Tumbling Dice - Rolling Stones | Guitar Lesson 

I can play this song for half an hour. One of the most satisfying and calming things to play.

For folks that are pedantic about the 6th string in open G: just pull the string off the nut and place it along the neck. Then you can put it back and retune for the next song in your set list. Been doing this for 40 years.

Exile on Main Street & Sticky Fingers are their masterpieces. Great choice, great video. LOVE IT!

You pick great songs that aren't covered much by other channels. Thank you

Man, you're THE best RU-vid guitar tutor. Period.

That first 30 seconds is beautiful...seeing how the slide the rhythm and lead are played and seeing them all come together for that amazing sound...

The beauty of spontaneous slop swing timing, with a touch of Oz, with never the same thing twice. As for MT, his talent for understatement, and knowing when not to play, is one of his greatest strengths.

It's really confusing trying to get these later Stones parts in songs, but as usual Doug does it!! Great Job and thank You!!!

Exile on Main Street. One of my Favorite Stones albums. Love the Mick Taylor Era. Great work 12Ft ♪♫♪♫♪

Such a loose feel which makes this song so good.

I started late and always liked the Stones so once I found out about open G. I just started playing at it with no advice just playing different chords discovered certain chords that sounded good and now I see they were all the right chords that Keith used. Then after seeing your video's I said yea, I can do this I need to be serious about my playing it is doable !!

Just to say a massive thank you for posting this lesson. Very much appreciated!

Excellent! Man, you're an amazing guitarist. To make it sound just like the record. Well done indeed 🙂👍

Dig the deep dive- thanks! Over the years I approximated all the parts in standard tuning, no capo, no slide and all strings left on! Keith always made me crazy with all his Keef-isms. Thanks for taking the time to put it all in context!

Great lesson as usual...I really appreciate how you differentiate between the parts that need to be pretty prescriptive and those where you just need to find the groove and make it your own...certainly that applies to a lot of Stones stuff

Love this song, the opening is pure genius, and so laid back!

Another brilliant lesson! Thank you!

Great memories of this song when it first came out as a young kid. Also, all down the line. Exile on Main is by far my fav stones album. Accurate lesson. thanks

Good real-world lesson. I knew most of this but picked up a few good parts, like the Jagger licks and the Mick Taylor parts, I always played the straight rhythm on this song. Well done.

"vaguely in the key of B" - great assessment👍

Wow!! Thanks, one of my Favs, I've wanted to Learn. I definitely Hear the Slide Parts. Love The Open Tuning aspects as well.

Who in the world has an issue with the low E string on? Sheesh, just play the tune. Great lesson, as always!

Another accurate and clearly explained lesson. Thnx!

PLEASE do more from Exile On Main St so much underrated playing on that record!

I love you cover ALL the guitar parts

They really are england's greatest ever country and western band...

Nice lesson, thankyou, and thankyou for just speaking at a calm level to us all!!

Thanks! Always learn cool stuff from you.

Thank you Doug - Righteous lesson 🤜🏻💥🤛🏻

Amazing lesson... a pleasure to watch.

Your lessons are great, you have fun, we have fun and we learn things! You have haters?? Surely not?! What's not to like? Ignore them, please.

Fantastic lesson and demo! 👌🏻🌌🌅🌠

Glad to see your channel growing .

Thank you again for all your time and teachings.

Concerning the 6th string. I tune it up to G so it doubles the 5th. Works fine for me. Great Video, thanks.

I'm subscribed I love all the lessons you provide they sound just like what they're supposed to sound like you do an extremely great job you can tell you love music by the good job that you do so I want to say thanks

So great Thanks

Great lesson. You get all the different parts perfectly. I used to play Keith's part in a band a few years ago but had forgotten It so this serves as a great refresher. Also just subscribed to the channel as I see you have many other songs I'd like to learn.

You give great lessons I always learn a lot from them.

Great job man! Thanks!

Great lesson!

Excellent! Thanks very much

Nice presentation, and thank you. I knew there were layers, but didn't get it all together until day. The sixth string thing is hilarious to me -- he discovered alternative tunings in the 60s and eventually went without E to make it that much more facile. It was part of his development, and that's all, not a holy relic. And I think you are right about Jagger on guitar -- the recording process with the mobile rig in France was chaotic and afterward he had to take all the pieces to London to mix. He could have introduced his own track since he was the last cook in the kitchen.

Another brilliant lesson Doug. You are a master at teaching the absolute most rocking music. You ALWAYS teach classics and articulate them so well! Thank you and Happy New Year. Keep em coming.

Not sure how I just barely found your channel but this is awesome!👍 Love the breakdown of the song. Now I need to go through all of the other songs you have😀🍺

Thank you 🙏

This tune makes you realize why Keef let his hands fly off the guitar and just let it ring...!😉👍 Great fun😎👍❤🖖

pretty cool!

Thank you! Learned much. Love the blonde blackface bassman behind you. Wish I still had mine!

Brilliant breakdown of this classic Stones song. Subscribed instantly. I play fingers only and would love to play this in three piece scenario. Take some dining with all the layered guitars???

Thanks!

On the original recording MICK TAYLOR played Bass and it really sounds like a guitar player bass part with a pick. Of course he probably played some guitar but to me to tell you the truth all the other guitar parts sounds like KEITH, even the slide. So much layering is going on . Great job!

I wanted to add that you can always keep the high E alone and that way you can cover the major parts of open G and do the standard solo stuff. That's what I do when using open G. I played in a Black Crowes tribute years ago. It worked great for me. Just some thoughts

Hey 12 I like yer little show. ive been playing since I was 16 91965) I should be better. I played in garage band in 60s but then it got too xpessive, for the PA, etc. Ad I had to go in Navy. But Im never too old you kknoww. You tickle me how u switch guitars. Good stuff. man

New Subscriber. Surprised I didn't find you sooner. Good job on "Dice", my fave R&R tune. The Hal Leonard book for "Exile" has four guitars on this number. If Jagger is in the mix (and I wish the heck he left the gits to the pros), I thought it might've been on an acoustic(?). Guess not.

Standard tuning with capon at 2nd fret is a decent facsimile for the open g Keith part if you don't want to retune.

haha "haters on the 6th string" Doug, love your style presenting these tunes and the break-downs. Thanks for doing the work and de-mystifying this stuff I've been listening to since it came out. Kind of thought open tunings were cheating, think the original blues guys worried about that? 🤣 My extra Tele lost the 6th string hardware and all Thanks again...liked, subscribed, notified and shared...commented 😎

Open G, unlock the groove

Wow! A party indeed...

Great video, Thanks, ever thought about Daydream by Robin Trower?

good stuff! If you could do some Kinks or maybe Neil Young

I like your lessons and I got a song request can you do sultans of swing by dire straits

Love this, and the channel! What is the fingering for the 2nd rhythm part @ 8:40?

Love it, the outro part I was curious about is the little flick part when it's silent, he does the little slide and release but ends with a sassy flick twang. What is that part? If I type in Tumbling Dice it's the first clip on RU-vid, the 80's tour with Mick wearing a Jersey

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Another fantastic video... so fun to jam with this song! Btw, what capo are you using? I like the sleek look of it.

If memory serves, Mick T. plays the bass as well.

What a cool fucking song

Hey, great job breaking that song down. It's not always easy with the Stones, especially in those drug fueled days of endless layers and out of the blue punch-ins, but that's part of the charm lol It is a party of a song, for sure. So much so, that I'm not entirely convinced that Mick Taylor played the slide guitar part. When the basic track was laid down, M.T. was playing bass. So, if he did do it, he would have had to overdub it later. It's not really his style.... (The slide part pretty much follows the figure of the non slide part....) and neither is his style, weaving with Keef. I've not been able to find any definitive evidence that it's M.T. So, if anyone has proof, I'd love to see it so I can finally put the question to rest. I'd really like to know. But enough about the slide part. How about we talk about Keefs penchant for strumming over the neck.... For the longest time it seemed like a gimmick to me -- something he did for show, live. I started to take it a bit more seriously when I was trying to play Beast of Burden. I had a usable groove, but it didn't sound right to me somehow. It was too.... in your face?? Too harsh, too direct, too immediate. Too stiff. In the studio version, Keef's sound has this.... flick, to it. Very slurred and laid back yet articulate all at the same time. At first I thought it was a really thin pick, bending and slapping back as he strummed, like a baseball card in bicycle spokes. I tried it -- that wasn't it lol I couldn't quite figure it out. Then one day I was practicing it standing up with the guitar strap over my shoulder and I was mimicking some Keef moves to get into the feel, and I strummed it over the neck -- bam! There it was.... the sound I had been looking for! It wasn't a showy gimmick after all but a very important piece to getting Keefs sound and feel. Anyway, thanks again for another great lesson!

I think MT also played bass. I saw you play that 6th string, and why not?! Taking the string off and putting it back on is a pain, and the string core can be damaged and it sounds dead. If you put a new string on, it sounds too bright with the older strings that have some grit on them. Good ear , great lesson, Keeep awn!! 🐘

I never saw the point of removing the low E in open G. I never have and it does not “get in the way” , Keith did it but you surely don’t need to and it can be utilized for other songs not Stones or even Stones songs, that string can be useful!

Duane's dual-guitar riffs with Dicky Betts would find no better imitator than Keith Richards playing over Mick Taylor's tasty slide licks. Probably the best they did until Time Waits for No One. Then, Mick had the temerity to ask for songwriting credit. Gasp! On a Rolling Stones record? Nevah!

My first foray into slide-woof! Any slide pointers? As always, awesome lesson. “Yes, I'm stumbling, and I know I play a bad guitar…”

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Leave the capo there and you can quicky go to jumping jack flash and midnight rambler, and I'm looking for more songs to add to the list. Sympathy for the devil is also possible

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What telecaster are you playing?

lol, relax.....

That's a thin capo

Thanks!

If memory serves, Mick T. plays the bass as well.