Soloing Secrets - Tony Iommi
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.ค. 2024
- Hey everyone! Here's the next episode of Soloing Secrets with Tony Iommi. There's a Black Sabbath Chordplay and Tony Iommi Three-For-All lesson already on the channel, but I've had a number of requests to feature more of Tony's legendary playing, so I figured it was finally time to do a deep-dive surrounding his classic soloing style in this Soloing Secrets episode, which is perfect for Metal Month - so let's dive in!
This episode takes a look at a number of areas within Tony's playing style and includes areas such as his pentatonic scale phrasing, string bending/vibrato phrases, aggressive pull-off licks, furious trilling movements, melodic phrasing, and much more! The ideas shared here were pulled from the first four Black Sabbath albums - which in many ways started it all as far as hard rock and metal music's birth in the early 1970s.
The song-based licks/phrases in this lesson came from classic tracks such as 'Black Sabbath,' 'Behind The Wall Of Sleep,' 'N.I.B.,' 'War Pigs,' 'Sweet Leaf,' 'Supernaut,' 'A Bit Of Finger,' 'Snowblind,' 'After Forever,' 'Lord Of This World,' 'Under The Sun,' and more!
Needless to say, if you're a Black Sabbath/Tony Iommi fan, a metalhead looking for some classic licks to explore, or a player searching for some classic ideas to play around with that came from an absolute guitar legend - this lesson is totally for you! Give this episode a view, leave some comments/feedback, and please subscribe to Late Night Lessons - THANK YOU!
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I hope John Christ from Danzig can be featured on the channel. One of the most underrated players in metal history.
I actually prefer Johns brother Cheezits H.
Agreed!
If you're going to learn anything from Tony, it has to be the importance of repitition. That's what catches your ear after all. Whether it's riffs or licks, he is a master of this.
Man..!! This takes me back to learning the bass lines on the first Black Sabbath album… circa 1970… Great memories..!
Now I’m learning the guitar parts… FIFTY TWO FREAKIN YEARS LATER..! Hahahaha..!
Thanks 👍🏼❤️
I love the Headless Cross era
I enjoyed this lesson a lot, Dave. If you will, please do Dimebag Darrell next. Thanks very much.
Those 4 albums are classics indeed. I personally see Sabotage also as part of their 70 golden era. Great video.
Dehumanizer is their best album in my opinion. Crushing riffs, great lyrics, great singing, ripping leads.
@@SuperHorsecow I like that album but no. What I love about that was to see those legends of dio and tony able to comeback with a great old school metal album and it was the best thing either had done in decades. I’m glad you dig it but it it just doesn’t have the gravity of those early albums. Just my opinion .
Six albums. First six are epic.
Jeez brother, I can't help but notice how awesome your playing and feel make it possible to understand what you are preaching. All of your bends, etc. are so full of soul. I can't help but think of someone like Freddie King for example. Very cool. Thank you for your vid.
..now that you mention it.
One of the greatest guitarist out there. So much to learn from him still picking up things from him after all these years. I really like his acoustic parts, End of Symptom of the Universal, Fluff, Middle of Wicked WOrld, Orchid, solitude, etc... etc....
Feels like you read my mind... Love Iommi forever. ❤
The NIB solo was one the first I figured out. By ear from a record player. A great education.
Mine was The Warning. By ear from a record player too!
You mean Geezer's lyrics...
Gotta love power chords makes the modes and scales easy.
Didn't they get the name from the Boris Karloff movie??
I seem to remember that.....
Yes. The story goes that they would practice in a movie theater and seen the movie title up on the sign and one member said hey people pay to see these types of movies. Let's change our name and make this type of dark scary music to match these movies. Not an exact quote but the meaning is the same.
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is a mighty riff too
The trilling down the scale thing is a very big part of the leads for the Voodoo solo thing off of Mob Rules.
I forget how heavy his leads were I think I can learn a bunch from him
Great lesson Metal month definitely needed the metal master. Thx Dave 🎸🤘🎸
Great video. I've been hooked on Sabbath tunes lately. Iommi's riffs are so intetesting and fun to play.
There's a little irony in how interested we are in left-handed guitarist's right hand.
I had no idea about his finger tips. I can not imagine playing like that on your fret hand. Good lord!
It's amazing how Tony's unique style of playing is directly due to the injury to his fingers. He had to relearn playing chords primarily using his first and fourth fingers, and to fill the sound with volume. If he had not injured his fingers, his style of playing would have been totally different.
oh hell yes. This dude is one of my favorite players. I'll be checking this out in depth tomorrow. I have a gig with both of my bands tomorrow I have to get to sleep now. Cheers 🥂 mate
Thanks David iommi is one unique player !!!!! U hear a lot of guys playing bits but rarely does anyone sound similar
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Love your shirt! My favorite album. Master of Reality
Great work as usual! Thank you
This is amazing. Thank you!
Thanks so much. Really enjoyed this.
Thanks for this!
Love your playing. Thanks for sharing your knowledge
Very informative. Thank you.
Excellent lesson!!!
Thanks for this great video ! Tony is a true legend.
Wicked world,first song they ever recorded and tony used a strat.
Wicked world! What a great album and great show thank you
I wonder why people dont talk much about Iommi and his dual solo technique he did alot in the past
love Tommy Iommi..great job.
Excellent Video! Iommi is truly one of a kind. Cheers.
Man... that was over due! good stuff!
Awesome job my brother
Another superb lesson. The feel you put into your playing is soooo important to make the music sound right
Easily my favorite of your guitars! So awesome 🤘
Your channel has the most interesting choices for topics/ artists on TH-cam. Never know what you're going to tackle next, but it's always awesome!
thank you David, I really like your lessons, from France
Great stuff!! This is essential info, especially showing how to be more creative within the “box” like the bend and trill licks😀🎸
those first four albums remain on the pinnacle of rock. Still love it to this day!
Sabbath is the only band i never get tired of . Started listening to them in the late 70s .❤😂
Great Lesson Mr. Brewster!!
Excellent stuff David. Videos like this really make me want to grab an album, grab a guitar and try to work stuff out for myself...
The thrills, rundowns and repeatative notes make Tony so unique in his own way.
Wicked Wooooorld!
Perfect October Lesson!!!! Thanks, David! Tony rules! And of course, so does the rest of the band! EDIT: This Lesson is a GOLDMINE!!!
Thank you David for this insight into Tony`s technique. I have been a fan of his and Black Sabbath since I first heard their first album back in the 70s. I am now in my mid sixty`s and still learning guitar. Keep it going.
What a fantastic video. Normally when people talk about Tony Iommi they just talk about the riffs - which are obviously great - but I have always though, like you, that there is much more to him. He is really underrated as a songwriter, arranger, producer and lead guitarist, and it is great to see someone taking the time to start unpicking his lead style. Thanks!
Yep, Tony does a lot of trills. It's an Italian thing
How can you not have the Godfather of Metal featured on Metal month saw the first reunion tour in the 90,s talk about an Erie feeling when the show started needless to say it was a fantastic show Tony is a true living legend 👏 👍🤘
My favorite guitar player. Last time I seen him was outdoors on Chicagos lakefront with the Mob Rules lineup. 4th row right in front of Iommi. 5 stacks all fired up!
Guitar heaven…or hell.
Awesome
Yessss
Tony Iommi is the first metal guitarist!
Iommi best solo work is on Die Young
Brilliant, as usual, and great to show the work of this great player, but, oh what was I going to say...? Oh yeah, BRIAN TATLER!!!!
Nice!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks
Black Sabbath changed music forever
Nice tone on the Tone tones!
Brilliant lesson and insight as ever, David. I’d love to hear your thoughts on Zal Cleminson from the Sensational Alex Harvey Band. Not often talked about, but a truly magnificent player. Searing tone, biting lead work and some spectacular wide vibrato.
Thank you for mentioning SAHB!
Geezer Butler's lyrics.... Great lesson.
Mr. Anthony "Riff Master" Frank Iommi 🎸⚡🔥
Nice work. Will you make one on the Dio, Martin, Gillian or Hughes era?
His solos during these eras really were some of his best.
i love late night lessons dude
Sabbath and Priest A and B. 1979 in my father's car on 8 track tape I Am Iron Man came on and my life changed at 8 years old. I I was hooked then in 1986 Ride The Lightning was presented to me on Cassette Tape. Life changed again! Then in 1992 Souls Of Black by Testament was played on KNAC on FM radio in Oc California and my life changed again, and I am still looking for the next change.
Nice "Wicked World" there
Thanks for the breakdwon
Dude! I was thinking about you just this morning. Thinking damn I ain't heard anything from you. Now here you are doing my favorite! Umm... Not Ozzy's lyrics.. the lyrics were mostly Geezers.
I came across Black Sabbath when I was eight years old in 1972, the intro to War Pigs scared me, not sure why but it did. To me the siren reminded me of a tornado warning siren, I got stuck in one in 1969. Anyway, I really was hugely influenced by the first five albums. I also like Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die. I loved Tony's use of alternate tunings, I think my favorite Sabbath song is Spiral Architect, you've got it all in that song.
Nice Brew.....been jamming Ala Iommi here at home lately with my p90 SG.......trying to shape some nasty tones....
Loved the lesson … some of Tony’s best playing is on Heaven and Hell & The Mob Rules … I think Geezer wrote most of the lyrics for BS or at least that’s what I’ve read over the years … 😎
Lonely Is The Word.
Prosthetic tips! That's the secret 😜
Great lesson, Tony is such a legend, like the move into metal. How about a jam band lesson, Jerry Garcia or Trey?
My first metal influence @ 10years old thanks to my 14 yo cousin
Interestingly Wicked World wasn’t on the UK release of the first album, so I didn’t get to hear it till CDs happened. So I don’t really mentally include it in the real Black Sabbath canon which ended with the rather patchy Never Say Die (imo)😊
From the source 🤟🏻
There is only one riff master, and Tony is it, just ask anybody : ) You have outdone yourself again sir. Thanks!
Thank for covering Godfather Tony! Great video. Listen to Shockwave(s) of Never Say Die. Crushing riffage!!!
Great lesson, learned a lot from that. You should do Horslips sometime. Try the albums Book of Invasions and Aliens.
Paranoid released the day of Hendix's death. An end to one era & a start toward a new. I often wonder how Jimi's playing & songwriting would have been inspired by the British prog & metal albums in the 70s.
That list of influences, I can literally hear the Clapton and Page in at least the first three Sabbath albums. There are so many Zeppelin moments in those songs. I mean it helps that Sabbath had Geezer, the fancy walking bass guy, like JPJ, and Bill, the crazy jazz drummer, like Bonham.
Iron Man by Tony Iommi is another great book I would recommend.
Black Sabbath was name after the 1963 movie with Boris Karloff so said
Yes! And directed by the brilliant Italian director Mario Bava.
Aargh! I really wanted to hit the 666 like button, but I couldn't resist! This is my currently fav guitar channel!!!
The song at the beginning is Wicked World
I hope you could feature Huw Lloyd Langton who played for Hawkwind. That would be great 😊
Hey Dave since it’s October and Metal month how about breaking down some of Marty Friedman’s exotic clean licks he would bust out in Megadeth, not necessarily note for note but kinda what he was thinking or similar scaler sounds, because I don’t think Mary stuck to scales and modes but I’ve always loved his interesting note selections and tasty little clean flamenco/eastern blend stuff. At least that’s what it sounds like to me a flamenco guitarist from India lol .
Hey! I have featured Marty a few times on the channel and created this special lesson centering around his exotic scales last year for Metal Month.
Marty himself actually commented/shared this lesson on his official FB page last year - it was cool and I was sooOoo honored! Check it out and thank you!
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th-cam.com/video/x5jZiTwtOPI/w-d-xo.html
@@LateNightLessons yep I remember that now and you’re right it was awesome and even cooler that Marty commented . Thanks for the content and keep up the awesome work. You are one of the best teachers on you tube I love your lessons it’s like hanging out with your buddy and he’s showing you some new stuff he’s been working on.
I love October my twins were born in October and I love that it’s the official unofficially metal month . The band I always think about this time of year were influenced by sabbath and tuned down , but I never hear anyone talk about them much about them, maybe because they weren’t really technical players but they new how to build atmosphere and set a mood but Type O Negative, Peter Steele is an underrated genius to me incredible songwriter and lyricist. I have SAD and TON is the soundtrack to fall for me at least. Of course they would be canceled in a second today. I imagine I Like Goils would be considered more controversial than Christian Woman would be today. No body sounds like Type O really either besides The 69Eyes (another good Halloween band)
I played the riff wrong on that first one but it sounded ok, instead of starting on that 4 on that A power chord second riff part I added the flat 7 and started on the 5th but yea liked it.
Iommi was pure blues the first sabbath album
Every listen to the Japanese metal band ningen isu? Plenty of guys get the iommi riff style down, but the lead guitarist of Ningen really is the only one I can think of that nails the iommi lead style.
After all these years Im still trying to learn Tonys licks 😢
All of this sounds so great on a Les Paul, it's almost a shame that all he had when they stated recording was a broken Strat and an SG special.
However, there is nothing quite like the SG. That's why I made sure my first Gibson was an SG. Tony and Angus are partly to blame... But also The Cars and BOC.
I’d love to see something on Wisbone Ash and/or Uriah HEEP.
I love you skull mug and the other ghosts on the table along with the Trilogy of Terror guy and sir graves ghastly tombstone it adds a kind of eeriness to your room 👻 and I love your Black Sabbath shirt you don't even need a blacklight wearing that thing 👻 lol