The Unforgiven - Metallica - Fingerstyle/Chord Melody Tutorial (Patreon)

Metallica has been climbing the charts around the world thanks to the now classic scene with Eddie playing Master of Puppets in Stranger Things season 4. At first I thought we do something like that, the Ukulele Teacher did an amazing tutorial for Master of Puppets though and as much as I love that song I wanted to do something different, so I started to work on one of their more somber songs, The Unforgiven. While working out the intro section of the song I noticed how naturally the tune lended itself to a lovely chord melody style version. I started to get a couple phrases, I started to doubt myself a little bit with the vocal phrasing and the use of 16th notes but I stuck with it and I am very happy that I did. The result is a lovely arrangement of The Unforgiven in Fingerstyle Ukulele style, also known as chord melody ukulele. 

The song should be fairly easy to learn how to play in the fingerstyle ukulele if you take the tutorial slowly, use the time stamps, perfect a piece and continue. I put quite a bit of work into this one so I really hope that you enjoy The Unforgiven Metalicca Fingerstyle Ukulele Tutorial and make sure to hit like and subscribe while you are on the youtube page please! We have done some Metallica in the past so make sure to check out our other Metallica ukulele tutorials as well.

Will improve

• Playing with 16ths
• Use of Suspended 4ths
• Moving the G shape up the fretboard
• Use of 6ths
• Hammer ons
• Pull offs
• Use of minor 9 chords

Time Stamps

• Intro Riff - 0:49 
• Intro Melody Bars 1-4 - 3:09 
• Intro Melody Bars 5-8 - 5:58 
• Intro Melody Play-along - 7:39 
• Verse Bars 1-3 - 8:20 
• Verse Bars 4-6 - 12:02 
• Verse Bars 7-9 - 14:45  
• Verse Bars 10-12 - 16:11 
• Verse Play-along - 19:09 
• Chorus Bars 1-3 - 20:17 
• Chorus Bars 4-6 - 22:58 
• Chorus Bars 7-10 - 25:47 
• Chorus Play-along 27:29 
• Pre-Coda - 28:19 
• Coda Part 1 - 30:10  
• Coda Part 2 - 31:18 
• How to Finish the Song - 33:28

Related Lessons

•  Nothing Else Matters 
• Nothing Else Matters - The Solo