In My Time Of Dying: Guitar TAB Digital Sheet Music

This track showcases the raw power of blues-rock riffing adapted for modern guitar instruction. Students immediately recognize the song's cultural significance, which builds investment in learning electric guitar technique at an intermediate level.

Heavy and deliberate, built on a blues foundation but colored by an ominous, minor-key sensibility. The riff has a hypnotic quality, repetitive enough to lock into, but with enough subtle variation to keep it from feeling mechanical.

Intermediate guitarists studying blues-rock vocabulary and electric guitar performance. This TAB works well for students exploring how classic rock riffs connect to blues traditions and looking to build fluency with bends, vibrato, and rhythmic phrasing.

• Work the main riff slowly enough to lock the string bends; rushing the bend pitch will undermine the groove's authority.
• Listen closely to the original recording for the exact dynamics of the opening sections; the TAB captures notes, not the swells and releases that define the tone.
• Layer in distortion gradually as you gain confidence with the finger placement; this riff rewards clean articulation before adding effects.
• Pay attention to muting and sustain choices where the TAB notation indicates them; these details separate a played riff from a performed one.

Feature this in a concert exploring blues influence on rock music, pairing it with traditional blues recordings and other classic rock riffs to show students the throughline of American musical tradition. Alternatively, use it in a guitar showcase where students perform pieces that shaped electric guitar language.

• Bending with intonation control and vibrato variation
• Reading and playing from TAB notation at intermediate difficulty
• Phrasing and dynamics in repetitive riff-based structures
• Translating recorded tone and dynamics into performance choices
• Blues-scale vocabulary and blues-rock rhythm feel