Chords for Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The World - Guitar Lesson (BONUS! Learn The Guitar Solo At The End!)

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_ This is the guitar lesson [F] for Nirvana's The Man Who [Eb] Sold the World the easy way [F] and the correct way.
First things first, make sure your guitar is tuned a half step down.
So this is going to be E flat, _ A [D] flat, _ _ D flat, [G] _ G flat, B [A] flat, and E flat.
Alright, [D] we basically just [Db] loosen our guitar _ [C] tuning pegs just a little bit to give us this tuning okay. _
_ So let's talk about the lead guitar part, how the song [Em] starts off.
This is the signature lick [Ab] of the song. _
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_ _ _ _ Alright, [Gm] this is how you [B] play it.
Down pluck, take your pointer [D] finger and put it on the [C] second fret G string.
[D] Down pluck [Ab] that three times.
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Alright now you take your pointer finger off, pluck it [Gb] once. _
[Gm] Now we put our pointer finger back on and we're going to do a hammer on pull off with
our middle finger on [G] the third fret [C] and off again.
[Db] So _ _ [F] _ _
far we [Ab] have. _ _ _ _ _
And then last but not least [B] we just pluck it open.
[Gb] _ That's the G string open.
_ [Ab] _ _ _ [Gb] _ [Ab] _ _
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We [Db] end on _ putting our pointer [Fm] finger on the second fret [C] G string once again and plucking it [Gb] once. _
So for the intro of the [Eb] song it starts [D] off with that little lead and then the rhythm
[C] guitar comes in [Eb] and that's F [D] and D minor.
It goes [E] like this. _ _ _ _
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_ Okay, so that was [Dm] F and D minor.
And here's the strumming pattern [B] of the song.
[Dm] The strumming pattern [E] is this. _ _
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_ _ _ Alright so it's down, down up, up down up, down down _ _ _ _ _ _ up, up down up, down down up, up down up.
Alright and now what I'm doing [Eb] to give it that signature Nirvana _ [C]
feel [G] is that second
[D] down stroke in that pattern I [E] actually mute so it's down, _ _ mute _ _ _ down, so down, mute, up,
up, down, up, _ down, _ _ mute, up, up, down, up, down, mute, up, up, down, up.
Okay.
[Bb] So practice that [Dm] over and over [C] again and you'll get it in no time.
_ [Eb] So when [F] I'm muting I'm basically just taking the tension [B] off the strings. _
So I'm pushing [E] down right now on the minor rings, [Eb] I take the tension off and it gives
me that nice muting sound.
So my fingers are [F] still touching the strings.
[Eb] So [D] once again the intro was F, [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ D [Dbm] minor and now [C] this is where the song starts with the verse.
So we have A, [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Eb] D [Dbm] minor, _ _ _
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[Ab] A, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] F, _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] C, _ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] A, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ D minor [Dbm] and _ _ _ _ _ _ this is where the pre-chorus [B] comes in.
The [C] strumming pattern changes a little bit.
It actually gets easier.
You go to C [Eb] and it's just down up.
Okay [B] so it's, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ we go to [E] F and _ _ _ _ this is the hardest part of the song right here.
We do a [Dm] C sharp which [Fm] we bar the [G] first [F] fret [G] aside from this [F] E string right here but we
bar these [Eb] five strings.
Okay and then we take [F] our middle finger, put it on the second [Eb] fret B string, [Gm] take your
ring finger, put it on the third [F] fret D string and then you take your [Eb] pinky and put it on
the fourth [C] fret A string. _ _
_ _ _ _ And that's where the regular strumming pattern comes back and then it goes right back into
the _ _
[Cm] pre-chorus or chorus again.
[B] So it's, _ _
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and we have the C _ [C] sharp chord _ and _ _ [D] then it goes [Ab] back into the_ _
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[Gb] _ And then, which is the intro [E] all over again. _
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_ _ _ [Dbm] _ _ Okay [Gm] so really not too hard of [D] a chord progression or strumming pattern or [C] anything at [Bb] all.
It's a great song to play.
One last thing that I'm [F] going to show you that nobody else [Eb] I really don't think can
show you or has shown you online is the solo at the end okay.
This is where the electric guitar [Ab] goes from_ _ _ _
_ [Gb] _ _ _ _ And then it goes you [C] _ [Eb] know_
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_ [Eb] Okay so [Ab] that one I just [Dm] pretty much tabbed out right now by ear but this is how you do it.
[F] So you play your intro [Ab] lick a couple times.
_ _ [Abm] _ _ _ _ [Gb] _
_ And then we [Ab] go to the second fret with our pointer finger, [E] we slide up [Eb] to the sixth fret
[Ab] on the G string.
And then we go up to the tenth [E] _ and then we go down to the [Eb] ninth and we stay there. _ _ _
So we go [Ab] _ pluck _ _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ it along with the rhythm okay so you can basically play along with the track
and just pluck this note. _ _
So I go_ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] Then I go back to my intro [Ab] lick again. _
_ _ _ _ The [G] next part what I'm doing is I'm sliding all the way up to the tenth [E] fret and then
I go to the ninth [Dm] and the seventh back to the ninth.
So I [E] go_ _ _ _
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_ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
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_ [Gb] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
_ Not [Bb] bad and the song ends right after the [Gb] solo.
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Thanks for watching guys and I will see you on the next guitar lesson.
See ya! _
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