Blog Post #9

 For this week I chose the song "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin (linked below). I was surprised to see the song was 8 minutes long but when I looked up the lyrics, it didn't have too many. Listening to it I realized it was because a lot of the song is instrumental and the lyrics are sung pretty spaced out and slow.  Looking into it I found out that Jimmy Page played a 12 string electric guitar for a solo that happens around the 5 1/2 minute mark. That solo was apparently rated number 1 in the a 2009 release of Guitar World magazine for Greatest Guitar Solos in Rock and Roll history.

The song is made up of singing and a relaxed guitar playing in the background at the start, then picks up a little energy at around the 2 minute mark adding more guitar layers to the music. That continues until about the 4 minute mark when drums are added into the layering. After a bit of that you get Jimmy Page's guitar solo at around 5 1/2 minutes which lasts for about a minute before bringing back the singing, but this time in a less relaxed tone. Finally, the song finishes with the instruments cutting out and the closing lyrics, "And she's buying a stairway to heaven".

Led Zeppelin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkF3oxziUI4