A short YouTube guitar lesson by Lauren Bateman teaching the intro lick from Led Zeppelin's "Dazed and Confused" as part of a finger-dexterity series. The instructor explains a four-fret, four-finger pattern where each finger "owns" a specific fret (12–15), demonstrates playing the lick on the high E string, shows a hand shift down to frets 7–10, and instructs repeating the pattern. The video is a close-up, technique-focused tutorial with a brief segue to the next lesson.
Questions this video answers
First finger: 12th fret; Second finger: 13th fret; Third finger: 14th fret; Pinky: 15th fret.
Top (high) E string.
To the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th frets.
May 9, 2020.
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Hey, guitar enthusiasts, welcome back to the next video in this hand Dexterity series. What would be a hand Dexterity series without a Led Zeppelin lick? Let me show you what we're going.
To be playing here from Dazed and Confused, and then I'll get into how to play it.
Once again. Here we have a really, really cool, fun lick that uses all four fingers over four frets. The interesting part about this is we.
Actually get to move our hand around a little bit.
So we're kind of doing the intro part here. Today's day of views before it gets all crazy. So let's go for a close up.
On my guitar so I can show you exactly what we're doing.
Just like in our Spider exercise, each finger is going to own its own frets. The first finger is going to own the 12th, second finger owns the 13th, third finger owns the 14th, and the pinky owns the 15th. Now, a little disclaimer here for people with acoustic guitars that don't have cutaways like mine. If you're on an electric, you should be fine. Getting this 15th fret might be a little bit tricky for you.
If you can't get it, don't worry about it. You can always skip ahead to the next video in the section.
Or just do the best you can with this lick.
This entire lick is going to be played on the top E string. We're going to start with an open E. Pinky owns the fifth, third finger gets the 14th, second finger gets the 13th, first finger gets the 12. So those first two picks are very fast.
And then you just work down the fingers. Now what we're going to do is we're going to move our whole hand, so we're going to be on the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th frets. Remember, each finger gets its own fret.
And we're going to do the same thing.
First two picks are fast open, and then 10, and then 9, 8, 7 again. So it's open 10, 9, 8, 7.
And when you're done, you would just.
Come back up to the 15th fret and play it all over again.
Oh, and then down to the 10th fret.
Let's move on to the next lick in our series where we're mostly going.
To be using our first and third.
Fingers over the span of two strings. So click on over to that next video.
