Jimmy Page
Electric Guitar Solo on
Stairway To Heaven

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Jimmy Page's electric guitar solo is the sole improvisation on this recording. Set at a relaxed 95 BPM with a rock feel in A, the solo runs approximately 1:10. Entering at around the six-minute mark over a medium-tempo groove near 95 bpm, Page constructs a melodic statement that ascends in intensity across several phrases, employing string bends, pentatonic runs, and sustain that became a blueprint for rock guitar soloing. Jimmy Page was 26 to 27 years old at the time of this 1971 recording.

Jimmy Page was 26 to 27 years old at the time.