Ozzy Osbourne Diary of a Madman vs Leo Brouwer Etude #6

Ozzy Osbourne
Diary of a Madman
Diary of a Madman
1981

Leo Brouwer
Etude #6
1972

TRIBUTE OR PLAGIARISM?

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"The intro guitar pieces in the song Diary of a Madman was clearly a rip-off of an unknown guitarist who originally wrote it in the fifties. He sued Randy
for this, but apon Randy's tragic death, all charges against him were dropped. The song is still played at Ozzy concert's now. The original writer of it
claims that since all that Randy plagerized from him was the first acoustic arpegiation in the song's intro, he'd drop charges to have Randy rest in
peace."

In this lesson, we’ll take a look at examples in the style of Rhoads’ classically influenced solo piece “Dee” as well as “Diary of a Madman” and “Goodbye
to Romance,” two other Ozzy favorites that prominently feature acoustic guitar.

Randy pulled out all the stops for Diary of a Madman’s title track, an epic six-minute-plus piece packed with acoustic and electric guitar textures. Its
intro, similar to FIGURE 1, is structured around an elaborate arpeggio passage reminiscent of a modern classical guitar etude by Leo Brouwer (titled
"Etudes Simples: VI," published in 1972) which Rhoads likely learned in his classical guitar studies.

Use economy picking to tackle these arpeggios throughout, employing a single pick stroke to sound successive notes found on adjacent strings, as
indicated. Rhoads also had a talent for composing striking ballads, as evidenced by the track “Goodbye to Romance” (Blizzard of Ozz), the first song Ozzy
cowrote with Rhoads. Penned as Osbourne’s personal farewell to Black Sabbath, the song blends clean-tone electrics with steel-string acoustic sounds,
resulting in an almost “harpsichord”-like tonal quality. FIGURE 2 depicts a composite in-the-style-of arrangement.

“Dee” (Blizzard of Ozz), which inspires FIGURE 3, is a lilting waltz (3/4 meter felt “in one”) that Randy dedicated to his mother, Delores. (Perhaps as a
further tribute to his mom, the majority of "Dee" falls in the key of D.) With this track, Rhoads used one of his favorite acoustic multitracking
approaches: overdubbing a steel-string acoustic on top of his primary nylon-string part for added sparkle (he also did this in “Diary of a Madman.")

Note the pick-hand fingerings included below the notation. For further insight into Randy’s classical guitar technique, check out the “Dee” studio
outtakes at the end of the Tribute album.

[Josh-vphw]

How many people copy Leo’s original work?
How many people copy Randy’s original work?
I’m glad Ozzy made him.. Diary is a masterpiece regardless 🤷‍♂️
He should be honored Randy was learning his stuff and showcased it in his OWN way.
I think Randy did Leo a tremendous service.

[masterlangley]

Wow. They used the same scale. Whoop Dee doo.

[ThumperzGG]

Thanks yes that was inspired by Leo Brouwer beautiful compositions both of them

[angel]

He made that album in a month but still good

[josephgurtler]

Ok thats 28 seconds of the song in the intro, what about the great riff, verse, chorus, ghosty interlude, juiced up middle, freaking unbelieveable solo, yeah you’re right Randy never wrote anything good, just copied everyone just ask EVH, oh wait can’t now.