How to Play Nothing Else Matters by Metallica on Acoustic Guitar

How to Play Nothing Else Matters by Metallica on Acoustic Guitar This is a preview of a full lesson found at TotallyGuitars.com www.TotallyGuitars.com Nothing Else Matters [Demonstration] Let me talk to you today about the Metallica tune. Metallica has a lot of great especially acoustic type intros of some of their songs. This is the chords nothing else matters. It opens up with just a straight arpeggio on an Em chord which is a bunch of open strings. Then it brings in this little melody so it’s in 6th, 8th time more or less. There’s a couple of little odd things to that but the 1st couple of measures are just straight 6/8 notes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. In the 3rd or 4th measure after a couple of those the melody starts. [Demonstration] Now what happened right there is from a 6th to 8th note of probably the 4th measure I’m going to do it here in the 2nd measure 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 so again the arpeggio is going thumb, index middle, ring, middle index going from string 6, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3 got that. All the numbers do process at the same time. Anyway so a very simple 6/8 arpeggio much like we had in House of the Rising Sun but the melody that we go to get through here is it starts off with a B on the 6th, 8th note of that measure so the measure that starts the melody is a pick up to the melody begin that goes like this. [Demonstration] Now the next measure starts with a pinch on that same high B I’m at the 7th fret of the 1st string and news of my 1st finger now there’s a few options is to what fingers to use but the simple way to do it is with your first and now the beginning of the next measure you pinch that note with the 6th string in the base so that’s a low E in the base and a High B at the same time followed by the 2nd string and the 3rd string then you hit the high B again and pull it off kind of quickly. [Demonstration] It could sound like this you could do it a little bit slower. This is the kind of thing that every time people are in a band play it comes out a little bit different. You could tell by listening to the live version but anyway or it could be a little more drawn out like this. [Demonstration] Back to the 6th string in the 3rd and the 2nd, now you hit that note at the 7th in front of the first as a pair of the notes with the open 2nd string. Move the 8th fret and now the hammer- on a slide down a little tricky. [Demonstration] That goes from the Am chord any way I’ll finish this lesson over Totally Guitars.com but I’ll run through the whole thing again one more time very slowly. [Demonstration] Anyway come visit us a Totally Guitars and I’ll talk through that whole thing of at lessons that we have there. We got a lot of free lessons and looking for input from people out there is a songs you like me to address and things like that so come visit us at Totally Guitars and we’ll continue with that lesson in Nothing Else Matters.