Welcome to day two of Play Guitar like the Rolling Stones in 10 days with me, Andy Crowley. In this video, we're looking at how to play The Last Time, which is a Rolling Stones song that is played with just 3 basic open chords, E, A, and D, perfect for beginners to get some easy embellishments down. But then we are gonna look at the electric guitar riff and the main solo, so stick around till the end for electric guitar players. You might wanna click along to get onto all that stuff, but let's look at the. Basics of this fantastic song, more help and more bonus content is available on the website version of this course links at the top of the description. The Last Time by The Rolling Stones is played with an E major chord, D major, and A major, and they are the only three chords in this whole song. It's not really chord embellishments in this song, it is strumming embellishments. The song starts with single strums. A, and that is E for the whole body. D for 2 beats, A for 2 beats. So basic strumming, a 1. grief. And this is really similar to Bittersweet Symphony. Which Richard Ashcroft based his song. It even uses a sample. But this is how Richard Ashcroft. a very similar way to this is used to play that song too. So it's a 2 for 1. We wanna try and speed this up to get it to around this level because it is an uptempo jig. A 123. 123. If you struggle with the speed of that 1234, keep it to single strums, 123, 4s. And if you need more help with getting to that level, that's what the Andy Guitar beginner's course is all about. 10 days for free on YouTube and then more help at the website Andyguitar.co.uk. That's what will get you to that level. The strumming pattern for this song is down, down, up, down, down, up for the first part of E. And then down, up, down, down, up, down, kind of mirroring the lead part. That little da da dun dun da dun. So I'd start with that personally. 234 34 Repeat that a few times, pause the video if you need to practise it, but then we do, down, down, up, down, down, up. And there's a little bounce to that, bam bam. It's not. Which is a straight rhythm, this is a swing triplet kind of vibe. Kind of like a train, bung ganga dung dung. And on the Echord that is. On the DNA Same pattern but reversed basically, so 1234, down. You will notice there that I varied the rhythm ever so slightly, always keeping that right hand moving, always keeping the groove basically the same. But again, varying your strumming is exactly what's done, especially on this Rolling Stones free flowing style, and this is how we can incrementally get to what the Stones are most known for, which is their guitar weaving and just feel, just insane feel and vibe in their guitars. parts, there's no better band, they are the epitome of cool and vibe and everything that is great about rock and roll. Greatest rock and roll band in the world, right, the Rolling Stones. But that is the basics of this song. The only other thing that happens is the chorus, which is on the A chord. Well, there's. And then we're back to normal, normal strumming. So A major, this could be the last time, this could be the last time. That's A major for 4 bars, D for 4, and then we come back to the A for 2. A 1234 is. down down down. 234. Fantastic song, you can learn loads more songs for free with E, A and D major on my YouTube channel, or search for them on the website as part of the Andy guitar beginner's course, particularly at level 2. Beginner acoustic's a great one for that. But let's move on now to the electric guitar part. You'll find a full play along track for this song for acoustic guitar on the website version of this course. The link is at the top of the description.