How to Play Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit : Overview of Kurt Cobain & Nirvana

Kurt Cobain was a famous grunge artist and songwriting genius; learn about his musical influences and his songwriting and guitar playing techniques in this rock music lesson on video.

Expert: Joe Wiles
Contact: www.myspace.com/rnrconservatory
Bio: Joe Wiles is the founder of the Rock and Roll Conservatory which is a facility dedicated to mentoring the next generation of influential artists.
Filmmaker: Daron Stetner

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[johnjohnjohn222]

Kurt Cobain was not an 'awesome' guitarist. He was just a great songwriter and performer, anyone who thinks different needs to see it from a broader musicians perspective.

[MrKyel17]

I love how everyone here agrees that Kurt Cobain wasn't a guitar god but the songs he wrote and the music as a whole was what was amazing...while nobody will agree with the same exact point on Jimi Hendrix.

[TheTinychainsaw]

:)

[OlympiaMusicTV]

@johnjohnjohn222 Yeah, totally right. Technically Nirvana was crap, but on this crap they were making something awesome that sounds good.

[tmantonym]

This guy obviously hasn't listened to their Bleach album. Alot of the songs on that are pretty hard to play on guitar.

[Erikiperik]

about kurt`s guitar ability, I`d like to qoute kurt: "I can`t play like segovia. The flip side of that is that Segovia could probably never have played like me..." He had his own style. but as a rythm punk guitar. controlling feedback/noise (listen to paper cuts, beeswax and other more experimental tracks). and coming up with unique guitar lines and solos, he was great. on top of that, Love buzz's fast licks requires much skill to pull off as clean and tight as he does.

[neilus]

its all about having a story to tell, its more important than the words...who changed music? dylan, lennon, cobain...none of whom were technically great but they had a story to tell...yngwie malmsteem is a technically great guitarist...does HE have a story? no, thats why in 5000 years from now, people will still remember kurt KC RIP x

[pribonkers]

JUST PLAY THE DAMN SONG!!!

[TestMeatDollSteak]

I love Nirvana, I learned to play guitar by learning their songs on an acoustic guitar...but I have to agree with this instructor's comments, and some of the other comments on here that Kurt Cobain was not an "amazing" guitarist. Even by Cobain's own admission he had a lazy and sloppy approach, often played out of tune and out of time...and, let's face it, if it wasn't a power chord, Cobain rarely bothered with it. But he still wrote cool riffs and great, often beautiful melodies. He rocked.

[dunavidrava]

@johnjohnjohn222 good said

[SuperDsffdsf]

i think kurt he is a great player and ill tell you why. its true...he is not a shredder or a crazy solos man but think about lithium or smells like teen spirit no one could eve think about that he play with a lot of fill and thats what important the think that he invent im sure no one else in this world can invent he got hes style so he is not jimi hendrix or krick hammett but he got style he brought something tht no one ever think about and inspired a lot of players

[christos121212]

fuck you....