Fascinating. And I love when you say that Keith doesn’t do “tricky stuff: he does *inventive* stuff-and there’s a difference.” Man, that’s doing more than teaching a guitar part. You’re telling us something about Keith’s creative process, and it’s awesome. Always love your stuff. Thanks for putting it up!
JJ I don't know how you dig up these classic chestnuts-it has been almost 30 years since I heard this song-but I am really grateful you do. Fantastic tutorial as well! Thanks for sharing with us! Cheers!👍👍
This is a revelation. Thanks for digging into this. I believe the mystery chord in the B section is an E/G# - which Keith has loved forever; you can hear it on Lady Jane, Angie, Slipping Away, and many others. Kudos!
Another great breakdown and explanation. Amazing how some of this stuff comes to you when you’re not consciously trying to figure it out. A real standout on Flowers.
Excellent! The realization that the guitar is tuned down a whole step and then the right shapes/positions for the chords ("inventive, not tricky"). I've been listening to this song since it came out in 1967 or whatever (54 years ago) and now I know how they did it.
Every Stones song I can play I've learned from you and this channel. Never fails, I'll get a Stones song in my head, look it up on RU-vid and you've got a lesson on it. Can't thank you enough James!
Ya did a great job of explaining! Your trial and error in reg. tuning, and "campfire" approach was well done. As was yer epiphony sans guitar, that he must be doing this(?) as mere drop D wasn't logical. Similar to 'a-ha' moments I've had. Well done and clearly demonstrated. Thanks!
JJ thats amazing . Its Summer don't watch many videos now . However this has always been a Stones song that I really liked off of the Flowers album. Your ear for things is like Chuck Yeager's vision unworldly . You really opened my ears with this one. Thank you as allways for the time you take to make these great lesson videos. Keep up the GREAT WORK
Yep.. excellent ear... and it takes PATIENCE and diligence......I tend to be lazy... so THANKS for doing the listening and the footwork on so many good songs..which brings up another point... you have great taste in song selection...
I think you nailed it. This is one of my favorites and have toyed with this tuning as well. Personally, I believe Brian Jones probably created this cord pattern because it's a little more complex than Keith's repertoire at the time. Probably began from a basic D C G melody and then evolved from there. Nicely done. Go Bills!
Disagree. Keith was always more advanced on acoustic guitar picking and chordings than Brian, who was the early slide player on open D and E, but not picking. For example, it was also Keith who came up with the unusual chordings on Mother's Little Helper.
I tune down play in G key but I play the D fifth fret A string and D third fret B string at same time and go on and off the E on the fifth fret , then move it all down to C , C on off the D , then to a G chord , then I play D with F# bass to a Chord then G chord
Just tried it. Tuned down to D and it feels right! One more mystery you've sold. I'm only wondering if Keith would go for such a bizarre chord shape in late '66. That G# note is in the chord though. Could it be played on a bass? I need to listen to the Parachute Wyman video more carefully... not that I have your ear 😁
Keef would do that back then because he wasn't quite messed up on drugs yet A lot of their earlier stuff has a little bit of unique tunings Then he would just start capoing the second fret on a bunch of stuff And then ripping off the top of each string going to open G and using the classic Keith fingering on pretty much everything after that LOL
Ye i think Neil Young does the same ( turn down one or half step not sure) on some of his acoustic live tracks (cow girl in the sand) maybe. But ye another gem from Keith.. thank you for that
Used to play this song all the time back in the punk rock days. Grab an acoustic and a bottle. Ain't gonna lie but I played the cowboy chord way. Glad you found the technical path bruh.
"Mitch, I own six speaker cities. I am worth three-and-a-half-million dollars that the government knows about. I got more electronics up there than a damn KISS concert."
And it's got the timing of what sounds like a waltz! Makes you wonder what kind of lifestyle they were leading to come up with something like this, as an aside.
Always appreciate your ear training lessons and this is a great song. I suspect that Keith is just playing classic Bm-F# chords instead of playing that version you have with the 3rd in the bass. The bass is definitely playing that note, though.
Well done! I've always loved this song and I think you nailed it! I'm guessing if they'd stayed in standard tuning and played all of the chord shapes that you used then it would have been a whole step higher and out of Jagger's comfortable vocal range. On the Am part I would let Bill Wyman handle the root note and just alternate between Am Amb5 Am and I think the listener would get that melodic motion but it's cool either way. Again, thanks for this, the song totally makes more sense tuned down a whole step! 👍
I enjoyed learning this the other night. But I just saw another video where the musician says it was in G tuning and plays it that way. As Keith loves G tuning, and I dont know if there are other songs where he tunes down from E to G could that be possible. James what do you think? It is in G after all.
James you probably already know this but Steve Earl had done a RU-vid video where he drops the low E to D but places a capo across the other 5 strings at the 2nd fret so he can play a low D and still finger a conventional G chord shape.
@@alexbowman7582 I get the concept just fine, but fingering the chords for this song is a heck of a lot more complicated if you tune the high E string down to D and use a capo.
Use this mentality to figure stuff out. I did this with Tom Rush’s Rockport Sunday waaayy back in college. Retuned to something like open D or C and got it from there. JJ has great ears and a good “figure it out” mindset.
The rock stars have a million guitars 🎸 so they can de tune one song then the next one and so on So if you’re playing “Back Street “ in E-flat tuning then you wanna play “Brown Sugar “ well that’s another tuning I notice the rock stars do this most of the time Example: We can work it out Beatles doesn’t sound like regular D to C back D but rather E tuned down to D then you play regular D which is now tuned down to C etc
