If you want to learn how to play guitar from me, be sure to check out my entire lessons program at www.the-art-of-guitar.com. 👍🎸🎸

@frankferriolo9212

2 жыл бұрын

Mike you rock! You got the best guitar channel on YT. Absolutely! Love the content and your knowledge of guitar. Very relatable stuff for me. And also, your guitar collection is outrageous! Beautiful instruments! You deserve all of them! Peace & good luck bro.

"It's a landmark. It should have it's own little medal" -Brian May on Nuno's performance in Get the Funk Out

@johnbaxter533

2 жыл бұрын

There is a video of Brian may listening to gtfo, making all the faces one makes when they are truly moved by a guitarist's performance. I would bet that it is Nuno's fav video, or his most appreciated gesture of all time.

I had all of the Metallica tab books when I was learning guitar and those books messed with my self-esteem and made me think I was just really horrible at learning. Good to see how bad all these tab books were and how they made things so much harder than they needed to be

@BJones1885

2 жыл бұрын

You just explained the first two years of my guitar of my guitar learning life.

@jasonsmith8792

2 жыл бұрын

In hindsight 80's TABS were detrimental to my playing. Picked up bad techniques that took a long time to correct.

@marz5315

2 жыл бұрын

I've lost all faith in tab books

@evilpandakillabzonattkoccu4879

Жыл бұрын

I had two tab books: SRV ans Carlos Santana. .....so, I played by ear forever, really. 🤷‍♂️ I am a former student musician but had 8 years of symphonic, jazz, brass, parade and performance marching, pep, big, and garage band experience....I also played quadtoms in drum line. I had picked up plenty of instruments and was able to play them with ease that makes others jealous....and my tab books, frankly, was the main reason I gave music up for a decade after graduating. I couldn't read music very well and I wasn't getting guitar like I 'knew I should be'....when I ended up being scouted at a jazz competition my sophomore year of high school, I got offered an unbelievable full ride scholarship to a very prestigious school..... I felt like me accepting that would be a waste of their time, seeing as how I was talentless. it must have been a mistake. so, I gave up music for about ten years or so. I regret that....and I can, now, play better than I ever could...but, at nearly forty, I'm too late in the game and too long in the fang to think me being a rockstar could be a reality. 👍😄 I'm old...not enough to be senile, though.

I remember this tab, and also remember INSTANTLY giving up on it. I swear we had the exact same experiences with all the tab books. Spent WAY too long learning how to play this stuff wrong and sucking at it.

@johnfair62

2 жыл бұрын

I figured out Van Halen'ss eruption when I was a kid.. The tab book was wrong, I called them up and told them I don't appreciate them selling me a book that was wrong. They didn't know what to say.

Spent an entire summer trying to learn this solo back in 2005. KZread wasn't what it is now and My stacks of old Guitar magazines were no help. My girlfriend at the time worked at Tower Books and got me that tab book. I struggled for months before I ordered a Japanese "Nuno Bettenecourt" tab book from Ebay that showed me the right way. Overall, it took me about a year to play that 4 measures.

It's a wonder I learned to play guitar at all since I was self-taught using a lot of these same tab books. I had a habit of taking something that was too hard and kind of making up my own version of it that was close enough, which I think is the only thing that saved me.

@mindtorquemusic

2 жыл бұрын

I still think that's the best way. Before you know it you have your own vocabulary.

@3GPtv

2 жыл бұрын

I did the same. Plus, I also liked to learn all the piano parts that were tabbed for guitar, since they weren't normal guitar chords.

@quickdrawmcgraw3567

Жыл бұрын

I did this exact thing when I started, to practice playing techniques (palm muting, string transitions, etc) before actually trying to find video and learn the song. Side effect of that is that I dont have interest in playing solos since I just practiced rhythm tricks 🤔

The people who write these books are probably just slowing the song down and trying to get the notes right and don't actually learn the song to see if what they tab out is playable.

@mindcontrol67

2 жыл бұрын

Bad Quality control on their part.

@MrvlZmb

2 жыл бұрын

Engraving software can often put things on the wrong string; and if you don’t catch it and move it, I can see how it ends up in a book.

@KyleS.1987

2 жыл бұрын

I often wonder about who the hell transcribed these things and why they got them so wrong. Were they working on insane deadlines, having to crank out book after book to make a living? Or did they just not care?

@JayGuitars1

2 жыл бұрын

A lot of the tab pre ‘91 was done by Piano players!( I’m old,I know!)

@gredangeo

2 жыл бұрын

It's typically some piano player that has never picked up a guitar, and only sees the raw notes, forgetting that multiple strings exist.

As a general rule, the trickier it gets, the more I suspect something’s wrong.

@lt_johnmcclane

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah exactly. The less it makes sense ergonomically the more likely it’s wrong

@AcceleratingUniverse

2 жыл бұрын

@@lt_johnmcclane rhythmically as well. i get skeptical of any weird triplets or tuplets

Nuno is my absolute favorite guitar player! Blazingly fast when needed, but incredibly melodic and well constructed solos. Great job playing this insane passage!

Nuno is my all time favorite. Not just a skilled player, but so creative and fun and interesting playing. Great music writer, singer, etc. All around great musician.

@travismiles5885

2 жыл бұрын

His solo album Schizophonic is a masterpiece. I still listen to it regularly. Its on my list of things to have if I'm ever stranded on a deserted island

My best guess as to why some tabs are crazy is that the transcriber came up with the musical notation first then later converted the musical notation to tab, forgetting where he played those notes on the fretboard originally.

@cowbutt6

2 жыл бұрын

It could also be that the tab is intended as an equivalent of a en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street found on maps (i.e. a deliberate mistake, intended to catch people copying a map verbatim). Anyone reading the notation could apply their own common sense to figure out a suitable way of playing the phrase, but for those of us dependent on the tablature, well, tough luck...

@tyreechiejackstone7379

2 жыл бұрын

Think maybe a lot of the times piano players are doing the tabbing..

@aleisterbroley900

2 жыл бұрын

@@cowbutt6 wow, that's a pretty idiotic practice. The older I get, the more convinced I am that the world is made up mostly of idiots, and clever idiots, with a few normal people interspersed. Imagine being so obsessed with profits that you insert false information into things which people depend upon and to which most would ascribe absolute veracity. This world needs an enema.

@AcceleratingUniverse

2 жыл бұрын

@@cowbutt6 this is pure dastardly

Really love these type of videos,man. Keep up the great work.

It's extreme how they funked up this tab book 😅

This is hilarious! I remember this TAB. Thanks for putting in the time and making this video. Peace!

Yep, I was in the exact same spot as you when that book came out! Luckily I saw the pattern in a guitar magazine somewhere and learned how to do it. Kudos for working on that bizarre tab version!!

Once again totally awesome improvisational skills ~ Like always ! Keep up the great work my brother..

Nuno is a beast. Always has been. But to make his solos even more complicated should be punishable. Great job.

Off topic but Nuno’s riffs in Peacemaker Die are absolute gold.

These vids are great. Have you seen ACDC books? Basic chordy stuff but they make it crazy hard. I remember that from 20 years ago.

I had most of these tab books in the 80s/90s you show. Had the exact same issue of nearly impossible fret locating of notes, and that's assuming the note was correct begin with. I would get so frustrated because I wanted to learn these things so bad and I though I was just not alien enough.

I had the same revelation as you many years after failing to learn this from the tab book. One of my students learned to play it the correct way and I was shocked at how straightforward it was. Can play it now though.

It would be great if you could somehow find and interview the person that Tabbed this, I think his name is Ric Molina.

@suedeface

2 жыл бұрын

if that is him, he's doing well. been first chair and conductor on Broadway for Wicked for 17 years

The only tabs I relyed on were in guitar mags, but even they weren't spot on. The best ones were the lessons from the guitarists themselves after the interview where they'd show how to play their greatest solos properly. Nuno did this a few times and his greatest strength is string skipping and rhythm within the solos. Amazing how good pentatonics sound with string skipping. Top job again mate, cheers 🍻

I have that same tab book. Back when I got it (around mid 90s), I was in no position to even attempt that tapping part to know the tab was bad. That solo has been on my todo list for a while now.

I’ve got this book too. Thought I saw it on your book shelf in some of your older videos. Would love to see an artist’s series for Nuno

I had the Ibanez Walkman looking thing that would slow down the tape so you could figure things out by ear. I used that in concert with the tab books. It made it a little easier.

Oh thank goodness! It seems like this is tabbed _slightly_ incorrectly in a lot of places online. Finally, it looks like you're doing it right!! I'll be practicing from your tab. :)

I have that book. I lost my mind when I first saw that tab, then I lost my mind again when I saw how relatively easy the actual way he plays it is years later

I bought that book when it came out. 30 years later I'm still trying to untangle the fingers on my left hand. Great video and run through 👍

I just started learning this (again) today and same day you make this video! That tab book even had lyrics wrong that were in the liner notes. I remember Whole Hearted started with "life's a bitch to occupy my time"

Another thing. As this was back in the era where every band had to have some sort of guitar virtuoso, the only major way to have them stand out was to be as flamboyant and dextrous as they could be on the guitar. Hence the tablature on the solo. As I mentioned in the Def Leppard Pyromania tab book in that there is more than one way to play it, the way that the tablature shows the solo is the way to be as flamboyant with the solo as you can, because seeing is believing. Playing it an easier way so it sounds cleaner and better musically isn't as showy as playing it harder and being more flamboyant. In short, optics was the thing back then, and it showed even in the tab.

There's a story/interview I read a little while ago - unfortunately I can't find it now - about how someone was transcribing a Nuno solo for a magazine or book and there was this one note in a tapping sequence that was was right out, but the transcriber was struggling with if it was a mistake or not as it was that out of key. He transcribed it as performed but in the end his editor/boss said "That's not what Nuno meant" and had the note changed.

Took me 3 weeks to learn this solo properly. One of the toughest parts of any song I've ever learned.

@RyanMonty

2 жыл бұрын

Typed this comment, then 10 seconds later got to the part to where you said it took you 3 weeks lol

Something about your shirt is truly truly outrageous.

Do you have any old blues tab books from back in the day as well? I’m currently studying blues guitar a bit and I’ve found some interesting blues tab collections that I want to purchase, and I’m wondering if those were any more accurate than metal tab books were back then.

Love the donnie darko sticker! Makes me wonder how familiar you are with killing moon and other songs from the british alternative music scene - seriously so much unbelievable guitar work, particularly in the smiths and the stone roses!

So happy you did this. I found this tab book at a market and was so happy but when I saw the tab and it in no way matched what was on the cd. Well the solos anyway.

Thanks, Mike, love your work.

I just kinda realised i kinda write out my own guitar for original songs in a form of tab: i draw out my frett board and have a system (a-x for fretts with 1-6 for strings) scratched out all over

there is an old Judas Priest book that had hell bent for leather solo in it . For the simple tapping part the tab showed it being played on G, B, and E string as picked arpeggios as opposed to tapped. turned a simple part into something nobody could play

Oh I loved this album, awesome series

I have this book, felt the same way about the tab. I got into Paul Gilbert a little later, and as he had instructional videos out at the time, I recognised the arpeggio pattern and string skipping that Nuno had done, in that solo. Tho if you think that’s bad, have a look at White Lion tab( if you can find it, I have “Big Game”.

I need to find my Offspring tab book (Ignition) It had some crazy tab as well.... But i suck on guitar so there's that.... Love your videos man!

Always thought that the JS24 was a brilliant 24 fret design on Satriani's original signature.

I have this exact same tab book. I never even attempted the solo for Get The Funk Out because it seemed impossible. Now I understand why!

This and 3 Sides are the only books I ever bought. I learned all the rhythm parts lol - I couldn't conceive of being able to learn the solos back then in maybe 93-4

My life seems to be full of guitar synchronicities at the moment. I am in Covid isolation at the moment, so decided to have a crack at this solo again. I had the tab book years ago and had a bit of a go at GTFO and gave up fairly quickly. This time I persevered, but when I got to the tapping section I knew it was wrong so I looked around online and found the pattern that you just demonstrated. And here you are, with the same info :-)

Satch is the Alien. I love that Jem and the Holograms shirt Mike. Makes me nostalgic.

I think I still have a lot of these books you've been showing in a box somewhere, including this one. I remember there were 2 types of books: the tab books and the music books, and I always preferred the tab books but I wonder if I would have made more progress if I'd paid more attention to the music books. :}

Another of the books I bought and still have, and probably ultimately led to me giving up guitar for 20 years. Even now at a ripe old age picking up the guitar again, I have progressed so much further than back then just having decent tabs now and decent free lessons available.

My guitar professor and I went through this book for a few weeks during lessons. He was certain that the tab book was correct despite the obvious issues.

@hu-dp2kx

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@somebodyandthem

2 жыл бұрын

So funny

@blahzay_

Жыл бұрын

Then your guitar 'professor' is an amateur...

I remember when this book came out and how excited I was to learn all the tunes & felt so defeated. No wonder It never got used. I was just trying to learn Peace Maker Die and came across the same issue with the chords and parts of the solo. I wonder if there is a reputable Transcriber out there in the Tab world. I know that Steve Vai actually mentioned that he proofread the tabs in his Books before releasing them. Thanks Again for showing us the correct way to play this song.

The tab book for the first Extreme album had the following for the "Play with Me" solo - "Adlib solo" 😳😑🙄 Thanks again, Mike 🤘😎

Let's go! New Mikey upload!

Great t-shirt, man!!!⭐️

Always regarded Nuno as one of the top players for decades. Saw him on the Generation Axe tour, he's as capable as anyone technically, but i love how he seems to play with more instinct and feel then the other guys, lots of heart and soul.

God that high B natural in that Eb arpeggio is so glaring!

Another video going over the exact book I have! Now in looking at this again all these years down the road (I bought this tab book when it came out in 1991, as Nuno’s influence is my biggest influence, which is George Lynch), knowing now what I didn’t know then, that is a huge stretch for that 1-6-1! However in reading up on this with an interview from Lynch about this song, as well as his song Tangled in the Web, back then when they were younger they were stretching that far! Nowadays while they still have the dexterity and speed, they don’t have the strength to stretch that far with their hands, so they improvise. With the exception of a few licks or playing the same note elsewhere on the neck, it’s a rare thing to see any huge guitarist (Lynch, Nuno, Malmsteen, etc.) play a solo exactly as it is on the record,and play it live to tab. They always improvise something there, and that is what Nuno does today. I’m still trying to get down the 64th notes that he plays in some phrases in songs on that album, but that album continues to bring new ideas to me or helps me to revisit some licks that are new to the kids nowadays.

The best one is Guitar World transcribed Flight of The Wounded Bumblebee, WITHOUT using ( and not knowing ) the solo was played using a slapback type of delay. So. each note was tabbed out. One of the other mags I think tabbed it out as it would be played with the delay. MUCH simpler. 🙂

My last comment since you're asking for other tabs that are crazy like this. If you can find the tab book to Wicked Sensation by Lynch Mob, have a look at bars 5-8 of the solo for Street Fightin' Man. One thing about George Lynch is that his phraseology in his solos contain a wide bend of some sort, then a signature lick, then goes into a run. In that solo, bars 1-4 start with a signature lick, then vibrato, then another signature lick, ends that with vibrato. But bars 5-9 are tabbed to be one guitar, when it is clearly a second guitar harmonizing to the first while in the solo. Have a look at that as to if you think that is right or not.

yeah man, Nuno is an amazing player with a unique voice. Thanks for this!

Sounded great. Nuno is such a beast on guitar. One of those unsung heros of the instrument

I have that book and I remember looking into the GTFO tab for the first time 😂😂😂

I'm 18 and I like going to record stores and all that. I went to the cassette area and picked up this random album from this generic-looking hair metal band called Extreme. I got the self-titled debut and it is now one of my favorite albums of the time. I love it when I see videos of them.

I... I can't... this tab prevented me from trying more tapping solos because I thought I must be terrible at tapping. For almost 30 years this particular solo haunted me. I'm not saying I could do everything Nuno does, but this particular tab made me think I didn't understand how tapping solos worked.

It's a monster is terrible too, would love to see it corrected.

You have gotten way better as a guitarrist man

I think Nuno got overlooked quite a bit back in the day because of being in this band, I secretly dug them but don't tell my friends. Also, still love his name it's awesome.

Best part of the solo starts right at the end of that part!

Great video!

Love Extreme, hate the tab books from the 80's & 90's. And YES, Nuno is a GOD!

I used tab books for years and suffered endlessly. Please make this a contours segment on your channel.

All your Crüe videos rock \m/

I remember trying to learn this. I gave up. Some tab books are inaccurate.

Played malmsteens trilogy suite religiously for months could you please do a tab vid on that book

How do they go about creating and transcribing these tabs? I can't imagine they have someome sitting there with a guitar and coming up with these insane transcriptions

I had this book, and yeah there were definitely some sections that seemed inhumanly difficult. I'm not sure it seriously occurred to me that the tab could be wrong, I just recall my opinion of my playing ability taking a serious hit.

Not completing the solo each time is like the ultimate blue balls.

Do you have a lesson for how to play the whole solo properly?

I was exactly the same. Bought the book, went straight to that section, gave up straight away

Nuno has to be one of the most underrated and misunderstood guitarists ever, amazing musician.

@isthatujeebus

2 жыл бұрын

Misunderstood? Maybe. Underrated? PAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I don't think there's a rock fan/guitarist on the planet that doesn't know EXACTLY how good Nuno is.

@travismiles5885

2 жыл бұрын

@@isthatujeebus Not even rock fans,. He has toured with Janet Jackson and Rhianna. Most fans of that music know Nuno as the "More than Words" guy.

You got do Flight of the Wounded Bumble Bee

Do you have anything on George Lynch by any chance? I recently got into their music and started to learn some of his songs. I love his playing and you always make really cool videos on every player

Af far as anything else crazy in the album, have a look at the outro to Pornographitti (title track) as well as the solo to He-Man Woman Hater. Rumor at the time back then had it that it was either the solo or the outro was actually recorded not by Nuno, but instead by Dweezil Zappa.

Dude,,check out the its a monster tab on the same book,, that is also insane to play.

One of my favourite solos 👍🤘

I WAS JUST JAMMING THIS ALBUM A FEW HOURS AGO ITS OUTSTANDING 💯💯💯

I didn't know anyone else knew about Donnie Darko, cool frank sticker bro

whoa, the same thing happened to me with the same song!!! (book and video) video was new years eve ball and i stopped the video and saw the finger positions! Wolf Marshall had his hands full trying to transcribe every solo in the 80's ever, so I totally understand tab not being accurate.

That Donnie Dark sticker is great!

Great shirt!

I actually have this book too and oddly enough perhaps cause I was scared as hell never really looked at it much! Plus I think i learn better in lesson or in video. But good to know cause it seems like how wrong these can be can really put you off!!

I have the same book and u have to say the version of more than words is pretty decent if not spot on

I own the same book....and said the same thing, the string skipping crap was aggravating. I gave up on that song....so I learned Flight of the wounded bumble bee. It made me feel like a god for a time. lol

Hahaha I had that exact same book. I remember sort of all of the Lil' Jack Horny sheet was pretty assed up. The descending run from It('s A Monster) was pretty goofy, too. I don't remember if it was that book or a magazine, but the first transcription I saw for Bumblebee notated it as if there was no echo pedal and every sounded note was to be picked; that was unlucky. I was in HS when Porno came out, changed my life. In fact, I'm actually wearing a Nuno guitar pick necklace as I type this.

@matthewsnyder77

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video, btw. My first stop at your channel, keep it up.

@GuitarBillCurran

Жыл бұрын

Jack Horny isn't even in the right tuning!

Thanks, I just that book on eBay and had no idea it was so bad.

Bro that shirt!!! 🤘🤘🤘

I tried learning this lead with tabs countless times. The actual tab book AND the guitar mag tab ('91 issue of Guitar FTPM, which I still have) and it drove me crazy. None of the tabs were right. They even made Anarchy In The UK hard to play, with flourishes that punk was not known for. I think the people that wrote those tabs just tried way too hard. Later, I just figured it out by ear, and wound up getting it down.

Pretty entertaining 😁🤣 Nuno is a beast, no doubt! 🤘😎🤘

Was just listening to that album for the first time in about 30 years.