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Originally Posted by polak
I played guitar religiously for 5 years and knew tons of Nirvana songs and could play almost the entire lead guitar GN'R catalogue in high school. Since then I've moved into electronic music so I can barely remember any songs on guitar but I still have fun playing what Guns N Roses songs I do remember. Very little interest in reteaching myself Nirvana's stuff. Never got into Pearl Jam so my comment was more directed at Nirvana.
I don't know how exactly you could say that playing any Nirvana song is a challenge? The only challenge I could think of when it comes to playing a nirvana song on guitar is staying awake and not messing up out of pure boredom. I guess tuning to drop d could be hard for some? Aren't Nirvana's songs almost all simple chords or power chords? I did only learn their popular songs though so maybe I missed something but Kurt wasn't exactly known for his technical prowess around a guitar.
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Some of Nirvanas more acoustic slower songs are difficult to play properly because there is a lot of chords that have bass notes as well as gbe or dgb chords that transition fast enough. They have several songs that are Hendrix esque but with a much different tone. Yeah most of their music is easy to play.
That doesn't change the influence they had. It was like a musical uturn. Tool, GnR, Metallica, Rage or any other major band from the era was less influential as Nirvana and Pearl Jam had a ripple like effect through pretty much anything closely related to rock and roll. This is regardless of how many albums they sold or what people think of their music. I don't listen to any of those bands regularly but can recognize the impact they had.