Welcome to day 3 of Play guitar like the Rolling Stones with me, Andy Crowley. In this video we're going for our first open G tuning song, which is Start Me Up. I'm gonna use this T-style, this is a Journey T style guitar, which is currently tuned to open G tuning and everything you see me play on this will be like that. And then in the bonus video that's available on the website only, I'm gonna have this Stratocaster. Guitar in standard tuning and show you Ronnie Wood's part which complements the open G tuning of Keith Richards and shows you how we can start to get this signature guitar weaving style that the Rolling Stones are really known for. And as I say, all of that is in standard tuning. We'll also look at a bit of a solo we can play over this as well, very much inspired by what Ronnie Wood has played live over. Can't look at any of that without first of all getting one guitar into open G tuning and of course looking at this classic opening riff which goes like this. And for all of this to work, We need to be in something called. Open G tuning, when I just play this. I am playing a G major chord, so let's make sure we can do that now. To play an open G, the minimum we need to change is string one. Down to a D note, that goes down a whole step from the E note it would be in standard, and the fifth string A goes down to a G. That's down a whole step from where it was before. And that gives us a signature open G major chord when we play from string 5 down. You have the option, as you may have seen before in one of my videos, of chopping off string 6, or we can tune that to a D as well. It's not really played in this song though. We're often playing. One finger chords and actually muting string 6 with the thumb or the tip of the first finger. So if we place our first finger barring at fret 5 and mute string 6 with the tip of our first finger or remove it if it starts to get in the way. We can play this opening chord and then it's middle finger and third finger playing this signature Keith Richards open G shape. Which is how to play countless Rolling Stones songs. But one strum of the flat first finger. Two strums of this signature chord, which is a C over F in this case, but it's a just a signature open G shape. And then after that we go down to the 3rd fret and play the blues riff. But this is how we play the blues riff. Without needing to do kind of this shape cos we're in open G tuning, the tuning makes this a lot easier. To do a lot of standard kind of blues rock stuff, so let's break that down. The tab I'm following here to let you know, and especially for all the extra uh parts we're gonna be looking at in the more detailed version of this video on the website, is from Guitar Pro and the My Songbook feature. It's a fantastic uh platform where you can download everything and hear the full backing track. Uh I highly recommend it. I'll leave some links to that down below, cos if you're really wanting to dig into the details of this free tab only gets you so far you want to dig into the details of all the different guitar parts and stems, and this is the main part, but to get the detail of it, because it, when it repeats, it doesn't repeat the same. Let me try and talk you through this. The first time we play this, it starts on the offbeat, so 12341. Hear that? And 1234, and. So this is the first time, it does vary from this, but let's make sure we've got this one first, nice and slow. 1234 and. Same as that again. But then we can also do. Starting on the boot. Which particularly coincides with a lot of the verses, a lot of the, a lot of the singing parts. And what else happens in this song is a lot of this kind of thing. A lot of flat first finger. We'll also do this a little later on in the chorus. Real signatures of this song. That's a real signature to it. Let's cover the chorus after this, we're just gonna cover this one more time, this signature opening riff and into the verses. 121234. Variation On the beach. Let me demo the chorus. This is the basic chords. Now you can see as my hand starts to fatigue a bit, and cos I'm used to playing guitar stood up all the time, first finger over the top and flat first finger is perfectly cool for this. You just kind of pinch that first finger a little bit in, then mute mute string 6, string 1 never has to ring out. And the palm of the hand can come in, and this feels a lot more natural when you. When you have some basic technique down, I sometimes use my little finger to this. And to play this little riff. And then to the chorus again, so it's 5th rat. 210 That is 875. You could slide with your first finger. If you ever get lost. Always coming back to the riff. And that early one. Does tend to just be the one that starts the song um and there's there's only so many times that one happens, probably the more common one by far. Is actually on the beat and that's great to be able to set this into a loop pedal. So I've got a Boss loop station RC1 set on the floor, it's the entry level um loop pedal and all I'm gonna do is get that setting into the loop, OK, so I tap my feet and think about this and 1234 loop. 1234. That's now in the loop pedal, let's have a listen to it. Here's the loop. for Reasonable, that's fine, we can jam over that one, OK, that is where. Let me have a think about that. Reasonable, that's cool. So what we can do now is I'm gonna stay on this guitar for a second and we can look a bit at this guitar weaving idea, where we can play basically the same part but just vary the rhythm a lot more, and this is the perfect point to get you used to this really, so let's have a go at this. And that's sort of just an example, so what am I playing that's different there? I'm often keeping. The same rhythm, I'm not uh contrasting too much with that, but when we go to the C chord, if I'm doing. You know, the Keith part's doing that, we don't have to play that. We can play more just. Just a, a flat first finger, but varying the rhythm and playing, not when that first one's playing. Uh, on this one. Another part that happens here, this one's quite audible in the song. So one guitar Like a little hammer on part, flat first finger. So if I think of this now as the second part of da da dun da. What I'm not doing is playing that. That's in the first part, and I don't have to even double up. That part. Let's have one more go at that, we'll do it a little bit slower, join in with me if you can, but a loop pedal's the best place to have a go at this or any recording software, or even better, just jam along to the original recording. Learn from the greats, and we'll be doing a lot more of this on the website, uh, the extended version of this video where we'll look at all this. But let me set it up in the loop pedal one more time. Here we go, 1234. There we go, and we're in. That's probably the simplest part we could do. Just the sea chord And a B-flat chord. That's part 2. And you can keep that same thing going throughout the chorus, so for example, 1234. Here we go. One more time. Show me. and cry. No, we always come back to that. So if you ever get lost, just play the riff. slipped a bit out of fucking tune. So hopefully that's something you've enjoyed and you've got an insight into this kind of Rolling Stones typical guitar weaving style, starting off with open G tuning as well. We're gonna look at some other things from day 4 onwards, but please check out, if you're into this style, check out the bonus video that comes with this video where we'll look at. How to play the standing tuning version alongside this one to really nail this guitar weaving and be able to look at the solo, which is also in standard tuning as well. All the stuff that I played on the Strat in this video, links at the top of the description, and when you're ready, I'll see you for the next day, day 4, in how to play like the Rolling Stones in 10 days.