Black Sabbath Guitar Lesson - Electric Funeral - E Standard Tuning

Gear Used for this lesson:

E Standard Tuning: E-A-D-G-B-E

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In this doom metal guitar lesson I teach you the entire rhythm and lead sections from Electric Funeral by Black Sabbath. The song is broken down into its main riffs, each demonstrated and explained in full detail.

The song begins with the classic wah pedal intro riff in the key of E Minor and utilizes the E Natural Minor Scale {R, M2, b3, p4, p5, b6, b7}. The remainder of the song's riffs utilize elements from the E Blues Scale {R, b3, p4, b5, p5, b7} along with a M7 interval during the third riff.

#blacksabbath #tonyiommi #electricfuneral

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[barrybarry]

This is a much underrated and easy to play Sabbs track, but that shouldn't distract from the massive nature of the song

[mikeybigg]

Black Sabbath was the first riff I ever learned. Shortly thereafter, Iron Man \m/

[cirjames]

Yes, Electric Funeral DOES Doom! Great lesson it got me over the hump on the bridge finally. TY

[aldringarcia]

Does the E Standard doom?
YES, IT DOES!
Nice video

[unfailingfeline]

I'm a bassist myself and the first Sabbath riff I learnt was Hole In The Sky

[gcf]

This goes so hard, brother. Another killer lesson. Thanks !

....And I'm a bass player first song was N.I.B.

[danielmccoy]

This was the first Sabbath Riff I learned. In late 87 from a bootleg cassette I got somehow. In Oklahoma then nobody liked Sabbath. Thanks for the post, I will play this today! 🤘🏽

[craven]

Used to cover this song in one of my bands. We played 1 step down in D standard, sounded nice and heavy. It's always been a favorite of mine but it's been years since I've played it all the way through. Thanks for the vid, I may have to revisit this one.

[Myxiod]

my favourite sabbath song, gonna learn this today

[HorrorOfDrugula]

Cornucopia was the first one I learned from start to finish, still my favorite Sabbath song to play (tied with Into The Void of course) As always, looking forward to the future content! Keep on killing it Steve!

[BlackClawDoom]

Another awesome video dude.
And the first Sabbath riff/song I learnt to properly play was Electric Funeral, and still love playing it to this day.

Also please can you do a tutorial for Pentagram - Sign of the Wolf.

[joshww]

Shirt game strong!
Tony would be proud of you man. You nailed it. Laney sounds nuts!

[paulkerr]

My very first Sabbath song I learned was electric funeral, with an old school vox wah pedal, still to this day my favorite wah pedal.

[cbson]

This vid tutorial is great! Within 30 mins I am able to pick up this song!

[joshww]

First Sabbath riff was paranoid. But full song was Into the Void!

[lonewolf]

The album Master of Reality when Tony tuned down to C is what started doom/stoner. After Forever, Lord of this World, Into the Void. Electric Funeral has jazz influence in the bridge part. Wicked World has alot of jazz influence as well.

[MrShadowofthewind]

That's a brutal sound, overtones everywhere, holy cow !

[MrDussek]

this is actually the first sabbath song i ever learned. great tutorial btw!

[iamalpharius]

Well, as Im feeding the dogs this morning I look at my update and you are doing Black Sabbath, the PRIMARCHS of Doom as I am LISTENING to the first 3 albums on loop. Coincidence? NO!!
And Symptom of the Universe. Learned it when I was playing in a band in HS. We needed a song outside if our originals to play when we were playing shows.
I was 17. The guys I was playing with were in their 20s. They introduced me to many of the classic framework for metal in the 2 years I playes with them. Will always be grateful for them doing that. I amna bassist and I had a LOT of fun playing Geezers basslines in that song.

[erikfeldmann]

First Sabbath riff I ever learned was Black Sabbath. Nothing could compare to the haunt of that classic riff!