Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson and today I’ve got another installment for you from some fun and easy riffs from Judas Priest.

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So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at these Judas Priest riffs.

Judas Priest Riff-1 – Leather Rebel

All right, so the first Judas Priest riff to look at is the riff from Leather Rebel. Now this isn’t really difficult to play, but it is difficult to play at the speed that they’re playing it at. So if you’re a beginner you can learn this, but you’re probably going to be playing it quite a bit slower but this is a really good thing to kind of help build up your speed.  So it’s going to be single notes played on the A string while we’re pedaling the open low E string. So all the notes we’re playing on the low E string are palm muted and are 16th notes. So one e and uh and then on the downbeat of two we’re going to pick up the 14th fret of the A string as an eighth note; one and a two e and a three e and. So then on the and of three we’re gonna pick up the twelfth fret of the A string… Then we’re gonna do that same thing to the tenth fret, nine, and then just one open low E then to the seventh fret of the A string and try to do a pinch harmonic… so that is the first two measures. So the next two measures is the same exact thing. The only thing that’s different is the very last note instead of being the seventh fret it’s the fifth fret and also try to do it with a pinch harmonic… Now with this I’m alternate picking. It just makes it easier. It’s going to be hard because the song is 174 beats per minute; so it’s like… it’s really hard to do that at that tempo and get all the notes to have clarity. I used to cover this in a band back when it was a new song in the early 90s and it feels more challenging to me now than it did back then.

Judas Priest Riff-2 – Living After Midnight

All right so next Judas Priest riff we’re going to look at is Living After Midnight and this one is just made up of just a bunch of just the garden variety power chords that you probably have used already. So we’re starting off on an E5; so my first finger’s on the seventh fret of the A string and there’s a couple of ways you can do this. You need to pick up the ninth fret of the D string, this is the minimum, but you can also pick the ninth fret of the G string so it just makes it a little fatter sounding. So you can do it like this or you could do it like this, but if you’re a beginner a lot of times getting that third string is difficult. So you can only just get the A string and the D string that is totally fine. So we’ve got this one, two, three and, so one, two, three, on the downbeat of three we do a mute and the and of three we move this chord shape down a whole step so now it’s D5. So on the down beat a four is a mute and then the and of four and five. So the a string open and then the second fret of the D and G string just with your first finger. So that’s our first measure. And then on the first two beats of the second measure are two more of those; so it’s like four and one two mute… All right, second fret of the A string, fourth fret of the D and or G string, mute and then back up to here to where we started on E5. So that’s the first two measures… Now third measure is the same as the first measure… the fourth measure is the same as the second measure… the sixth measure is the same as the first measure… measure seven is similar to the second measure, but the difference is that we go eight one two three and four and you stay on the B instead of going back up to the E. So it’s like…

Judas Priest Riff-3 – Running Wild

The last Judas Priest riff to look at is a personal favorite of mine. It’s riff from Running Wild. So we’re going to start off on that same E5 power chord. So we rest one, two, three, four, so we hit this on the and of four and then it’s tied to the downbeat of one of the next measure; so it’s counted as a as a quarter note and then we hit it again on the and of one. So it’s like… and then starting on the downbeat of two we’re going to just pedal the open low E string. So we’ve got two and three and four and then and then that E5 again and then it starts over again. So that’s like the first part of the Riff was… Now we’re going to be changing chords; so the E5… C5… So just move that shape down so now our first finger is on the third fret of the A string third finger is picking up the fifth fret of the D string and just like on the other one, you can pick up the one on the G string as well, but if you can’t it doesn’t matter. So now we’re going to hit that C5 and we’re gonna peddle the third fret of the A string instead of the open string… Up to the fifth fret for D5, same thing and then we’re going to go to a G5. So down to the third fret of the low E string with your first finger fifth fret of the A string and or D string and we’re gonna hit that on the and of four and then on the downbeat of one we’re gonna slide up to a B5 at the seventh and ninth fret and strum it again and then back to the E5… to the D5… then we’re going to go to an A5. We’ve got a quarter note and then eighth note and then a mute; so it’s like… and then back up to here…

Conclusion

So there you have it, three more fun and easy riffs by Judas Priest. So if you like this Judas Priest riff lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you’ve not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching 3 Fun & Easy Judas Priest Riffs – Vol-3 and have a great day.

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson and today I want to teach you how to play a really cool, not too terribly tough to play, tapping lick in the style of Randy Rhoads.

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So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at this killer Randy Rhoads lick.

Randy Rhoads Lick

All right, so this Randy Rhoads lick is fairly simple as far as we’re going to just do the same shape with the same spacing between our fingers for this entire thing. So we’re going to start off you can put your first finger on the ninth fret of the high E string and then you’re going to use your pinky or your third finger, just kind of depending on the individual, on the 12th fret and then we’re going to use our; well how I do it. So when I tap I like to keep a hold of the pick, I don’t like to put it down or put it in my mouth and tap with my first finger. I’m always holding the pick just with my thumb and my first finger like this… so I just hold on to it and then tap with my middle finger so that way i can transition between the two… So there’s kind of a pattern for it and we start off we tap that 17^th fret and pull to the 12^th fret; tap, pull and then pull 9^th fret to the 12th fret to 9^th fret and then back to 12th fret. So the first thing you probably want to do is just practice that and get that sequence down… All right, so there you have that sequence down and don’t worry about if you can’t play it quickly or whatever, just work on it even slow it still sounds pretty cool. So we’ve got that space we’re going a step and a half between our first finger and fourth finger and third finger and then between there we’re going a two and a half steps to where we tap and that’s one beat. So we’ve got we’ve got a whole measure of that and then what we’re going to do is we’re just going to move everything up a half step and down a string so now we’re going to be on the 10th fret of the B string with your first finger and then the 13th fret of the B string with your third or fourth finger and now we’re going to be on the 18th fret where we tap and it’s the same sequence. So, so far we have… now we’re going to do the same thing, we’re going to move it up a half step and down a set of strings so now we’re on the G string. So we’re at the 11^th fret, 14^th fret and 19th fret… then we’re going to do the same thing again we’re going to move it up so now we’re 12th fret and 15^th fret and 20^th fret, but we’re going to move it down so now we’re on the D string. Now with this at the end of that… he slides out of it… so this is like the first half of it and this is like from the solo for Flying High Again. It’s not exactly what he’s doing, but it’s just like the same general idea, but it just sounds really good… So we slide out of that and then quickly we’re going to do the same thing, but we’re going to move it we’re going to move it down so now you’re going to start off with your first finger on the fourth fret of the high E string and then we’re going up a step and a half so that’s going to put us at the seventh fret with our pinky finger and then we got to go up two and a half or two steps. So we come up here to the 12th fret and we’re going to do the same the same thing, but this to get it started if after we do that slide we do open, hammer-on to fourth fret to seventh fret, pull back off and then this thing starts over; so again it’s the same the same general idea like we were doing before, but we’re just doing it down here now. So now we’re gonna go fourth fret, seventh fret, and twelfth fret, all on the high E string, same sequence or same tapping sequence. I guess we’re going to do the same thing we do a whole measure of it then we’re going to move it up a half step and down a string so now we’re at the fifth eighth and thirteenth fret on the B string and we do the same thing again and shift it up a half step down a string so now it puts us at the sixth fret, ninth fret and fourteenth fret all on the G string… Now we can do the same thing again and shift it up a half step down a string so now we’re at 7^th fret, 10th fret and 15^th fret on the D string… and then to the eighth fret on the A string and slide out of it and we’re going to go back into like that riff in the song. So the whole thing… Okay so it’s not like really super fast in the first place, but I would just work on it you know even if you’re you know… just you know just to work your speed up on it.

Now another thing too when you’re doing this since you’re only playing on the high E string these other strings you know if you’re if you’re just playing like… you get all that other noise happening. So you have to keep that muted. So what I do is I actually since I’m tapping here, I’m just basically taking this part of my arm and then my like the bottom side of my forearm here and I’m just leaving it on these low earth strings… so that way they’re not just free to just really ring out because it won’t sound good. So you can play this with a clean tone and it still sounds really good, but if you practice it with the with the distortion or overdrive on you’ll notice those foreign sounds much better and you’ll be able to actually do it or it’ll be easier for you to mute it because you can hear it.

Conclusion

All right there you have it, a not too terribly difficult tapping lick in the style of Randy Rhoads. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this Randy Rhoads lick or other guitar related topics. If you’ve not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching killer tapping lick in the style of Randy Rhoads and have a great day.

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson and today I’ve got three fun and not too terribly difficult riffs to play for you from Judas Priest.

Right now GuitarControl.com is giving away this really cool and useful free chord chart; there is a link down in the description where you can get yours. It’s in PDF format and has every chord you could ever need all neatly compiled into one sheet. So you can download it, you can print it off, you can put it where you practice, put a copy in your gig bag; so in whatever situation you’re in any chord you might ever need at a glance and it’s a free download.

So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tab so let’s get close up and take a look at these.

Judas Priest Riff-1 – Nightcrawler

All right so the first one to look at is the riff from a Night Crawler and this one isn’t too terribly bad to play. It just uses this fifth power chord shape that you probably already used a whole bunch of times. So we’re doing E5 here first; so first finger is on the seventh fret of the A string and then my third finger is on the ninth fret of the D string and my fourth finger is on the ninth fret of the G string. So this is all just made up of eighth notes and we just start off by playing A, D, G – one and, two, and then on the and of take your middle finger and you reach up and you’re gonna pick up the eighth fret of the A string and then take it back off; so it’s back on the seventh fret and then the D and G string again, so one and, two and, three and, four and. On the earlier and of four we reach down you want to keep these two fingers here, but we’re going to reach down to the fifth fret of the A string on the and of four and then bring it back up to the seventh fret; so one and, two and, three and, four and. Now on the second measure; one and, and now we’re going to take this shape we’re just going to move it down a set of strings so now I’m on the seventh fret of the low E string of my first finger and the ninth fret of the A string with my third finger. So we pick this two and, and then we’re going to take that shape and move it back up to the A string and the D string, but down a whole step; so now I’m on the first fingers on the fifth fret of the A string and third fingers on the seventh fret of the D string and third finger is on the seventh fret of the G string… And then when it goes to the third measure, the third and fourth measures are the same as the second and third, and then that just repeats a bunch of times…

Judas Priest Riff-2 – Electric Eye

All right so next we’re going to look at the riff from Electric Eye. So this one is just made up of single notes and it’s all eighth notes for the most part, but you can see here on the beginning of it that we’re resting on the downbeat of one; so we actually start playing on the and of one which is gonna seem kind of strange, but then when you go through the rest of it you’ll see why because the very last note the and of four is tied to the to the downbeat of one of the next measure. So we’ve got the open low E string and then to the seventh fret of the A string with my first finger… open low E string to the ninth fret… to the tenth fret and then we’re going to take our middle finger and reach up and grab the eighth fret of the low E string and this is on the and of four and that’s tied to the downbeat of one of the next measure… Okay so now the second measure is the same as the first except the last note; instead of being the eighth fret it’s going to be the fifth fret; so we got it… All right so we’re hitting that five on the and of four and now in the next measure and this is tied to the downbeat of one and then on the and of one open, seven, the open seven open nine ten thing again, and then this time we end on the seventh fret and then and then again it’s tied to one downbeat of one and then and two. Then we go to the ninth fret on the A string back to the low E string and now we’re going to go 10, 9, 7 and then the whole thing would repeat…

Judas Priest Riff-3 – Hellbent For Leather

All right and then the last we’re going to look at is the riff from Hellbent For Leather and in my opinion this is the hardest one out of these three and this is also one of the hardest, for me anyway riffs from Judas Priest; the timing on this is just really unusual and I’ve always struggled with really being able to play it consistently the same way. So we’re going to break it down, so we start off we’re just playing open or just playing some single notes; so we’ve got the open A  string on the downbeat of one and then on the and of one we’re on the seventh fret of the D string and we want to use your third finger. So we’ve got one and, and then we’ve got three more open A strings, but it’s an eighth note and then two sixteenth notes; so it’s like long, short, short… So that’s the that’s one of the things that really throws me off is trying to get that in there; so open, seven, three opens, back to seven, two opens is eighth notes, again like the first one. Now we’re going to go down the fifth fret and we’re going to barre our first finger across the fifth fret of the D string and the G string… So this is on the and of four of the first measure and then we go on the downbeat of the second measure the open A string again and now we’re going to move this up to the seventh fret. Now you could do it with your first finger and your third and move your first finger up, either way is good, but it’s what’s coming next… this actually might be the best way to do it so that way your hands already in the position. So that’s one and, and then on the downbeat of two for two and now we’re going to take our fir our third finger we’re going to barre the 10^th fret of the D string and G string and our first finger and barre the seventh fret of the D string and G string and we’re going to hit this… we’re on the 10th fret, we’re gonna hit that and pull-off to the seven, so that’s three and four and; so we pick pull to seven now we shift our hand position so now we’re going to pull seven to five… So this is kind of challenging, if you’re a beginner that can be a little to get those pull-offs on two strings simultaneous can be a little challenging. All right so then after so that’s the first two measures then our third measure is the exact same as the first third measure the last part of that third measure we’ve got and four and one and… so on the and of two we’re gonna move it down to the fourth fret and then we’re gonna do a C5 power chord; so third fret the A string with your first finger and the fifth fret of the D and or G string with your third finger and this is three and then move it down a half step for B5 and then the whole thing just repeats… So that part is kind of tricky because it’s actually two guitars; the one is doing that… while the other one does the… and it rings out, but if you’re playing it by yourself this is just kind of a way to kind of meld those two things together. So like I said that’s just kind of a way you can kind of meld the two parts together to kind of fill it out if you’re playing it all by yourself.

Conclusion

All right so there you have it three fun and not two terribly difficult riffs to play from Judas Priest. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you’ve not already done so please subscribe the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson and today I’ve got three fun and easy riffs for you from Motley Crue.

Guitar Control is giving away a free chord chart. It’s a free download, there’s a link down in the description. It’s in PDF format with every chord that you could ever need all neatly compiled into one sheet. So you can download it, print it off, throw it in your gig bag, put it wherever you practice; any chord you could ever need at a glance.

So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at these.

Tuning

All right so first thing for all three of these riffs we’re actually tuned down an entire whole step. So your low E string down to a D, you’re gonna tune your A string down to a G, your D string down to a C, your G string down to an F, your B string down to an A and your high E string down to a D. Now these riffs all can be played in standard tuning just the way that they’re written in the tab, but you won’t be in the same key, so to be in the same key you need to you need to tune down a whole step.

Motley Crue Riff-1 – Take Me To The Top

All right so the first one I’m going to look at is Take Me To The Top. So this one’s fairly simple, we’ve got just a couple of chord shapes. We have a regular power chord you know, a fifth shape. So the first one we’re starting here we’re on the seventh fret of the D string with your first finger in the ninth fret of the G string with your third finger and we’re going to play the open A string twice… and then we’re going to take that chord shape and move it down a whole step so now your first finger is on the fifth fret and your third finger is on the seventh fret… now this has got this kind of a swing thing to it… then the open A string again and now we’re going to do the same the same G5 here where we’re on the fifth fret of the D string and the seventh fret of the G string and then we’re going to just basically switch these fingers so our first finger will move from the fifth fret of the D string to the fifth fret of the G string and your third finger will move from the seventh fret of the G string to the seventh fret of the D string and that’s our first measure… All right so then on the second measure this last chord we played there is tied to the downbeat of the second measure so that’s ringing and then we hit the A string again and now we’re going to take this chord shape and play it again and then switch it back to how it was before; so first finger will move down a string third finger up a string and then at the end of it here we hit the open D string, then the open A string and hammer-on to the fifth fret with your first finger and then to the seventh fret with your third finger and that’s a triplet so it takes care of beat four… so the whole thing…

Motley Crue Riff-2 – Live Wire

All right so the next one we’re going to look at is the riff from a Live Wire. So this one’s here is really simple, so we’re going to take our first finger and we’re just gonna barre it at the fifth fret so it goes across the D and the G string and then we’re gonna be pedaling the open A string. So we’ve got this shape here and then in a minute we’re going to move it up a whole step to the seventh fret of the D and the G string. So this starts off on the first measure, we rest and then we come in on the and of four here; so it’s one two three four and then that’s tied to the downbeat of one or actually all of beat one for the second measure and then that’s where it begins with repeat. So you got and then starting on beat two we’re gonna pedal the open A string two and three and four, and then on the and of four that again… so that’s the first three measures or excuse me the first four measures. So on that third measure we’re on our third time hitting this chord. So the first measure one two three four and one two and three and four and one two and three and four and one two and three and four and, so that fourth measure is a little bit different. And then on the fifth measure we’re at the fifth fret and it’s one and two and so we have two mute strums then to the seventh fret for three and the downbeat of four is a mute and then on the and of four we hit that five and then that’s tied and that’s where the repeat and that’s where it goes back to the beginning to repeat on the second measure…

Motley Crue Riff-3 – Too Fast For Love

All right and then the last we’re going to look at is a riff from Too Fast For Love. So this one here is a riff sequence that’s all on just the G string and then it’s repeated on the D string and then it’s repeated on the A string and it’s repeated on the low E string. So we start off we’re going to play the words the first one going to do is on the G string; so we got the string open and it’s a quarter note so it’s one and then on the downbeat of two we’re gonna go to the second fret. So this is two and then on the and of two we pull off to the open string so one two and, and then on beat three we just move our first finger up now so we’re on the third fret three… and the downbeat of four is the open string and before as we hammer to the fourth fret and that’s our first measure… Okay so when we do that hammer, we hammer to four on the and of four and then that’s tied to the downbeat of one on the second measure and then starting on the and of one it’s the open string and down beat of two we go to the fifth fret two and pull-off. And then on the downbeat of three we’re at the sixth fret with our first finger and we’re going to pick and hammer to the seventh fret twice for three and four and… So that’s basically the riff and it’s two measures long, that’s measure one and two and then measures three and four are the same and then when we get to measure five and six, it’s going to be the same sequence but played on the D string, but it’s the same frets and that’s all the further I’ve tabbed it, just those two strings, but if you listen to the song it just it just keeps repeating like I said across all of those strings; so pretty easy to play and I just only need to use just the two fingers, but for the most but you’re just going to use your one finger.

Conclusion

All right so there you have it a three not two terribly difficult riffs from Motley Crue. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you’ve not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.

Introduction

Hey everybody how’s it going? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing this video lesson and today we’re going to be looking at the song War Pigs by Black Sabbath. So we’re going to be going over all of the parts so you will be able to put the whole song together. There’s so many different riffs in the song I’m just going to do a whole lesson on just on this and this is by request so if you have any suggestions that you’d like to learn or anything leave them in the comments down below because I’m getting around to cranking these requests out. So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look.

War Pigs Intro

All right so for this intro we’re just going to start off we’ve just got an E5 power chord so I’m on the seventh fret of the A string with my first finger in the ninth fret of the D string with my third finger and the low E string is open… Now this first part of the song is in a weird time signature so it’s kind of hard to count; it’s in 12/8 so we’ve got… So we hit this and it just rings out for the first measure and then on the and of four, at the end, we hit it again and then on the downbeat of the second measure we’re just going to hit that seventh fret of the A string note and slide to the fifth fret… Okay then we’ve got this like kind of a cool chord here and we go to the seventh fret of the A string with your second finger and the sixth fret of the D string with your first finger and then we’re gonna play the open low E string… So we hit that hit it twice and then do a hammer-on with our second finger on the D string to the seventh fret… Then we slide this D5 back up to the E5 and that repeats… I can’t remember how many times it repeats, like four times. Basically what we’re going to do is we’re going to do all each different section and then you’ll know this is the intro, this is the verse, this is that and then you can just repeat it however many times it is on the on the song. So after we repeat that a couple of times then on starting on the third measure we have this D5 and we’re going to hit that and slide to the E5… and then slide back so D5 to slide to E5 and then back to the D5… And then that’s where it leads us into the pre-verse verse riff itself.

War Pigs Pre-Verse & Verse

So for that we’re gonna start at the D5 and we play that and move to E5 and then we rest and just repeats; generals gathered in their masses… so that’s like the verse too. Now after it goes through this part a few times and then we have this little riff; so we’re on the G string first fingers on the second fret third fingers on the fourth fret and we’re going to pick the four and pull-off to the two and pull-off to open… and then follow that with the second fret of the D string and pull-off to open… and then right back in… so we’ve got… Okay and then after it does that he keeps doing this and then there’s just like different fills. So that first one… and then the next time we’re going to come down here to the second fret of the D string and we’re going to play it open and then do kind of a trill hammer pull-off back to that D5 and slide to E. Then we’re going to come all the way up here to the 12th fret on the B and the G string and hit that and slide out of it…

War Pigs Post Verse

All right and then that leads us into the next part. So we start with the D5 to E5… and we slide out of it, so it’s like… and then we rest for beats two and three and then starting on beat four and come up here and we have this G5 power chord; so tenth fret of the A string, twelfth fret of the D string and then we just move it down a half step and then finally to E. And then we’ve got that same 12^th fret of the G and B string… Now there he kind of does like what he did earlier, he’ll do different things, so you could… just like the riff that we did earlier… Okay so it repeats that for a while and then it goes into this other riff here and this is one of my favorite ones from the song. So for beat one it’s 16th notes of the open low E string palm muted and then we’re gonna come up and we’re gonna play the 12th fret of the G, B and high E strings… And we slide out of that and then we’ve got the open low E string and then a 16th note rest again and then the third fret and then that repeat; so it’s like… then it goes on to this next section here and this is at measure 19…. So we’re still doing the pedaling of the open low E string to the sixteenth notes for beat one and then starting on beat 2 we’re going to go to the A string first finger on the fifth fret, third finger on the seventh fret and we’re gonna pick and pull… So it’s that same delayed… with the little rests in between those open strings to kind of give it that flow that it has… And then so that second time we do that pull-off then we’re going to come down to the second fret of the low E string and we’re gonna bend that up just a little bit and then it repeats… And then the second half of that we have that what we did before back to the third fret again so it’s just like the previous measure so measure 18 and measure 20 are the same thing. All right so those are like all the parts for like the first, probably about half of the song, because after it does that it goes back into that again and then it goes back into the… so it repeats all those parts again.

War Pigs Pre-Solo Secion

Okay so the next section we’re going to look at is uh the pre-solo section. So we’re not actually going to go over the guitar solo itself, but this pre-solo section is actually kind of cool. So we’re going to start off with the 11th fret on the A string and we’re going to pick that and slide to 12 and then follow that with the open low E and then back so 11 slide to 12 open, 12 slide to 11 open, 11 slide to seven open, seven slide to five open, five slide to seven, twice and then seven slide to five again open, five slightly seven, seven, seven slide to eleven… open eleventh slide to twelve, twelve slide back to eleven, eleven back to twelve, twelve to fourteen and then that’s what would go into the solo from there. It’s just kind of a cool riff.

War Pigs Interlude

All right so after the guitar solo section is all over then it goes into this interlude section here and this is one of my favorite parts of this song, one of my favorite riffs. So we’ve got this chord here, it’s a B over E (B/E). So we’ve got seventh fret of the A string with your first finger, but you want to actually lay it down so you’re barring the seventh fret of the A, D and G string and then use your third finger to go on to the ninth fret of the D string and then we’re going to pick all this separately… So I’m going to do it in reference to strings; five, four, five, three, five, four, five, three, four, three. Now that right there is done like a lot throughout this. So let me start off the first part of the interlude it’s that and then we have the E5, fingers are already there, down to a B5 at the second and fourth frets, still on the A and D string to D5, fifth and seventh frets and that’s the first two measures… Then starting on the third measure, same thing as the first, E5 to G5; so we just move it up to 10 and 12 and back to E5 and then that whole thing repeats… All right so then starting on this interlude section, it’s the second staff; so now we’re going to do that main riff again, but we repeat it… now we’re going to take that shape and just move it down a whole step so now you’re barring at the fifth fret and your third finger’s on the seventh fret of the D string, same picking pattern… then we move it down a whole step again, so now we’re barring the third fret and third fingers on the fifth fret of the D string, same pattern and then down a half step to B5 back to the C5… and then that leads us into our outro riff.

War Pigs Outro

All right so for this outro riff, this is how I play it because it just for me it makes it easier because I have to switch my hand position, but I have my second finger here on the fifth fret of the A string and I’m going to hit the low E and the A string together and then do a hammer- on to the seventh fret with my pinky… follow that with the open low E string and then to the fourth fret of the D string with my first finger to the fifth fret back to the fourth and hammer to five back to four… then four to the fifth fret of the A string with your second finger and then to the seventh fret with your fourth finger on the low E string back to the fifth fret of the A string and then just kind of repeats… So the second time through… so we go four five seven back to the four to the fifth fret of the A string back to the seventh fret of the low E back to the fifth fret of the A string again and then just repeats… Okay so that part just keeps repeating and that’s what’s being played behind the guitar solo, the outro guitar solo and then after the outro guitar solo it goes back into the… riff again, this time it’s a little bit different, we’re gonna go… down to D5 up to E5… Now on the recording it actually speeds up, it’s like the tape speeds up, so just to end it what I like to do is just do that… and just end the song like that.

Conclusion

All right so there you have it. All of the riffs that you need to be able to play War Pigs by Black Sabbath and again this was by request from one of you guys; so if you have any ideas for future lessons or riffs that you’d like to learn leave them in the comments down below. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you’ve not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson. Today I want to show you how to play three cool classic Black Sabbath riffs. These are not the typical ones that everybody’s always doing like Paranoid and Iron Man and stuff like that; not that there’s anything wrong with those, but these are just kind of not as common I guess. So anyhow these are really cool ones I think that just kind of get overlooked and kind of helped form you know forge a whole genre. So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at these killer classic Black Sabbath Riffs.

Tuning Down

All right so for a lot of killer classic Black Sabbath Riffs they’re tuned down. So what I’ve done here is I’m tuned down a step and a half just so it’s more like what Tony Iommi did, but some of the stuff they were tuned down a whole step, so you know there’s different variances; but this just kind of gets you into that ballpark of where they’re at and if you haven’t played before tuning down like this, especially if you know if you have a guitar that’s set up for it, you’ve got heavier gauge strings, but this guitar is normally set up for standard tuning, so everything’s like super low and sloppy feeling, but this is kind of more like how it would have been for Tony when he recorded these songs.

Black Sabbath Riff-1 – Sabbra Cadabra

So the first killer classic Black Sabbath Riffs we’re going to look at here is Sabbra Cadabra. So with this we’re going to start off we’re on the A string at the seventh fret with my first finger and then we’re going to go to the eighth fret with my second finger and hammer to the ninth fret with the third finger and then we’re gonna follow that with the seventh fret of the G string. So this is kind of weird, this first note here is on the and of three and then the eight, nine is a triplet on the beat starting on the downbeat of four on the first measure; so it’s kind of weird to get the timing for it. Then we’re going into the second measure we’re going to bring our third finger and we’re going to put it onto the ninth fret of the D string and this is like one and, and then on the downbeat of two we rest and then on the and of two we hit that nine again and that’s tied to the downbeat of three and then we go back to the A string seventh fret and we do that same thing again… so starting from the beginning… So the after when we come to the third time where we do that… then we’re go to the fourth measure and we’re gonna go to the ninth fret of the A string and we’re gonna pick that and slide down to the seventh fret and then go to the fifth fret with your first finger and that is the downbeat of one on the fourth measure, but it’s a triplet, so it just takes up one beat and then from there to the seventh fret of the low E string and that’s like two and three and then on the and of three we hit that seven on the A string again and then hammer eight nine again. So we have to shift our hand position a couple of times so that’s one of the things that’s good about this riff is that not only is it like a cool riff, but it forces you to have to move your hand position which you know you don’t want to do ideally if you don’t have to, but there’s some situations where you just have to; so this is like kind of a good exercise for working on your fretting hand being able to move. So we have the and then back to the ninth fret, your third finger on the A string, slide to seven again and to five and then the two sevens on the low E string and shift back up and then it just starts over again. So the whole sequence…

Black Sabbath Riff-2 – Hole In The Sky

All right so the next killer classic Black Sabbath Riffs we’re going to look at is Hole In The Sky and this one is actually really simple, but it’s just got a cool groove and with it tuned down like this it just sounds so heavy and cool. So this one’s pretty easy, we just start off with the A string open twice, so that’s like one and, and then for beat two we move to the D string, first finger on the fifth fret, third finger on the seventh fret and we’re going to go seven, five, seven, but it’s triplets, so it’s like one and two yellow three and four yellow… So you do that a total of three times, the third time being the first measure is the same as the third measure. Then for beat three we’re going to do a C5 power chord. So come down to the third fret of the A string my first finger and then the fifth fret of the D and G strings with my third finger like this or you could use… whichever is more comfortable for you; this has just always been my kind of go-to way for beat three. And then beat four we just move it up a whole step to D5 and that’s like half of the riff. Then starting on measure three it’s the same as measure four and the only difference is instead of going C5, D5, we’re gonna go D5, C5 and then the whole thing just repeats…

Black Sabbath Riff-3 – Symptom Of The Universe

All right then the last killer classic Black Sabbath Riffs we’re going to look at is Symptom Of The Universe. So this is a really heavy and dark sounding riff, especially tuned down like this. So we start off we’ve got an E5 power chord here; so we’ve got our low E open and then I’m on the second fret of the A string and the D string with my first finger, so it’s like an E minor, but we’re just playing the three lower strings. So this is played as eighth notes with palm muting; so it’s one and two and three and, and then on the downbeat of four we just hit the low E. Now if you end up hitting the whole chord it’s not like a huge deal, but you can hear that that dynamic change there and then on the downbeat of four we’re gonna do a B flat five (Bb5). So first finger on the first fret of the A string, third finger on the third fret of the D and G strings and that is on the and of four and then it’s tied to a dotted half note on the next measure; so that’s like and one two three, and then on beat four we hit it again as a quarter note and then back to… so the first two measures… Measure three is almost the same as measure one except for that last chord instead of being Bb5 flat five we’re actually going to do an E5 that’s an octave higher; so first fret of the D string with your first finger, fourth fret of the G string with your third finger and we hit that on the and of four and then on we rest on the downbeat of one on the fourth measure and we come back to the B5… and then that’s tied to ring out until beat four where we hit it again as a quarter and then the whole thing would just repeat… Such a cool sounding riff and you can really hear the influence in a lot of the modern metal music that was taken from killer classic Black Sabbath riffs like this.

Conclusion

All right so there you have it. Three cool, I believe to be iconic Black Sabbath riffs, but like I said they’re just kind of the lesser known ones, unless you’re like a hardcore Sabbath guy. But like I said not too terribly tough to play, but they’re just great sounding and good to kind of break into playing tuned down and stuff like that. So if you like this killer classic Black Sabbath Riffs lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this other guitar related topics. If you’ve not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching more killer classic Black Sabbath Riffs and have a great day.

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing this video lesson and today I want to show you two different riffs from the intro from the song Aces High by Iron Maiden. So these are pretty easy to play, they really good and they’re in a harmony. This is just to show you how you can have just a repeating sequence of notes that are just played over and over and over again, but when you hear it in context of the song it sounds like there’s more going on because of what’s happening behind the little melody line when they change chords and stuff. So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look.

Aces High Riff – Part 1

All right so for this first part here we’re going to start off on the sixth fret of the D string and I’m using my third finger and we’re gonna go six to seven and then we’re gonna go to the G string to the fourth fret; so this is why you want to use your fingers here… So we go six seven and then four on the G string and then back to the sixth fret of the D string… back to the third fret of the G string; so I’m just going to roll my third finger up and then back to the fourth fret of the G string and that’s the riff right there… and then it just repeats… Okay so you have to make sure you include in here is this timing and this is all made up of eighth notes and this very first one is on starting on the and of four so it’s like and one and two and, and then on the downbeat of three we rest, on the and of three we go to the fourth fret here on the G string and then on the downbeat of four we rest and then on the and of four we’re back to the six again… and it just repeats like that so it just sounds like the same thing over and over and over again… which it is more or less, but like I said it’s because of what’s happening behind it, so that riff just keeps repeating like that, the riff itself is an odd grouping so since we’re starting on that and of four and the riff ends on the and of four of the second measure and then it just more or less just repeats a total of six times and then on the seventh time it has the change where it ends… So at the last time through, you know six to 4 on the G string, back to 4 on the D string, to 6, 4, 6, 7, 6, 6, 6, 4 and then to that six on the D string, six, seven, four, seven, six and then that just rings out… and then that’s where it goes into the next part.

Aces High Riff – Part 2

Alright, so for part two, and again this is all harmonized so we’re just looking at the parts that are the melody. So if you playing this by yourself this is the part you would want to play on this second part and on the first part you want to the part that I’m playing is the melody and then the second part is the harmony. So for the melody for this part we’re going to start off we’re going to be able to transition right from where we were at… so we ended on the sixth fret of the D string with our third finger; so now we’re going to move up here and our second finger is going to go to the fifth fret of the G string and then our first finger is going to go onto the fourth fret of the G string. So we start off on the downbeat of one and we have the fifth fret and it’s a dotted quarter note so it’s one, two and three, and four and. So when we go to four and then to the fifth fret we pick and pull back to the fourth fret twice… then we’re going to go to the fifth fret of the B string; so I’m just going to keep my first finger here where it is and I’m going to move my second finger up here to the fifth fret of the B string and pick that twice and then back to the fifth fret of the G string. So this is like one, two, three, four and then that would go on to the next part and that’s the first two measures. Okay so then starting on the third measure it’s kind of like the first measure so we start on the fifth fret of the G string and it’s a dotted quarter note; so it’s one, two, and then on the and of two go to the fourth fret and then on the downbeat of three back to the fifth fret and we pick and pull and then back to five again as a quarter note for beat four… then we go back to the fourth fret of the G string where our first finger already is… we hit that on the downbeat of one and then on the and of one we go to the seventh fret of the G string and I’m gonna use my fourth finger and that’s and two and, and then on the downbeat of three we go to the fifth fret of the B string with my second finger, three, and on the and of three we go back to the seventh fret of the G string down to four, the fifth fret of the G string, and the and of four is the fourth fret of the G string and then that whole thing just repeats four times and then from that point it would go into the verse of the song.

Conclusion

Alright so there you have it. Two different riffs for the intro of Aces High by Iron Maiden and I said these aren’t very difficult to play and they’re fun to play and they sound really good, especially in context, if you’re just playing it by yourself it doesn’t really sound as cool as it does when you have it in the context of the song; so this is a good one to pull up the original song and play along with it because the tempo isn’t very fast on the intro part and when it goes to part two the tempo speeds up, but it’s still not too terribly tough. If you’re having some trouble just do it on YouTube and you can slow the speed down, you know, like three quarter or half speed or whatever you need to do to make it work. All right so if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you’ve not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching two easy melody line riffs from Aces High and have a great day.

Introduction

Hey everybody how’s it going? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson. Today I want to show you two more Ozzy Osbourne riffs, but these ones are from the Jake E Lee era and this era of Ozzie was kind of one of the shorter ones, Jake only did a couple albums with Ozzy, but it seems like this era to me kind of just gets overlooked. Everybody talks about the Rhoads era, which I really love, huge Randy Rhoads fan and the Zakk Wylde stuff, but it doesn’t seem like the Jake E Lee gets a lot of attention or praise and it’s really too bad because Jake is just a great guitar player and so many cool riffs that he did during his tenure with Ozzy. So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tab so let’s get close up and take a look at these.

Jake E Lee Riff-1 – Bark At The Moon

All right so the first one I’m going to look at is the opening riff from Bark At The Moon. So we’re going to start off here we’ve got this G5 a power chord so I’m on the fifth fret of the D string with my first finger and the seventh fret of the G string with my third finger and then the eighth fret of the B string with my fourth finger and this shape is used quite a bit in this. So we start off with this and this is on the and of four and we start here and then we move right up a whole step so now we’re at seven, nine, and ten and we hit this on the downbeat of one and then we pedal the open A string palm muted throughout. So we come up to this and then we’re going to do four 16th notes and alternate picking this is the way to go so it’s like I do a downstroke and then I start this on a; down, down, up, down, up and then hit this chord again, which is A5 and then four more. Now the chord voicing changes here so we’ve got the note that’s on the B string and we’re gonna move that from the 10th fret to the eighth fret so you just put your middle finger down here on the eighth fret of the B string and then just remove your pinky and we hit those four open A’s and that chord again and then this time we’ve got six open A strings and that’s the first three measures… Now we’re going to move down to G5 where we started and hit that; one, two, three, four, and again these open A string again and they are they’re 16th notes so they’re kind of quick. Now we’re going to move down a whole step again here so now we’re at F5 and this is where things get a little bit different. So we hit this and then we hit two open A strings and then we go to this kind of a rendition of the chord from before it’s a G7; so your pinky is going to stay where it is on the sixth fret of the B string and we’re going to take your third finger and you’re going to move it from the fifth fret of the G string to the fifth fret of the B string and then you can move your index finger up so it’s on the fourth fret of the G string or just drop your second finger to get that G7 and we hit those two open A’s back to the G7 again… two open A’s and then back the G5 and then it just repeats. So if you look at your transcription you can see that starting on measure two is the beginning of a repeat and then at the end of measure five is a repeat and this has got two endings. So the first time through it you do the… now this time the second ending that instead of coming down to this F5 we stay here and we’ve got this riff. So we come down to the first fret of the A string with your first finger to the string open back to the first fret to the third fret back to the first fret open and then to the third fret of the low E string to the first fret, and that’s all eighth notes… and then the whole thing would just repeat…

Jake E Lee Riff-2 – Killer Of Giants

All right so next we’re going to look at Killer Of Giants and for this one here we’re switching to a clean tone and I didn’t take the time to go through and try to match the delay and chorus and everything the way that Jake did it, but this is kind of similar, this is just a preset that I use for my own stuff. So for this we start off we’ve got this big full really cool E5 chord; so the low E string is open and I’m on the seventh fret of the A string with my first finger, the ninth fret of the D string with my third finger and the ninth fret of the G string with my fourth finger and then the B and high E strings are open. So with this we’re going to go; 6, 5, 4, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4… then we’re going to take that shape and we’re going to move it all the way down so our first finger is on the third fret and third and fourth fingers are on the fifth fret and we’re just going to start on the on the A string and when I’m calling off those numbers it’s in reference to the strings; so, so far… and you’ll let that ring out for a whole measure and then it just does the same thing again… Okay so now starting on the fifth measure and this is the beginning of a repeat we come back up to that E5 again and then back down to that CM7 again and then back up to E5… Now we have this really crazy chord here with a big long name, that’s just not really all that important to remember, just remember where how to do it. So basically what it is that we’re going to start here on the sixth fret of the low E and do the major chord shape so I’m barring my first finger across the sixth fret, second finger is on the seventh fret of the G string, third fingers on the eighth fret of the A string and fourth fingers on the eighth fret of the D string, but the only difference is we’re going to lift our up so we’re not barring; so we’re only picking up just this low E with our first finger and now it’s six, five, four, three, one, two, three, four… All right so starting on the E5; six, five, four, three, one, two, three, four and then we go to this crazy chord here… and that’s the first two measures of the repeating part. Okay then after that we come back up here to the E5 again, down to the CM7… then we’ve got a G6. So what we’re going to do is we’re going to take that same shape that we did here, but we’re gonna do it starting at the third fret, so it’s like a G major chord, but we’re just letting the high E and B strings be open, same picking pattern and then move that down a whole step and do the same thing… and then it would just repeat…

Conclusion

All right so there you have it, two cool riffs from the Jake E Lee era of Ozzy Osbourne. Drop down the comments to me what is your favorite riff or song or whatever from that era of Ozzy with Jake, it could be from Bark At The Moon or The Ultimate Sin. But anyway yeah just put that down there in the comments. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you’ve not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.