Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Bass Cover #blacksabbath #ozzyosbourne #bass

Fretless Bass Cover with Tabs of the Black Sabbath song Sabbath Bloody Sabbath in Standard tuning. Starting the new year with some Black Sabbath. 2025 marks 20 years since I switched to fingerstyle bass because of Geezer Butlers playing on the early Black Sabbath albums 🤯

Song: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Artist: @blacksabbath
Album: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Original Bassist: Geezer Butler
Bass: @ernieballinc MM Bongo 6HH Fretless
Tabs: Tabs via donation 💰: https://tinyurl.com/jamesdixonbasstabs
Tuning: Standard tuning (B E A D G C)

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is the opening title track of English rock band Black Sabbath's 1973 album of the same name.

Its main riff has been cited as "the riff that saved Black Sabbath" because Tony Iommi, who wrote most of the band's music, had been suffering from writer's block. They resorted to drastic measures (including renting out the supposedly haunted Clearwell Castle to live in) to inspire him.

The song has been singled out for praise by hard rock and heavy metal guitar players, with Slash from Guns N' Roses stating to Guitar World in 2008, "The outro to 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath' is the heaviest sh** I have ever heard in my life. To this day, I haven't heard anything as heavy that has as much soul." Brent Hinds of Mastodon agrees, telling Nick Bowcott in 2008, "The 'dreams turn to nightmares, Heaven turns to Hell' riff at the end of that song is unbeatable."

The song was rarely played live in the 1970s. During the Heaven & Hell Tour, it was brought back for a number of shows, then dropped. On the Cross Purposes tour, it usually closed shows, while on the Forbidden tour, it was played in the middle of the setlist and featured additional guitar by Geoff Nicholls.

During the band's late-1990s Reunion tour, the song was played but shortened, skipping the final verse due to Osbourne's diminishing vocal range. During subsequent tours and live shows, the opening riff was played as an intro to "Paranoid".

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