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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