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List Price: $19.95 | | Publisher: Cherry Lane Music
Salesrank: 53635
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| Our Price: $11.08 |
| Used Price: $10.54 |
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| Media: Paperback |
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Editorial Review:
Matching folio to the best-selling album. Includes: Master of Puppets * Battery * Leper Messiah * plus photos.
Metallica - Master of Puppets (Guitar Personality) Reviews:
Quite useful! 
2009-06-08 - This book is accurate enough to where you can learn the notes on paper, then play along with the cd to finetune the songs. Quite helpful if you grew up learning by reading, not by ear!
Number Tabs for Lead and Rhythm Guitar
2008-04-10 - This is a very fun Metallica album to learn, as there are some fantastic songs. And this book, as usual from Cherry Lane publishing, gives you all parts of both the lead and rhythm guitars, for every song on the album. There are both musical notations and number tabs available for every song, which is nice for both those able to read music, and those (like me) who are not and just want to see a number. Certain rhythm parts may not have a number tab, and just a note (i.e. G, A, etc), but if that is the case, the beginning of the song has a key that says A= 5-7 on bottom two strings.
This book is worth it, just to get the last song Damage inc. down as it is a very fun song to learn. You also have the Metallica favorites like Puppets and Sanitarium, that are must knows for anyone wanting to be able to play Metallica. You won't be disappointed by this book as it is a close second to Kill em all, for fun metallica songs to play.
Tabs are a bit off 
2005-10-13 - Lets get one thing straight: I love metallica!
But, this book has one mayor error:
some of the written tabs are incorrect, not in notes but in sound.
..Just sit down with this book and practice then you will figure out a lot more better and faster ways to play a certain lick etc. It is 75% correct. Otherwise a good book with nice pictures.
Solid transcriptions
2005-01-08 - 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?
Yet Another Review...
2003-05-30 - The Master tab book is definitely a must-buy for not only the avid Metallica muso-fan, but for those wishing to upskill themselves in various guitar techniques.
As mentioned elsewhere, take all tabs with a grain of salt, however, the solos are a near-enough note-by-note transcription and each riff is intricately tabbed to include even the most subtle of variations.
Includes a very well-written introduction, outlining some very important and helpful tips to assist you in your mastery of one of Metllica's finest albums.
In a one-line verdict: A definite must-have, even as a collector's item!
