You know the tune. You've never played Tetris in your life and you still know the tune. It has been rotating little coloured blocks around the back of your skull since roughly 1989, and now it wants to live on your fretboard too. Resistance is futile.
This little clip is a MelodyChords arrangement of the Tetris theme — properly named Korobeiniki, a Russian folk tune credited to Nikolay Nekrasov — where the melody and the chords share a single guitar. No band, no NES, no smug friend clearing four lines at once. Just you, six strings, and a free tab.
How this Tetris MelodyChords arrangement works
The whole thing lives in A minor, and the reason it sounds so satisfyingly dramatic is the dominant chord. Korobeiniki keeps swinging from Am to an E major (with a stinging G#) and back — that raised seventh is pure harmonic minor, the same spice that makes half the world's folk and metal sound "epic." Your ear reads that G# leading tone as a magnet pulling home to A, which is exactly why the loop feels like it never wants to stop.
The practical trick with a MelodyChords part is division of labour: thumb handles the bass roots (A, D, E), fingers carry the melody on the top strings, and the inner chord tones just fill the gaps in between. Concrete takeaway — learn the melody line completely on its own first, then add bass notes only on the strong beats. Cram the chords in last. If you try to grab everything at once, your hand tetrises itself into a corner it can't rotate out of.
Grab the tab, loop it four times, and congratulations: you now have a party trick that peaks in under a minute. If you want the Guitar Pro file and the original videos, they're over on my Patreon — no line-clear bonus, but close.