How to Play Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana on Guitar 

Smells like 2010

Damn 10 years have passed since she uploaded this video and I still love it

Damn, 13 years already, why didn't RU-vid recommend me this channel for so long

I'm here to teach you some GEEEtar

Can't wait to play this on my gEEEtar

tips on powerchords : the first finger is used to mute every string that is not involved in your powerchord by touching them (without pressing them !), in exemple when playing the second chord in this song (Bb5), your first finger touches the low E string and the B and high E string, so that whatever string you hit when you play the chord (because you can't really aim when you play this kind of riffs !), you won't hear any unwanted string, only your powerchord !

jen: so here is the rhythm *shows the chords*

From 2020 everyone!!

I saved this page a long time ago and love returning to it now and then. It always makes me smile. For *good* reasons. Thanks for the lesson. And the presentation.

Me: *strums* My gEEEtar: *WAY out of tune* Me: Well dam-

Great lesson, but it would have helped if you showed your strums at the same time

Great lesson. Thanks so much for giving back to the beginning guitarist community. Subscribed.

5:05 Ayyyyyy

Great teacher, easy lesson..primo stuff gen. cheers

Thank youu for the chords 💕 got it

Guitar center employee: "Play me something" me: "plays Smells Like Teen Spirit" Guitar center employee: "Get out!"

So many people get this wrong, but there are 4 notes played, not power chords (which consists of only playing the root + 5th + tonic an octave higher, that last one optional) at all. It's *Fsus4* (3rd fret on 3rd string (starting from the bottom) included), *A#* (including that 2nd string, again, starting from the bottom), *G****#sus4* (same shape as 1st), then *C#* (again, including 2nd string). So that would translate to: 1-3-3-3-x-x, x-1-3-3-3-x, 4-6-6-6-x-x, x-4-6-6-6-x. Also, your rhythm is not entirely the way he plays it. There are those *quadriple* X's (triple some places), or muted percussive strums, and, and this is something a lot of people don't bother, some 0's (empty strings) here and there. Those might sound negligable but the riff only lasts 4 seconds and a half (if you exclude it's simile repeat), and if you wanna nail 4 seconds into something as recognizable as that huge cult riff, you might as well go the extra mile and add those sparks

Awesome tutorial, thanks a lot!!

Genial gracias por el tutorial, me encantaron tus apariciones en la serie the big bang theory 😉

wow thank you so much, this tutorial is really helpfull , i learned to play my first song on guitar!

So good! Awesome tutorial!

Amazing tutorial, thank you so much, this taught me a tonne

Fabulous tutorial. Bravo bravo bravo. 🎉

Wow thank you so much for this tutorial!!! It is so rare to see women teaching guitar at youtube and you just killed it!. It was amazing, loved it!

It was an awesome lesson. I've subbed... 💙💙

fantastic guitar sound

i love u jenn. great lesson for beginners

this is a very good lesson!! I tried this song in my channel.

Appreciate the session teacher🙏🏻

This is a fun way to get taught ^_^

man that guitar sounds good

Hey thats was cool! Thanks a lot,i will try this

Thanks alot you're awesome ♡

Jen always the best teacher 👍

Really its helpful too me.thank you..

great tutorial thanks mam

Excellent! Thank you! :)

Very well done and filmed. And presented with passion. Thank you very much.

Thanks made it easy to learn , ... anyway in 2:24 i think the palm scratch is really advanced with that rythme i just release a little bit my finger barred fret to do ir think it's easier , anyway great lesson

You are awesome! thanks ( 8 years later :) )

thank you helped a lot!

Very helpful!

wow !! Thank you !! It helps me a lot :)

fantastic!!!

Thanks Jenn!!

Nice explained.. hey ..nice to see you With this lovely hairstyle.... Salute...

Omg I love you for this

thanks, easy to follow

Fun and useful. Awesome. C:

I like her tattoo, its so 2000

THANKS!

She's great!

I could watch this all day long

Thanks!

I love your hair jen and i love this song but i Have trouble playing the chorus and verse RugbyMadfan

Very nice

Thanks a lot

you best guitar teacher in the world ;)

I love this person

You are really smooth.

Cool to learn the distorsion on acoustic guitar 😉

God this was helpful. Thanks jen I was angry today and wanted to rock some power chords. Swayam xx

Nice job

Gorgeous

Thx I'm making progress :-D

Thank youu

2018 ! Thanks you for tutorial from french

thank you very much :D

thank you! :)

Now that's a girl who can rock!!

Geetar great word saying 👍

um hi can you do All Time Low Tutorials? :)

I liked the videos right at "we'll make it work"!

Gotta love some acoustic nirvana

thats very easy thank you:33

thanks

nice!

She's incredibly charming.

I can't get the same sound

I love her and the song damn....

Me gusta!

Thanks i

Do we hold down in the 1sr fret?

I LOVE YOU

Nice

Cool

nice

nice.

I love a guitar!!!

so what's the strum pattern

cool

Jen is awesome

wawww that's was awesome

how hard is acoustic guitar over electric?

love u treni

how do you strum for the intro..........i got the chords down but not the beat

Not lazy😂 it’s how to play different power/barre chords……btw you rock girl🎸🤘

why do i watch this? i dont even have a guitar :o

Osm tutorial

@TheRealSonicYouth im not saying that nirvana was first grunge band - that's obvious that there were many seatlle bands before them, that were later associated with grunge genre. i mean that they gave birth to grunge by naming it. if not nirvana, no one would know what grunge means, it would be just seattle punk or something like that for thsoe who would be interested. Kurt and Osourne were good friends actually and played together a lot before grunge-nirvana era.