[anthonyb]

It didn't find Stairway though, unless I'm remembering the intro wrong:

  5--5--7--7--
  -5-----5----
  --5-----5---
  7-----6-----
  ------------
  ------------

[ryrobes]

Yeah, guilty. The tab I have of Stairway in the DB is a bit different.

http://riffbank.com/?q=5--5--7--7--%0D%0A-5-----5----%0D%0A-...

I'm actually surprised that I haven't scraped 124 different versions of it by now. Hopefully with lots of transcriptions things will show up to more diverse 'fingerings' (you know, the "right way" plus all the "other ways")...

[anthonyb]

Interesting - if I click through to the tab found via your link (http://www.guitaretab.com/l/ledzeppelin/30410.html?no_takeov...), the first bars look to me like they should match my original search:

  4/4
   Gtr I
   E E E E E E E E   E E E E  E E E E
 |-5-----5-7-----7-|-8-----8\-2-----2-|
 |---5-------5-----|---5--------3-----|
 |-----5-------5---|-----5--------2---|
 |-7-------6-------|-5--------4-------|
 |-----------------|------------------|
 |-----------------|------------------|
   H       H         H        H

Not sure what's going on there - but clicking on the 'raw text' button shows me pretty much the same as I've posted above, so I assume that it's been mis-transcribed somehow? It looks like the 7+5, 7+6, 8+5 and 2+4 columns aren't being included.

[ryrobes]

Hmm, looks like you are correct. Thanks, I never noticed that actually.

Going to fix the offending "encoder" scripts (or whatever you want to call them) and re-index everything over the weekend.

[tlb]

It's properly:

  ---5-7--7-
  --5---5---
  -5-----5--
  7----6----
  ----------
  ----------

although anyone would recognize your version.

[anthonyb]

Probably true, but if you want to get "technical", Jimmy Page never played anything the same way twice :)

Even your version doesn't turn up anything though - just 7 5 5 5 gives a whole bunch of Jon Bon Jovi and Scorpions knockoffs.