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by Black Sabbath

Guitar Recorded Version PersonGuitar tab for 16 hard-rocking songs from the double live LP: Am I Going Insane (Radio) * Black Sabbath * Changes * Children of the Grave * Fairies Wear Boots (Interpolating Jack the Stripper) * Iron Man * Laguna Sunrise * N.I.B. * Paranoid * Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath * Snow Blind * Sweet Leaf * Tomorrow's Dream * War Pigs (Interpolating Luke's Wall) * Warning * The Wizard.

Genres: Music

112 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1989

Reviews

[Silas · Rating 4 out of 5]

This greatest hits album was my first Black Sabbath album, and has a good selection of their most popular songs. The tabs only cover the guitar, and sometimes arrange multiple guitars for one, but importantly for Black Sabbath, it tabs the solos separately, which I genuinely appreciate. I had previously learned several of the songs from tabs, and this often used different fingerings, frequently sticking to the same voicings higher on the neck. I don't know whether that is how Tony Iommi plays them or if it is just how the person who transcribed this book does it, but I tried them out, and they work, in any case, though sometimes they were a bit less comfortable. There are multiple versions of this album, and this seems to be covering mostly the single disc version, so it has a slightly abridged track list (though that is the version I have), and the tracks are not in the exact order of the album I have, either. Since they reordered the track list, I think it would have made more sense to keep the ones in standard tuning together, and the ones that are down a step and a half together, but this book doesn't do that, either. It is mostly annoying when working through the book to go from one tuning to another between songs. I chose to just use two different guitars to make the switch easier. It won't be an issue if you are learning only one song at a time, though. When in the lower tuning, the chord symbols match the standard tuning shapes and not the actual chords played. As someone who can easily tell what chord it would be in standard tuning, it would have been more helpful for me to know what the actual chord I was playing was at a glance (for instance, if playing an E minor chord shape, I am actually playing a C# minor chord). That would make playing with other instruments or figuring out fingerings in standard tuning easier, but it is a fairly minor concern, since I could figure it out. While there were a few things that I think could have made this go a bit more smoothly, these were accurate tabs that helped me learn songs I really enjoy.

[Juan Recendiz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book if you want to learn the popular black sabbath riffs. I would of given it five stars but warning is missing some parts

[David Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

Its a tab/music book, it's value is subjective to your needs. If you are curious and want to play black sabbath on guitar, well its a good book.