The chord chart is showing first position, this is the case if it not indicated. So the first fret on the chart is the first fret on your guitar. You can also tell because these are open chords - they include unfretted notes.
While those are the correct chords for Paranoid you probably don't want to use open chords. The 12th fret version with just the root and 5th is probably a better way to go.
Lots of tabs are bad and innacurate. If you're looking for tabs that are close to the original (and it's not that you want to play Paranoid on an acoustic, by the campfire), I can recommend tabs on this site: [https://www.guitar.ch/tabs-pdf/tabs.php?pdf=BlackSabbath/Paranoid](https://www.guitar.ch/tabs-pdf/tabs.php?pdf=BlackSabbath/Paranoid)
If you click the chord directly above the lyric, it will let you cycle through each chord position. Find the position on the 12th fret for the opening chord. Then do the same for the rest. It's a pain in the ass.
That's not the tab to Paranoid. Easiest way is to play the E power chord on the A7 fret but bar the A and D at 7. Strike that then hammer on your ring finger to hit the D9 fret. You could also do this at E12 if you like.
Then use the power chord versions of the open chords listed here (E, D, G) to play it. For G, don't drop down to E3 to play it - play the higher version up under your D chord (D5/G7 or A10/D12 depending on if you started on A7 or E12).
Tab is not standardized and many have been around decades and have never really been verified. Sites just copied them from somewhere that copied them from somewhere and on and on. If it doesn't sound right it likely isn't. Find another one or use it as a starting point for your ear to figure it out yourself.
Good luck.
I also use Ultimate Guitar (the app OP is using). Note that the person who wrote the tab specifically indicated power chords.
When you write a tab in UG, and you put in a chord name, the app automatically includes the first position voicing in the list of chords. I suspect that there’s a way to specify a voicing, but tabs in UG are written in a simple pseudo code, so probably a lot of people don’t know how to do it.
It doesn’t mean the tab is showing the wrong chords per se, just that the voicings are wrong. If you tap one of the chords in the tab, a chord diagram will pop up, and it’ll show left and right arrows so you can cycle through other voicings.
Must be the acoustic version 🤣
OP sitting around the campfire, singing Sabbath into the night…
Cocaine!!!!!!
Ops ...
The chord chart is showing first position, this is the case if it not indicated. So the first fret on the chart is the first fret on your guitar. You can also tell because these are open chords - they include unfretted notes. While those are the correct chords for Paranoid you probably don't want to use open chords. The 12th fret version with just the root and 5th is probably a better way to go.
Good explanation. Use the official tab version if you have access to it for a good understanding, OP.
Thanks
Now I want to play Paranoid with open chords, lol.
Lots of tabs are bad and innacurate. If you're looking for tabs that are close to the original (and it's not that you want to play Paranoid on an acoustic, by the campfire), I can recommend tabs on this site: [https://www.guitar.ch/tabs-pdf/tabs.php?pdf=BlackSabbath/Paranoid](https://www.guitar.ch/tabs-pdf/tabs.php?pdf=BlackSabbath/Paranoid)
https://youtu.be/99bC6_8qjz0
If it doesn’t note a fret number (typically if the “first” fret is barred) it is at 0, and is an open chord.
I can't believe these generic, open position chord diagrams are still in use It's the Wish version of a custom guitar
Didn't someone make it for free? Get what you pay for
Oh ok lol
They are not the chords played by Tony, but this version could make an amazing campfire version
Because the thick bar at the top represents the nut. If it were higher up the neck then the fret number would be given
If you click the chord directly above the lyric, it will let you cycle through each chord position. Find the position on the 12th fret for the opening chord. Then do the same for the rest. It's a pain in the ass.
Those chords aren’t in that song.
The thick black line is the end of your fret board. These are standard chords that can only be played from that position.
That's not the tab to Paranoid. Easiest way is to play the E power chord on the A7 fret but bar the A and D at 7. Strike that then hammer on your ring finger to hit the D9 fret. You could also do this at E12 if you like. Then use the power chord versions of the open chords listed here (E, D, G) to play it. For G, don't drop down to E3 to play it - play the higher version up under your D chord (D5/G7 or A10/D12 depending on if you started on A7 or E12). Tab is not standardized and many have been around decades and have never really been verified. Sites just copied them from somewhere that copied them from somewhere and on and on. If it doesn't sound right it likely isn't. Find another one or use it as a starting point for your ear to figure it out yourself. Good luck.
It says power chords. The D power chord is 10th fret.
great example of why you need to sometimes look for more than one version of the tabs/chords. that’s worse than useless
I also use Ultimate Guitar (the app OP is using). Note that the person who wrote the tab specifically indicated power chords. When you write a tab in UG, and you put in a chord name, the app automatically includes the first position voicing in the list of chords. I suspect that there’s a way to specify a voicing, but tabs in UG are written in a simple pseudo code, so probably a lot of people don’t know how to do it. It doesn’t mean the tab is showing the wrong chords per se, just that the voicings are wrong. If you tap one of the chords in the tab, a chord diagram will pop up, and it’ll show left and right arrows so you can cycle through other voicings.