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  • thank you man I learned both first an second solo of the song in less than one week with these videos :) really

    useful, rock on!

  • i am 14 years old and have been playing guitar for a while. When i heard iron man i had to learn the solo by any means necessary. Never thought i could learn the solo but your video helped me. Thank you and rock on!

  • Thanks, I can't learn this solo, but your video make me understand the solo and it is easy

    Thanks Thanks Really !!!!!!

  • Great stuff, thank you! Listening to this right after your Cosmic Debris lesson... I never realized how much some of Iomi's solos like like FZ when he sticks to blues patterns

  • @effzee I agree, both soloing styles deeply rooted in the blues, there's a lot of overlap. Frank greatly admired Sabbath and came close to joining them on a tune live once, but it never happened.

  • @doctornerve and this sounds more specifically a LOT like Muffin Man, lol :D

  • Thanks, really :)

  • i cant be fucked learning this, its all just sorta on a scale..

  • Nick, thanks for the great lesson. I like how you point out all the subtleties.

  • Well I´m not good at speeches but I just have to tell you THAANkS A LOT, youpre not a man, YOU´RE THE MAN!!

  • @victorpagebach made MY day. Thanks!

  • that was awesome !!! but I'm just a beginner so I have to see every lesson for like 20-30 times cuz u teach too fast for me lol... but I rather learn like this than some old guy just teach every detail it 's so anooying:)) thanks for the lesson anyway

  • dude !!!! you've got another subscriber !! :D really nice lesson !

  • This solo is so bloody hard on an acoustic. It took me 2 hours to learn

  • the most part of the solo its in the 9,11 and 12 frets ?

  • Thanks it helped me a lot :)

  • hey man thank you very much for the lesson... It sound so cool. Now I can make my friends jealous :D

  • ill' be in seventh heaven when i learn to play like that.

  • Hell yeah i got it now

    not!

  • I got blisters on me fingers!!!!

  • Brilliant Lesson!! Almost got it now! And you're tone is just quality, never quite gonna get it from a fat strat though am i?? -_-

  • @MrPlatinumZzHD Well.. Tony supposedly used a strat on Wicked World on their first record... then pickup died and he switched to the SG mid session

  • @doctornerve Well i certainly didnt know that... Learn Something new everyday i guess :D

  • This is maybe not 100% original tab, but it's very good and simple (notes are same,just diff octaves i think) ...good lesson too..in other lessons i saw some confusing finger positions and probably Tony didn't used to play like that because his injured fingers. this is the best way to play this solo in my opinion. thank you very much. :D

  • 3:32 thats what she said

  • eventhough sometimes you pass some parts very quickly you are a very good teacher.I learned the iron man and paranoid solo from you without even looking at the tabs you post just from the video.

  • you rock dude

  • you ROCK dude

  • Not good enough

  • Trying to master this solo is what made me quit playing guitar :(

  • i want to get an sg so bad they are bad ass

  • SLOW DOWN and let tell us what your playing before you move on the the next thing.

  • i dont understand a dam thing man

  • cool vid man, its helping a lot with me getting the sound down. do you have the solos for N.I.B, into the void, and war pigs? i gotta learn these songs like asap and i know the rhythms, just not the solos that well ><

  • ok i was skipping looking for tabs and what he said was slept with me!

  • Thank you for this lesson . But I think that the main riff is in E. I'm looking forward to see you in the Zappanale =D

  • @TheGumboVariator See you at Zappanale! We got our funding together and we're gonna roll!

  • Pretty sweet fret work bubba

  • great lesson man u rock, i love black sabbath too and i have a band if u would like to hear how we sound theres a link in my profile

  • Gracias y saludos desde chile!

    

  • I know this is weird, but you have a really soothing voice.

  • damm your good

  • my goal is to learn this in 6 days, 2 measures a day.

  • so is that just C# minor pentatonic scale extenden pattern?

  • Noone cares if its official,or its not the exact fret hes playing.Its sounds right, so its ok.You must thank this guy insted for making that lesson and giving you free tabs.Now I can play the solo!Im 14 years old and palying for 1 month,thank u man for making this vid!

  • You are great men....nice solo and very good lessons...thanks

  • Sorry but this is incorrect, the official version (i have the sabbath book), has Toni playing this solo in the 2nd position on the A-string for the first three bars...it even describes him using the "thinner" strings to contrast the heavy sound of the intro chords...also at around 3:35, Toni does not bend the fretted G&B strings on the 9th, rather plays the two together followed by the e note (ie 9th fret on G by itself), in quick succession. The rest is fairly accurate.

  • @CenturionMachinery You might be right. You probably ARE right. But I am curious what book you have. The one I own looks very official but is riddled with errors. Most TAB books are released without artists' approval or consultation (just like my videos!).

  • @doctornerve The book I have is called "The Best of Black Sabbath" ..it is part of the signature licks series published and distributed by Hal Leonard....any tab books by Hal you can be guaranteed to be spot on and authorised...the trouble with the internet today is that alot of the stuff you find kicking around on sites like ulitmate guitar, fretplay etc is not correct...overtime this can lead to a dumbing down of the appreciation to play songs correctly.

  • @doctornerve I was wondering, since you do Sabbath videos, could you do some Ozzy videos from his solo career.

  • @Themeparkfanman Pretty much sticking of Ozzy-era Sabbath, but Ozzy's solo career features world-changing electric guitar, no question about it.

  • @Themeparkfanman fuck ozzys solo career! black sabbath was awsome but HEAVEN AND HELL WAS EVEN BETTER!!

    GREAT VID AWSOME SOLO!! AND GOOD EXPLANATION!! 

  • @CenturionMachinery theres nothing wrong in music buddy....wt eva u play is right....

  • @CenturionMachinery

    Virtually every publisher of tab books has something a little different than the next guy's book, and that's not counting the numerous tabs uploaded by "Joe Axeman" that are available on the web. I usually look at 2-3 different versions, and then find some Sabbath concert footage on youtube, or my dvd's to see where Mr. Iommi is actually playing it.

  • i love c# minor pentationic. WTF

  • 0:15 hail cool

  • WHERES THE TABS????

  • @jimirenzovillanueva see URL in More Info above and in video credits

  • thank tou kindly sir. your video helped me a lot. you're a very good teacher.

  • Question, it seems your tab was made with guitar pro, if it was, can you post the guitar pro file???

  • @bozzo83 The TAB was created using SCORE by San Andreas Press. Thanks for the good words!

  • Dude, you rock, really this iommi solos were haunting me...finally get it, you are The best, need to post more vídeos!!!!!!!

  • you send in response to my cover thanks to the lesson learned, I would like to tell me that I can improve. thank you and sorry for my bad English

  • you realy help me thanks

    rock forever

  • no 1 Back Sabbath lessons online...rock on man!!

  • black sabbath and tony rules man !!

  • It would be nice if your tabs said where the hammer ons and pull offs were...

  • amazing your awesome

  • hey man,thanks a lot for this video series.....is not just the solos,you're teaching me how to use my pinky finger ;)

  • your are the king men , the king

    -(sorry for may bad inglish)

  • @loquendoXD663 Your English is better than my Spanish, so don't apologize!

    Su Inglés es mejor que mi español, por lo que no se disculpe!

  • hey nice vid, ive been playing guitar for a few years now and in those years i have not learned much just a few riffs, i would like to learn alot more but i do not think i am experienced to do something so complex like this HELP!

  • Hi there, i am greatly impressed by your teachings, can you make some vedios on the gears or amps or other settings that brings such accuracy with your each solo lessons, thanks a lot

  • @Abhiabhi22 Thanks much. Probably not going to do gear reviews since there's so many variables (gtr + pickups + amp + speaker + amp settings + mic placement & rec technique)... I think a lot of gear reviews can send a misleading impression. If it's an amp review people think all the tone is coming from the amp. Do the same review and call it a guitar review and people will think all the tone's coming from the guitar, etc...

  • excelent lesson, cuz, you dont give note by note, this is so stupid, you played slow, putting in practice our musician habilities, EXCELENT.

  • Cant believe I actually just played it!...thanks :) :)

  • thumbs up if you heard his phone ringing

  • Gracias llevaba un rato buscando la tablatura. tanks a lot....

    you rock!!!

  • great lesson and all that, but where were the tabs? Did I miss them?

  • @lucradiste URL to tabs in More Info above, and in video credits

  • i love the tasty sound of a guitar solo!

  • finally someone with a real gibson sg all the ones i've seen have wierd frets you got the standared dots, think you

  • 3:09 things get brighter

  • wow this solo doesn't look hard what so ever

  • could u please do a video like this on man of the world by peter green

  • Thank you! I'm still learning! tomorrow I continue! I know the beginning of the solo now (H) it's not much but it's a start (H) I know like 2:55 - 3:04!!

  • ending makes me think of doom

  • @doctornerve Thank you very much, I would try it in gain at 3 or 4, is there any advice for Trebble Middle and Bass?? Thank you again keep making that awesome lessons!!

  • @doctornerve Thank you very much, I would try it in gain at 3 or 4, is there any advice for Trebble Middle and Bass?? Thank you again keep making that awesome lessons!! :D

  • Hey: awesome lesson and how do you get Tony Iommi´s settings in your amp?? thakns for this awesome lesson

  • @lucasfilms1297 I used a Krank Dist Max and a Line 6 Flextone II amp, and they mixed together nicely to get this tone. But I didn't note the settings, just dialed it in by ear. Not too much gain is the key, in my view. Good luck in the tone quest!

  • @doctornerve Thank you very much, I would try it in gain at 3 or 4, is there any advice for Trebble Middle and Bass?? Thank you again keep making that awesome lessons!! :D

  • @doctornerve also u need to take into account ur usin a gibson with p-90's, thats probably the main factor in ur tone

  • dude......omg.....I must be deaf.... I've been trying to get the riff by ear, and I got most of it, like the ending part very well and the one part after the rythym.....................ohh­h lord thanks bro for the help keep rockin'!!

  • Fantastic lesson ^^

    I just wanted to now what pickups you're using? :) They seem awesome and I'm thinking of replacing mine at the moment.

  • @SuperCrazyR18 These are 60's vintage Gibson P-90's. Thick bright single coil pickups that sound superb. BUT they are hummy and noisy and so they don't play too nice with modern high gain amps for example. Check out Lindy Fralin's wide variety of pickups, read up on the various reviews... they offer your money back if you're not happy with the pickups you buy from them. Fralin makes a hum-cancelling P-90. Also makes a high output humbucker. But you gotta do some homework before you order!

  • @SuperCrazyR18 I would recommend Seymour Duncan pickups, with these pickups you can play vintage and modern styles with a click from your selector switch. The only downfall is that they are on the pricer side.

  • Hey where did you get the drums part to help you keep in time?

  • @wra7h I transcribed the drums and bass into a sequencer and saved to a WAV audio file for the backing track.

  • THANKS MAN!!! i just learnt learnt the entire solo with this video... took me a week to get it perfect

  • I love the little message at the end! Good video with backing track as well. Brilliant!

    Thanks

  • the website with the tabs is not working

  • @Phill3991 should be ok now

  • only one thing... YOU ROCK ON !!!

  • The most motivational thing i ever heard, when it comes to learning Iommi's solo's, was: If i can play it with 2 fingers you should be able to do it with 4. just like to add doctornerve is a fucking champion!!

  • Passing tones outside of a scale are to be appreciated

    Not sure what you mean by that but I'll keep on tryin'.

    Thanks Nick

  • @stevelgm Sorry I wasn't clear at all. You wrote asking about chromatic steps in the pentatonic. All I mean is that it's ok to connect two notes in a scale by playing the chromatic steps between them. Those are called passing notes: notes that do not belong to the scale but are used to pass from one scale step to another.

  • at first i thought he was tony iommi lol

  • Excellent stuff, thank you.

    Newbie Question: I am just learning the pentatonic scale. Why does this song not follow the scale? I notice there are bits from the chromatic scale also, is that correct? I managed to get the main riff and chorus down myself before seeing your vid and the tab, but it was all at least one step lower but all from the pentatonic scale. Where am I going wrong?

    Thanks Nick

  • @stevelgm Passing tones outside of a scale are to be appreciated!

    But I can't really respond to the other tab, not having seen it, sorry.

    Thanks for commenting and rock on

  • Any ideas on how to play the solo starting on the 6th fret on the g string?

    its just how my instructor taught me to do it

  • gotta learn this in 9 days, and my amp keeps makin that annoying fucking buzzing noise because i suck at muting the other strings as i go. grr

  • @lastsaneman19 I can feel the pressure and the pain.

  • Thank providence that there still exist people such as your self who have not forgotten what Rock is all about. Sabbath for life, today's music is pure shit.

  • @AVIATIO You rule. This comment made my day. Thanks

  • OMG ! 

  • thanks. helped a lot.

  • Hey Doc - Excellent Tutorial, quick question, what's the string action you have on that SG?

  • @mxnblaze D'Addario "super light top, reg bottom"

  • thank you!!!

  • Your lessons are some of best ones on here.

  • @1Messiah4All Understood, and thanks!

  • Thanks man I so needed this! A school assignment that you helped me ace! My props go out to you man!

  • Thank you so much !

  • I've got my left handed SG and I'm ready to ROCK! Not willing to lose a finger tip though! Thanks so much for this it's a great informative lesson and very well played. Excellent teacher, what youtube should be all about.

  • @Yesbryn Fun comment - thanks. Rock on

  • Thank You For All Doc!!!

    Att: Dave Gonzalez

  • Very Good !

    Thank you =DD

  • a very good lesson but there are lots of mistakes on tabs. (not on your playing just tabs) First of all it didn't mention about hammerons and second that I have recognize just for now there have to be another 9 after 9 9 9 11 9 then go down at the first part.

  • the only i can say is thanks for the lesson and thanks god for the rock ;D !

  • Very nice, Sabbath is my all time favorite. Doesn't matter how much you you hear it or play it, it never gets old. That's fun stuff. Love it!!

  • Zappa and Sabbath , man , you've got great taste !!!

  • @yasthedoomed haha, thanks much. Zappa was a fan of Sabbath's, came out and introduced them before a couple of their concerts, came thi-i-is close to jamming with them onstage one night. You can clearly hear both guitarists' commitment to the blues and a common love and respect for it.

  • dang it, it doesn't sound half bad when I play it alone, but once I try and play along with the bass track I fall apart.

  • wow!!! perfect

  • Best lessons online. I really learned a lot. Thank you!

  • @ekoosed46 Very generous comment, thanks

  • @doctornerve Not generous... It is the truth... Very good lessons! Thx a lot.

  • @1Messiah4All Well, you rule. Rock on and thanks

  • @doctornerve No probs... I noticed the tabs on your site. It's very rare to find tabs combined with the notes. Very handy! So you rock... I'm just trying to rock, but getting there eventually. (subscribed and don't worry, I ain't gonna bother you with any further comments...)

  • Muy buena tu explicacion del solo de black sabbath, a mi me ayudo mucho y gracias por la tablatura pero habeces es bueno que alguien te explique como tocar porque seguir una tablatura habeces marea, muy buen aporte, thank you XD

  • Can you tell me your amp settings

  • @lemmycro No idea, sorry ... I dial it in by ear. I used the Krank Dist Max and a pretty clean channel on my flextone amp with just a touch of gain. Kept the gain levels down on both amp and krank so that the guitar tone still shines through and sings instead of being squashed by massive grind.

  • @doctornerve i dialed mine in by ear too on my line 6 spider IV. but thanks doctornerve :] i have to say your guide was incredibly helpful and also probably one of the best guides on youtube. i respect you and your guitar skills so keep shredding bro!

  • awesome video. this is my first solo and so far it sounds great. *sub/checks out band*

  • black sabbath shouldve had 2 guitarists, and you should've been one of em!

  • @Ben0itZ I don't deserve such a nice comment, but thanks for it anyway!

  • @doctornerve oh yes you do, you take the time to show us how to play some sabbath of course you do!

  • @Ben0itZ rt on. thanks

  • I just made a cover of this solo, you can watch it in my channel. Thank you for this lesson very much!

  • Awesome lessons

    Also ur vibrato is ridiculously good

  • Your lessos must be the best I've heard heere on Youtube, You're amazing!

  • Fantastic lesson! I'm still just a beginner at guitar, but this video is helping me a lot with learning the solo! It's nice being able to hear how every part sounds like slowed down. Now I'm working on playing it up to tempo! This will be my first real big solo.

    Thanks a billion!

  • @sakurastar68 Wonderful comment, thanks.

  • Thanks so much for this lesson! Learnt the solo in no time :)

  • Hey doctornerve I can now play Iron Man and Paranoid. What other Sabbath songs should I try? I'm thinking about War Pigs but it might be to difficult. What do you think?

  • @Itswalrus War Pigs is a big meal. But a satisfying one! I'd maybe check out N.I.B. or slow things down and try Behind the Wall of Sleep. Lots of feeling in that tune.

  • @doctornerve I checked out your video of N.I.B. and it seems easy. I'll try it, thanks.

  • i cant belivve i have to do this just finished riff im a begginer

  • thank you so much for making this video and tabs. you are a huge help and a fantastic guitar player!

  • Why doesn't your tab note pull-offs or hammer -ons? I'm here trying to listen to the song and guess em by ear. Kinda defeats the purpose of a tab/lesson...

  • @valkiris Why don't you watch the video and stop guessing?

  • @doctornerve I can do that too (and have been)... but then again, I can try and learn all the individual notes from the video while I'm at it :) Point being, it's much easier when it's tabbed out. I've looked at many tabs for this song and yours is the most accurate and best one. I just wish it had all the legatos noted.

  • @valkiris Point taken, thanks for the constructive input. Rock on

  • I want to learn this solo & paranoid, Youre great dr. though I dont' see tab and I really need the tab to learn this, If you can help me learn, I will make up to ya

    thanks brother

  • @kewlmark72 The TAB is in PDF format at the website mentioned in the info above and in the credits. Rock on

  • Outstanding

  • thats good

  • this solo is just Epic with capital E!!!

  • Man, your lessons are the fucking best i've ever seen :)

  • muchas gracias por el tutorial y por las tab por que busque por internet y no encontre ninguna que se le paresca Muchas gracias

  • Hi, I just want to say 'Thank you for your lesson'. I learned the first and second solo parts from your video. Your explanation is very easy to understand. I just uploaded my video, which is a fruit of your lesson !! Thank you!

  • That's hilarious. " If you're a big Sabbath fan, you'd probably enjoy my band Doctor Nerve." I seriously cracked up when you said that. Beautiful. The kids out there should also check out Miriodor and Blast. Seriously, this lesson was very helpful. I have to teach a student this solo and because of your wonderful breakdown of the solo, I don't actually have to sit down with the album and learn it. Thanks.

  • @MisterNiles haha, well I ain't lying about that. Miriodor and Blast - great just see those two names in the same sentence. We shared some shows with Blast. Nerve had a ridiculous jam with Blast after hours in Tilburg, heavily fueled by Duval. I have a few snapshot memories of that, including looking up and seeing Dirk pounding the drums mercilessly with a pushbroom. Precious moments.

  • Gah, the bends are hard to get to the right note (so I just play the actual note by not bending :p ). Thank you for music that is actually right. :D

  • Thank you so much for everything!!! the tab is great and braking it down bit by bit helps a lot!!

  • When i go to the site fot the tab,it doesnt load anything. Just a tan background screen. And the backing track...it only lets you listen to it. It is available for an actual DOWNLOAD? thank you! GREAT video! Sweet guitar. Your a great instructor!

  • @Videoguru184 make sure you download acrobat reader from adobe. thanks and good luck

  • @doctornerve I have it...ok it worked now! Thank you ur a great player! AWESOME guitar too!!!!!

  • You are awsome  man