The joy and pride on the face of Jimmy Page was matched by the sentimental response that Robert Plant had seemed so hard to try to disguise. The cameras also caught President Obama swaying to the music with the First Lady by his side. Heart’s performance of “Stairway to Heaven,” was supported by the vocals of the Joyce Garret Youth Choir. The “No Stairway” is a reference to a scene in Wayne’s World: Pretty much 99% of the bass gear demo videos on YouTube feature a dude slapping, and when I see dudes trying out basses in stores, they’re slapping, often random garbage, and pretty much 99% of pop/rock/metal music involves 0% slapping. Ugh, nothing. Nobody wants to be in a guitar store and hear a forbidden riff go off. Playing Stairway to heaven is the fastest way to make the guitar world hate you. It's banned in guitar stores ALL around the globe! Led Zeppelin's Stairway to heaven is a popular song because of the movie Wayne's World. Watch Stanley Jordan Play "Stairway to Heaven" on Two Guitars at Once. Modern jazz master Stanley Jordan made a major splash in guitar circles back in the Eighties, in large part because of his innovative "touch" tapping technique and unusual all-fourths tuning. One of the many highlights of his popular 1988 album, Flying Home, is a jaw Watch on. This second video explores some more of the acoustic nooks & crannies of Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin. In this video I’m going to break down the interlude section heard between 2:14 and 2:38 of the official recording (which has the vocal “Oh, it makes me wonder”). I’ll teach you how to play this section on guitar It sounds cool, not too hard, and reasonably recognizable. When said new player goes to a music store, they often will want to show off and will play what they know. This leads to that, and a few other songs (Enter Sandman, Smoke on the Water, One, Welcome to the Jungle, Sweet Home Alabama, Smells Like Teen Spirit, The Pentatonic Scale, etc The first I ever heard of the "No Stairway To Heaven" in guitar stores was in Mike Myers 1992 movie Wayne's World. Waynes World ('92) - No stairway, denied. Watch on. It's just a joke about the fact the riff is one that many beginning guitarists learn and guitar store employees grew sick of hearing it. Neil. Nancy Wilson of Heart remembers what it was like to perform Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven in front of the band in 2012. On December 2, 2012 Led Zeppelin received the Kennedy Center Honors from President Barack Obama, and the special gala concert included a performance of Stairway To Heaven by Heart’s Ann and Nancy Wilson with Jason Bonham STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN - Guitar lesson - Guitar solo (with tabs & EXTRA SLOW lesson) - Led Zeppelin**CLICK MY PATREON-PAGELINK FOR THE TABS FROM THIS LESSON**htt The reason so many guitarists and would-be guitarists tried (either successfully or unsuccessfully) to pick up “Stairway” is because of its haunting beauty and intense climax. It starts slow but it explodes into its trademark hard rock section. If you were going to learn a song in the 70s, it was this one. VjaUwK.