“With Arms Wide Open” as made famous by Creed is a classic 90s Nu Metal song featuring clean & heavy guitars with a melodic sense and a variety of dynamics. Dave will show you all the guitar parts in this song. There are several drop-D tuned electric guitars, two clean and one with heavy overdrive for rhythms, and a fourth that plays the wah-wah effected solo. The guitarist layers the parts with a variety of dynamics.

“With Arms Wide Open” is in C major and 4/4 time at a tempo of about 69 BPM.

One possible suggestion for the single guitar version is to play Guitar 1 up to Guitar 3s entrance then switch back when Guitar 1 re-enters. Since these two rhythm guitar parts never overlay continue alternating until the end of the song.