The day 6 of play guitar like the Rolling Stones. In this video, we're gonna be checking out how to play Honky Tonk Women authentic to the original recording in. Tune in. We are also gonna look at how we can play the lead parts and the solo and the melody to this song in standard tuning, which you'll see me grab my white Stratocaster 4. And I have a real leave no person behind here. So if open G tuning is too overwhelming for you or this tutorial here is too detailed and you just want more of a basic strum and sing along, that video is embedded down. Below. You'll notice that I play that on acoustic guitar, that's the one that's in standard tuning, very beginner friendly. If you're really unsure of this song, you've never learned it before, maybe get the feel for this song in standard tuning first of all. But if you're totally new to open tunings still, this is a great one to learn cos we have quite a basic chord progression. For example, the chorus is just the G chord. A D, which is at the 7th fret. And then back to open G, we have uh we're really never playing string six again. I didn't want to chop it off again, I'm making a point of keeping it on cause I don't want you to keep chopping off strings on your guitar needlessly. And the opening part to it. It's just the middle two strings plucked with the index finger and middle finger in this fashion. If I had my little chaffer replica booster pedal, we're on the clean setting on a Boss Cortana. I'm using the reverb from the Boss Cortana as well. It's the red one, so it's the 3rd setting on, uh, it's quite a short reverb. It's quite a room reverb sound rather than a hall. And that's the idea with the uh booster pedal, and that's how the song starts, you know, just that. And the chorus is just that um open G. And back to G. home Women. By now you should have got maybe a couple of Rolling Stones leaks under your belt like this. That kind of vibe, add all of those in, we'll be looking at more of these throughout this course, so maybe revisit this video as you get more confident with it, but the kind of idea of that course, it's a. blues Uh, you'll also see embedded down below a full play along video. So if you wanna see everything I'm doing here, including loads of lead jamming and all that kind of thing, but all of this intro broken down, pretty accurate to the tab that I've been following throughout this course in Guitar Pro, um, the songbook, the My Songbook. Part of Guitar Pro, and I'm, I've been following all the ones with the guitar um singing vocals and backing tracks, so like a full band version. Really fun to play along to, just to give you guys a quick insight into what I've been following on the laptop in front of me. Um, but this song starts just to break down this classic intro. And that first one's on the and, so 1234, and. And then, so we can do that with the index finger and middle finger, but to do this intro. I'd use index and 3rd finger. Plucking together And the real signature Rolling Stones move that you want to start to get down is this bend up of string 3. That basically gives us the major penalty. The 1st 3 no And then the That basically gives us the 1st 5 notes of the major pentatonic scale, so. B and then the D as the fifth, so like of a major scale that's 123, and then 5, that's your major pentatonic. Intervals wise. That's even the same. Same for the lead parts that we'll be looking at later, so these are the techniques you need to get down to be able to take this on. I'm gonna do that one more time. Then we get to the 2nd signature open G tuning move. This is literally do re mi, this is. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd intervals, in this case to the octave, but it's the same thing as we're doing here. Literally just 1st 3 notes. Of the major scale, but it's given all the flair and feel of the open G tuning guitar, and the lick is 0, slide 2 to 4. And then strings 1 and 2 together. And then when we hit the, in this case the C chord, and then later the D chord, we're rarely hitting it with the root, so we can keep this thumb over the top all the time, muting string 6, perhaps muting string 5 with the index finger just here. Pulling out that standard The lick that we learnt in Start Me Up. Alright, we're pulling that out again, so let's have a whirl of all of that, putting it together with lick one. And then this Putting that together, so 1234. That's the basic vibe that you need to get down to be able to play this song. If you can't get those down, the rest of this song's gonna really confuse you. I'll link to the tab that I'm using below, I'll link to a free one that I can find that's as close as possible, but I'm following this guitar Pro tab. After that section, once we've done. Perhaps the trickiest part so far, so similar to the intro. Really never hitting that B string. Doing this, we're always hitting these two and it's a slide with the index 5 to 3. Again, that We're gonna be using that a lot in um Jumpin Jack Flash and Brown Sugar. are. When we go to this de chord here at the 7th fret, but then we're back to the familiar. Familiar licks. So here's the three signature Open Glicks to nail Honky Tonk Women by the Rolling Stones. Number 2, Add those along with the more traditional Keith Richards riffs. From the likes of Start Me Up and Brown Sugar, but before we tie all this together, I think it's really important to remember that when you're in open G tuning and we're in the key of G, you can always reduce things down and add as much or as little as these licks and riffs. As you're able to do, and you can use a pick or not use a pick, it's entirely up to you. Whenever I'm strumming, I'm just strumming with the nail of the first finger just like I would use a pick or with plucking, and remember you've got that basic thing from the acoustic tutorial. I met a gin stone polem queen in Memphis, back to that C chord. Hey And then D, always just putting it back to that. Adding as much other things. You're comfortable And if you can add. All that kind of vibe. Remember the chorus is just two chords. Alright, uh, now there's a couple of other things at the end of this which were actually new to me. This is a great lick from, but I just can't seem to drink her off my mind, we have. So these are after the dechord at the 7th fret, we have these natural harmonics. Which sound great and this is just a light tap. On string 45 at the 12th fret. 0 at string 2, and then. Just like we could go Really country style when we're in this open tuning, but that. Is a nice thing to add to the end of this one. Let's put all that together, slow play through now, but remember, feel happy to vary this cause it definitely varies and goes to more of a strict form uh from verse two, and when you see me using the loop pedal, simplifying it slowly. Just trying to keep the rhythm going. And that's when the fun really starts to happen with this whole Rolling Stones style. It's all about the flow, it's all about the groove. So try and go with it and just add what you're able to add. But here's a slow playthrough of how I would play this great song. Now let's have a look at the solo and lead parts. The main distinctive lead part that you'll hear straight away is before the chorus, and we have this signature bend. A few different variations on it, it's played on different guitars, so we have. And then we have a 2nd part, so that's all G major pentatonic. Very similar to her. The stuff that we were doing earlier, and then a harmonised guitar part in the original recording. Which is all Standard bends in G major, pentatonic. Definitely something to get uh under your belt, we'll leave the tab for that and a link to it down below. That is at bar 23 on the tab that I'm using. Now the solo, and any improvised solo over this is really following a lot of what the melody does. And it's a great exercise. I do this all the time and many guitarists don't to their disservice. It's to try and play the melody and it uses a lot of the. So you can see why Keith Richards is doing a lot of Uh, in major You can see why he's doing a lot of those licks on the guitar because that's what the melody's doing. Now we could play that in our. Uh, position, but we could also play in minor pentatonic shape one. So. And then major pentatonic notes. And then you could jump up. Just 12 friends So that's minor pentatonic and major pentatonic, as I'm sure you're aware if you've been following any of my lead guitar choruses. If you haven't, that's what you're looking at, you've got major pentatonic, minor pentatonic in different shapes jumping around the fretboard. But that gets us up to. And then I would probably play here. And that is using this kind of G power chord shape here, G, D, and G. Really important, the Rolling Stones stuff really teaches you to link chord shapes to scale shapes and melody, and that's when you can start to really have fun with this. So to be more strict to the main solo, so this is from the original recording and it's similar to what uh Ronnie Wood might play uh with the Stones. This is from bar 37, and this is a. 10th fret bent down, this is still all G major pentatonic. I did a lesson in my courses which is. The 32 method. 12 That's how we get to here. It's also the major pentatonic superhighway. It's all the same stuff as here as well. That's where we really start to put the neck together and and do the free flowing thing as you saw me do in this clip. Uh, more strict to the tab, this would be. A nice bit of mixing minor pentatonic in the sea here. In both the C position. And back to G. And that's where the uh this kind of thing comes from as well. So let me demo some of that with a loop pedal just playing the basic chord progression. And let it all go around again and we'll finish that. So there's another example in this guitar weaving, free flowing style, taking inspiration from the original recording, but very much making it our own and letting it evolve every time we play and practise it. Just like Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards have done live for decades. And er that's the. At the end of this video, there'll be more help in the jamming videos down below. Hope you've enjoyed this one, guys. Any more help you need with the lead parts and stuff like that. You really want to be looking at G major pentatonic, 32 method, all that kind of good stuff. And I really hope you enjoyed the rest of this Rolling Stones course. Thank you very much for watching. Bye bye.