How to Play 'Nothing Else Matters' by Metallica on Piano

Yeah , rocking on this for all you Metallica fans .

We have nothing else matters today .

Uh Cool little factoid about this piece is uh James .

When he wrote the piece , I was thinking about his wife .

He didn't really want it on the album .

Laws comes along seeing the tin .

He's like , oh , yeah , well , I wasn't , this is just for me , I wasn't really considering putting out the album and then back in 91 the album black like turns out it's like the second best tune on that album .

Um I don't know , maybe the first best , in my opinion , I kind of dig this song .

So , uh here we go .

It starts off with an E minor chord .

And this intro all you're doing is E minor , E GB and that happens four times .

OK .

So you'll see with the left hand that's just gonna stay on the E there .

And then in the right hand G right , you're just kind of taking that court and then going into the fourth , you'll notice the bass player doing that .

And I'm saying that because the whole tune that's going to happen quite a bit .

But in the intro on the fourth time you'll hear this right ?

23 work with me .

Now go up to the be in the right hand .

OK .

So what is he doing there ?

And if you can kind of keep this going with both hands that they see right bab A and then we're going to come up to this a in the left hand twice .

Now stay on that cne and walk up to that , see in the left hand .

So what does that look like ?

A in the left hand ?

B and then C , OK .

So G and then S RT and then E , so you can just hit the pe right in the left hand and the right hand and then we're just , and get that going right away .

So one more time and then EFS R minor co OK .

So that takes care of that first part of the intro .

Uh I'll walk you through it one more time .

Just be minor chord .

Four times , right ?

Two , three .

Here it comes .

Sorry about that .

Then we're gonna have this happen again four times , right ?

OK .

That's the next part .

So it's just a and we're gonna hit that G and B on the top .

OK .

So do .

And then that d we're going to outline the D quarter .

So it's just ad and F sharp in the right of the hand , then we walk it down to the speed .

So that's just C an E and then again , OK .

So just d see Court me again .

A and , and then we come to the G , right .

So that's the melodies Gdd , right .

Um Now to complete the G chord , which is what we're playing here .

It's just going to be DG rather D and B .

So , and that's how we filled it out .

And then it goes to that B chord and that's our song right there .

So it's just G OK .

So , so close .

I a now notice what am I doing there ?

My OK .

So the Decor is a right ?

And I'm just playing dime on like we did in the intro .

GC .

Can that I trust G , nothing .

So it's just G , so G , nothing else , right ?

G nothing else .

And that's BDF sharp .

DF sharp .

Nothing else matters .

A minor .

So our chords are in C major .

C major .

Oh Life is ours with a , all these words I right to the G cord , right ?

And she made to the B court bed sharp .

Nothing else mattered .

Trust and see .

And I find , yeah , for so mind for this .

Nothing else .

Right ?

Hello here .

And we're gonna look at the beautiful composition , which means the girl from um is a neighborhood in the south part of Rio de Janeiro .

And Robin grew up there , beautiful place .

The beach is gorgeous .

There still is to this day .

And uh the song was written in the very uh early 19 sixties and the story goes that he was sitting in a bar with uh his good friend and musical partner and they watched this girl who would walk to the beach every day and is a brilliant poet .

And he wrote this about the girl that's going to the water .

And then the lyrics in Portuguese said she's so full of grace , which is actually the same first words that you say when I say Mary so interesting .

So it just comparing the girl to a goddess or a saint .

And they saw this beautiful girl , they used to walk to the beach every day and she would not care about them .

This was just the accompaniment .

I use some of the chromatic passing notes that we already examined in other songs .

For instance , when I play that B nine or measure 19 , I actually do a 13 like and then the same thing in D four measures after that and four measures after the .

So this is a beautiful thing that you find in a lot of music .

Uh we talked about before the chromatic passing notes and you will hear this in a lot of the original arrangements of the song that kind of line is there .

And there have been arrangements that really emphasize because that's when the melody stops on the bridge , when it goes .

So you have this open space and that open space goes .

So every time never care for what they do , never care for what day .

Right .

Yes , that's true .

Um And that's pretty much your whole song right there .

Uh Thank you very much , great job and , uh , rock on great job today guys .

Thanks for playing along and for those of you who are learning the songs .

Great .

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