I had this book in the early 90s. Someone stole it from me and I've never been happier.

@spaghettisauce445

Жыл бұрын

💀

@Roberto-nn6kb

Жыл бұрын

Not all heroes wear capes

@jasonsingh485

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@kkarx

Жыл бұрын

The thief got what he deserved. 😄

@Squidy666

Жыл бұрын

@@kkarx I'm surprised he didn't come back begging to return it

Man the people who got these do deserve hugs, they were tricked into playing the Shot in the Dark Riff like THAT

@buckbreaker5185

Жыл бұрын

Shat in the dark

@MrMOGHammer

11 ай бұрын

@@buckbreaker5185pretty much

The Crazy Train laugh is the perfect addition to the vid.

You hit on it. The thing that is such a shame about these books is by teaching people the wrong/difficult way to play things, I'm sure it led to some young players getting discouraged or just giving up on guitar.

@robeddy3722

Жыл бұрын

That's exactly the effect it had on me.

@michaelhaydenbell

Жыл бұрын

Bro it sounds silly, but these no shit did a number on my confidence back in the day when I just straight up could not play something the book said, or I WOULD and it sounded nothing like the record so I'd just end up doing whatever I thought sounded right. In the back of my mind though I felt like I was cheating and I wasn't good enough to play it the "real" way, and then to come and find out freakin 20 years later that I was right all long??? Man you gotta be shitting me...

I had this book when it came out. I thought I was just terrible at executing the tab. I remember thinking that a lot of tab books in the early 80s were just too far above my skill level but, with enough practice I'd eventually get it. Turns out that a lot of those tab books were just not very accurate.

@tsbiscaro

Жыл бұрын

Worst tab I've ever got was a Japanese magazine Children of the Damned by Iron Maiden played half tone up. Impossible to play and just wrong because we know 80% of Maiden is E minor.

@exploringwithasmr

Жыл бұрын

Yup, I thought I was just not that good and couldn't play a lot of the tab books I had.

The Ultimate Sin is such an underrated album and *wow* this tab book could not have helped!

@davidleedougherty6478

Жыл бұрын

My favorite Ozzy album. It just fits him perfectly as a solo artist imho

Young players, All I can say is I’m 49 years old now and if this KZread shite was around before I was 30, I’d be a freaking weekend ,wedding band, Jedi at the very least about now. I can play Bark at the Moon real nice because we went to a concert in 84’ when I was in 4th grade with a huge camera lol and saw Jake live. I also saw him at TRAMPS in NYC with his band Badlands in my early 20s. He’s a beast! All ozz man guitarists were savages/. Thanks so much for good content!

The Ultimate Sin is my favorite solo Ozzy album. The drums are like cannons going off. Jake E. Lee is awesome on this album...on any album really.

Jake E Lee is still one of my all time favorites, especially his work in Badlands (Voodoo Highway is a phenomenal album, not have just for guitar).

@mvenuti1980

Жыл бұрын

Ray Gillen was SO good!

@mattevans060972

Жыл бұрын

If there was an ounce of justice in the world, Badlands would have been the biggest band on the planet.

Cool to watch you lay these out. Such an epic album. In high school lunch one of the less savory jocks inexplicably asked me what tape I was listening to on my Walkman. I handed him the Ultimate Sin cassette case. He gave it a dirty look "whats this shit?!", looked at me like I was a horrible deviant, and tossed it back in my chest.

Jake's work on those 2 albums was phenomenal. Not sure if it was a friend that taught me the arpeggiated intro to Killer of Giants or that guitar mags actually had it right, can't imagine playing it like that book.

Jake E Lee is soooo underrated!

@archiereece8321

Жыл бұрын

i like Jake E Lee..i like his guitars and style of playing..the non trem way etc.

@riddarhyttan

Жыл бұрын

No. He isn't. He's very highly regarded indeed and you trying to steal some reflected glory by suggesting otherwise and pretending to be 'in the know' is frankly embarrassing.

@bradchervel5202

Жыл бұрын

@@riddarhyttan Yikes, eat a frickin Snickers already.

@riddarhyttan

Жыл бұрын

@@bradchervel5202 The 'underrated' conceit gets used so often I'd die of Snickers poisoning though : /

@joshuayettou9032

Жыл бұрын

@@riddarhyttan Yeah I know what you mean. So many people just type out whatever seems/sounds good without zero thought/proof of it and it's just false and dumb/annoying. You see it in every YT comment section just about unfortunately. 🙄

I've never really watched much of the YT guitarist community, have found a lot of them tend to be more 'content creator thumbnail clickbait ego extravaganza' than I like. But since recently taking a deep dive into your videos you are a breath of fresh air. Original ideas, hilariously funny and informative. Exactly what I'm looking for!

I’m loving this bad tab series! I still own some of these books from my teen years

Love this album one of my favorite Ozzy albums. With Randy..Diary of a madman, with Jake... Ultimate Sin, with Zak...No rest for the wicked.

HEY THANKS FOR THE SHOUT OUT IN THE DESCRIPTION.I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT.GREAT JOB ON THIS CONTRAST LESSON...KEEP ROCKIN'

It reminds me of the early 90s when I was learning Maiden and Metallica riffs from these expensive books, and making me feel like I was never going to be a decent guitarist. Sooo unnatural and difficult. These videos are great and being back that feeling.

To be fair, there's no chance in hell *anyone* would have been able to accurately transcribe the studio version of Shot In The Dark in 1986 without actively talking to Jake because it's tuned FBbDbGbBbEb (Eb standard, but the low Eb and Ab strings are tuned up a half step). It's *super* easy to play in this tuning (because it's now a standard open string pedal riff with chord stabs and a cool lick in the tag), but since Jake only really played his one Charvel live, he had to relearn it in Eb standard (more or less what Mike played). Fun fact: bassist Phill Soussan brought the song over from his previous band, Wildlife, which featured Steve and Chris Overland who would form FM (top-tier British AoR band). The reason you don't see The Ultimate Sin get a lot of love from Ozzy (by Ozzy, I mean Sharon) is because Phil Soussan is credited as the cowriter along with Ozzy, Chris and Steve Overland wrote it (FM released a version a few years ago) and there have been a ton of behind-the-scenes legal disputes about it. Hence why Shot In The Dark (Ozzy's first pop hit) isn't on any of his compilations.

This is my fav seris of your videos man. Keep this going!! I love this! I used to struggle so much with bad tabs

Great content man, I hope you get everything you're going after! Oh and great playing as always!

“Hesitating groove” is such a spot on, absolutely perfect way to describe the Never riff. Also, I DO hear the Cult of Personality vibe in there that you speak of. Thank you for this great video.🤘

love the bad tab videos! probably takes up a lot of your time to make/edit them, but they are so entertaining!

These tab videos are great! Thanks for setting the reocrd straight! I recall using these books and not being to figure out why i couldn't get thiings to sound quite right. It was very discouraging.

My favorite Ozzy solo album! Jake E Lee was such a badass player! Was lucky enough to find this on vinyl in excellent condition at a local record shop for $25 (CDN) a couple of months ago. So underrated.

love your sense of humor.....and you are a good player....keep making videos

The Ultimate Sin is one of my top 5 favorite Ozzy albums. Secret Loser was used in this really cool b movie called The Wraith. Check it out

As someone who grew up in the 80s in a country that never had concerts of these bands with no internet and no way of seeing other people play this songs the only way to learn them was to use my ears and that's what I did and got better results as I had a friend who bought a lot of these transcription books and borrowed them and returned them immediately as they all had errors, You just remined me how I felt when I saw these books and compared them to what I've learned by ear, thanks!

Back in ‘89, Killer Of Giants was on tablature in an issue for Guitar For the Practicing Musician (I don’t remember the issue month or year exactly, I just remember this from 1989) and I compared the tab from what I was actually Jake doing on the live video from the ultimate sin tour, and I noticed that Jake wasn’t using the barred D chord when he was playing the intro to Giants. That was the first time I noticed that guitar tab isn’t necessarily accurate to what the guitar player is actually doing. Dime used to say the same thing about tablature explanations over the years throughout the nineties

Make a video ranking all the tab books you have from best to worst.

The intro harmonics in Fool Like You always reminded me of Black Magic Woman by Santana.

Nice work! Jake E Lee is the MAN. My all time favorite. Such a brilliant guitarist! Every bit as brilliant of a musician as Randy.

Guitar For The Practicing Musician Magazine I'm pretty sure had the whole tablature notation with a legend key explanation of all the technics that were used in metal guitar playing by 1986. But other guitar tab publications were behind the ball for a few years

I love these Bad Tab Book videos!!! 🔥

So Heavy! Love your sound! Also loved this ALBUM 🤘🏻 Oh, and please share where you get your T-shirts from! Love that shirt

Damn, your tone is on point on this.

Oh man that book version of Shot In The Dark riff with the muted strumming sounded like some Fly By Night era Rush 😂

you always exude such pleasant vibes. I don't quite know how else to say it, lol

That opening riff is awesome!

Thank you for the killer of giants correction. I’ve been playing it the wrong way and it took me forever to get that part down

I was just listening to this album the other day and now you’ve blessed me with this video 🤘🤣

Still one of my all time favorite youtube series. Absolutely hilarious

Oh boy... here we go!!!

I remember seeing this book in the music store back in the 80's. Once I saw they omitted some solos, I put it back on the shelf. Wished I could say the same thing for the AJFA tab book.

Love THE ULTIMATE SIN , Love Jakes tone , The Riffs . This was a fun video to watch

This is awesome. One of my favourite Ozzy albums too. Might have to switch out the Tori Amos in my car for some Ozzy today. Love the pink Jackson with the shirt matches it perfectly! I couldn't resist, I got myself this shirt as well, I love The Breakfast Club, one of my favourite movies.

haha great ! back in the days i assumed jake 's playing was way too complicated for me..due to the poor tab books from ultimate sin and bark at the moon...what a killer player, so underrated...a "greatest guitar technique" vidéo about his licks and riffs" would be very cool 😋😎

Great vid - so funny!

There's a lot of useful information here, thanks. Supposedly Jake tuned the 5th and 6th strings up a whole step for the studio version of Shot in the Dark. If that is true, he must have worked out a more practical "live" rendition on a standard Eb guitar. You're grabbing that Bb pedal with your thumb, so I'm going to have to practice that now.

You going to do a review on that new pink axe you got? Looks pretty cool

Good stuff! By the way, you're tone is awesome! What gear are you using?

That intro with the famous Ozzy's laugh, LMAO!😂 By the way, that one in the book is not Shot In The Dark obviously, it's Bath In The Sunlight, the happier version.

Where the F did u find this??? Wild bro. Never even seen this anywhere 🤘🏽

i've got the Ozzy Blizzard of Oz Diary of a Madman and Tribute..a lot of books are off, but anything that makes me use applied knowledge is a consilation. Thanks for the vid Art of Guitar! good stuff

“Man, I really wanna play ‘Thank God for the Bomb’ for Grandma” 😂😂😂

love the defender and robotron marque behind ya mine is M.A.C.H III

Hahaha…I love the tab book breakdowns👍

I still have this book. It's literally within arms length. This was the third tab book I bought, behind Iron Maiden's first two tab books covering the first six albums. You should do a Bad Tab on that first Maiden tab book if you haven't done it already. I think I bought it for Killer of Giants, which was fairly accurate as far as the intro went, which is what most people wanted to learn back in the day.

I use a chip clip or two on my music stand to hold tab books open.

I remember back when I was taking lessons as a kid, the teacher took the tab for Black Sabbath’s Paranoid out of the official guitar hero 3 tab book and it had a mistake in it I kept playing until I was in college.

Love these bad tab videos

Ok with the palm muting the tab book version of the Shot In The Dark intro sounds like a Bowling For Soup song.

When you said "Let me switch guitars", I said "uh-oh...." I just knew that meant it was gonna be good!

Have you got the Randy Rhoads Tribute tab book? Id be interested inwhat you think of it.

This album was my first introduction to Ozzy and I could not understand any of the lyrics.. My friend in high school drew the cover art for art class and my dad saw it (dad was teacher at high school) and asked, "is Josh a satanist??!!" . lol. Great video, Mike.

Does anybody have a link to an accurate complete tab for the song Ultimate Sin?

"You know, I really wanna play 'Thank God for the Bomb' for Grandma...", I must have have burst into a solid five minutes of laughter at this line! Lol. Comedic gold, my friend!! 😂

@GoonSquadLifeMember

11 ай бұрын

"Nuke ya! Nuke ya!" Bang-on lyric writing, that.

At Least it's not the version of shot in the dark where they want you to tune up your E and A strings a full step to play the song. Tons of people got duped by that one

Digging that sg, 61 reissue ? But in white?

That pull-off section in Never (from the book) kinda sounds like part of the intro from Love Song by Tesla. Then again, I think that song actually uses the same 4-2-0 sequence as Crazy Train. And of course, it's almost the same, it's just that the first 3 notes (from the book) are a 3-1-0 on the B string, but the rest is the same.

iIs there a forum for us learning players to get tabs and talk to each other and just a place to learn?

This gives my OCD a hard-on. Do you know how many times I messed around with these inaccurate tab books? LOL. I'm like.. I'm playing exactly what the book is saying.. but it doesnt sound the same. I think I finally settled on "Oh they must have some sort of effect going, that I dont have.. like a delay". Haha

Kids today have no idea what we had to go through in the 80s. I can remember trying to learn stuff from tab books and Guitar World magazine. Most of the time I'd figure out most of it but then make up my own 'School Boy" version. KZread makes it a breeze today.

One of my favorite albums.

Nice shirt. I still like to re-watch that movie every 5-10 years.

You should try and interview some people who made tab books back in the day. I bet they were given like no time to put it together and would be interesting to hear what the process was like

Hey I have a few old tab books, you can review them if you want to, but I do need them back, if your into Hendrix. One came out in 1968 for the experience album, another is just hits from the 70s

Funnily enough, Steve Howe used that Am pentatonic-pulling-off-to-open-string lick in one of his very country sounding songs (Diary Of A Man Who Vanished, I think).

I love this show man bad tab in the era before KZread was a nightmare. I thought I just sucked growing up lol

My fave song of this album is Fool Like You.

haha i was thinking of that smithereens song too when i heard that riff

In the 80s Jake was easily in the top 5 best metal guitarists list. Ozzy fans shun the ultimate sin but that album has some phenomenal guitar work. jake will always be a personal favourite . I was 16 when that album came out and have still managed to avoid seeing him live, despite buying tickets for red dragon cartel a few years back, only for the gig to be cancelled....one day...

Love the bad tab series as I was a victim of them back in the 80's and 90's. I just thought I couldn't play...LOLOL

Are you sure the plaque isn't Eve Miles (Character: Gwen Cooper) from Torchwood?

Maybe Sharon transcribed this tab book?.. Playing "Thank God for the Bomb" for Grandma at Christmastime...😂😂😂

My introduction to metal just a toddler back than

This album in particular bummed me out when I got home with these tabs. It was like getting to rent a Nintendo game for the weekend and it's a ljn

LETS GO NEW UPLOAD!!!

Ultimate Sin is such an amazing song

12:58 when Ozzy tries some SKA 😂

That jackson is beautiful 😍

Jake the monster player he was in the 80s and still is but back then he was literally untouchable.

frame the book with a fancy Ozzy style custo frame...i was thinking about that before you mentoned it

Damn, that hurts to see how bad the tabs are. Great vid!

gosh you should do a cinderella tab book!! my uncle had one and i need to know how badly transcribed that was 😂

There were a lot of solo transcriptions that were substituted for "ad lib." I used to *_H A T E_* that. Also, I would look at these books and try the harder way they laid out to play tunes, but would get fed up and try to "transcribe" to a different, easier position. Turns out I was probably more correct than the bad TABs more often than not. You probably already know this, but _Shot In The Dark_ was played with the guitar tuned 1/2 step down and then the E and A strings were tuned up 1 step from that. (So the tuning would be: F, B flat, D flat, G flat, B flat, e flat.) I've figured out how to play it in regular tuning, 1/2 step flat, since I play a guitar with a floating trem and a locking nut and I don't want to have to either retune (which would take forever, twice, once to retune and once to return to regular tuning) and I don't want to keep _one_ guitar around with that weird tuning that's never used for any other songs. Hell, I don't even like Drop D! If you're interested in a way to play _Shot In The Dark_ without having to retune, Euge Valovirta did a video on Jake E. Lee and did a version of the song and showed his method of playing it. It'll get pretty close. Good video. _The Ultimate Sin_ is maybe my favorite Ozzy album, and _Shot In The Dark_ is one of my three favorite Ozzy songs to play. I think Jake E. Lee was just great. Seriously underrated.

@ronniestoneguitar

Жыл бұрын

The alternate tuning was probably only used on the record. In the music video it does seem like Jake plays it on the alternate tuning, but on every live version he clearly plays it in Eb Standard.

Dude your a master. What's the harm in hurting a book this bad. Now

The best Ozzy album, Jake's guitar compositions there are masterpieces

I'd love for you to tackle Vinnie Vincent Invasion - All Systems Go I had that book and ended up just going to my ear for the notations because that thing was a mess. Haha

@larryblumerjr

Жыл бұрын

Just ad lib those solos!

I love your videos and even show up for the live chats sometimes but one constructive criticism thing I would say is you should try to add your own on screen tabs for the correct way to play it rather than just playing it

hey mike, great video! i have a video suggestion. remember when you did a video on the debate of dyers eve riff being 2222 or 2323? another debate could be if the one solo(tapping section) was done with a pick or with a finger, i am quite unsure about it

@TheArtofGuitar

Жыл бұрын

It’s a finger.

@franek866

Жыл бұрын

@@TheArtofGuitar okay thanks for the reply!! and does he do 19-15-12 or 19-12-15?? cause i’ve seen a lot of covers having this different

@TheArtofGuitar

Жыл бұрын

It’s a weird combination of both I believe.

@franek866

Жыл бұрын

@@TheArtofGuitar okay thanks very much!