Nuno Bettencourt VS. BAD TAB! (Flight of the Wounded Bumblebee) Check out all my lesson vids at: www.the-art-of-... Facebook: / fansoftheartofguitar / theartofguitar Thanks!!!
Mike, this series rocks. Guitar for the Practicing Musician (magazine) both helped and hindered my playing for too many years... thanks for fighting the good fight.
Dude! I had that exact same magazine back in the day (I'm 48) and yeah the transcriptions in that particular magazine were just awful and made me question "Am I just not getting it?" yrs later realised the same thing, been learning the songs wrong from bad tabbing Keep up the great work, thoroughly enjoy your videos Regards from Sydney Australia
A request: can we get more vids of you just playing cool stuff and showing off/us your technique/abilities? Insanely good and fun to watch. Thanks, Nik
Ha! Ha! I used to read all those magazines too and get tabs from them. Equally as important, I used to have an "A/DA MP-1" Guitar Preamp, I connected that with the "Quadraverb Plus" a classic 80' Reverb and Multiprocessor. Wow! This brings back so many memories! So cool...
I remember that mag. For Guitar For the Practicing Musician , I would see what songs were coming in the next issue and try and learn it to see how close I would be to the transcribed version. A few times I would read a transcription and be like "There is NO WAY that is what they are doing" like that diminished arpeggio and going from the high E string to low E string to continue the pattern AND playing it cleanly. An interesting thing to think about the transcriptions is that they seem to have not necessarily transcribed with performance in mind. More like these are the notes that I hear being played and how I interpret them having been played.
Ahh dave Whitehill. Amazing ear. Just didnt know the delay trick Also on a side note. Whitehill akso did scarefied in GW mag in G minor when the track was really in F#min..why? Cause racer x sped up the track just a tad..to work out that album the cents had to be raised in Eb..i forgot the exact number
In a future Guitar School they printed a letter where a guy let them in on the delay trick. He found out by seeing Nuno luve. Back then that would be the only way to find out, short of having Nuno sit with the transcriber. I also remember the riff to He-man Woman Hater tabbed awkwardly as well. Those guys did the best they could. Guitar For the Practicing Musician printed a version the correct way a few months later.
This is amazing, I need to figure out how to play this now! Did the guy that transcribed the song have to actually perform it too? I would have loved to see him try his version. Hahah
I had a magazine that pointed out the delay…probably Guitar for the practicing musician, sine I think they were tied to Hal Leonard or Cherry Lane. I will say, that wrong transcription sounds quite good in itself, just not like the song.
I remember that magazine. Way beyond me at that point, but practicing the wrong stuff as exercises did help me get better and made learning stuff from the Passion and Warfare book a bit easier for me. I also learned most of the Pornograffitti book at the time. I'm still playing a lot of that stuff wrong, but I'll go on autopilot sometimes and the stuff I'd been playing for 30 years will just automatically take over from the stuff I'm trying to play correctly if I'm not careful.
Use to get these back in the day....flip the pages and they move....the long lines on the side if I remember correctly....got a few from back in the day. After seeing this I went looking for a issue from 93 called speed demon,transcriptions of Obituary,sepultura,celtic frost,napalm death,overkill tab and I found it and bought it....thanks!
I wish I still had my guitar magazines. I think about them like a high school girlfriend, which, I guess they kind of were. A couple of issues later someone pointed out the delay trick and noted that the transcription basically lined up timing wise. I wonder if someone played this notation on a keyboard or programmed into a MIDI piano roll....
That tab was a nightmare. I was kind of halfway able to play the first part using it, but that string climb made me throw the tab (and almost my guitar) across my dorm room back in the day. Didn't try any farther than that.
As soon as I saw the title I wondered if it would be this magazine and...holy smokes! That exact issue was, if I remember correctly, the first guitar magazine I bought when I started playing. Though I got it for the AC/DC article and tab.
Mike, I have a video idea for you. Read some of those old Dimebag Darrell, Satriani or Alex Skolnick columns and present the ideas in their historical context and maybe you’ll even find something they got wrong, or if not, explain how far ahead of their time they were etc.
can you make a video of the song "love of my life" by Extreme nd emphasize the distorted guitar solo?..i believe it's Brian May but i cant figure it out how he played it..thank you
It wasn't until years later I found out he used delay, this was just beyond me. To be honest I struggle with it even with the delay, I find it really hard to get the right timing to drop in and my mind keeps reacting to the delay instead of the played notes.
Hey did you ever upgrade your pickups, namely the bridge? I saw your video of why this is your fav guitar and I just bought one very similar but the SLX DX. Love the guitar, makes life so easy on the fretting hand. Just wondering if you upgraded and what you got? I've read in a few different forums that there's no difference sound-wise to the Duncan Distortion they based this on. Also did you upgrade the bridge? You never posted a follow-up video, I checked. lol.
The TAB book for Pornograffitti is absolutely horrendous. Outside of playing licks in the completely wrong place, there are whole sections TAB'd in the wrong key. It'd almost be funny had I not paid money for it, and of course wasn't able to learn the song. Oh... and Nuno's N3 (the prototype to the N4) has 24 frets. He plays it in the Get the Funk Out video.
OK I remember this issue and I remember how blown away I was with flight the guys in these magazines are some of the best guitarist there all very good if you worked for guitar world are school magazines you had to be fucking great I use to always get guitar world for dimebad articles he did one for years anyway I never new he used delay that really takes the myth away anyway I fucking learned those licks not as fast but close I thought nuno was insane better then yngvia obviously it's just a myth still I learned those licks there crazy to play
You need to watch the Rick Beato interview with Nuno at 10:45. He claims he doesn't use a delay for Flight Of... So I had that same exact mag that you have with Angus on the cover back in 90 something. I found it to be wrong too but I had a different mag with the tab and it claimed to use a delay but it seemed not correct either, so I just picked fast kind of like tremolo picking and it sounded more like it. What do you think? Is Nuno lying?
He says he uses only a small amount of delay for ambience. I hear his statement as he uses no delay as a instrumental effect. Listen to him say it’s not delay for Bumble exactly at 10:54. He said it’s not. He even goes on to say people are accusing him of using it.
I remember in a magazine interview with Nick Bowcott, Nuno himself said that “Dave got really close” & paid him a compliment on the tab However he also said about the delay trick To be fair, we’re spoilt for choice today…Dave and his colleagues were working to deadlines and having to make educated guesses on sometimes indistinct lines Although I saw some AC/DC tabs by Wolf Marshall and they’re so wrong you wonder what he was on! I mean, I love Angus’ playing but if I’m working out a line I’d think…what’s the simplest way to do this? Angus would be the first to admit he knows a few dozen chords and the same number of licks
I start to think Nuno is one of the most overrated guitarists of all time. First of all, not a single solo of his impress me, or make me excited, or get chills. Second, according to this video, delay pedal makes it, not Nuno. And the third and final - guitar bloggers obsessed with every fart Nuno makes is beyond my comprehension. I will never understand the hype, I think.
Can 'we' stop this already?Talking about FOTWB is getting to be just as annoying and boring as Eruption. A constant rehashing of the same old same old.
Let me guess; you go through life saying you "tell it like it is", but really you're just trying to justify being a miserable asshole. This video series is a lot of fun, and if you don't like it, that's tough.
