Product Description

This book systematically dissects 12 bone-crunching hits. You'll learn all the techniques necessary to play James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett's most menacing licks, riffs, and solos. With lessons on bending, vibrato, harmonics, tapping, and a whole lot more, you'll be shredding along with Metallica in no time! Includes: Battery * Blackened * Enter Sandman * For Whom the Bell Tolls * Frantic * Master of Puppets * Nothing Else Matters * One * Sad But True * St. Anger * The Unforgiven * Until It Sleeps.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #199875 in Books
• Brand: Cherry Lane
• Model: 2500655
• Published on: 2004-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 184 pages

Features

• Includes:
• Battery
• Blackened
• Enter Sandman
• For Whom the Bell Tolls

Customer Reviews

Good for Beginners who love Metallica
This is a good book for Metallica fans who just started playing guitar. It has some of the greatest hits from Kill em All to the Black Album. Be careful, it doesn't teach you to play all of the songs the same way that metallica does. This could be a problem for perfectionists. Also, it doesn't transcribe the whole songs, just the majority of the rhythm guitar. If you're not just starting out, don't buy this book, buy a "play it like it is" book.

Sloppy Transcriptions
Of Metallica's first 5 albums, this songbook probably suffers the worst from transcription errors. The first printing of the book was released less than a month after the album was, so if you consider the time it took to transcribe, typeset, edit and get it printed, this was a rush job. The Unforgiven suffers the most in the book in terms of accuracy (the verse riff is so very wrong), while Sad But True has a few problems as well. Is anyone ever going to transcribe the eerie micro-tonal slide part of the chorus?

I don't know if subsequent printings have corrected some of the errors or not, but I do know that Guitar For the Practicing Musician (who were involved with the early Metallica songbooks) did release a 'Metallica Special' magazine that corrected the Unforgiven and Blackened (from AJFA), as well as a corrected version of Sad But True in their monthly magazine.

Awesome Metallica learning source!
If you are a Metallica fan and play guitar, then this book is a must! Learn all of Hetfield's Rythym and Hammett's solos. I learned more than 90% of this book's song already-with ease.