Travelling Riverside Blues
By Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, John Bonham, and Robert Plant)
Superhype music publishing?
Originally done by Robert Johnson
(Though the music sounds more like it's based on Stones in My Passway)

The type font I used is Lucida Console on the notepad program.
This information will prove useful if nothing lines up properly in this tab.

Open G tuning: Low to high DGDGBD

Okay, so, skipping the intro and going straight to the riff . . .

      1  e  a  u  2ea  u     3 e a u4    e au     1  e a u 2 e a u 3 e a u 4 e au
E  --/12-12-12-12-12\--------0-0-3/5-----3-0----:----0-----0-----0-----0-----0---------------
B  --/12-12-12-12-12\--------0-0-3/5-----3-0----:------0-----0-----0-----0-----3-------------
G  --/12-12-12-12-12\--------0-0-3/5-----3-0----:-10-----9-----7-----5-----4-----------------
D  ---------------------------------------------:--------------------------------------------
A  ---------------------------------------------:--------------------------------------------
E  ---------------------------------------------:--------------------------------------------
     w/ slide                                      w/ pick and fingers

So, the first measure you use the slide, but the second measure you don't.
However, I think he plays that second measure with his pick, index, and middle fingers.

Do this riff many times before going to the twelve bar blues section below.

      1e   a u   2e  a u   3e  a u  4 ea   u        Repeat x3
E  ---0----x-x---x---x-x---x---x-x--x-0----0--:--------------------
B  ---3----x-x---5---x-x---6---x-x--5-3----3--:----------/---------
G  ---4----x-x---4---x-x---4---x-x--4-4----4--:-----*---/----------
D  -------------------------------------------:--------/---*-------
A  -------------------------------------------:-------/------------
E  -------------------------------------------:--------------------



     1e a  u   2  e  au  3e  au  4eau    1e  au2  e   au   3e  au  4eau
E  --x--10-10--------------------------:-------------------------------------------------
B  --x--11-11--11-11-11--10--10--11----:-----11---11--11---10--10--10--------------------
G  --x--12-12--12-12-12--12--12--12----:-----12---12--12---12--12--12--------------------
D  -----10-10--10-10-10--10--10--10----:-10--10---10--10---10--10--10--------------------
A  ------------------------------------:-------------------------------------------------
E  ------------------------------------:-------------------------------------------------
Note: you could probably ignore the notes on the high E string in the measure above.
I think Page hit those on accident, as I can't hear him hitting them in the rest of the song.
They did, however, provide me with the clue I needed to identify the correct chord inversion,
which is why I put them in the tab.


      1e   a u   2e  a u   3e  a u  4 ea   u                             Repeat once
E  ---0----x-x---x---x-x---x---x-x--x-0----0--:-------------------------------------------------------
B  ---3----x-x---5---x-x---6---x-x--5-3----3--:--------------------------------/----------------------
G  ---4----x-x---4---x-x---4---x-x--4-4----4--:---------------------------*---/-----------------------
D  -------------------------------------------:------------------------------/---*--------------------
A  -------------------------------------------:-----------------------------/-------------------------
E  -------------------------------------------:-------------------------------------------------------



     1e a  u   2  e  au  3e  au  4eau    1e   au2   e  au  3e    au   4e  au
E  ------------------------------------:-----/-8----8--8---8------------------------------------
B  --x--13-13--13-13-13--12--12--13----:-----/-8----8--8---8------------------------------------
G  --x--14-14--14-14-14--14--14--14----:----sl-------------------0---/3--/3---------------------
D  -----12-12--12-12-12--12--12--12----:------------------------------sl---sl-------------------
A  ------------------------------------:--------------------------------------------------------
E  ------------------------------------:--------------------------------------------------------

       1e  au   2  e au  3 e au 4 e au    1e a  u  2e  au3e  au  4e  au
E  --------0-------0-------0------0----:--------0------0---------0---0---------------------
B  ------------------------------------:---------------------------------------------------
G  ----0--------10---10--9---9--8---8--:--7--7-----7---------7-----------------------------
D  ------------------------------------:---------------------------------------------------
A  ------------------------------------:---------------------------------------------------
E  ------------------------------------:---------------------------------------------------

Alternate between the riff and the twelve bar blues section for the whole song.
There's some variations on what is written here, as Page would improvise a bit around
the general idea for songs, especially an impromptu jam such as this one probably was.

My apologies if this comes out crooked or not lined up properly; this is my first time posting a tab.
I suggest copying and pasting to the Notepad program and deselecting the Word Wrap function under the Edit menu.
Please feel free to email me with any questions.
Bizarroderrick@yahoo.com