight!

[@Scott__C]

Gretchen, this was really great. Thanks! Bonus points for the use of the underutilized "persnickety".

[@gretchenmenn]

Ha! It just kind of came out... I was hoping it didn't sound too douchey... hahaha!

[@salmonella8314]

Really great video and lots of great tips and information. Just love watching Zepparella on KZbin, makes Led Zeppelin fresh again after all these years. Hope to see your band play live one day.... maybe at the Forum where I first saw the mighty Zep so many years ago. Thanks for making this video, I look forward to many more.

[@douglasbeck5863]

Very well done! Thanks for the tabs in the upper right.

[@gretchenmenn]

Glad if they are helpful! It was an afterthought, but I'm glad I did it!

[@douglasbeck5863]

Please continue to do so. Very, very, very, (did i say very?) helpful for us novice players!

[@heavenlyguitar5913]

Gretchen is definitely a great guitarists and well studied. She knows her stuff. Great job.

[@ianp6742]

That's awesome, I never thought to try it in standard.

[@Iceni007]

Brilliant tutorial. And I just love the way you look so mean 'n' moody in the 'Levee' song video with the band :)

[@gretchenmenn]

Hey, it's a mean and moody song... I'm cracking up thinking about how out of place it would be if I were all grinning and smiley. hahaha

[@369TCC]

Hey thank you for doing this for ya all 🤘🏽✌🏽

[@briano.5746]

Thank you Gretchen , very helpful. I've been playing it in standard tuning all along because I didn't know what the tuning was Ha ! Keep being the beautiful badass that you are , love ya ! PEACE 🎸🌹

[@user-wt1pe7gk7j]

Thank you ,Ms Gretchen ,for your wonderful playing! The covers you have played are just incredible...🔥Perfect done, dear lady!,💪 Kind regards from Russia , Moscow. Svetlana, the biggest music (and, of course, Led Zeppelin!) fan. ☺️😉👌

[@marchristiansen]

Thanks Gretchen

[@DamianS1893]

Thank you Gretchen, You Rock. Talented and Gorgeous too.

[@justsam52]

Words do not do Gretchen the honor she deserves for her talent and ability to teach. Thank you so much for your instructions Gretchen. I can't wait to Zepparella play live. Hopefully at Red Rocks sooner than later. Peace, Just Sam