Currently I think you are the best guitar teacher on youTube. You teach us things that REALLY serve to improve on the guitar, things that are normally played in “intermediate level” songs. Thank you. Saludos desde ESPAÑA (Spain).
Blue I woke up and looked for your video before my coffee. I started on your lesson and it made me feel good about my playing today. I needed a lesson like that. PLEASE keep it up. Brian
Thank you so much for this video! I searching for Rolling Stones on yt and saw your video. Click it, was amazed, picked up my guitar after 5 month and start playing and felt back to my 70th years feeling imidelity.....Great video!!!!!WOW.
Very cool how you show the Keeff sound without having to change tunings. And as you explain this can be played in any key using barre chord shapes. along with hammer ons and pull offs.
I figured this out a long time ago when practising caged inversion shapes. It took me by surprise as I never really transcribed or practised any Rolling Stone songs. I suddenly made this rolling stone sound. After that I've heard this transition in many other songs. Although not the specific hammer on from the I to the IV chord which makes it Keith's "trick". That's the beauty of the caged system seeing all these chords and walking into them with passing scale notes. It unlocks the fretboard.
I love this move. Picked it up years ago. You hear it in tons of songs from the 70s. The opening riff to Doobie Brothers long train running. Kiss used it a bunch too, and so many others.
yeah, agree, it's really everywhere in rock music. It's in We Will Rock You, Kind of Magic, Rosalie, lot's of Status Quo songs I think (whatever you want at least) and many others. If you add the root note back in, you can also find it in Folk too, like Blues Run the Game or the opening riff of Father and Son
From Bend Oregon. Thank you for all of your videos. You've helped me quite a bit with many of your tips and tricks. I love theory, but I also love when someone just gives information in a simple, clear, easy to remember fashion. You sir, are so good at presenting guitar ideas in that way. So, sincerely... thank you.
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver Couldn't have said it any better than what Stan put down !! It's so true !! Speaking of Gimme Shelter, isn't that the way Keith plays that killer intro to that legendary tune ???!!!!!
This is an awesome video. I love browsing TH-cam for little bits of technique I can apply to my playing right away. This video made total sense and really helped me connect different triads and chord shapes together to make better sounding progressions.
Blue! Thank you, Thank you! You have made me a better Keef with this ONE lesson! I usually play using my Keef Special (5 string Open G Tele) but now I will play more in Standard using my SG. Thanks again.
Great lesson yet again. I like how adding the major pentatonic scale turns a Rolling Stones sound to a Allman Brothers kind of sound. I have been enjoying the Patreon, getting a good catalogue of information happening over there.
Thanks for this video! It’s so cool to learn this trick in open tuning. Almost every video that I have ever seen on playing like Keith begins by tuning the guitar to open g. I eventually want to learn open g, but for now I am starting with standard tuning.
Part of what makes this work is that Keef is leaving the lower partials to the other instruments so as not to mask what they're doing. Another part is that he has the 5th in the bottom note of the one-finger bar and the 3rd in the bottom note of the implied IV chord, reinforcing the rhythm section. Very "Stones-ish"!
Came across your channel by chance, I have followed a few teachers on TH-cam Chris Sherland and Steve Stine, you are right there if not better in your manner and method and tips on how to remember stuff …..just great …keep on keeping on ! Thanks
A variation of the D chord you show that I really like is to add in a lower 3rd on the 9th fret of the A string. Of course it works in any other key as well.
You are MY man on the internet for guitar lessons. This is all so good and so cool. Very well explained, excellent excellent job my friend! Loving all your lessons and will ask santa to buy me your books. Thanks again so much!
Great video on adding some spice to the routine sounds. I love the tying together of everything as well. The Stones are so cool to this day and their sound is easily identified. Thanks so much for another fun useful video. I used to play the Stones on cassette in my 1970 Chrysler when I was a teenager. Now it's on CD 🙂
Hi George, thanks for the comment. Cassettes are still cool in my opinion... though I don't have a cassette deck anymore, and nowhere to buy them haha.
Great tip. Makes perfect sense since the D, G & B strings are the same in standard and open G. My Tele will still be a 5 string in open G, but this gives me some new ideas for the 6 string standard tuned Strat.
Just got here and love your style of teaching. Not note by note. More like concepts to improve your jamming flow. Nice! That is what you need a good teacher for. Someone that got the clue of a concept AND can teach it in such an superb manner.
Wow, this was a really fun lesson. I've seen the Keith 1-4 trick before, but not the way you showed it going D>C>G>D and that cool sounding bass line on the G. Thanks!
How come all the best guitar tutorial videos are from Canada dudes? Rock on my friend! Great video. Thank you very much for the insight. Excited to incorporate it into my playing!
Forgive me, am a bassist, but my understanding of Keith's lick you are trying to show here is he was playing sus4s, and not the IV chord, and in open G minus the low E string. He was colouring the chord, not changing to another. That's why it works up and down the neck, which surprised you.
It doesn't surprise me Stephen, using IV chords to sound like a sus4 is in tons of music, but these "full Keiths" as I call them are triads of the IV chord, and yes the rest of the band is not changing chords. So it is functioning as colour on the I chord. The half keith as I called them are sus4 chords
The best Keith Richards lesson I have seen Keith loves the sound (it sells alot of Albums Concert Tickets and Tour T shirts) and does not see alot of reason to mix it up much!!!!!
Kieth was indeed taught this during the Let It Bleed sessions by Ry Cooder. Previously during the Beggar's Banquet sessions Kieth started using Open E tuning which he used for Jumping Jack Flash, Street Fighting Man, YCAGWYW and also on Gimmie Shelter. Ry Cooder dropped by during the Let It Bleed sessions and opined to Kieth "Open E good but Open G better" and proceeded to show him an example - this example being adapted by Kieth to become the famous main verse guitar part for Honky Tonk Women. The rest is history as Kieth frequently used Open G thereafter especially on Sticky Fingers and Exile but never again Open E. The chord in question here can either be considered a IV chord or a suspension of the I chord - it depends somewhat on what the bass is doing. It's often called the "Kieth Suspension" for that reason. If you try it and like it definitely try out playing in Open G, it's a blast and you get more options for use of this suspension, they all sound tighter and more bad ass than in standard tuning which is of course why Kieth uses Open G so much. Also don't make the mistake of thinking what Kieth did with Open G is simple. He may say it's all about "Three chords, two fingers and one arsehole", I guess he can afford to now, but rather like Angus and Malcolm Young with AC/DC what Kieth did sounds simple enough, it's meant to, but it's almost impossible for an ordinary mortal to duplicate accurately and get down "right". There is a reason why AC/DC and the Stones were such huge bands. The original Honky Tonk Women riff for example is particularly hard - it's like sand falling between your fingers, you think you've got it but then it's just gone and it's not right. You never get all the way there even if you know technically how it's done. The easiest of Kieth's Open G things to get down pretty accurately is probably Brown Sugar - but that's probably 'cos Kieth actually didn't write that riff, Mick Jagger did after Kieth showed him how to play in Open G. Mick is an ordinary mortal guitar player. Kieth Richards is not 😎
Thanks for the interesting background! I couldn't remember who taught it to him. I remember reading something about it in his autobiography but couldn't find it in there again.
Blue, you've done it again. I've been trying to get an easy way to play D, G, E that is relatively close together (they come fast). This is it, I can't wait to try it out!
I reckon Keith could knock the ball out of the park playing a diddley bow LOL I love his sound and your appreciation of it. great video and sound, many thanks
Same move was used by the Doobie Brothers (Long Train Running) and The Edgar Winter Group (Free Ride), but I feel that Keith Richard’s real sound is from the alternative tunings.
The other Keith trick is the bar major chord, then quickly hammering on and pull off on the 2nd and 3rd strings (rather than the 2nd and 4th strings), so if you are in D you play the notes A D and F# then hammer on to notes A E and G, then pull off again to the original A D and F#. Very Keith.
Keith also tunes the 5th string (A) down to G. That way you get to use 4 strings in these kind of shapes as opposed to only three. It also means that on one chord you get a tonic root note and on the other a dominant root note which sounds well, more rootsy. Eg Brown Sugar.
And that is one of the things that makes Keith an absolute genious
He sure was good at that 👍🎸
*genius
@@stephengallagher2209 not really, he sukks as a guitar player
Not really that genius
Currently I think you are the best guitar teacher on youTube. You teach us things that REALLY serve to improve on the guitar, things that are normally played in “intermediate level” songs. Thank you. Saludos desde ESPAÑA (Spain).
Thank you very much! More lessons coming, almost every Saturday.
That’s great gonna work on it!Thanks!
Blue I woke up and looked for your video before my coffee. I started on your lesson and it made me feel good about my playing today. I needed a lesson like that. PLEASE keep it up.
Brian
Thanks Brian!!! Enjoy that coffee now ☕️
Yeah, this is some of the best tutorial I have seen for the guitar.
Great to hear, thanks Grant!
I've only heard the "Keith" style in G open tuning. Thanks for this great tip.
Thanks for watching 👍
You're the best teacher on the internet. Great lesson
Thank you! Great to hear!
Thank you so much for this video! I searching for Rolling Stones on yt and saw your video. Click it, was amazed, picked up my guitar after 5 month and start playing and felt back to my 70th years feeling imidelity.....Great video!!!!!WOW.
Great to get back to it. Glad I could help!
Great lesson. Much appreciated, thanks.
Thanks Jim!!
I think this was the fastest and one of the "coolest" riffs I've learned on the YTube.
Awesome thanks Joe!
These are my favourite kinds vids. Straight to the point, makes so much sense and I can apply it immediately to my playing - subscribed 👍🏼
Cool thanks! Lots more coming to this channel and to our Patreon
Great lesson, may the Keith force be with you!
Thanks you too!
Very cool how you show the Keeff sound without having to change tunings. And as you explain this can be played in any key using barre chord shapes. along with hammer ons and pull offs.
Thank you! Indeed I find it real handy when you need the Keef real quick.
Blue you've done it again.. awesome trick, what a lesson. Thank you! 😊
thanks Eldorado!
I figured this out a long time ago when practising caged inversion shapes. It took me by surprise as I never really transcribed or practised any Rolling Stone songs. I suddenly made this rolling stone sound. After that I've heard this transition in many other songs. Although not the specific hammer on from the I to the IV chord which makes it Keith's "trick". That's the beauty of the caged system seeing all these chords and walking into them with passing scale notes. It unlocks the fretboard.
Yeah nice work! It's great to see them in all types of songs
I love this move. Picked it up years ago. You hear it in tons of songs from the 70s. The opening riff to Doobie Brothers long train running. Kiss used it a bunch too, and so many others.
Thanks yeah I throw it in all kinds of songs 😀
yeah, agree, it's really everywhere in rock music. It's in We Will Rock You, Kind of Magic, Rosalie, lot's of Status Quo songs I think (whatever you want at least) and many others. If you add the root note back in, you can also find it in Folk too, like Blues Run the Game or the opening riff of Father and Son
From Bend Oregon. Thank you for all of your videos. You've helped me quite a bit with many of your tips and tricks. I love theory, but I also love when someone just gives information in a simple, clear, easy to remember fashion. You sir, are so good at presenting guitar ideas in that way. So, sincerely... thank you.
Thanks Stan!!! Glad it's helping!
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver Couldn't have said it any better than what Stan put down !!
It's so true !! Speaking of Gimme Shelter, isn't that the way Keith plays that killer intro to that legendary tune ???!!!!!
@John McAleese It is basically the same, though I think that's in an open tuning, and with some variation ... but the same idea yes 😀
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver Yeah !! I got cha ! You are right. Thanks so much for these awesome lessons. You seem to enjoy it. I hope you do !!
I fell into this video and glad I did. What a nice way to show how something can be played without over doing it. Thank you sir!
Thank you for watching and commenting! Lots more on the channel coming up
This is an awesome video. I love browsing TH-cam for little bits of technique I can apply to my playing right away. This video made total sense and really helped me connect different triads and chord shapes together to make better sounding progressions.
Great to hear thanks! Lots more coming to this channel.
I live in Brazil. Thank you for this lesson!
Thank you for watching, Ricardo!
Blue! Thank you, Thank you! You have made me a better Keef with this ONE lesson! I usually play using my Keef Special (5 string Open G Tele) but now I will play more in Standard using my SG. Thanks again.
Good to hear thanks! Nice to be able to play it both ways 😀
Great lesson yet again. I like how adding the major pentatonic scale turns a Rolling Stones sound to a Allman Brothers kind of sound. I have been enjoying the Patreon, getting a good catalogue of information happening over there.
Awesome thanks Steve!!! That major pentatonic really does sound Allman Brothers in this context 😀
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@@GuitarLessonsVancouver5:05 5:06 5:09
Absolutely loved this! Simplicity is the key
Thanks Ben!!
Absolutely brilliant! Have a great weekend.
Thanks for watching 👍
Thanks for this video! It’s so cool to learn this trick in open tuning. Almost every video that I have ever seen on playing like Keith begins by tuning the guitar to open g. I eventually want to learn open g, but for now I am starting with standard tuning.
I agree, turns out it works great in standard, which is especially useful since that's what most of us are playing in, most of the time.
Definitely going to sign up for your patreon, so I can learn more about this.
@@keithdonohue4631 Awesome thanks Keith!!
Best lesson ever. Such a quick trick. Thanks
Great thanks for watching!
Great video, presented in a easily understood manner. I gotta get back to my guitar and give it a whirl…nice job!
Good to hear thanks! Have fun 🎸
Rhythm fun, Kieth Richards style. Glad you added the major. Brilliant. Keep em coming Blue.
Thanks Charles!
Part of what makes this work is that Keef is leaving the lower partials to the other instruments so as not to mask what they're doing. Another part is that he has the 5th in the bottom note of the one-finger bar and the 3rd in the bottom note of the implied IV chord, reinforcing the rhythm section. Very "Stones-ish"!
Came across your channel by chance, I have followed a few teachers on TH-cam Chris Sherland and Steve Stine, you are right there if not better in your manner and method and tips on how to remember stuff …..just great …keep on keeping on ! Thanks
A variation of the D chord you show that I really like is to add in a lower 3rd on the 9th fret of the A string. Of course it works in any other key as well.
FANTASTIC! That was a great lesson: thanks a million!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent lesson …seriously, ….Amazing teacher .
Just this one lesson opened up and entire new world! Excellent! I have always considered Keith the Riff Master. Laid Back Matery.
You are MY man on the internet for guitar lessons. This is all so good and so cool. Very well explained, excellent excellent job my friend! Loving all your lessons and will ask santa to buy me your books. Thanks again so much!
Thank you very much! More coming this Saturday
Great lesson I IV / Sus4 and major penta, we can do a lot with that, thanks very much Blue!
Thanks Rafa!!
Another great video Blue. Love where you focus on just one small area that you can take away and add to your own guitar cook book.
Thanks again Bb!!! 😎
Really nice instructions creating the sound.
Thanks for watching 👍
Thanks! It was very interesting for me. I’m going to try it.
Thanks for watching
Great video on adding some spice to the routine sounds. I love the tying together of everything as well. The Stones are so cool to this day and their sound is easily identified. Thanks so much for another fun useful video. I used to play the Stones on cassette in my 1970 Chrysler when I was a teenager. Now it's on CD 🙂
Hi George, thanks for the comment. Cassettes are still cool in my opinion... though I don't have a cassette deck anymore, and nowhere to buy them haha.
What's a CD?
Another great classic lesson from Blue - thx , its really a good one on some of the Keith Richards sound - and it works
Thanks again!!
"Full Keith" and "half Keith" makes it memorable too. Playing it on a Tele gives it a nice "authentic" sound.
@@jeffbosch1697 Thanks Jeff, yeah I just came up with those terms when I was filming haha
This was exactly the mini lesson I needed to help me play Miss You by the Stones. You're the best!
That's a great song. Glad I could help
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver Also, wicked to know you're in Vancouver too! Love seeing YT creators from the city making a splash online - keep going!
@@brettsnowball Thanks Brett! 🎸😎
Excellent, very practical lesson!
Thanks! Lots more coming!
I knew that before but you taught it in a direct, simple way. Good job!
Great tip. Makes perfect sense since the D, G & B strings are the same in standard and open G. My Tele will still be a 5 string in open G, but this gives me some new ideas for the 6 string standard tuned Strat.
This lesson is surely a lesson that you can learn andf enjoy while learining at the same time. Amazing! Cheers from Java Indonesia.
Thank you!!
Just got here and love your style of teaching. Not note by note. More like concepts to improve your jamming flow. Nice! That is what you need a good teacher for. Someone that got the clue of a concept AND can teach it in such an superb manner.
Cool thanks!!! 😎
fantastic lesson
Thanks for watching 👍
I'll be mucking about with this one for ages. Thanks😃
Great to hear! I use it all the time.
This one got you a sub from England, mate. Bravo and keep ‘em coming! 👍
Great thanks Colin, welcome to the channel 😀
God your lessons are a breath of fresh air….absolutely brilliant
Awesome, thanks Paul!
You are a great teacher. Thanks for the tips.
Thank you very much! More lessons coming Saturday!
Really great . I like this video you are a great teacher.
Thanks again Rajesh!
Man that guitar sounds so damn good ! Awesome video dude 👌
Thank you!
Wow! Fantastic lesson! Thanks!!
Thanks glad you enjoyed it
Relative newbie but this has answered all my prayers as to playing Stones in standard. 👍🏼
Glad to hear it! Thanks!
Love this! Thanks Blue
Thanks Doug! Lots more coming!
Been doing this for years a great little trick and a fun lesson!
Great to hear thank you!
I have only said this one other time with tons of tutorials
This is the best and teaches the common man how to play guitar brilliantly
Thanks
Wonderful thank you!!
So cool! I knew about "The Keith" but have never realized it can be done in regular tuning... thanks!
Yeah its it's real handy, throw it in any song if it fits
This is super! Thank you so lot.
Thank you Dieter!
Unreal man... very cool.... thanks Blue
Thank you David!!!
Great, great stuff....thanks man...scribed up
Welcome aboard!
Wow, this was a really fun lesson. I've seen the Keith 1-4 trick before, but not the way you showed it going D>C>G>D and that cool sounding bass line on the G. Thanks!
Thanks QBRX, good to see you here again, too 😎
Nice work much appreciated the manic of Keith never quits 😮
Thank you! Lots more lessons on the channel.
Fun little trick. Thank you!
How come all the best guitar tutorial videos are from Canada dudes?
Rock on my friend! Great video. Thank you very much for the insight.
Excited to incorporate it into my playing!
Thanks Andrew! 🎸
love the chord progression with KEITH FLAIR in it. great lesson! keep them coming! Peace n R N R!
Thank you! Lots more coming in the new year
Brilliant. Really well explained as well. Thanks
Thank you Simon!
Best guitar lesson I’ve seen this year, or longer !
Awesome! Thanks! Lots more on this channel and our Patreon! www.patreon.com/guitarlessonsvancouver
Forgive me, am a bassist, but my understanding of Keith's lick you are trying to show here is he was playing sus4s, and not the IV chord, and in open G minus the low E string. He was colouring the chord, not changing to another. That's why it works up and down the neck, which surprised you.
It doesn't surprise me Stephen, using IV chords to sound like a sus4 is in tons of music, but these "full Keiths" as I call them are triads of the IV chord, and yes the rest of the band is not changing chords. So it is functioning as colour on the I chord. The half keith as I called them are sus4 chords
Beautiful thank you I am trying this tonight.
Cool 😎 enjoy!!!
The best Keith Richards lesson I have seen Keith loves the sound (it sells alot of Albums Concert Tickets and Tour T shirts) and does not see alot of reason to mix it up much!!!!!
Thank you!!! Lots more on the channel 😀
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver looking forward to it maybe what does Ron Wood add??!!!
Super good video. Thanks! 🎸🎸🎸
Fantastic insight to this Old Trick, somebody showed to Keith Long Ago ! Subbed !
Thank you! Lots on the channel and more coming.
Excellent teacher. Thanks man.
Thanks for watching!
Kieth was indeed taught this during the Let It Bleed sessions by Ry Cooder. Previously during the Beggar's Banquet sessions Kieth started using Open E tuning which he used for Jumping Jack Flash, Street Fighting Man, YCAGWYW and also on Gimmie Shelter. Ry Cooder dropped by during the Let It Bleed sessions and opined to Kieth "Open E good but Open G better" and proceeded to show him an example - this example being adapted by Kieth to become the famous main verse guitar part for Honky Tonk Women. The rest is history as Kieth frequently used Open G thereafter especially on Sticky Fingers and Exile but never again Open E.
The chord in question here can either be considered a IV chord or a suspension of the I chord - it depends somewhat on what the bass is doing. It's often called the "Kieth Suspension" for that reason. If you try it and like it definitely try out playing in Open G, it's a blast and you get more options for use of this suspension, they all sound tighter and more bad ass than in standard tuning which is of course why Kieth uses Open G so much.
Also don't make the mistake of thinking what Kieth did with Open G is simple. He may say it's all about "Three chords, two fingers and one arsehole", I guess he can afford to now, but rather like Angus and Malcolm Young with AC/DC what Kieth did sounds simple enough, it's meant to, but it's almost impossible for an ordinary mortal to duplicate accurately and get down "right". There is a reason why AC/DC and the Stones were such huge bands. The original Honky Tonk Women riff for example is particularly hard - it's like sand falling between your fingers, you think you've got it but then it's just gone and it's not right. You never get all the way there even if you know technically how it's done.
The easiest of Kieth's Open G things to get down pretty accurately is probably Brown Sugar - but that's probably 'cos Kieth actually didn't write that riff, Mick Jagger did after Kieth showed him how to play in Open G. Mick is an ordinary mortal guitar player. Kieth Richards is not 😎
Thanks for the interesting background! I couldn't remember who taught it to him. I remember reading something about it in his autobiography but couldn't find it in there again.
i before e except in Keith
Blue, you've done it again. I've been trying to get an easy way to play D, G, E that is relatively close together (they come fast). This is it, I can't wait to try it out!
Thanks again Philip!
This is so useful, these videos arr helping me get my head round the theory
Cool thanks again for watching and commenting 😀
Fantastic Lesson, thanks for your time.
Glad you liked it!
I reckon Keith could knock the ball out of the park playing a diddley bow LOL I love his sound and your appreciation of it. great video and sound, many thanks
Thanks Stuart!
When my guitar omes back from the repair shop I will try some of this, thx and hello from Edmonton!
Thanks!
that was such a cool lesson. thank you so much!!!
Thanks for watching 👍
Well, that's about the best thing I've seen in a while. Thank you!
Thanks for watching 👍 lots more coming to this channel
Nice demonstration👍
Thanks for watching 🎸
Good channel man. I really enjoy it.
Thank you Marcelo!
Amazing Lesson
Thanks Daniel!!
Another eye opening lesson.
Cool thanks!! 😎
Same move was used by the Doobie Brothers (Long Train Running) and The Edgar Winter Group (Free Ride), but I feel that Keith Richard’s real sound is from the alternative tunings.
The Doobie Brothers definitely do that a lot, too 👍
Yeah, Keith's 5 string tuned to open G is perfect for this kind of playing.
Well, that was about the coolest lesson ever for me! Thanks so much,,
Great thanks Brian!
Fantastic no-nonsense lesson...thanks for treating us as not stoopid!!!
Thanks Chris!
Very nice, lesson! I love the major pentatonic too. Sounds to up!
Thanks a lot!
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The other Keith trick is the bar major chord, then quickly hammering on and pull off on the 2nd and 3rd strings (rather than the 2nd and 4th strings), so if you are in D you play the notes A D and F# then hammer on to notes A E and G, then pull off again to the original A D and F#. Very Keith.
Ya totally. That's also a good one, thanks for posting.
Keith also tunes the 5th string (A) down to G. That way you get to use 4 strings in these kind of shapes as opposed to only three. It also means that on one chord you get a tonic root note and on the other a dominant root note which sounds well, more rootsy. Eg Brown Sugar.
Thanks David, open G tuning is talked about at 10:34 in the video
"Solos come and go, but riffs are forever."- Keef
Nice one! I haven't heard that one!!
Great lesson! Thank you
Thanks for watching 👍
Another awesome lesson.
Thanks again!
Great video, simple explanation, easy to implement. Immediately subscribed to get more of this good stuff 👍🙏🏼
Great thanks for joining the channel!
Well explained and presented.
Thank You.
Thanks 🎸
Fantastic! Keith up the great work!
Thanks for watching 👍