Learn to play About a Girl by Nirvana on guitar.
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You can listen to the song here on Spotify while you play along! NOTE: the original is not currently available on Spotify.
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Marty Music
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Hey guys! Marty here again from “MartyMusic”! So I think when all is said and done, I will teach every Nirvana song that has existed. Here’s another to check off the list!
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GuitarLessons365Song
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One of the standout tracks from Nirvana’s debut album Bleach, “About a Girl” had to wait until the release of Nirvana’s MTV unplugged album to gain international recognition.
In this About a Girl guitar lesson, I am going to show you how to play the original electric guitar version of this now classic song by the most important band of the grunge era.
Apparently, “About a Girl” was written by Kurt Cobain after an afternoon of listening to nothing but Meet The Beatles! Cobain was a HUGE Beatles fan and their pop sensibilities are highly apparent throughout most of Nirvana’s music.
Kurt Cobain was able to successfully combine the strong melodic pop craft of the Beatles, and add a huge punk rock element to it. The results of this changed the history of music forever.
As for the song itself, “About a Girl” starts off with just a simple E minor and G major chord progression. He is using a clean tone guitar here and unlike many Nirvana songs, he keeps the tone relatively clean throughout most of the first half of the song.
Nothing really challenging with these chords. I think “About a Girl” would even be a great song for a beginning guitarist to learn. The whole thing consists of only basic open position chords and power chords.
We also have a cool little solo to take a look at as well. Again, this solo is quite simple and can be learned by just about any level of guitarist. So have fun with this Nirvana classic!
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SwiftLessons
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Hello friends,
And welcome to another by request song tutorial. In today’s session I’ll be breaking down a fairly easy guitar song in Nirvana’s 1993 unplugged version of “About a Girl.” I’ll take you through the simple chord changes and strumming patterns for the verse and chorus sections, before teaching you how to play Kurt’s guitar solo. Let’s get started!