How to Play One by Metallica
As an experienced guitar teacher, making songs easier for young beginners is very important to me.
How to play Metallica songs
Can you play Metallica songs? I often play and teach their music. My friends here may well be wondering what a serious composer with a Celtic Dream vibe and a soft voice is doing teaching you how to play heavy metal songs. Well, my taste in music has always been catholic and I will give credit where it is due. I like Metallica and I teach my students to play their songs. They are a superb band and have been dominant in hard rock and heavy metal for nearly three decades. The secret to their success is a combination of hard driving rhythms, inspired guitar playing, dark themes in their lyrics, and genuine melodic singing. When you listen to Metallica, you can hear a tune coming through - not the pre-cancerous roar of some metal bands - but genuine musicianship. They care deeply about their technique and about their sound.
On this page I hope to teach the basics of how to play One by Metallica, provide links to books and Metallica CDs, perhaps inspire you to pick up a guitar and try some of the rhythm parts to One by Metallica, maybe even progress to playing some inspired lead guitar yourself.
Intro image is of my PRS Santana SE and guitar graphics are all my own creation, please do not copy!
Metallica One Live Video
Click on the link to see Metallica perform One live on Last fm
Metallica video:
Metallica Lyrics - Guitar How to Play - Metallica One Lyrics
You can listen to Metallica songs and read their lyrics on their own website and many others. Here are some links to Metallica One lyrics.
- METALLICA - AND JUSTICE FOR ALL LYRICS
Metallica And Justice For All lyrics in the And Justice For All Album. These And Justice For All lyrics are performed by Metallica Get the music video and song lyrics here. Halls of justice, painted green Money talking Power wolves beset your door He
How To Play Metallica One - The Chords of Metallica One - Intro Guitar Chords For Beginners
Metallica One - Intro Riff
The chords boil down to about ten basic shapes, which I will be giving you next, but here are the chord shapes in the intro. Each of these chords are played in the bass range as arpeggio or broken chord shapes. The quiet start of One is typical of many Metallica songs from the late 1980s, it is brooding. These broken chords are played simply on steel strung acoustic, and then a slightly more complex shape is played by the electric guitar when it enters over the top. One by Metallica is a classic "must play" riff.
Try the links for the TAB when you have mastered the shapes for the chords of One by Metallica. They give you the TAB for the whole song, but for now you can just try the intro chords if you find TABs hard to understand.
Here are a few more classic rock songs, tips and tricks you can try:
20th Century Boy
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Born To Be Wild
Hallelujah
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Hey Joe
Highway to Hell
House of the Rising Sun
Johnny B Goode
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Perfect Day
Play Guitar REALLY Fast
Satisfaction
Smoke On The Water
Stairway to Heaven
Summer of 69
Thrash Style Tremolo Picking
Whether you need guidance on how to play the TAB for One by Metallica, or just need a bit of help with tremolo picking, you might find this page useful I put it together and you can see or print it directly from Google Docs:
Thrash Style Tremolo Picking Lesson - 1
Sheet Music for One by Metallica
You can click on the link for a guitar/TAB/vocal version of One by Metallica. This is available as sheet music. A recorded versions book of the album which features One. Metallica are protective of their copyright and I don't blame them! Buying sheet music helps bands exist, whether famous or new.
Metallica One Chords - Chords for Metallica the One
Metallica One Chords and Lyrics - Links to Metallica One Bass TAB and more
Once you can play these chords you can look at the chords and lyrics to One by Metallica. This is a good start to understanding the song and the meaning of One by Metallica. You can go on if you like to find TABs for guitar bass and drums. Here is the tab for One by Metallica..
- One tab by Metallica @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
One tab by Metallica at Ultimate-Guitar.Com, added on October 31, 2001 - Metallica: One Bass Tab @ Bassmasta.net!
View and print Metallica One bass tab, rated 5 out of 5. Created by jose.
I hope you enjoyed my page and found it useful. I can promise you more to come later too with some lead work and advice on galloping metal rhythms... but for now, thank you for calling in.
© 2011 Lisa Marie Gabriel
Thank you for reading How to play One by Metallica - What is your Favorite Metallica Song?
Snakesmum on January 18, 2013:
Have to admit to loving "Call of Ktulu" most of all, even though it's not a song. Metallica are great musicians, but preferred them when Jason was the bass player.
anonymous on July 19, 2012:
great song! But it has some very hard parts
Edutopia on January 30, 2012:
Ah Metallica. The second or third stage of learning for many a guitar student and a band everyone tries to tackle at some point.
awayb on January 20, 2012:
thanks for the links to other site with many chords of metallica songs ...love it
t2000q on November 29, 2011:
great download for one of the best metal songs
Russel Shackleton on November 26, 2011:
learnt to play this one about 10 years ago, still get that warm fuzzy feeling playing the intro solo while a friend plays the arpeggio backing. Thanks for sharing this excellent song
madhu2219 on November 08, 2011:
Outstanding lens!
keep posting :)
SeanVernall LM on July 29, 2011:
This is by far my favourite Metallica song and one I'd love to be able to play.
Darcie French from Abbotsford, BC on June 11, 2011:
I'm back on the account that has Virtual Guitar Games and features several of your awesome 'how to play guitar' lenses - many thanks -:)
Kiwisoutback from Massachusetts on April 01, 2011:
Of all of Metallica's songs, I'd love to learn how to play One. My all time favorite Metallica song? Probably "Battery" and "Orion." Squid Angel blessed for this resource.
Richard from Surrey, United Kingdom on March 19, 2011:
I don't know too many Metallica songs, but this is a great resource to learn about how to play guitar like them.
Wednesday-Elf from Savannah, Georgia on March 19, 2011:
I'll have to share this page with my son. He's always looking for songs to add to his guitar playlist.
nestboxes on March 19, 2011:
Nice, I wish I had an electric guitar to play on. My acoustic won't take it!
Lisa Auch from Scotland on March 17, 2011:
I love this! Great resources
joseph7384 on March 16, 2011:
I love guitar lessons, nice lens.
Joseph
