If these free lessons help you, please donate to keep new ones coming daily. It can also be used half-time at 62 BPM or double-time at 246 BPM. I hope this guitar lesson series will help you get it under your fingers quickly and easily! Nutshell - Unplugged is a moody song by Alice In Chains with a tempo of 123 BPM.

Lots of fun to play!Įven though Alice In Chains never released 'Nutshell' as a single, it has nonetheless become one of their most beloved songs. Alice In Chains - Nutshell: MTV UnpluggedLyricsWe chase misprinted liesWe face the path of timeAnd yet I fight, and yet I fightThis battle all aloneNo one to.

This solo is very similar in style to the first except that it is a lot more extended which gives Cantrell a little more time to spread his wings and play some very nice acoustic soloing lines. In the second video lesson I will tackle Jerry Cantrell's second solo that ends the song. It really works well over the underlying chord progression. This savage cut from Dirt saw them grappling with matters of the heart with as much potency. This solo is very melodic containing arpeggios and single note melodies. 16 Rain When I Die (Dirt, 1992) Alice In Chains weren’t exactly renowned for their tender love songs. Remember this is the Unplugged version of this song so the solos are played on acoustic guitar. It is simply the case of listening to it a lot to internalize the sound.Īlso, in the first video will be Jerry Cantrell's first guitar solo. 'Nutshell' is also known for having opened the band's performance on MTV Unplugged in 1996. After you can feel the timing of the chord changes, the chords themselves are very simple. 'Nutshell' is a song by Alice in Chains which originally appeared on their 1994, critically acclaimed extended play, Jar of Flies. In the video lesson, I will lay out what that timing technically is, but I also stress that it is much easier to simply learn how to feel the rhythm instead of counting it. Probably the trickiest part of mastering this song is the timing of the chord progression. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2010 Vinyl release of 'MTV Unplugged' on Discogs. Alice In Chains - The Killer Is Me (From MTV Unplugged) 5:56. Alice In Chains - Over Now (From MTV Unplugged) 5:49.

In the first video, I will demonstrate the chords and rhythms used and Jerry Cantrell's first solo. Alice In Chains - Frogs (From MTV Unplugged) 7:01. Those notes are, starting from the 6th string, Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb. You will need to tune your guitar down one-half step in order to play along with the lesson and the original recording. This Nutshell guitar lesson will cover not only the chords used throughout the song, but both of guitarist Jerry Cantrell's acoustic solos note-for-note. In this acoustic guitar lesson video series, I will show you how to play the MTV Unplugged version of 'Nutshell' by Alice In Chains.

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