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List Price: $19.95 | | Publisher: Cherry Lane Music
Salesrank: 207082
Released: June 15, 2002 |
| Our Price: $11.17 |
| Used Price: $4.99 |
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| Media: Paperback |
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Editorial Review:
Every essential riff from every song written and recorded by Metallica from Ride the Lightning, Kill 'em All, Master of Puppets, ...And Justice for All, and Metallica. Includes notes and commentary for each plus tablature.
Metallica - Riff by Riff - Guitar (Riff by Riff Series) Reviews:
A helpful supplemental Metallica Tab book 
2009-05-10 - This book does not contain every single riff Metallica wrote. It does contain many major riffs from the songs from the first 5 albums. Each riff included has knowledgable commentary from a music professional who breaks down and dissects the music. It provides in depth understanding of the musical intelligence behind Metallica's music. There contains no negative criticism and the author obviously loves Metallica (I believe he admits it). If you already believe Metallica to be musical geniuses you'll agree with all the commentary and really enjoy this book! While I own all the complete tab books from those albums, this book is good because it tabs out certain songs with improved clarity than the others. For instance, Blackened from the ...And Justice For All book tabs out the rhythm sections in rather weak and awkward arrangements. This book simply has far more accurate tablature on certain songs. Overall, it's a good book to own for back-up reference, or for the guitarist looking to simply learn a variety of Metallica's main riffs.
Misses quite a bit. 
2007-08-30 - You get as much music for each song as they could stuff onto 2 pages per song! Think about that! So a song like "To live is to die", you know they can't fit all onto two pages.
But i'd have been satisfied learning the main parts but there is a nasty habit of completely skipping intro riffs! The "Four Horseman" intro is not in this book! That is THE signature riff to that song and it's not there. Along with a lot of other holes. Sorry.
Great look at all the main riffs of all metallica songs (thru 1991) 
2005-12-30 - I picked up this book just to learn some of the main riffs of the black album, but then discovered that the earlier songs were what I really enjoyed playing. This is the perfect book if you want to try playing all of Metallica's songs and gives you plenty of insight on theory, equipment, band history and other info.
The only thing I didn't like was that the theory explanation to the riffs were like greek to me, although a more experienced player might be able to make sense of it.
The book is a bit outdated as Metallica have about 4-5 new albums since it was published, but if you like the earlier material this is the book to get.
Awsome Book!!!!!
2001-03-27 - Buy This! It is a very good book for anyone who likes Metallica or just wants to play some awsome guitar riffs! Buy this book!!!
Riff by Riff, like the title says.
2000-11-23 - I enjoy looking at this book and seeing Metallica's first five albums tabbed out. I don't like the fact that this book only shows the IMPORTANT riffs, it doesn't show variations or anything. I guess you do have to keep a space limit, though, if you want to make a book for this cheap. Some cool features I like in this book include a Metallica timeline and Equipment Setup details. I also enjoy the commentary on the riffs, but if you don't know theory very well the commentary gets a little confusing. Not everyone will know what a "dyad" is. (It's two notes played at once, since it takes three to make a chord.) This book has helped me learn how to play better Metallica, so I guess it's pretty much accomplished its job.
4 out of 5 stars.
