The song Come As You Are by Nirvana is one of those songs that every person has heard at least once in their teenage years. It is the song performed by the band Nirvana, and the song was written by iconic frontman Kurt Cobain, who was also one of the band's guitarists. Come As You Are is the third track of the second single from Nirvana's second studio album, Nevermind. The single was first released in 1992, and it became the band's second and last song that got up to an American Top 40 hit. Also, the song got up to 32 rank on the Billboard Hot 100 and 9th in the U.K. Top 10 hits. It might not come as a surprise to you, but the song even got into the top 10 list in 8 different countries and in the top 40 list in 11 other nations.
The other song from the album Nevermind, which was unprecedented in popularity, is Smells Like A Teen Spirit. This particular song made Nirvana come forward as a mainstream rock band from the underground rock scene back in that time. The management had to request Kurt Cobain to release Come As You Are first before any other song. However,
Cobain thought it would not be an excellent idea because he found some similarities in his music with that of the Killing Joke song performed by the Eighties.
The song lasts only for 3 minutes and 38 seconds and it is written in the common time signature where a heavy rock tempo is used at 120 beats per minute. Furthermore Come As You Are uses the key of E minor, while Kurt Cobain managed to get his vocal range go up to one octave and one note above the rest of the band. According to the writer and the singer Kurt Cobain this song tells a story of people and what the world expects them to act like.
For the Come As You Are guitar chord lesson, we have J.J. Pattishall, who was born and raised in Central Florida. In the house, he listened to music and various compositions all the time. His parents were musicians, too, and he could hear them jamming with their friends right inside his living room. J.J. has a sound of his own; for him, simply playing a musical instrument isn't enough; he believes one has to go to the roots of the songs and understand
why it is written in that way and why it is played using the specific progressions and chords. After completing this guitar song lesson of Come As You Are, you can learn other guitar songs such as Absinthe Party by Minus The Bear, Black Bird by The Beatles, Everything I
Do by Bryan Adams and many more from our song repository.
Apart from guitar song lessons we also have guitar tutorials for beginners to intermediate and even to masters. In addition to this, at Torrins you can also find bass guitar courses and piano lessons covering all aspects of musical training which is required for the instrument.
