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Black Sabbath - Snowblind (Patreon)

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2020-08-07 16:23:47
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Hello all,

This week I'm looking at the Black Sabbath track Snowblind. It's quite rare that I look at proper ROCK music on my channel but I really enjoyed learning this track and putting the video together. Maybe I should do it more often?

Here's a link to the video:

https://youtu.be/-1atc3fc3eo

It's Black Sabbath, so obviously we have lots of mighty riffs. The 2 solos are fantastic too. As I say in the video, I think the 1st solo would be perfect to learn if you're first starting to get into lead guitar since it's quite easy to learn and memorise, and it contains all of the most important lead guitar techniques. 

I decided not to do a backing track for this one as it probably would have taken me a week to program the amazing and complex drum parts properly. But music and tab is attached below.

Enjoy learning it. Speak next week,

Adrian

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Chris Grimes

I swear you've got a chip planted in my head. For some reason I got the idea this week to try learning Super Naut, the Side A closer on the same record. Thanks for this -- should be fun

Chris Kueny

I knew you had a Sabbath tune gestating there somewhere and I was getting pretty excited wondering when it would arrive. Will be playing with this one this weekend--too bad everyone's gong to bed just as I get to my guitar....

Chris Kueny

One more thing; I've had another Youtube Sabbath source who's covered this song, but I'd only fiddled with it a bit and had never tried the solos at all. I just looked back at it and I realize that it suffers in comparison to yours by not offering as much context. When you point out the different positions of the E minor pentatonic that are being used, the blues scale run, etc., it makes it much more approachable. (Added encouragement comes from your explicitly stating "this is actually not very hard.") I'd noticed before that the other guy, despite having many strengths and despite presenting all the details, tends to just list a series of notes to play, which can be dull and doesn't leave me very motivated to try, whereas your explanations help it to make sense, and have me immediately working through the solos. I'd discovered long ago that trying to learn a solo without understanding where it came from just makes no sense to me.

anyonecanplayguitar

Thanks Chris. I rarely check out other people's lessons of songs I'm doing in case I end up copying or being influenced in some way. I do always try and include a bit of context and explanation. Personally, I can always learn things much more quickly if I understand what's going on and can connect it with other concepts that I already know. And I think many people learn in a similar way. Otherwise it's just hundreds of notes and numbers flying around that can be hard assimilate.

Alun Price

I doubt many will complain if you do more Sabbath, personally I love Toni Iommi.

Chris Kueny

Good policy I think, not viewing others' lessons (even if one had the time). I'll enjoy any further Sabbath if you do more. And I'm with you--for whatever reasons, most metal doesn't grab me, but there is nothing on earth like these epic Iommi riffs, that sound like they were created when the earth was.

Tim

This is great stuff. Surely any guitarist can find something to love in Iommi's playing! Also been loving the Asheton riff lesson lately. Some great loud noises to release some stress in current times.

Matthew Bockbrader

I appreciate your catholic tastes in music. I’m amazed by the variety and quality of the lessons each week. I almost dread Fridays, because you always have something interesting that I want to learn even though I haven’t master the previous week.

anyonecanplayguitar

Haha, thanks Matthew. I'd be seriously impressed if anyone decided to master every single lesson that I post here!

anyonecanplayguitar

Absolutely Tim. Definitely stress-reliving to pound out some brutal riffs right now!

anyonecanplayguitar

Yes, I've half prepared another couple of Sabbath songs, so I might well return to Iommi a bit later in the year!

Chris Kueny

Yes, one of these lessons can keep me busy for a very long time sometimes. But it makes a wonderful pool of stuff to dip into as desired. The really high priority ones get added to the mix.

Chris Kueny

Interesting thing about the solo on this: I probably tend to look too closely at tabs in general, and on this in particular I realize that it never sounds quite right. But this song is perfectly burned into my memory for decades now, which makes me realize that the only way to do these things right is to know how to play the notes you want without thinking about it (Adrian's advice to learn the fretboard!) so that it will be just a matter of playing what you hear in your head.

anyonecanplayguitar

Yes, absolutely. Tabs are useful, but a lot of the 'feel' things are nearly impossible to notate possibly. So definitely best to use the tab as a guide, get it off the page as soon as possible, and focus on playing by ear and feel.

Chris Kueny

It's the kind of thing that was completely obvious to many people who simply picked up a guitar and tried to replicate sounds that they'd heard, but I've always had the struggle with living too much in my head. So guitar is maybe a good tool with which to practice not doing that.