Nutbush City Limits (Tina Turner) Guitar Lesson with TAB

Nutbush City Limits Guitar Lesson + TAB
In this lesson, you'll find a chord analysis and TAB for playing the main riff which is a unique take on the standard honky-tonk!


Nutbush City Limits | TAB


The chords are the same throughout with only a few small tweaks. The intro repeats the A chords three times rather than four. The outro stays on the A chords to fade.

Apart from these small arrangement tweaks, Nutbush City Limits chords are just this:

||: A A6 A A6 A | A7 A6 A A6 A :|| x4
| C | C | G | G |
||: A A6 A A6 A | A7 A6 A A6 A :||

Using TAB, the riff is played over the A chords is a nice variation on Chuck Berry‘s classic Honky Tonk riff. When Ike plays it in Nutbush, it looks like this:

Nutbush City Limits chords and TAB.

For the C and G chords, you could adopt this riff to suit these chords as well, or, you could play them straight, maybe vary the chord shapes.

Should you want to play along with the original recording, you might find it nicer to tune up a few Hz to around 444. My free online guitar tuner can help you with this.



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Nutbush City Limits | Chords + Lyrics

Nutbush City Limits chords lesson.

You can learn how to play Nutbush City Limits by Tina Turner using chords, lyrics, chord analysis, TAB, and the original recording.

||: A A6 A A6 A | A7 A6 A A6 A :||
A church house, gin house. A schoolhouse, outhouse…


Five similar tunes | Chords + Lyrics

When you can play the TAB for Nutbush City Limits, try these five tunes fro the songbook.


Tina Turner tunes

Tina Turner wrote Nutbush City Limits.

Tina Turner was discovered by Ike, joined his band, and even married him. Together they achieved great success with many hits.

Off stage, Ike was an abusive husband, when they divorced Tina would embark on a remarkable solo career and Ike would end up the most hated man in America.


Tina Turner on the web

Listen to Tina Turner on Spotify.


About me | Dan Lundholm

Dan Lundholm wrote this guitar lesson and TAB for Nutbush City Limits.

This guitar lesson by Dan Lundholm features TAB and covers Nutbush City Limits. Discover more about him and how you can learn guitar with Spytunes.

Most importantly, find out why you should learn guitar by playing tunes, not practising scales, and studying theory in isolation.


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