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Shitty tab books - Iron Maiden

submitted by GoatWarVet to Guitar 1.6 yearsApr 2, 2023 15:14:47 ago (+4/-0)     (m.youtube.com)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6O2QFLDOCVM

This guy goes through a bunch of old tab books and demonstrates how horrid they really are. It's pretty entertaining in hindsight. I bet I still have half a dozen of them in a box somewhere...


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[ - ] TheRealBuddha 1 point 1.6 yearsApr 4, 2023 22:47:32 ago (+1/-0)

It was this one, wasn't it?

https://fngt.gq/tmp/IronMaidenTab.pdf

[ - ] GoatWarVet [op] 1 point 1.6 yearsApr 4, 2023 23:38:45 ago (+1/-0)

No, Wickerman was many albums later. The version I have that includes The Trooper covers their first four albums combined. Iron Maiden through the Piece if Mind album I believe it was. There were tons of those shitty tab books in the 90s. It was extremely discouraging to try and learn from them as so many parts were just flat out wrong or they would use impossible chord fingerings. One of the Metallica books, don't remember the particular song, had you fretting something like the 9th fret on the A string and the 2nd fret on the G string. Or something similar.

I'm guessing whoever they had transcribing a lot of those songs back then wasn't a guitar player. Or they were just evil.

[ - ] TheRealBuddha 1 point 1.6 yearsApr 5, 2023 14:06:22 ago (+1/-0)

Not a lot of guitarists back then did much with the tab books. They'd just sign off on 'em after they were done, probably without even checking. They might do one song for a guitar magazine, maybe... The rest was all done by other people.

Some artists have been pretty good about it. Slash is one of the folks who have been pretty good, for example. It's one of the reasons I appreciate his work. Then, you have artists like Clapton who has probably spent almost zero time working with tab transcription.

[ - ] GoatWarVet [op] 1 point 1.6 yearsApr 6, 2023 09:20:08 ago (+1/-0)*

Yeah, the guitar mags back then were way better than the tab books, I think. I had a couple boxes of em at one point. Wish I'd have saved those as opposed the those shitty tab books.

[ - ] TheRealBuddha 1 point 1.6 yearsApr 6, 2023 15:46:06 ago (+1/-0)

I actually still have a whole lot of 'em. I still subscribe to a few, though I really end up just skimming through them and then putting them away in the library. I have a lot of books and periodicals.

[ - ] Hoobeejoo 1 point 1.6 yearsApr 3, 2023 00:29:56 ago (+1/-0)

Hahaha. I remember that book. I did t have that one. But the Metallica books about destroyed me.

[ - ] GoatWarVet [op] 0 points 1.6 yearsApr 4, 2023 23:39:53 ago (+0/-0)

Lol yep. They were so bad.

[ - ] GoatWarVet [op] 0 points 1.6 yearsApr 2, 2023 15:49:46 ago (+0/-0)

So many of those old tab books are just terrible. As bad or worse than the tabs you find on ultimateguitar. Anyone remember OLGA from back when the internet was useful?

[ - ] Hoobeejoo 1 point 1.6 yearsApr 3, 2023 00:30:40 ago (+1/-0)

Ulitmate guitar is trash. I wish there was a reliable le source for tabs.

[ - ] JudyStroyer 3 points 1.6 yearsApr 3, 2023 01:49:15 ago (+3/-0)

Check out songsterr.com (iirc) its got a good selection of tabs and can play along, change speed, loop and all kinds of shit. My kids and I all use it.

[ - ] Hoobeejoo 1 point 1.6 yearsApr 3, 2023 11:58:38 ago (+1/-0)

Thanks. I'll check that out.

[ - ] GoatWarVet [op] 0 points 1.6 yearsApr 2, 2023 15:44:51 ago (+0/-0)

Aw shit. Sorry about the mobile link.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6O2QFLDOCVM