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The Official tab was originally transcribed by: -Dave Mistake -Dave Help-me-son -Marty fried-hand -Nick not "Menza" be played the right way.

Playing Dave’s riffs on Hetfield’s guitar 😁😁

"Not forgivable"? So you dub them... *Unforgiven?*

The funny part is, Dave Mustaine is a self-admitted self-taught "street" guitarist - he absolutely would've been looking for the most direct way to play a riff; any fancy high speed position shifting/string skipping would've been the responsibility of his lead guitarists. These tabs read like someone just threw the notes into a program like Sibelius, hit "convert to Guitar Tab", and then called it a day.

Someone needs to get these artists to try and play their own songs from a tab book.

Buying these books was the best feeling ever. Sitting on the bus on your way home and fantasizing about being finally able to play all your favorite riffs... and then feeling discouraged once you actually got around to learning them.

This is a perfect example of why training your ear and learning your way around the fretboard is so important. Tabs are incredibly useful to give you a general sense of what's going on, but don't be afraid to question them, listen to the recording, watch the artists perform the tracks live, etc.

I remember having this tab book as a young child, it really sucked

“Holy Wars, The Punishment Due” is my favorite Megadeth song of all time. It’s on my bucket list to learn.

Oh man, story of my life... It was so discouraging, especially back in the 90's... Pretty much no internet, no youtube, no alternative, no one to ask. Struggling with this kind of situation, and trying to make sense like " ohh, Mustaine or Hetfield or Hanneman etc. are geniuses and I'm a retarded person, that's why they are up on the stage and I'm down here" (well, that is probably true anyway :))

'Holy Wars' is the name of the song. '(The Punishment Due)' is the name of the official tab.

Ah, the ol’ tab book. I remember back in the day the Guitar Center here in Chicago had a Beatles tablature box set of their entire catalog. The whole enchilada. It was $100. I was 15 and had been playing guitar for a little over a year and learning fast. I talked my dad into buying it and calling my birthday or Christmas present, something like that. When we got there to buy it, it was gone. I was straight up heart broken. I still have never seen another one, anywhere, to this day. TO THIS DAY! (Deontay Wilder voice)

Also, this is quickly becoming one of my favourite series, not least because you keep picking a bunch of my favourite songs: looking forward to more!

I'm getting interested to know who made all this weird notation for these "teaching" books.

Bottomline: the "official" tabs are not official. Like.. ever. Don't buy them.

Adam Jones got the chorus of Vicarious from the Megadeath tab book that''s totally wrong lol

When Mustaine went on the Alex Jones show in 2012 he mentioned how this was transcribed by Wolf Marshal "who did all the Cherry Lane transcriptions" and it was wrong.

You could also look at Megadeth: selections from Peace Sells & So Far, So Good... Oh man. Where to begin with that one.

Ahhh how nostalgic the first megadeth song I've learned and played

Sliding the pick on the string was hilarious.

"What, do they think we're Al Dimeola?"...that cracked me up!

These are crazy entertaining to watch... having struggled with these books personally as a beginner guitarist. Need more of these videos! ☺

what great timing, I was about to give up on practicing Holy Wars. THANKS MIKE

The coolest part about the end of daves solo is that you actually start with an upstroke on the barred 12th fret e, and kinda do it in a way where you're getting pinched harmonics from it. Hard to describe but I think I saw him do it and when I tried it, it was there! So cool!

OMG I've been playing that walkdown section without the menacing 2nd for over 20 years. Much appreciated!

Love all your videos brother! Really helpful and brings back so many memories! Used that same tab book back in the day to try and learn this. Realized how many mistakes were in it, just listened to the song over and over, figured it out myself, and been playing it *mostly* correct ever since! 🤘🙂

These videos are giving me a whole new perspective on how learning songs on guitar was for many people back in the day. I've only been playing for around 4 years, so when I want to learn some riffs I just find the top rated tab on Ultimate Guitar, and it's most likely pretty much spot on. I'm so glad I haven't had to struggle with tab books like these.

no doubt man.... part of what taught me to watch videos , and learn a lot by ear. even seeing the hand positions live made so much of a difference for me in finding out what was really being played vs crazy tab

Mike, you make awesome content man! Thanks for putting out so many great videos on the varieties of topics possible in music. Love it bro, keep rocking!! 🎸⚡

I love how he's so chill and seems to love teaching guitar and then casually shredds like an 80s vilain

These tabs were my life back in the early 2000s when I first started learning the guitar. Took most of them with me to Iraq a few times even. I’m sooooo glad I found this channel and that I wasn’t alone in thinking the tabs were funky lol.

Very nice catch and spot with Tool's "Vicarious" in there! I never thought about any comparisons regarding that riff, but when you noticed it, I thought the same.

"Today i just decided to go with the gameboy"🤣 I love this guy

I had to pull this book out and follow along. I’m so glad you’re doing these videos because I specifically remember giving up on this song when I got to the acoustic part. Just couldn’t get it to work. I kinda cobbled together my own version of the rest of it, so I never even noticed a lot of the mistakes because I don’t even remember looking at each note in the book. I’d look at the parts to get an idea of it and then I was so impatient to learn it by reading a book I’d just figure it out by ear. No wonder I never learned a whole song! Now I want to see the real way to play Hanger 18!

Thanks Mike, this video brought back the same memories and frustration trying to learn songs from rust in piece with the official book. Totally agree this book makes it way harder on top of hard songs to begin with. I found wrong notes in Tornado of souls, and used to use my Digitech GNX2 to record and slow down 9 seconds of music at a time to work the notes out. That's why these days I use amazing slow downer all the way. Time consuming, but very rewarding when you nail the music exactly! Being able to watch their fingers on KZfaq vids really helps too.

Ι remember getting this tab when I was 14 years old, trying to play with my limited abilities back then, closing the book and thinking "well.... there goes my money down the drain..." Thanks for the video Mike!

One of the hardest songs I learned for the most part. Watching Dave play on Headbangers Ball Live from the start of the Countdown to Extinction Tour.

Love your videos and explanations! You are very pedagogical!

Excellent vid. Everything was spot on!

There's a part of me that admires that they even included the brief feedback bursts because noise like that does deserve to be treated as part of the composition (think about how much less gutsy Weezer's "Say It Ain't So" would be if they hadn't used the take with guitar feedback swelling up before the chorus), even if it can't really be notated beyond general directions like "let feed back" or "high-pitched feedback," but then it was all open strings and I had to retract that admiration - if you're gonna notate the presence of noise and feedback, don't get it wrong!

Hi Mike, I just wanted to say this was a great video. I'm 45 and have been playing since I was 17... I bought the Rust In Peace book for around $40 Australian many years ago. For people who are new to guitar, unfortunately these books can give people a real bum steer and you are also correct that back then there were certainly no you tubes or much in the way of other resources to help people. Not only did I and others spent countless hours trying to play parts tabbed wrong and almost impossible to play properly, we now have to spend time learning them with more accurate tabs fighting against 20 years of muscle memory...

I love these tab book videos! Keep’m up

That 26th fret tap and slide was the best

I love all these videos. It's amazing how many of these songs I still play wrong because of damn tab books!!!

I have this one! I scratched my head a few time trying to learn the riffs, and finally did some adaptation work on my own.

My new favorite KZfaq channel. Excellent.

I just downloaded the Book and today I got into Dave´s final solo and I was like: "That´s looks and sounds really weird" and decided to make a research so i got to your video. Thank you very much! YOu save e a lot of time and effort Bro !!

i started playing in 96, and it was hard times. nowadays its guitar heaven.

God I am loving that 70's Explorer, Hoping to get one soon here too!! Love your videos...!

awesome video man, i really enjoyed this.

Seeing that classic Gameboy is taking me back lol I had two of those bad bois when I was younger, playing Killer Instinct and Tetris Blast

Keep doing it! I love this section 🎸💪 I'm fought with this books too many years 😁

I feel like the cliche "when i was a kid, we we had to walk through 6' snowdrifts, up hill, BOTH WAYS!" But it is definitely easier for players to learn songs, technique, theory etc., Today than it was in the late 80s/early 90s when i started. Tabs were almost always poorly transcribed, if you could even find them at all. I remember song books, that were written as actually sheet music, no tabs; but many were all but useless because all they had were the melodies with the chords on the top. They were pretty much only useful for singers. We had internet at my house a few years before most of my friends did, my father was into Ham radio, rebuilding old radios, electronics and shit like that. We had a c Commodore 64 a few years before that. I would find tabs online that were LITERALLY never right. Tabs123 was one of the earliest. Besides being notorious for being wrong, they had to be made by physically hitting the "-" dash from one side to the other, 6 times to represent the strings. Printing them out was a whole other issue. We didn't have color printers, what they printed was no different from what you could do on a typewriters, so they were difficult to see clearly. They were printed on the paper that had the holes running on the sides that you had to remove when it was done printing, and they came as 1 long continuous pages that were perforated so you could pull each page off. However the way they printed, there inevitably be pages that cut off one of the tab lines, so 1 page might have the LowE to G, and the top of the next one had B & E. You had to use a ruler to write in the strings that were cut off. The only other place you could find them was in magazines, but you were at the mercy of whatever they decided to transcribe from one month to the next. Even then they were usually only part of the song, maybe just the main riff. I knew a lot of players who developed really bad or fucked up technique by learning them from magazines. It's hard for players to actually accurately explain their playing style because they're usually not even thinking about it. An interviewer would ask them how they play something, and the response would be "um, im not sure let me see," then they'd play it to figure it out. The problem was that once they were paying attention, they would end up playing it differently that they normally would. This goes double for fast, shredding solos. One of my friends to this day has they most awkward hybrid picking techniques I've ever witnessed. He would hold the pick so that the tip was pointed from the tip of his thump instead of the side like you're supposed to do it. So the tip would be lining up with your thumb nail. They tell you to hang you're hand loosely toward the strings, with your other fingers that you're going to be using. But theb way it was worded you could easily misunderstand the "towards" of the string to be perpendicular to the way the strings (or body), when you really should have them parallel with the strings. So his hand is like 5" away from the strings, his wrist is bent practically in a 90⁰ angle from his arm, and he extends his pick and fingers toward the strings. If it was an acoustic, his fingers would be pointed into the sound hole. It's such a screwed up way to do it that i remember more than once people who've never even held a guitar, let alone play one, point out that it doesn't look right, it's that obvious. I had worked in a repair shop 15 years ago, and every once in a while a client would be dropping off or picking up a guitar. When i would have them play it to make sure that its what they wanted, they would play with that same bizarre way, so i hunted down the issue. Sure as shit, i immediately saw why so many people who practiced it developed this terrible technique. The 2 or 3 pictures (which not all lessons have) were done in a way that didn't show clearly what he was doing, they were pretty much useless. That's just 1 of many similar stories.

Right of the bat… thanks for listening to subscribers really enjoyed this as I had the same child hood guitar issues , Almost stopped me playing. these book are not cheap

Thank you sooo much for this video. This will be the next song I learn on the guitar PERIOD.. NEXT THING YOU KNOW, THEY'LL TAKE MY THOUGHTS AWAY!

I like the microphone listening to the heart drawing

Such a damn good tune! I'm always a little nervous to learn anything from TAB in case it's wrong 😂 I might just have to bite the Sweating Bullet and get a TAB book for this.

This is so relatable. It's content creators like yourself who enable us to have the resources to learn things the right way 🤷

10:02 WOW! That must be the most confusing tab i've ever seen XD

You are so right about the crazy stretch I thought these guitarists had. I also thought the two guitars on one tab were one guitar. That really messed my brother and me up when we were learning.

I really like the sketch-like bits in between the analysis. 😄

The not sweeping alleged stretch Pull off part of the solo, sounds so good if you finger tap it

nicely done young one, so much in common with 5 magiks. love mustaine's ascending/descending layering, ie, hanger 18 in Dmin that ascends but does it in layers, fkn aweome.

Dude, can you make a lot of videos like this? I feel like this can be your thing. Not even getting started on apps and guitar pro. Anyway, much love.

I really enjoyed this video. Considering I learned the song from The book and made some of the adjustments "by ear". Thanks

Learnt the song using tabs off the internet. Just to mess around I started playing the riffs in different ways, Dave’s stretchy bit as in the tab that he is using came naturally. It was the pull offs and hammer on riff that was fun, I sometimes play it on the twelfth fret of the low E string or the second fret of the D string.

Very good job man...thanks for your advise and brilliant suggestion...👏👏👏👌

Great video! I often tell my students not to rely wholly on the tabs, as they can be wrong. You’d expect the “official” tabs to be perfect, but they often aren’t and the online tabs are usually worse! Use your ears, check different tabs, watch live footage and/or find tutorials (like this one!) to help you find your way!

The 3,2,0,0 part, that also makes more sense in how you show it is supposed to do since that's similar to Phantom Lord

Haha - thanks for doing these tab book videos, to this day I have the justice for all and rust in peace books seared into my brain!! I almost got that flamenco riff nailed down all wrong too 🤣

Can you make best tab books list or something like that

I’m glad I learned this song from a Guitar mag tab and not the official tab book.

Ought to do a series of the whole album.

One of my favorite series on KZfaq.

10:32 I'm probably wrong but I think what they might mean is to fret at 14, tap the string at 26 (or halfway between the 14th fret and the bridge) with a finger (don't keep the finger on the string) so you'll have the fretted note at 14 and it's octave harmonic at 26 both audible. A pick tap might work but it's not always good about getting both notes to ring together (and you get more wiggle room to hit it with the greater area of string contact from a finger.) The sliding part is possibly what happens when someone tries to tab fret noise or more likely a full step bend up and back (which would bend both the fretted note and harmonic.) To avoid having to guess where the imaginary octave fret is, move it to 10/22-24 on the b string or 5/17-19 on the e string .

This is awesome! My hat's off to you sir! I only wish you had been around to teach this stuff like 25 years ago :-)

We did a full cover on the channel Shred Brothers it’s a weird song to learn. We improvised.

Great series!

Now this is gonna kick ass!!!

Why do the best songs always have the worst tab books…..? I love these videos, hope you can make a whole series out of it🙌🙌🙌

Great video dude!

Very thorough.

back in the pre-Internet days I bought the tab book for Kill Em All just to learn Anesthesia and I must say it was extremely accurate.It took me all summer but I learned the whole song and was pretty damn pleased with myself lol!

Thanks Mike. This is such valid and important content. Keep them coming. I remember in 1984 I had an Iron Maiden book. It had all their songs in it. Up to Piece of Mind. Powerslave wasn't out yet. But that book showed me so many songs that I loved at the time. And i still love them today. But the tab was wrong in a lot of areas. But of course......I never realised it because I was a beginner. But in hindsight.........OMG!!!!! That book was so off!

Dude I just discovered your channel and these videos and man am I right there with you brother!!! I'm 41 and I stared playing Megadeth in Jr. High. My dad drove me an hour each way to buy me the Countdown tab when it came out. And that garbage Nevermind book you also covered! Anyway, I am that dude who couldn't read, assumed the book had to be right, I just wasn't good enough, and struggled through. Maybe it made me better in some ways. Hell I still have almost every tab I ever bought and am still actively building my collection. At least now as a mature player I have some perspective and know what I am buying. My tabs are as prized to me as my guitars, some more so. Anyway, rock on!!!

Your chimes came out of nowhere just like how the 4th frets notes came out of nowhere hahahaha! Hilarious bro :D

I couldn’t help salivating over that explorer 😂

So I have the rust in peace transcribed scores book. Not all these mistakes are in there, but many of them are. I distinctly remember looking at the verse riff and deciding if do what actually made sense. Same thing with that ridiculous pick tap thing and his solo fingering. But I believe the diads on the punishment due are there in my version. Great video.

New subscriber here. Keep up the sick videos. Love your stuff man

oh my god, your tone is so good! what’s your signal chain?

Your bad tab videos are awesome, especially Megadeth!

this makes me feel so much better from my bass guitar / drummer days and the Master of Puppets and Justice for All tab books, I was all like I don't have a good ear but there's no way in hell that's how that part goes ha ha - thank you for your service

That Vicarious thing was pretty sick. The boys in TOOL knew what they were doing.

7:55 that alrt actually was correct it swtiches back and forth from the 7th fret to the 3rd fret in different parts of the song

that acoustic part is my favorite part in the whole song and it only took me about 3 months to learn (that's bad I was being sarcastic lol) it's supposed to be like a 2 string sweep picking exercise and it sounds really cool

I was going 5-3 at the end of the begging riff for the past 7 months never knew it was 3-5 and this way does sound more accurate too I can tell

What makes it look more difficult is the way dave singing while playing that insane riff

Oh I love these Tabs Gone Bad videos