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Metallica - Master of Puppets* (Bass Guitar) (Conference Proceedings / The Metallurgical Society of Aime)

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I've gotten this book for learning Orion after being fed up with so many bad tabs on the net. Unfortunately it's a pathetic transcription, missing out on most of Cliff's fills. For example the 8 notes at 1:06 on the album version can be clearly heard to be different to what is in this book, and unlike the book says it's not repeated 6 times, Cliff is playing three separate variations to it during the six repetitions! What's in the book is what the guitars are playing! Does this author not have an ear?

And it's full of similar small mistakes and omissions for Orion. Ok, you might miss many notes if you're doing a quick and sloppy job, but how can you miss the complete bass riff at 1:45? Did the author thought that to be a guitar? And what it is clearly horrible, the complete bass solo starting at 6:37 is missing from the book. That's not a solo guitar mr. author, it's Cliff's bass!

So, I guess this book could be a starting point if you have the patience to correct all the mistakes in it, and I haven't checked the rest of the songs after my experience with Orion, but after what I saw in one song I think asking money for this one is a joke.

And they dared to print This book is dedicated to the memory of Cliff Burton on the cover. What a disgrace.

This book is great for any skilled bass. I've just started playing for about 6 months, and Its helped me with my playing. It is a good buy, I strongly sugest it. Oh and Mark Phillips rules!

It's another album with Cliff Burton, what else is there really to say? Between Battery, The Thing that Should Not Be, Orion and every other song you can't go wrong. Cliff Rules!

if you are a fanatical bass player like me and you play heavy metal this is the best book you can ever buy personally i use more hip hop style but this book showed me a better way to do it and gave me a more metal sound so you should buy this book as soon as you can.....oh and buy all the jewel cd's you can JEWEL RULZ