Tony Iommi's "Black Sabbath" guitar solo, lesson with tab

How to play Tony Iommi's guitar solo on the tune that started it all: "Black Sabbath". Includes solo, backing track, tab, and a detailed lick-by-lick breakdown.

Download TAB and backing track from http://www.didkovsky.com/tabs/

Lesson by Nick Didkovsky.

Equipment used:
1967 Gibson SG Special
Krank Distortus Maximus
Line 6 Flextone II

Thanks to Ian Roulat for playing drums on the backing track

Photos of Tony Iommi's "Monkey" SG viewable during backing track playback at end of video.

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[AFIROCK100]

The most dificul part...for me...was the Fast Riff!

But After 15 days of Practice,i got it!

[doctornerve]

@AFIROCK100 Cool! I was wrong about doing it all with downstrokes. I've seen videos of Tony do it with alternate picking.

[HarvesterofSorrow316]

hahaha that metal show.. lucky guy, great job, had some slight diferences with your version though and when you say "high whistle" you mean a pinch harmonic?

[doctornerve]

@HarvesterofSorrow316 Thanks, and yes pinch harmonic! Rock on.

[demoto123]

@doctornerve ohh man!! i knew it i saw you and i just yelled thats the guy who tought me N.I.B on guitar!!

[doctornerve]

@demoto123 ha - oh man, you made my day. Thanks for that. Rock on

[BennermanFilms]

I knew metal came from blues. But I never really heard it until hearing those licks really slow. It truly does sound bluesy

[alessio1396]

You are a very good Toni Iommi guitar player...

[TimBirkenholz]

@BennermanFilms Yea man the first album is basically a bluesrock album. Some blues guy here on the tube told me I'd go straight to hell because I said that lol.

[PietroRumenta]

You've got both wonderful hands and a wonderful guitar.

[dimlightbulb10]

Great job, but you should work on your vibrato. It doesn't sound wide enough for as fast as you are doing it.

[cthulhuinsamadhi]

@BennermanFilms Actually rock came from blues and metal came from rock so in that matter it can be said that it came from blues. When speaking of guitar, thing that defines metal are heavy riffs and gallop and somewhat classical approach when soloing with plenty of legato or staccato runs, and often some exotic scales or at least natural minor combined with arabic and byzantine scale. First would be Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi, second would be Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore.

[cthulhuinsamadhi]

Is that a standard tuning?

[Tinytimsleg]

@BennermanFilms Sabbath was definitely blues. There were a bunch of kids in England in the late 60's/early 70's getting all heavy blues, though in retrospect, I can't really figure out why, nor do I care. Just something that caught fire. All kinds of good shit came from it.

[ProductionMox]

tu aurait au moins pu finir le morceau !!

[nitakhars]

Tú si sabes del guitarreo de Black Sabbath, hay un montón de jovenzuelos que no saben dónde están parados.Muchas gracias por las lecciones, recibe mi más cordial saludo.

[stoopid2kidz]

best solo teacher evr

please teach the sabbath bloody sabbath solo