Right, I love these, those stupid tab books ruined my early guitar years. I thought I just wasn't good enough at the time, but they were actually tabbing impossible to play shit half the time. As a teenager I thought those "official" tab books were 100 percent correct, straight from the band to the paper.
Thank you. Peace sells is one of the greatest metal/thrash songs ever. I was 14 or 15 when it came out,I'm now 50yrs old. It still has the same impact it did the first time I heard it.
Two of my favourite tab books is Kiko Loureiro’s open source and no gravity, I’ve only got one or two songs into each, but after seeing all these videos of incorrect transcribing, I trust the Kiko ones because I know Kiko himself worked closely with Levi clay on those song books
A lot of the impossible fingering looks like the auto-tab conversion you get in some notation software. You start with the classic notation and the software just converts the pitches into TAB. Then you'd usually correct that manually - or you end of with these stretches :D
Oh man I remember wanting that tab book so bad from my local music store but 13 year old me didn't have the $24.95 to make it happen. 25 years later I realize it was a blessing.
No I think it is just a metal thing,Because I have the Doors,Led Zeppelin, and the Beatles , and those are pretty much on point, but with these old metal albums, it’s almost like they didn’t even try
You should check out the Extreme - Pornografitti book, specifically 'lil Jack Horny'. I learned it and it took me years to realise that the book incorrectly had all the strings detuned a full step and tried using tapped harmonics fire the intro rather than drop D and natural harmonics!
I've gone out a few times wearing a new shirt with the sticker still on it. You should sell stickers with Art Of Guitar on them so we can wear them on our shirts!
someone somewhere, just like any other creator, stumbled across that beat and knew that they found something magical and it appealed highly to musicians and grew from there
Holy shit. These are just so bad. I have old tab books for a lot of bands but I figured out early on that the only good things in them were the additional exercises to strengthen your fingerings. The actual songs were always just kinda off or way off. There wasn't a workable in-between. 😅😂 Great idea for a series btw. Nice to see a mockingbird in the wild!
I remember when I was starting out on guitar, I didn't know how to read music (still don't) and since I was a noob I didn't buy tab books, so I didn't understand what they said, so I just listened to the song and just did whatever the book said at the part I thought i was supposed to 😂😂😂
I bought a guitar magazine in the 90s that included transcriptions for the entire vocal parts along with the guitar transcriptions. And this was for songs from bands like Slayer, Sepultura, and Napalm Death! I have no idea why they thought that was necessary!
Guitar Magazine For The Practicing Musician had stuff tabbed out wrong too. Even though I believe they perfected how tablature was utilized and gave instruction on the musical theories behind every song. But my issues got ruined when my dad's basement flooded.
In the eighties, I learned a lot by using the Pink Floyd, Police and rush anthology guitar tab books. Even if they were not always spot on. The only one, I have left apparently is Pink Floyd The wall, all the songs. And it isn't tabbed, it is all in notation, with chords. I can read notes, or am in the process of getting better at it. But I took those books to a guitar teacher in the eighties, to learn from. And he was alright with it, because he was a senior that was in the school jazz band, and the school band leader/teacher asked him to teach me. And because those bands and the music they did was progressive, the technique I needed, some of it was in there.
@The-Art-of-Guitar, you see what I was talking about, how the transcribers divided up parts that are played on one guitar into two guitars? “Bad Omen,” in that book is HORRIBLE. It is similar to the “Peace Sells...” transcription. It divides up the notes and the percussive chops into two guitars. Back when I bought it, we didn’t have Internet and easy access to videos of live performances. The times time I saw Megadeth live, I was never close enough to the stage to study Dave’s fingerings (which is something I do when watching guitarists at most concerts I attend), so I tried to use that book as a “baseline” to figure out the notes, but came up with my own fingerings, because that book is whack! I swear, I don’t know how some of those transcribers (& publishers) got away with publishing such crap. It just made things more difficult for young guitarists to learn songs.
How do tab books that are published more recently compare to the oldies? I recently bought four Exodus books they're incredible, but they were tabbed by Kragen Lum. Have other tab books improved as well?
I work at a Guitar Center and they have a tab book for Lamb of God's album Ashes of the Wake. I've taken a peek through it and it's really bad, maybe not quite as bad as some of these ones, but I recommend checking it out if you want another suggestion.
I never realized I could've made money at 15 year old by making tab books! Hard to not click when I see Mellon Collie shirt and old school Megadeth with a weird BC Rich. Palm muting is one thing I never paid much attention on tabs. I would just naturally palm mute by ear because there was always varying strength of palm muting in the songs and tabs never had it all right (and let's say only the lowest strings are muted but the highest ring, how do you mark that?) so I just didn't pay much attention.
I got this book back in the day. No pun intended. Even when I was 17 I knew it was a load of crap. WTF, the people writing these tabs probably were experts at transcribing John Denver albums before they took on Megadeth. What a waste of time and money!
6:05 Hahahahaha this must be what people are talking about when talking about the stretches in metal 😂, all the finger stretcher gear are made for this kind of riffs I think Hahahah 😅
My fav album of all time ,,,,, back in time I wouldve killed for this book ,,,,,, infact I used to think this album is done by extreme superhumans when I was kid and even now ,,,,,,Chris Poland gars Samuelson omg what a combination ,,,, recording of this album is like benchmark for me,,,,,, we want Chris Poland back in Megadeth atleast feat solos from him ,,,,,,
I think I had, or still have, most of these books. Made me feel like I was a terrible guitarist when I was just starting out. Good to know it wasn't just me wondering why everything felt impossible.
when i was like 13 i started getting tab books from bands i liked and noticed immediately that they almost never sounded right so i stopped buying them and went to either learning by ear or searching tabs online for free. its pretty sad
I had this book back in the day...it screwed up so many kids. I think the company was "Authentic Tabs". They improved over time definitely but there was only a few you could trust at that particular time. I recall one transcriber named Wolf Marshall who was more reliable in books and mags at the time who did a decent job a lot of the time.
I still have this horrible ass book along with others but I learned really quick really young these books are BS and kinda like a all you can eat salad bar take what you want and leave the rest better to learn to transcribe songs yourself trust me. Love these videos I feel your pain and hope like you to spare future generations the pain of these rip-off tab books.
I have that book too.I spent days a week,using that book too Learn megadeth,1995. I was 20. Book is full of typos. And the interpreter,author I'm told,prob did slot of cocaine. Your vid i s awesome because I thought I've never see someone else notice this too.
Im sure there a gig of megadeth from 90s. Musta been one of the big MTVs ones (Roskikde etc). But i swear he was playing with his little finger on the A string-7th fret ...
You got a great-looking BC Rich and on peace sells but who's buying solo after your to.pull.off aren't you supposed to hit the the string on a next fret then do your pull off then hit the next string on the next fret then do your pull-offs or have I've been doing it wrong
I can understand how some of these get through but who can look at a chord of 10/12/3 and think that is even remotely possible. Even on a 3/4 size guitar with Steve Vai\Paul Gilbert fingers I couldn't do that.
how can the makers of these books sleep at night? lol Great video! I also use to think these books were gospel and impossible to play lol My faith has been renewed with Sheet Happens though.
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I feel like Mike has found a series that won't get repetitive or boring.
Are you being sarcastic or nah?
As if his others did :)
Having taught guitar for a living for the last 15 years I’m fkin loving this series, very relatable lol
@@liquidcancer4573 nah, every video in this series so far is really enjoyable
Right, I love these, those stupid tab books ruined my early guitar years. I thought I just wasn't good enough at the time, but they were actually tabbing impossible to play shit half the time. As a teenager I thought those "official" tab books were 100 percent correct, straight from the band to the paper.
“Peace Sells,” But Who’s Buying This Book? Lol.
@Dmitry9000YT book sells,but who's buying this peace?
What you do think i am.broke hu
I did, unfortunately 😀 back in the 90's
@@jeinfimate2079 sell's books but who's buying peace
"Whadya mean I can't write a tab book? I play guitar when I have to."
Peace sells but who's tabbing
Nice one 😂
It's nice they let a deaf person write the tab for these songs.
The people who made these must still be alive. Would be amazing to get them to talk about these.
A less known fact, they all have died of shame.
“We just sat down and guessed”
I would love that and this channel has enough cred to get an interview like that. I bet deadlines were impossible and budgets were tight.
@@judgegroovyman that's my best guess too.. they were probably given insane deadlines and just said screw it
I"ll try but I doubt they'll agree to an interview. .;)
At 6:19 had me actually bust out laughing 😂 3rd and 12th fretted chord! 😂 the guys who wrote this book had to be joking!
Thank you. Peace sells is one of the greatest metal/thrash songs ever. I was 14 or 15 when it came out,I'm now 50yrs old. It still has the same impact it did the first time I heard it.
Two of my favourite tab books is Kiko Loureiro’s open source and no gravity, I’ve only got one or two songs into each, but after seeing all these videos of incorrect transcribing, I trust the Kiko ones because I know Kiko himself worked closely with Levi clay on those song books
A lot of the impossible fingering looks like the auto-tab conversion you get in some notation software. You start with the classic notation and the software just converts the pitches into TAB. Then you'd usually correct that manually - or you end of with these stretches :D
Oh man I remember wanting that tab book so bad from my local music store but 13 year old me didn't have the $24.95 to make it happen. 25 years later I realize it was a blessing.
Idk if I can ever trust a tab book after these
No I think it is just a metal thing,Because I have the Doors,Led Zeppelin, and the Beatles , and those are pretty much on point, but with these old metal albums, it’s almost like they didn’t even try
The newer tab books are better than these old ones
u should not eve if not this
Really loving this series and man… nice tone u got going there!!
My favorite riff is the Black Friday "Killer, intruder, homicidal man" verse riff. I also really like both Poland solos in that song.
I seen the Smashing Pumpkins for that tour back in the day, Garbage opened. It was a great show at the San Jose Arena.
I like how you chose the bc rich for this. Thats good attention to detail haha
me: pfft, sounded like Korn
him: sounds more like a Korn riff
oh my
It's like, the CEO of the book corporation, got a family member, a job at his company, over the tablature department.
mike i love this series! and also... you should have left the sticker!
You should check out the Extreme - Pornografitti book, specifically 'lil Jack Horny'. I learned it and it took me years to realise that the book incorrectly had all the strings detuned a full step and tried using tapped harmonics fire the intro rather than drop D and natural harmonics!
I've gone out a few times wearing a new shirt with the sticker still on it. You should sell stickers with Art Of Guitar on them so we can wear them on our shirts!
someone somewhere, just like any other creator, stumbled across that beat and knew that they found something magical and it appealed highly to musicians and grew from there
Small note: The Justice-book is currently missing in your Worst Tab-playlist :)
I own a good number of tab books but check RUclips more often because of this series. Thanks Mike!
When I first started guitar some of the transcriptions made me scratch my head. Good to know I'm not crazy
Holy shit. These are just so bad. I have old tab books for a lot of bands but I figured out early on that the only good things in them were the additional exercises to strengthen your fingerings. The actual songs were always just kinda off or way off. There wasn't a workable in-between. 😅😂 Great idea for a series btw. Nice to see a mockingbird in the wild!
I remember when I was starting out on guitar, I didn't know how to read music (still don't) and since I was a noob I didn't buy tab books, so I didn't understand what they said, so I just listened to the song and just did whatever the book said at the part I thought i was supposed to 😂😂😂
I bought a guitar magazine in the 90s that included transcriptions for the entire vocal parts along with the guitar transcriptions. And this was for songs from bands like Slayer, Sepultura, and Napalm Death! I have no idea why they thought that was necessary!
Guitar Magazine For The Practicing Musician had stuff tabbed out wrong too. Even though I believe they perfected how tablature was utilized and gave instruction on the musical theories behind every song. But my issues got ruined when my dad's basement flooded.
In the eighties, I learned a lot by using the Pink Floyd, Police and rush anthology guitar tab books. Even if they were not always spot on. The only one, I have left apparently is Pink Floyd The wall, all the songs. And it isn't tabbed, it is all in notation, with chords. I can read notes, or am in the process of getting better at it. But I took those books to a guitar teacher in the eighties, to learn from. And he was alright with it, because he was a senior that was in the school jazz band, and the school band leader/teacher asked him to teach me. And because those bands and the music they did was progressive, the technique I needed, some of it was in there.
Chris can do those ridiculous stretches though because he's got a severed tendon in his fret hand
Pete sells, but who's Brian?
Peas sells
Can you put a price on piss?
I have this book and yeah. But it made me a better player cause I had to listen to the album and use some of the book to figure out what was what.
That korn riff comment killed me.
Ps. Nice guitar.
What are the chances you can make a video where you show the way Chris Poland plays the first solo? I can't seem to find any good tabs...
I have these damn books. Had no idea they were wrong. Where can I find the most accurate tabs for all my old metal artists???
My Army buddy used to own the bass that David used to record this album. It's at the Rock N Roll hall of fame now.
@The-Art-of-Guitar, you see what I was talking about, how the transcribers divided up parts that are played on one guitar into two guitars?
“Bad Omen,” in that book is HORRIBLE. It is similar to the “Peace Sells...” transcription. It divides up the notes and the percussive chops into two guitars.
Back when I bought it, we didn’t have Internet and easy access to videos of live performances. The times time I saw Megadeth live, I was never close enough to the stage to study Dave’s fingerings (which is something I do when watching guitarists at most concerts I attend), so I tried to use that book as a “baseline” to figure out the notes, but came up with my own fingerings, because that book is whack!
I swear, I don’t know how some of those transcribers (& publishers) got away with publishing such crap. It just made things more difficult for young guitarists to learn songs.
I'm loving this series Mike!
What about the Ride the Lightning book? I have it somewhere but I can't remember if it's as bad as Puppets or Justice.
How do tab books that are published more recently compare to the oldies? I recently bought four Exodus books they're incredible, but they were tabbed by Kragen Lum. Have other tab books improved as well?
No wonder i used to get so frustrated trying to learn from these books. I have a stack of these things. I used to love them.
DO A PART 2 PLEASEEEEE!!!
man loving this series. This is hilarious and brings childhood memories
I work at a Guitar Center and they have a tab book for Lamb of God's album Ashes of the Wake. I've taken a peek through it and it's really bad, maybe not quite as bad as some of these ones, but I recommend checking it out if you want another suggestion.
As soon as i saw that 10/12/3 strech my jaw dropped. i swear a robot tabbed this book out
I never realized I could've made money at 15 year old by making tab books! Hard to not click when I see Mellon Collie shirt and old school Megadeth with a weird BC Rich.
Palm muting is one thing I never paid much attention on tabs. I would just naturally palm mute by ear because there was always varying strength of palm muting in the songs and tabs never had it all right (and let's say only the lowest strings are muted but the highest ring, how do you mark that?) so I just didn't pay much attention.
This book was brutal. Bought it around 93 or 94 me and a buddy of mine pretty much re transcribed half the book
😆 love it dude this series is so entertaining and relatable!
That thumbnail alone hurts my hands
I always thought official tab books were actually instructed by the artists themselves.
Your points are very well stated. Also, that bc rich is phenomenal. Really.
Songsterr really changed the Tabs industry tab books were always a hit or miss when it came to Metal.
"It just isn't as evil as it should be" lmao
Nice Mellon Collie shirt.
I remember back in the day I learned dread and the fugitive mind, that had some cool riffs
I got this book back in the day. No pun intended. Even when I was 17 I knew it was a load of crap. WTF, the people writing these tabs probably were experts at transcribing John Denver albums before they took on Megadeth. What a waste of time and money!
God. I have no idea how I could even go on in my life without knlwing Dave was growling in B.
7:13 Megadeth invented Daft Punk's "Harder, Better, Faster" riff...
Wow that palm mute was key
That guitar is amazing, is it a legacy mockingbird or an original?
Oh my lord.... who wrote these tab books? Seeing these tab books has inspired me to learn guitar parts by ear.
Could you try out rocksmith? Would be interesting to see how a Prof would use it
The-Art-of-Guitar
Just found Craigs news today. One question. Are those super chats real?
For sure.
@@TheArtofGuitar I wish I hadn't said I only had one question.
6:05 Hahahahaha this must be what people are talking about when talking about the stretches in metal 😂, all the finger stretcher gear are made for this kind of riffs I think Hahahah 😅
I was curious if you think the tabs from the guitar magazines are better than the tab books.
That mockingbird is gorgeous.
With so many bad tab books maybe he should make a video on a bunch of tab books to avoid.
Omg these vids are the best!
My fav album of all time ,,,,, back in time I wouldve killed for this book ,,,,,, infact I used to think this album is done by extreme superhumans when I was kid and even now ,,,,,,Chris Poland gars Samuelson omg what a combination ,,,, recording of this album is like benchmark for me,,,,,, we want Chris Poland back in Megadeth atleast feat solos from him ,,,,,,
Listen to the Rust in Peace demos if you haven't already. He recorded some demo solos for that album.
I think I had, or still have, most of these books. Made me feel like I was a terrible guitarist when I was just starting out. Good to know it wasn't just me wondering why everything felt impossible.
This series is gold!
I honestly don’t think I’ve ever bought a tab book that was right. They’re motivation killers that make you think you suck.
Moral from this series....don't go back in time and buy tab books.....you can get all the bad tabs you want for free on this new interwebs thing
when i was like 13 i started getting tab books from bands i liked and noticed immediately that they almost never sounded right so i stopped buying them and went to either learning by ear or searching tabs online for free. its pretty sad
Loving this series.
I had a copy of the black album tab about 15 years ago that had so many impossible chords, I thought hetfield had giant hands way back when.
I had this book back in the day...it screwed up so many kids. I think the company was "Authentic Tabs". They improved over time definitely but there was only a few you could trust at that particular time. I recall one transcriber named Wolf Marshall who was more reliable in books and mags at the time who did a decent job a lot of the time.
I still have this horrible ass book along with others but I learned really quick really young these books are BS and kinda like a all you can eat salad bar take what you want and leave the rest better to learn to transcribe songs yourself trust me. Love these videos I feel your pain and hope like you to spare future generations the pain of these rip-off tab books.
Sounds like a Friedmann part @4:16 😆
No one mentioning the fact that the verse riff sounds like “Enter Sandman” bridge riff 😂
Basically every tab book I ever used to learn to how play was wrong. 😒
I have that book too.I spent days a week,using that book too Learn megadeth,1995. I was 20. Book is full of typos. And the interpreter,author I'm told,prob did slot of cocaine. Your vid i s awesome because I thought I've never see someone else notice this too.
Is there any good tab metal books you would recommend?
Im sure there a gig of megadeth from 90s. Musta been one of the big MTVs ones (Roskikde etc). But i swear he was playing with his little finger on the A string-7th fret ...
Really nice mockingbird!!!
You know I've got a couple of Metallica tab books and the youthansia tab book. I'm half wondering if I should just Toss em, what do y'all think?
Awesome guitar, what model it is?
That is a B.C. Rich MockingBird ST 50th anniversary.
You got a great-looking BC Rich and on peace sells but who's buying solo after your to.pull.off aren't you supposed to hit the the string on a next fret then do your pull off then hit the next string on the next fret then do your pull-offs or have I've been doing it wrong
Please do Nirvana MTV Unplugged
Thanks for this..
you were learning “hatred buys” from “hatred buys but who’s selling?”
I can understand how some of these get through but who can look at a chord of 10/12/3 and think that is even remotely possible. Even on a 3/4 size guitar with Steve Vai\Paul Gilbert fingers I couldn't do that.
Cool Bc Rich... Wish my Mockingbird had a Floyd Rose in... 😤
Btw: 6:58 burn that book...
I had that book. No wonder I had trouble learning Megadeth!!
how can the makers of these books sleep at night? lol Great video! I also use to think these books were gospel and impossible to play lol My faith has been renewed with Sheet Happens though.
This series is making me question some of the tab books I bought back in the day.
I've got the Metallica Black Album book, any thoughts on that?
I had a Rush anthology bass tablature book back in like 2000 and I wonder if that was all wrong too. Lol
Can you put a price on peas?
The only explanation is the quality control was done by Lars Ulrich
dammit LARS!
He actually listened to peace sells, when it came out. It easily became one of his favourite albums.
why? Is there no bass?
shhh, he's gonna want his royalties.
Peace sells but lars litigates