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Smells Like Teen Spirit free harmonica lesson and tabs

Updated: Jan 11

Hello! Today's harmonica lesson is grunge classic Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana. Grab your C harmonica to play along!


Here are the free tabs:


5 6 -6 4 -6 6 -5 5

Load up on guns, bring your friends

-5 5 -4 4 -4 5 -4 4 -3

It's fun to lose and to pretend

5 6 -6 4 6 -6 6 -5 5

She's overboard and self-assured

-5 5 -4 4 -4 5 -4 4 -3

Oh no, I know a dirty word


4 -3 4 -3 4 -3 4 -3-->-3// [x3]

Hello, hello, hello, how low? [x3]

4 -3 4 -3 4 -3

Hello, hello, hello!

7 -7 -7 -6 -8 -8 -8 7

With the lights out, it's less dang’rous

-5 -5 -5 5 -8 -8 -8 7

Here we are now, entertain us

7 -7 -7 -6 -8 -8 -8 7

I feel stupid and contagious

-5 -5 -5 5 -8 -8 -8 7

Here we are now, entertain us

7 -7 -7 -6 -8 -8 -8 7

A mulatto, an albino

-5 -5 -5 5 -8 -8 -8 7

A mosquito, my libido

7-->7/ 8/-->8 8/-->8

Yeah, hey, yay


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