For stairway to heaven for example I found a tab with a chord help, so after practising those chords a bit the song became fairly easy because most of the time you just have to form a chord, play some notes in it, form the next chord , play again some notes in it etc. .... It had an easy-to-understand structure to me
For nothing else matters though I just couldn't find any chord help, so I looked it up in the Black Album songbook, but this only made it worse. Like for example during the intro there are chord names like Cadd2 that I can't even find on the internet. Also, there are some easy chords like Em which is used a lot during the first part, but then suddenly on the two highest strings there are some other notes:
7 8 7 8 5 7 5 3 2 (something like this, it's not correct I know but it's just for explanation)
These notes have nothing to do with that Em chord. For a lot of other parts there are also other notes that are not part of the chord that the piece is played in, so this makes it very hard for me to understand if I have to make a chord shape or not with my fretting hand and which fingers I have to use . I can't seem to get a clear structure of the song
I hope you understand my problems after this confusing explanation
I can't ask you to explain this whole song or even the whole intro, so I just want to know this: since everybody thinks this song is so easy, does it actually matter that you know which chords are used, and also which fingers of your fretting hand you use to play (for example in the piece I noted here, and other pieces that often use a lot of pull-offs and hammer-ons and slides etc. in the song)? Or in other words: when you learned this song, did you understand how it was build, and how it was played, so you could use almost the same fingering as for example James Hetfield uses? Or did you just learned to play it in way that was easy for you, even though you knew that this was perhaps not the "proper" way of playing or that most people would play it different?