Play 5 Rolling Stones songs with 4 chords

Here's how to play 5 songs by The Rolling Stones with just 4 chords on guitar! These songs feature various beginner friendly chords, but only 4 in any given song.

Want more? Check out Andy's Keith Richards player study including how to play in Open G Tuning here

Keith Richards Open G tuning video

Chord sheet info

As a workaround solution to serious legal issues regarding song copyright, chord sheet buttons here link to the external website UltimateGuitar.com. To print these chord sheets for FREE - simply copy and paste the chord sheet into a word document or similar to print and even edit them as you wish!

Please do this on a computer to do this for free, the UG app tries to charge you, but on desktop it's free :) If the chord sheet doesn't match, try clicking the 'Simplify' button on UG website to see chord sheets with basic chords, or edit the chord sheet where necessary.

Song 1 - Sympathy For The Devil

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Song 2 - Honkey Tonk Women

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Song 3 - Start Me Up (Open G Tuning Tutorial)

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Open G tuning is D - G - D - G - B - D with the first D on the thickest string optional (Keith takes it off in this tuning!)

Song 4 - It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)

Beginner guitar lesson on acoustic

Here's a beginner friendly tutorial for this great song from 2021, which I demo on acoustic guitar (but can be played by you on electric too). Here, I mainly stick to teaching a simple open chords version of this song, but we do cover the Rock n Roll Blues riff from the original recording too.

Intermediate guitar lesson on electric

Here's my tutorial for this song from 2018 where I demo this song on electric guitar. This video includes more riff content (07:17) and covers how to play the live intro, making this more appropriate for intermediate level players (11:17).

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Song 5 - Street Fighting Man

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