Metallica: Master of Puppets (Guitar / Vocal with Tablature) [Paperback]

Metallica (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1988

Matching folio to the best-selling album. Includes: Master of Puppets * Battery * Leper Messiah * plus photos.

Product Details

• Paperback: 68 pages
• Publisher: Cherry Lane Music (January 1, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 089524358X
• ISBN-13: 978-0895243584
• Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 8.8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #94,710 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #39 in Books > Arts & Photography > Music > Theory, Composition & Performance > Sheet Music & Scores > Forms & Genres > Vocal

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Solid transcriptions, January 8, 2005

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Aaron Dawe (Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Metallica: Master of Puppets (Guitar / Vocal with Tablature) (Paperback)

The Master of Puppets songbook from Cherrylane is actually pretty good as far as these items go. It's fairly accurate, even for some of the more complex sections. However, The Thing That Should Not Be is notated in drop D-tuning, when the whole guitar is actually tuned down to D -- but the actual notes appear correct despite this error. I like the fact that some of bassist Cliff Burton's leads (Orion and the intro to Damage Inc.) were incuded as well. You can nit-pick about some the positons in the tabulature, but as long as the notes are right, who cares?

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars watch it, January 26, 2002

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Ian Jurva (Richmond, BC Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Metallica: Master of Puppets (Guitar / Vocal with Tablature) (Paperback)

Much like any tablature book on the market, you have to take the info within the book with a grain of salt.
These tabs are not transcribed by the actual musicians, but by people trying to figure out the easiest way to play these songs.
With that in mind - upon viewing the S&M video, I discovered that "The Thing that Should Not Be" is not in drop-D tuning as the book says, but rather in standard tuning tuned down a whole step (much like "Sad but True" or "Whiskey in the Jar" or "Sabbra Cadabra")- as far as I can tell, the only Drop-D tuning song that the mighty metallica does is "-human" from the afore-mentioned S&M.
these books are great to help you through trouble spots when you are trying to figure out certain difficult passages, but nothing beats figuring it out for yourself.
Still... could not have figured out some of the parts from this momentous album without the help of this book (especially considering what a novice I was when I first bought this - remember kids - downstrokes only... otherwise you won't be as cool as your Uncle James)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AWESOME BOOK!, March 12, 2011

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This review is from: Metallica: Master of Puppets (Guitar / Vocal with Tablature) (Paperback)

This is the most accurate book on the tabs for these songs that i have found so far... i cant really think of any bad things to put down on this product so if ur into tabs and metallica then get this book. But be sure to get the more expensive one. the cheaper one doesnt have the feature with the cut in holes and binded up spine so that it may just open and stay there without u having to push the page out or put something on it to stop the page from turning. its quite annoying when ur trying to play the tabs and the page keeps turning.