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Nothing Else Matters Guitar Lesson Pt.1 – Metallica – Intro & Chords

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In these Nothing Else Matters guitar lesson videos you will learn to play Metallica’s biggest power ballad note for note.

Appearing on their mega successful Black Album, Nothing Else Matters was a pretty big departure for this legendary metal band.

The fingerstyle guitar intro is an absolute classic. It has lots of tricky little techniques (hammer-ons, pull-offs, wide stretches and harmonics) within it. After the intro the verse section continues the fingerstyle playing with some really cool open position guitar work.

Overall, this Nothing Else Matters guitar lesson doesn’t really go beyond the intermediate level technique wise, but it does display a large number of techniques.

Metallica also decided to change things up a bit with this one and have James Hetfield take the main guitar solo. The result is a blues based, highly melodic musical statement that is short but sweet with minimal technical challenges.

The first Nothing Else Matters guitar lesson video below demonstrates the intro and all of the clean guitar parts along with a few guitar fills.

Also in the first video lesson below is the instrumental clean guitar solo section of the song. Since this part is made up of quite a few guitar overdubs on the record, I have instead arranged it so it can be played on one guitar. There will be obvious parts that can’t be played with just one guitar, but I think the arrangement is a good compromise to what is on the actual recording.

The second video is dedicated completely to the big guitar solo played by James Hetfield and the chords that are being played underneath it.

Hope you guys enjoy it! Carl..

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Comments

Alexis Javier says:

That echo effect makes the guitar sound so much better and clear in the intro.

Thallis Santos neves says:

Bruce Dickinson — abduction —— king in crimson — tears of the dragon !!!

a wanna be says:

I don't know about you but this was rather easy, even though I've only played for 3 months.

Quan Tran says:

After learning this song for a while, I can say that the hardest part is the intro.

Beach Trooper says:

I’m a 15 year old beginner and want to learn this as my first song but don’t know what guitar to get anyone got any recommendations?

selaklas the dude says:

I am grateful there are people like you teaching these songs as a whole, it has helped me a lot.

Samuel Cruz says:

Anyone here after Marty didn't teach the full song????

Serge Campeau says:

At 5.06 I have a hard time positioning may fingers at the proper places and find it easier to let the E cord ring for the same note while I put my fingers at the proper places for the remaining.

Tejas Gupta says:

Which guitar?

OnlinE RtcXd says:

What effects do you have on here? Think i can hear slight distortion or gain and delay?

D A says:

Guys, don't try to learn guitar when you're trying to quit smoking, nits do stressful…

D A says:

You make strings you are not pressing do different sounds… How am I supost to learn like that…

Isaac Marrufo says:

I’m having trouble at 4:23, I can’t seem to have sound after I hammer 8

Unum in regno Dei says:

Nice intro, great lessons.

Rod Faircloth says:

12:17 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Géniusz Lóci says:

Now THIS is way harder than I thought

カカシ 大好き says:

My dad died 6 years ago (when I was 7 years old). He loved Queen and he and my mom had their favourite song… this song. I really wanted to learn how to play guitar because when I will learn this song my mum will be proud of me that I learned this hard song. Now I'm here I learned it in 4 months and I'm proud of myself that I can play it. It was my first song on guitar so when you are a beginner and you really want to learn this song then don't give up. I never gave up on that and now I can play this. When you don't have that desire that you want to learn this then you will give up in the beginning. I'm 13 and I'm a girl, only girl in my class that plays guitar.

Cristóbal Reynal says:

best lessons in the entire internet

Cristóbal Reynal says:

you are the best dude

Marius Hebnes says:

Only one problem with this video: you are using a very wrong sound. Why not use the acoustic behind you?

Michael Lara says:

Amazing lesson!  Thank you for sharing.  God bless.

bonar harris says:

it's good, but it's a bit like a run on sentence. demo a phrase, teach the phrase, then summarize the phrase, then move on. good teacher. Great player, but the delivery has no punctuation. i have to go over phrases a dozen times before i can get them.

Nicki Dean says:

You explain it very well 🤭

Achref Roubhi Guitar says:

Carl Brown with Us forever thank you very much, this video was an remember 🥺🥺🥺🥺🎶🎸🎶🥺🥺🥺🥺

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