# Need TAB for Stairway to Heaven **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 5, 2007, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-tab-for-stairway-to-heaven/386749 "2007-01-05T00:06:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-tab-for-stairway-to-heaven/386749/1 "2007-01-05T00:06:40Z")
Not the original, sheesh. I want the one off “Pickin on Zepplin: A Tribute” It’s wonderful, particularly the finger pickin’ guitar at the beginning. My ear is simply not good enough to pick 🙂 out what he’s playing. ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-tab-for-stairway-to-heaven/386749/2 "2007-01-15T16:53:06Z")
A little help here. Somebody? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-tab-for-stairway-to-heaven/386749/3 "2007-01-15T17:24:26Z")
I don’t mean this the way it may read, but isn’t this a simple thing to Google? > **[Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven (Tab)](https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/led-zeppelin/stairway-to-heaven-tabs-9488)** > > TAB by Led Zeppelin ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-tab-for-stairway-to-heaven/386749/4 "2007-01-15T17:29:13Z")
“Pickin’ On Zeppelin” is a compilation of Bluegrass versions of Led Zeppelin songs. The OP is asking for that particular version of “Stairway,” not Zep’s original version. I haven’t been able to to find the “Pickin” version online. If I heard it, I could probably figure it out, though. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-tab-for-stairway-to-heaven/386749/5 "2007-01-15T23:37:49Z")
God, I’m an idiot. I’m very sorry, NoCoolUserName. Maybe this response will put it in front of someone who can help. ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-tab-for-stairway-to-heaven/386749/6 "2007-01-17T00:17:30Z")
I’ll see if I can put it somewhere you can get to it. Later today probably. ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-tab-for-stairway-to-heaven/386749/7 "2007-01-17T16:09:17Z")
[Here](http://home.comcast.net/~pwbb/Stairway.mp3) you go. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-tab-for-stairway-to-heaven/386749/8 "2007-01-17T16:47:43Z")
[QUOTE=NoCoolUserName] [Here](http://home.comcast.net/~pwbb/Stairway.mp3) you go. [/QUOTE] Wow. There’s a lot there. I can’t give you the banjo or the fiddle parts and there are several guitar parts. What exact parts are you looking for. I can tell you that the gutars more or less follow the original chords, just picked a little differently with a few embellishments here and there. This would be a lot of work to work out and transcribe. It would probably make things easier if you could tell me what parts you’re having trouble with. ---
**Author:** ![Burton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Burton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burton)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-tab-for-stairway-to-heaven/386749/9 "2007-01-17T16:59:27Z")
I’d play the melody as a single line then see where those notes are in the chords. No one’s going to tab this out. ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-tab-for-stairway-to-heaven/386749/10 "2007-01-17T17:18:16Z")
I was looking for the intro guitar part, up to where the fiddle comes in. I wasn’t _ **expecting** _ anyone to transcribe it, of course, just hoping that someone already had. My ear is so bad that I have trouble transcribing anything, dang it. Maybe I can get Paula–of the golden ear–to pick it out on piano, then I can TAB it. Don’t spend a bunch of time on it unless you’re personally interested. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-tab-for-stairway-to-heaven/386749/11 "2007-01-17T17:46:55Z")
## The intro uses the same chords as the original it just throws in a few more leading notes. I shouldn’t have volunteered for this. It involves more work than I really want to invest. I really think you can work it out yourself, though. The melody line is pretty simple in the verses. The walking line in the second part of the intro goes like this (played over the same chords as he original). * * * * * * ## -----------0sup[/sup]-2-0----------- -0-2-3-------------------------------0------ * * * * * * ## --------0sup[/sup]2------------------------------- -0----------------------------2---------------------------- ------------------------------------0-2-------------------- * * * * * * * * * ## ----------0sup[/sup]2-- 0------------------------0 -----3---------------------------------0------ Hope that helps a little at least. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-tab-for-stairway-to-heaven/386749/12 "2007-01-17T17:49:27Z")
Crap. That first open D in the second measure should be an F. Change that 0 to a 3.