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As most of you are probably aware Ozzy Osbourne recently released his latest album “Scream” replacing a decade long relationship with Zakk Wylde in favour of Greek young-gun Gus G. You can read my review of the album here.

I decided to record a lesson based on the intro of Track 1 “Let It Die”, make sure you are using a Drop D tuning before attempting this lesson. I have split the lesson into the Rhythm part and the Solo that Gus plays over the top. The rhythm is a bit tricky because it alternates between a bar of 7/8 and 4/4 make sure you listen to the track a few times to get a feel for this rhythmic pattern before playing along. The Solo is fairly straight-forward but you need to concentrate on a clean slide with your little finger on the top E string in the string skipped section and try not to get confused by the underlying time signature changes.

NOTE: There is a slight difference between the TAB that I have provided and the video lesson as I realised after I had uploaded the video that I had made a little error, the part that I thought initially was a G# strummed 3 times is in fact what I say is at the end of the second repeat of the riff which is a G# - Bb - G#. Anyway it is a minor point really as the G# works well too.

You can download the Rhythm TAB here and the Solo TAB here.

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