Nothing Else Matters Guitar tab video
Metallica
Make your own Nothing Else Matters tab video, freeNo editing. No card. 10 minutes free.- Instrument
- Guitar
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Tuning
- E A D G B E
- Tempo
- 77 BPM
About this riff
The intro is a fingerpicked E minor arpeggio built around open strings, beginning with the E on the D string then rolling through open G, B and high E. It sits comfortably in standard tuning at a relaxed tempo, so the challenge is less about speed and more about clean fingerstyle attack, even dynamics, and letting the open strings ring together. It's a great study piece for right-hand independence and controlled expression rather than raw technique.
Did you know?
James Hetfield wrote the opening while holding a phone in one hand and talking to his girlfriend, plucking the four open strings with his free hand, which became the first two bars. He initially wrote the song only for himself and didn't intend it for the album, and it was only considered for the record after Lars Ulrich heard it.
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