My Controversial Keith Richards Video
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- čas přidán 9. 06. 2023
- A follow-up to my controversial video titled "The Keith Richards Chord Trick" ( • Uncovering Keith Richa... ). Many of you commented on that video stating that you would like to see a video of "the Keith" in open G tuning, and some of you even suggested that I would have to cut off one my strings in order to sound authentically "Keith." Okay, so here you go. I explore all the options for the Keith Richards chord move -- including in standard tuning, open G tuning, and the five-string guitar tuning that Keith sometimes used.
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Sir been watching your lesson great job. With a 6 string k r tuning I thumb over or use index to mute. But I have few gem guitars. I have a Tele 5 s u use a les Paul for 6 string in standard tune or e tun or page tuning. Keep it up keep warm. Also you explain in such detail thank you
@@lylewallace9022 Thanks Lyle!
Blue, thanks for doing this video and for all your work. I’ve been in a Stones tribute for 25 years and have lost count of the amount of times someone from the audience feels it’s useful to come up at the end and say “good gig but you forgot about Keith’s 5 string thing” or “I noticed you played in standard tuning”. Yawn. Yes that’s because unlike in Keith’s world where he gets a handed a different guitar ready to go for each and every different song he plays…I don’t have a guitar tech doing this for me.
It’s essential for the energy and flow of the gig to kick in from one song to another and I’d rather do that and get very close to the sound than faff around with different tunings to achieve essentially the same result. I play one guitar all gig for 2 hours, with a back up if needed.
My conclusion, and thanks for raising it too, is that yeah it is lazy playing tuned to a chord and removing a string. But I suppose lazy in a good way in that it makes those songs that work with 5 string open G just easier to play while prancing around on stage.
Thanks again Blue, keep up the great work!
Great comment, thanks for posting. Good to hear your perspective coming from someone who has been playing Stones songs for years. I agree the flow of the show is most important. And I really don't see the point of 5 strings either -- other than a fun experiment 😄
Yeah but we all know the prancing made him worth about 500 M.
Playing in other tunings is a great way to reinforce your knowledge of standard tuning. It forces you to consider the notes you play instead of following patterns and fingerings mindlessly.
Good point. I hadn't thought of that.
A great welsh guitarist, Deke Leonard used open G but tuned the low E up to G , so there were 2 low Gs !
His Les Paul sg had a twist in the neck because it was left in that tuning for many many years ! 😊
Wow I can imagine that would be hard on the neck unless you switch it out for a lighter string gage 👍🎸
Best thing about open G (which is covered here) is that three strings stay the same.
Where this can really help is if you get mixed up, play on those strings & get your bearings
True, at least those strings have the notes we are familiar with :)
Hey another great Video! Found it interesting to understand but I still do everything in Standard Tuning. I feel my time practising is better spent on playing things I will use most of the time.. that’s just me but again, thoroughly enjoyed this and you have a great sound/tone! Tks
Thanks, I agree with you about pkayong in standard 👍
I loved your first video and I’ve watched it many times and I love this one too! I’m still struggling to figure out how to play minor chords in this tuning though :/
great topic, well explained as usual, thanks. What a great sound it is. By the way, I've been searching for some videos of you performing live, but not finding much. Can you point us "fans" in the right direction.
Thanks John, not a lot online unfortunately. I've been doing summer tours with taylorraeofficial.com for some years but they are typically at festivals so we don't have much footage.
Great video Blue... lots of fun
Great video man. What gauge strings do you use on your strat and tele most of the time? I use 9s on my strat. Would 9 or 10s be better for the strat. Thank you for your time.
Thank you! I normally use 10's.... EXL 110 the 9 just feels so skinny to me.
Was watching your vid (I've got a 5 string in G for Keef's stuff) and @ ~9:12 your little Westie came strolling in - he (she?) looks just like my late Willy the Westie! Was really glad to see that doggy walking in just like Willy would have. MADE MY DAY! Thanks! BTW I have another guit in E for Gimme Shelter. Did they do it in G?
Thank you! Yes Ringo the Westie makes a few appearances in these videos. Keith has played several of the Stones songs in different tunings. Not sure why. Sometimes live he'll actually play songs in different tunings than the original recordings. Maybe just what he happens to have at hand.
I agree with you Blue, I like the standard tuning version more, because it's more practical. But alternate tunings are fun to get you out of a rut. Hey I really like your sense of humour too. You made me laugh. I found this this video just as entertaining as it was educational. 😆🎸 Bottom line is we all love Keef and the world is a better place thanks to him.
Thanks Simon! Much appreciated 😄
Thankyou for lesson, I actually like to play The Rolling Stones songs just on the D, G and B strings and it still works fine.
Works for me too!
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver That's awesome! Obviously with the open G as you mentioned you do get a fuller sound which is even better! Thankyou
I really like the sound of the "third Keith", cool, interesting sound 👍I recently bought myself a Telecaster just because of Keith Richards and Luther Perkins, my all time guitar heroes🙂
Nice thanks! Telecaster is by far my favourite style of guitar. Simple, but sounds great.
Another great lesson Blue. I’m going to tune one of my electric guitars to open G tuning. And about Keith and not soloing, he had Mick Taylor in the band in the early days. And Mick is a monster guitar player. So Mick did the solos until he left then Ronny took over.
True! Those could really play!
Thanks Blue...nice one!
Thanks RB! 😎
IMO, the majority of viewers would rather play in standard tuning. Many have only one guitar and are not paid players. It’s tough enough for many just to learn this thing called a guitar in standard tuning. Besides, Keefer never played a Telecaster with three pickups!!!! 😂
Thanks 44scoots! I think you're right about both the standard tuning and the three pickups! Hahaha
Many of Keef’s riffs are very easy in his tuning. I think that shouldn’t turn people off. And I’m very amateurish. I just tabs
Yep, I have an old Strat that I’ve never gotten along with, so I cut the e string off and tuned it to G, now I play it all the time. It’s so much fun 😂
I use that open G about 30 years now, but with 6 strings. E- down to D. Full blast telecaster sounds like an Orchester
Ya no need to take the string off the guitar in my opinion too. Thanks for watching 👍
Your videos are awesome.
Thank you 😎
Great stuff, thanks, Can you please indicate the amp and settings you are using.
Thanks. Amp is UA Dream 65. Can't remember settings sorry. It changes each video.
Great lessons
Thanks
Glad you like them!
Great stuff. I think you hear all three variations on "Brown Sugar"
Thanks for watching! Lots more like it on the channel
Thanks for the common sense! I was so confused when I saw the video of Keith explaining this tuning, and cutting the low E string. Like, just don't play the E string! So weird! Glad I'm not the only one who had this thought.
Glad it was helpful!
Just because the obvious Pentatonic shapes don't work that doesn't mean the pentatonic's not in there, it's actually very similar to Pentatonic box 4 ascending on the small e string fret 8 🤔 Also, you won't sound like Keith, but all of the 6th string issues can be fixed by tuning to open D or open E. Then everything is shifted up 1 string and the root is on the 6th string 🤓. With open D and/or E you also get a nice double stop bend on the smallest 2 strings 👍
That's interesting about comparing the shape to pentatonic box 4. I'm gonna have a look at that. Thanks for commenting 🙂
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver Semi unrelated but this is a really cool video on mostly moveable open G chords, he also has one on open D, I like even more!!!! 👊🏼 czcams.com/video/oHY_3jhR5QU/video.html
Love it Blue..
Thanks for watching hexbyte!
Thanks, this video was lots of fun!
Thanks QBRX!!!
Great lesson again, thank you. So, it's easy to play major chords. But what if I want to play minor chords?
Great point! It's possible but not easy or natural to do in this tuning.
Probably an advantage for Keith to be forced to play major chords only as Ian Stewart was known to react violently if minor chords were played in his earshot.
Keith Richards still being alive is a hard one to wrap your mind around.
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There's no need to cut/remove the low E (top) string 😎 You just mute it at the bridge or at the nut by jamming something under the string like a piece of rubber, plastic, rolled up paper or a cigarette filter/ butt 🙄
I listen to you tube guitar videos and/or Guitar tricks about 4 hours a day or more …. I listen to ‘Em all.
Great Stuff out there
Blue is my current Favorite
What would Blue Morris Do…..🎉
Thanks Chris!!!! 🎸😎
Thanks!
Thanks for the extra support!
Well I enjoyed your video, but I do have a few comments.I love Keith Richards, and I play a number off Stone's song's, I think Keith is just a lazy player, I don't see any advantage in removing the 6Th string, in fact I leave it in E. For stone's songs I only tune the A,and high E. I've been using open tunings for a long time, many times for certin songs like some black crows, and even a couple of bad co. tunes, I only tune the A, making it possible for me too play the solo to songs, mainly because I play in a 3 peice band. Ps.the bad co. songs like moving on were actually done in open D, but work good and sound very much like the original recording, simply by tuning the A to D, and you can still play the solo.
Good points thanks! I agree I don't see the point in removing the string -- except for a fun experiment. But I wouldn't bother normally
Buenísimo Blue!! Y justo hoy que estreno mi nueva telecaster, que espero algun dia hacerla sonar como la tuya! Jaaa/abzzz
Bueno José! Me gusta mucho el Telecaster! En que color? Disfrutala!
The same as yours! Fender butterscotch! Abzz
@@josealbaposse Awesome! Good choice!
By jove, man, i think you've identified the "Stones sound!"
Why is it that we can ALWAYS identify any Stones song right from the first chord?
Has anyone but me ever wondered that?
I think the Sus2Sus4 chord is a big part of it. Not really sure what the rest is.
At one time, i thought maybe the guitar was always out of tune, but i didn't think that for long, it's just not the case. Somehow they manage to put dissonance in there, though.
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Blue, after you cut off that string, i thought you were going to demo how easy it was to play while doing splits and jumping around. (I think in Keith's case, that could be why he cut it off, also just to be Keith. (That's the 'full Keith,' lol.))
But i guess it's ok that you didn't.
Compelling ideas.
Anyway, very entertaining AND informative video. But I was always with you from the first video: it's great to be able to play "the Keith" in standard tuning (with all 6 strings). For most of us, anyway. As for the Keiths among us....well, there's really only the one, the original.
Good job, Blue. Again, as usual. Keep it up!
👍 👌
Thanks Jeffro, I'm definitely too old to do the splits now :)
Now do John Butler who plays a 11 string
I thought it was a great video. I know he did a lot of those riffs on open G but it works OK in standard
Cool, thanks!
Awsum
Open G tuning makes a huge difference in terms of sounding like Keith. Whether with five strings or not.
It is more Keith for sure... but more work if you don't tend to be in Open G often
5 strings on a Guitar ! ! 😦
Someone stop Him ! ! ! 😰
I know eh!? Thanks for watching!
Yes,you can't solo in standard tuning but you slide in open tuning
How does he solo? If you know pentatonic scales you can't use em!
Indeed, it's not easy in Open G, which is why he often didn't play the solos :)
Keith's hands have so much arthritis the open tuning is less difficult to play- for the rest, he's got Woodie
Ry Cooder? Really? Ill be damned. He is one of my favorites.
That's what people say, yeah :)
Cute dog :)
Good thing I'm not lazy to watch, I saw that little cute thing.
That's Ringo!
Hey, Blue: I'd like to see more of the little white dog--a lot more: what a cutie!
Thanks Andrew! I'll try to get Ringo in some more cameos.
Yeah i did this for fun right in the beginning i was picking up guitar ! But as you say, unless you have a second guitar ready to go, it just becomes a one trick pony, with the impossibility of doing nice sounding blues licks ! Plus again as you said, if you throw yourself head first into this in the beginning you just will never get to grips with the universal language of guitar in standard tuning ! A shame clearly ! But yeah everybody wants to sound like Keith ! LOLZZZ
Thank you!
I have a brilliant solution of how to go from 6 to 5 strings and back again in a minute...how can i send you a photo?
Interesting... maybe post a video to CZcams so we can all see.
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver studio.czcams.com/users/videoE_90ERVeNyw/edit
It's the harpsichord sound. It's great, but that's all it is.
Harpsichord? Not sure I follow.
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver
My mistake!!! I wrote "harpsichord". Ughh. I meant to write "auto harp".
Perfect examples:
Street Fighting Man (Beggars Banquet)
You Can't Always Get What You Want (Let It Bleed)
Soul Survivor (Exile on Main St)
Luxury (Goat's Head Soup)
Start Me Up (Tattoo You)
The Keef sound is to go open string and capture that auto harp ringing quality. The little note not talked about enough is the add2 to any chord.
Thing is with Keith he can't actually move his fingies this is cos he got the old Arthurs pretty bad but back in the day it cos he too f***** up with too much drug innit…
Pretty Tele. Just sayin'.
Thanks! I have two Telecasters. One just didn't seem enough :)
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver It never is haha. I have two also.
Your Telecasters have the BEST tone. Or maybe its your playing.
Thanks Sal! Classic Fender Reverb tones from the UA Dream 65 pedal.
Thx for that very helpfull Video, ... so no one will forget how the Keef works :))
Thanks for watching 👍
With 5 strings you can look and act way cooler on stage. That's a fact. And: that's is important. Ask Steve Vai. So: I am now going and will castrate my Telecaster. (It's a secondary guitar for me ... anyway. Good idea!)
Hahah, good luck with that 5 string :)