RF-014 • Iron Man (Black Sabbath)

[justinguitar]

Qs

Lesson Link: http://www.justinguitar.com/en/RF-014-IronMan.php

[Grasshopper]

Great lesson.
I'm not sure how to play fast enough the G/F#/G/F#/G part (around 3:06 on the video). Is it with slides or I should pick every chord? Would appreciate any kind of advise how to make this transition (from G to F# and back).

[Steve St.Laurent]

Pick the G each time and slide to the F# (quickly).

[raorn]

Thank you, Justin, for your lessons.  Clean and simple, I like it very much.

Please don't take me wrong, but this Iron Man riff is unfortunately not 100% correct.  I apologies for posting google-translated version of translated article, but I failed find the original source.  In interview to GuitarWorld Tony Iommi said that he plays this riff on "lower E and A strings".  Links contains explanations ("when the riff is played on the lower E and A strings, instead of the A and D, it sounds much darker and gloomier"), tabs and sample audio fragments.

Google-powered translation - _ttp://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&prev=_dd&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guitars.ru%2F02%2Finfo.php%3Fz995
"Original" article (Russian) - _ttp://www.guitars.ru/02/info.php?z995

I apologies once again for not being allowed to post external links...