guitar players - jimmy page licks - wtf?! I'm drunk

[h^2 O]

what's the deal with the little "diddies" he does in the beginning of the solos for Rock n Roll and Black Dog? He does simple stupid hammer-ons way down on the 2nd and 3rd frets with the fat-ass E or A strings, and it's like incredibly fucking fast. It's so fast that when I read the tab and try it, I'm only able to keep pace randomly hammering - but the tabs show an actual progression behind the little hammering action. Does anyone play a lot of Zeppelin and know what I'm talking about? Before those two solos (for ROck n Roll and Black Dog) there's fast hammer-ons and pull-offs that happen so fast it isn't really possible to understand what you're actually doing - where the melody of it is going.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not a total clown at guitar, I've been playing for 10+ years....I just CAN'T figure out how Page is doing it. I think he was just doing his thing, throwing in a nice little fill-in before the main jist of the solos comes in. So, in essence, it really can't be reproduced - because I think even Page himself can't reproduce it. Or maybe not. I think I've heard live versions of both songs and he still does the little fill-in low fret hammer-on/pull-off jingo at the beginning of the solos.
Fuck man. I think it's from learning the scales properly. Maybe once I learn get the scales like ingrained into my brain I'll be able to just go with the flow and be able to combine speed with knowledge of where exactly the thing is going.

 

[rasputin]

I know the little riffs you're talking about, especially the one from Black Dog. It's a high tempo, cleanly played run that ends with a few hammer-on & pull-offs. It can be reproduced and Jimmy is playing it intentionally that way. Yes, he's a bastard.

 

[soniq]

I don't think even Page knows what WTF he's doing, lol. I listen to song remains the same and just wonder where the fuck it comes from. His style has a certain degree of sloppiness to it, but it's GOOD slop, and it's in key and meter, so it sounds awesome Hendrix was the same way, I don't think he could sound like shit if he tried!

Anyway, you can cover and emulate the Page style, but unless you have what he has, i think that's about the extent of it. It's fun to cover though I love covering 'since i've been loving you' and 'rain song'. They have a lot of fun keys to cover also if you're a key guy. All my love. awesome opening key riff.

Zep is the shit

 

[Greyskull]

Page was sloppy.
Fucking awesome sloppy. His playing is just real.
But that sounds like just a little blues fill/riff @ 3:35.
just do it s-l-o-w-l-y-o-v-e-r-a-n-d-o-v-e-r-a-g-a-i-n and you'll get it man.
and listen to that part on repeat over and over, too... hell play along with it thats the way

good luck