![]() ![]() Bass to treble, D G D G B D is the "other Open G" until rn!īack to OP's question - after this self-answered Q.? Have I had my coffee? Yes. Thanks mexicanyella post#2 - I didn't know that. You could raise one of the Ds in dobro tuning to E to make a G6 tuning, but that would put the 6 one string lower than you’re used to in C6, or else on the high string.might be fun to try both ways and see if one or the other felt intuitive and sounded good to you. The other one I’m aware of is (low to high, D G D G B D), which is more common for slide guitar blues, and has the advantage of the fifth in the bass, which facilitates root and fifth alternating bass notes for fingerstyle stuff. Or you can just do root-fifth double stops and let some other instrument(s) sound the minor third.or you can do melody and let other instruments do the chords. ![]() The disadvantage is, if you want to do something other than major triads you need to play partial chords or do some bar tricks (slant bars, or pull strings behind the bar, or both) and that can be a steep learning curve. You’ll find many more examples like the ones in this lesson in my new ebook ‘ An Easy Guide To Open Tunings For Blues & Rock Guitar‘.Dobro G (low to high: G B D G B D) has the advantage of lots of instructional material for dobros, and it sounds good electrified too, and big resonant major chords that are hard to screw up. Next you should try write a song with guitar parts in the style of Keith Richards or try to fit some parts in his style to other Blues or Rock songs. Also it would be very educational to try to transcribe a few Rolling Stones songs in their entirety. Now it’s your turn to come up with your own variations. 5 combines this sixteenth strum with the typical Keith-Richards accompaniment riff and a chord change. 4 demonstrates another typical playing technique of Keith Richards: A pickup measure with two sixteenth strums just before the accent on beat one.Įx. take a listen to ‘Start Me Up’ (measure three and four of the main riff) and ‘Brown Sugar’ (most of the verse and measure three and four of the chorus riff)).Įx. Keith played this exact riff in many of his songs (e. 3 demonstrates the typical Keith Richards accompaniment riff. 2 shows a typical intro in the style of Keith Richards. I added three more chord variations Keith uses sometimes (listen to the intro from ‘Brown Sugar’ to hear these variations in action).Įx. ![]() ![]() 1 shows the ingredients of Keith Richards’ main guitar riff, first in the first position with open strings (chords 1 and 2) and then in a movable version with a bar (chords 3 and 4). Measure the hits of the Rolling Stones with this yardstick and you’ll know why so many of their songs are timeless classics that will be played for generations to come. If it still sounds great, you have a great song. Richards once said in an interview that you can recognise a great song by stripping away all the production stuff and play it with just an acoustic guitar and a voice. It’s about great riffs, infectious groove and timeless songwriting. Keith’s guitar playing is not about fancy or lightning fast playing with impressive technique. Use the tip of your index finger when playing a bar chord or the tip of your thumb when playing in the open position. If you don’t want to remove that string, you can touch the lowest string with one of your fingers (fretting hand). Often he has the lowest string removed, so that he plays a five string guitar. On many of the Rolling Stones’ greatest hits Keith Richards played in Open G tuning. Keith Richards also recorded two very good CDs under his own name: ‘Talk Is Cheap’ and ‘Main Offender’. All of the above mentioned songs are included on ‘Grrr!’. Many of their albums have become classics, but if you want to buy your first Rolling Stones-CD, I suggest ‘Grrr!’, a 3-CD-compilation that contains countless hits from their earliest days till today (and in addition it’s very cheap). If you don’t know about the Rolling Stones here is a list of some of their greatest hits to get you started: Classic Rolling Stones Songs You Need To Know With the simple building blocks shown here you can play many of the classic Rolling Stones hits and of course you can use this knowledge to write your own riffs and songs.Īll examples are taken from my new ebook ‘An Easy Guide To Open Tunings For Blues & Rock Guitar’, which contains many more examples and ideas (available at my website). In the sixth lesson on Open Tunings we take a look at the instantly recognizable style of Keith Richards from the Rolling Stones. How Keith Richards Plays in Open G Tuning ![]()
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