Rolling Stones - Jumpin' Jack Flash, Gimme Shelter & the Open E tuning | Guitar lesson

[@thesibs2145]

I love the fact that most, if not all, Rolling Stones lessons say that you don't need to be too precise haha. Great lesson, thanks for sharing it!

[@czopko1]

"It's not right ,something not right" happened so often over the years for those with a good ear....until wonderful guitar compatriots like yourself bring us the REAL DEAL .With appreciation from your fellow Guitar Players....THANK YOU

[@thetoolmat8632]

Gimme Shelter...just hearing that riff makes my blood chill! this is great stuff!

[@12footchain]

thanks - I also updated this a bit and made a dedicated vid on Gimme Shelter recently you may enjoy. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jH_Pp3hql5Jlf8k

[@georgewidmer7818]

Your advice on the tone knobs hit me today... I've always had everything at 10 and today it finally clicked... Thanks

[@freeelectron8261]

Gimme shelter is a masterpiece! And that quiet dark opening riff is like the tense calm before the wild storm hits, like dark clouds gathering.

[@matttautz231]

Thank you for the most useful quarter of an hour I had all day. You nailed it for two of the best Stones songs in record time! Also a massive thanks for the volume and tone pot advice. Have a drink on me! Matt

[@12footchain]

Thank you very much

[@eggman1732]

Greatness! Gimme Shelter has such a mood; never learned that tune...thanks for the hack!

[@philfrank9226]

3 chords!

[@james-gang]

Love that holy Cow! Epic Sounds!!! And the holy Truth about Tone Knobs.... Love it!

[@gillespieQMA]

Just got my first electric guitar and these lessons are a godsend. Sounds just like the original recordings. You the man!

[@12footchain]

Glad to hear it! Good luck in your new guitar adventure!

[@jean-marcpetiot3794]

excellentes vidéo thank you

[@chilledmonkeebrains]

Jack Pearson said the same thing about the tone and volume knobs😎…u guys are right

[@paulkramer9666]

You're on it! 👍 Ron Wood used open E too. All the rockers from "A Nod Is As Good As A Wink". And whip out your Dan Armstrong Plexiglas!

[@Gregorovitch144]

Both these tunes were absolutely in open E, as were Sympathy for the Devil, Street Fighting Man and YCAGWYW. Kieth didn't use Open G until Ry Cooder showed it to him during the Let It Bleed sessions. The secret source of JJF is that he used two accoustic guitars recorded through a Philips cassette deck (as he did with Street Fighting Man) one of which was in Nashville, i.e. the low E,A,D and G were replaced with octave 12Str strings which produces that crystalline menace to those big B chords. Secondly I believe he may have have tuned them to Eb and put a capo on 1 to make the E chord sound more like the B in tone, not ring so much. The secret source of the main rhythm part of Gimmie Shelter is a rare amp called a Triumph that had a unique in built vibrato which produced that particular sound which is virtually impossible to exactly emulate. Once Kieth switched to open G, Honky Tonk Women being his first recording with that tuning, he never used open E again. The reason I would guess, from my own experience, is that the shapes you use for both open G and E are mostly identical except the open E ones are all one string down so it really confuses your muscle memory if you try to switch between them, it's too easy to make a horrible mistake, especially live. As a result he has never played either JJF or Gimmie Shelter in open E live since the big switch to open G in 1969. Since then he has always played JJF transposed to open G, capo on 4. He never plays the original B-E-A intro since then either because of this change 'cos he has no access to the low E chord required for that, he goes straight in on the main verse riff, always. Again since the change to open G he has always played Gimmie Shelter in standard tuning live, again because would have no access to the bottom E in required for the chorus section in open G, not in his five string open G set up anyway. This is of course why live renditions of these tunes don't sound like the original recordings. It's also I believe why the Stones rarely play Street Fighting Man live. I haven't worked it out but I imagine it would be hard to transpose that satisfactorily to either open G or standard tuning, that's probably why.

[@12footchain]

Great information, thank you!

[@philfrank9226]

You know your Keith, but he said Open D not eb and in Sympathy there isn`t much guitar, except the solo, Gimme shelter has 6 guitar tracks in open and standard tuning.

[@Gregorovitch144]

@@philfrank9226 That would make sense as capo would go on two, less stress on the stings over the nut etc. There's a documentary film of them making Sympathy and Kieth was clearly playing an acoustic tuned open E - no idea if it ever made into the final mix, as you say it's not obvious. Gimmie Shelter may well have six guitar tracks but there's only one rhythm part that really matters, innit :)

[@philfrank9226]

@@Gregorovitch144 Yes 1&1 showed it. Do you know the book Rolling Stones gear. 4 me the best book about the Stones.Every song every instrument and amps. We all forget, that Brian Jones played in open G in 1962.

[@soulrebelno1]

@@philfrank9226 Keith Richards would've certainly known about open tunings before he met Ry Cooder, after listening to countless blues records and through musicians like Taj Mahal and Jesse Ed Davis. So, it begs the question, why wasn't he using it before he met Ry Cooder? Apparently, what Ry Cooder showed him was that open tunings weren't just useful for slide guitar, but you could use them for other things, like riffs and embellishments. And, after that lightbulb moment, the rest is history, as they say.

[@scottythetrex5197]

Great tutorial. Been playing JJF and GS in standard tuning for years. And they never sounded right. They are so much more powerful in open E! Thanks.

[@dphipps3631]

Excellent lesson and tips. Thank you so much. Back in the seventees when I first started playing, computers and KZbin where pipe dreams away. It was a slow slog to get the tunings and cords ect. Unless someone explained in the flesh.Stamina and patients were a must. Love It...

[@jbels41]

love the comment about "sloppin' in". always thought the worst thing a cover band could do was play "can't ya hear me knockin'" just like the record!

[@MrJasdog107]

Stones invented a sound all of their own and Gimmie Shelter is probably one deepest darkest sounds ever produced by any rock band. You are giving us a look at whats going on under the bonnet so to speak thank you.

[@tonymartin7849]

One key bit of magic? They somehow constructed the bereaved from one unchanging chord. And somehow it still builds and builds in tension, looking to resolve. And how is it resolved? By beginning the chorus with the exact same chord.

[@MYSTEREFLYER]

You got the right sound; that Keith sound. Thanks.

[@leewilson1368]

Super super lesson! Gimme shelter intro has been a mystery to me and you shed the light sir! Thanks

[@listairgin]

Another brilliant lesson/demo from 12 foot chain ! Thanks so very much 🌠🌅👌

[@giovannifarinacci4533]

Holy cow! Love that saying. Just as I thought, another incredible eye-opening lesson. Thank you so much. Cheers from the great white north..

[@daluidi5923]

This is the most enigmatic song ever. I saw it in open D, open G, open E, with clamp, 5 strings, 6 strings….dozen times live performance and x times in studio…all are different versions that somehow sounds always with something missing. Long live for Keith that make the world sounds better. 🇧🇷

[@Osobearrr]

Definitely played it in that open E tuning , sounds good!

[@adamlangdon2245]

Everett in the house!🤘🤘🤘Cool shirt. RIP. Thanks for the lessons. 👏👏👏👏👏👌👌👌🔥🔥🔥🌋

[@straycatflauter5377]

Great job on those high riffs in JJ flash. That's been during me crazy. Thanks

[@frederictreussard4045]

Great video. It's been a while i was trying to play these songs right. And now it really sounds great. Nice to have such explanation !!

[@12footchain]

Thanks - great to hear it was helpful!

[@RickyPisano]

One of the greatest ever bro. I have a blast with it!!

[@WScott-gd2mj]

I find it easier to tune to open D -- no "up" tunings required -- and capo 2, which gives you open E.

[@afxtwinreverb]

I do open d minor so easy to play for example major chords

[@jimwalshonline9346]

It's certainly easier on your instrument's neck...

[@cdskipper32]

I read an interview with Keef and he said he did open D with capo. Said it sounds “tighter.”

[@TheMonolake]

What is position of capo

[@WScott-gd2mj]

@@TheMonolake 2

[@hansallgaier2519]

Great lesson! Thanks. Now Jumpin`Jack flash sounds like the record!

[@soulrebelno1]

Another great classic English rock song using the open-E tuning is 'Stay With Me' by the 'Faces', which is on their album, 'A Nod Is As Good As a Wink… to a Blind Horse'. Rod Stewart is on lead vocals; Ronnie Wood plays lead, rhythm, and slide guitar; Ian McLagan plays the Wurlitzer electronic piano; Ronnie Lane is on bass, and Kenney Jones on drums. A classic band if I ever heard one! Ronnie Wood uses a Zemaitis “disc-front” solid-body guitar that Tony Zemaitis custom-built for him in the early '70s. It's quipped with three Gibson PAF humbuckers, each with its own volume and tone controls and individual push switches that enabled any conceivable combination of the three pickups. The Zemaitis also features a distinctive circular aluminium “scratch plate” that enhances the guitar’s natural resonance. It also has a built-in battery-powered booster, which is engaged by pulling up the master volume control on the upper bout.

[@soulrebelno1]

A great song to cover, and you really have to get your timing right when the tempo changes!

[@hurdygurdyguy1]

It’s a great tune to play even on a 3string cigar box guitar as I do (tuned GDg) 💪

[@TheMrbeasely]

Really helpful. Thanks!

[@jxbusic]

Thank you - that was very interesting. Appreciate the time you took to produce and post the video.

[@JohnPMusic]

Great explanation. I’ve been working on this one and everyone is all over the place, lol. I agree, this sounds like the record. Thanks!

[@12footchain]

Thanks, much appreciated. glad it helped

[@SullenMorbius]

loving this channel, digging these lessons

[@Scrabnor-Mudflap]

Hey Chain: Just stumbled across this. Whoa Sounds right! Had to run get out the Tele in E. Big Fun, HAH! You're the best, man...

[@davidlind3237]

Thank you ! Your awesome.

[@tgdkls5891]

Fantastic lesson thanks, subscribed! Totally agree it sounds way more authentic played this way. Never feels right in standard.

[@thomasmorano7779]

I was big into the stones as a kid at 54 never playing rolling stones on guitar these lessons really rekindled fire ..these open tunings I wish I learnt many years ago there so much fun.I also got a Nashville tuned guitar.thanks bro for the lesson,love to see you do she's so hot n little T n A

[@dontbakdown6015]

Great lesson. Thank you. Another great Stones blues track in the open E tuning is Prodical Son off Beggars Banquet.🙂🎸

[@jeffscott7266]

Dear 12 Foot Chain, Salutations and Best Wishes from England mate! Our volume and tone knobs on our guitars go up to 11 mate, just like our amps go to 11. You know like… when you’re playing on 10 and there’s no where to go? Ours go to 11. That’s like one more. Cheers Mate!!! Nigel Tufnel Spın̈al Tap

[@Lamb3011]

Excellent

[@THillick]

Re; the knobs..first thing I tell budding electric guitarists of any age. Get an acoustic, learn to play that. Learn songs on your electric, unplugged first, get the notes and chords ringing or palm muting as called for, then worry about your amp, your effects, signal path etc. Biggest thing, unless you’re playing metal, no one is using as much distortion as you think you heard. Learn to listen Less is More! Thanks for another great video.

[@douglasleon7793]

You are an excellent teacher. I’m so glad I found this site. Figures I found it trying to find instruction on an open E tune. My friend James who I’ve been leaning on way heavy can get a breather now I have two excellent mentors. I may command my second song start to finish here

[@12footchain]

Glad it was helpful! Welcome!

[@danmayes4657]

Smiling ear to ear. Thanks so much!

[@steriffguitar3175]

Great tutorial really! What I find amazing is that both songs you can play open E, open G and standard (ok this one is probably the less “correct” but not impossible). I hardly find another band whose some songs can be played in such a variety. Well done indeed!

[@ix-Xafra]

Well thanks for solving an issue I've had since '76. Some editing and post-production with close ups and such, your channel will do well. I liked your presentation style. I wouldn't believe anything most famous guitar players tell about how they get their sound - telling misleading porkers is part of the 'myth'.

[@12footchain]

Thanks Vinny, much appreciated

[@ix-Xafra]

@@12footchain you're welcome. Kudos from Brisbane, Horsetrailier...

[@jtbkilmartin9110]

Love this stuff. Keep going man

[@Capillus]

"You don't have to be precise about that" is my favourite sentence in a guitar tuition video.

[@edwardhall8113]

Awesome !!

[@JustinSmithPYRO]

I would say, personally. Spot on 🤘🤘 jumpin Jack is one of my favorite song's of all time. Thank you for this. Gave me new insight. Guess I gotta tune one of my guitars to the, Stones. Just like I have one of mine tuned to bon scott acdc

[@pauldbrown1010]

Another awesome lesson. Knew about open G, but not open E for Keith. Your rationale for the record sound makes absolute sense. But the best is your parting admonitions regarding tone settings. As an electronics engineer I'm appalled that everyone just uses 10 for volume and tone (and 11 if they could!!) negating all the effort to give aural range. As a guitarist? On 10 every time 🙄🤣 and get my tone via amp modelling and effects (I have a Spark, pls no hate). But you're right, the sweet spot on every electronics curve is at 70-80% not 100%. Great "homework" teach, and great channel 🙏👏🎸🙂.

[@sweetpain67]

There it is. 💥

[@cgrovespsyd]

So glad I discovered your tutorials!

[@12footchain]

Welcome!

[@brads4606]

Love your comments about the volume and tone knobs! I feel like the volume knob (which should be called a gain knob) is like another tone control. The difference between “volume” and “gain” is huge because gain actually changes your tone.

[@Troy1g]

what great content, thanks for sharing your hard work!

[@savffle]

Perfect lesson man, sounds great on my SG!

[@PaulMcCartGuitarTracks]

Well done man, I am a fan and follower for life!

[@georgeprice4212]

Remember, they did have two guitars on the majority of their songs. So all the second guitar parts you hear in JJF are possibly done in real time, no overdubs

[@tintintin7000]

Great .. my man..love it

[@markginimalanaphy8963]

Pretty cool.. thanks 😎👍 keep the classic rock n roll alive 🎶🎶

[@alexbowman7582]

I DL’d a well known Stones bootleg called Obsidian and there’s an early Jumping Jack Flash recording and it sounds like Mick Taylor is playing lead guitar. It’s presumably recorded in the spring of 68 probably at Olympic studio. I know Mick Taylor didn’t join till summer 69 but I heard once he had previously jammed with the Stones before he joined. The lead guitar might be Richards but it’s got that Mick Taylor sound.

[@jimbrown3511]

Your a very good teacher. And guitar player. Thankyou

[@torcullkennedy4540]

Great to see the authentic tunings being used...for the full effect on Gimme Shelter use tremolo on the intro. You can always turn it off for the full chords although It sounds good if you just leave it especially if there is a second guitarist.

[@stevesteve1198]

Sounds great to me. I grew up with the stones and the Beatles and that sounds spot on. I hope you're in a band if you're not you sure as heck should be LOL

[@eddiejr540]

Absolutely Fantastic!!…well done…uhh, what’s a tone knob…hahaha…rock on my brother 🤘

[@ThomasNorthener]

This video was/is so valuable to me, cause I'm doing a Gimme Shelter cover atm. which I think is gonna be good and damn it saved me a lot of time with that intro 👍 Thanks!

[@12footchain]

Awesome, great to hear!

[@Deliquescentinsight]

Nice work, I feel my life is enriched: I recall playing JJF wrong in many bands, ahh well

[@paulbadoo9326]

That's it. Jumpin' Jack Flash as played on the record.

[@vanillacreem816]

Excellent lesson. I’ve tried every tuning with this song (JJJ) and I definitely agree open E comes closest to the original recording.

[@southerncrossvids]

What a fantastic lesson! Excellent channel, just subbed! Cheers and thanks bud!

[@ericmarshall4085]

Excellent lesson. Thank you so much.

[@stingray4780]

Great Channel and advice on the Tone pots! I am guilty as charged by you! Fantastic video and instructions! I've subscribed and rang that bell! Thank you!

[@gergemall]

great stuff . Please keep em comin.

[@koll789]

Makes perfect sense. Great video.

[@mikesweeney1435]

Love this video and thank you, Gimme is such a great, fun song to play!

[@markusferguson2985]

I believe you. Thanks a million my man

[@stonz82]

great lesson!

[@hubertdavis4284]

Love it! You sound closer to the studio recording than anyone else I’ve heard. Even The Stones(haha)! If you’ve heard them live you’ll probably notice they do not sound like their albums. What Keith Richards lacks in technic, he makes up in innovation. Very difficult to reproduce live!

[@booooo666]

Top tutorial.. Gr8 songs. 🎶🎶💯

[@trevorsyversen9956]

Keith's Gimme Shelter intro one of his best. I think it was recorded in Open E but he plays live in Open G capo'ed at 4. Ronnie's Stay With Me [Faces] also has an awesome Open E tune intro.

[@philfrank9226]

GS is in c-sharp not B and live played always in standard tuning, as most on the album tune.

[@tedtownsend8933]

Keef's main riff was played on an acoustic. It's key to sounding like the song.

[@Andre-si9lz]

Keith plays it live with the guitar tuned to Open G and a capo on the 4th fret nowadays

[@Oniweeki]

So coooool!

[@vallanvhaylock6118]

Awesome 👍🏿

[@jimparker7778]

Back in the early 1970s I had an original Les Paul custom with PAF pickups and a crunchy little Fender amp. I always used open E in those days only to learn later on that Keith also did a lot with D tunings and open G tuning. All of these were augmented by his use of capo.

[@scatlizard]

If you didn't tell me to not play that note at 12:30 I would have played that note. Lol thanks!

[@michaelmisczuk1188]

Thanks. I've been practicing GS in std. tuning, but as much as I like it, it does not have that Stones sound. And you cannot replicate that chord sound that you demonstrated, which is essential to the song. Good job.

[@12footchain]

Thank you!

[@daseguin]

What about the intro?! One of the best parts of the studio version !

[@buckaroodeluxe]

I've noticed when attempting to play-along with the album version of Jumping Jack Flash, that the recording is somewhat between the cracks of Open E & E♭ ... I don't feel it's that The Stones tuned down, but instead slowed the tape down just a hair in the studio, which gives the song that murky, deep, dragging sound - which can be heard on Mick's vocals as well. I'm not 100% sure that's what they did, but seems like it IMHO. It would explain why the live versions sound slightly different from the original recording. 🤔 Cool lesson on the versatile tuning. I've always loved the Open E/D tuning. From The Stones to Replacements/Paul Westerberg to Dylan's Blood On The Tracks album. ✌

[@12footchain]

yeah - I know what you mean regarding being between the cracks. All analog tape, he recorded the backing track guitars on a portable tape player, played back into a microphone and recorded that to the main tape in the studio, who knows what speed it was playing at obviously off of A440 by a touch. Makes it that much cooler.

[@darylsavoie7472]

Honky Toink Women is a little off as well, open G doesn't quite mix with the original recording, i always thought they changed the tape speed.

[@SuperDouginator]

It’s actually true tuning. The E we call isn’t E it’s a few hz above. Hence why lots of old 60’s songs are between tones.

[@bryanmbaka4938]

It would be really nice, if you do a video on Hotel California with the solos (preferably the live version, because it's very epic and interesting...) And I'm looking forward to a video Jumpin'Jack Flash

[@georgepelletier]

I'm a fan of twisting her knobs. The guitar that is. Hahaha

[@westernrider100]

Nice video and great comments about the tone controls. Every once in awhile these questions comes up: Why do my knobs act weird with the toggle switch in the middle position? I never use the middle position. What good is it any way? Next up, how about digging for gold. There is sonic gold available when using the toggle switch in the middle position. Suggestion: How about doing a video showing what can be achieved with the volume and tone controls, and the toggle switch is in the middle position.

[@12footchain]

Middle position on any gibson/gretsch 2 pickup guitar (or tele) is my favorite tones by far. Good suggestion

[@mikeoliver198]

Like Larry Bird, you talked confident at the beginning and then backed it up with ausome content.👍🙂

[@michelefrogan7150]

Thanks a lot

[@Melvorgazh]

On Live gigs Keith played it in Open-G most of the time I reckon

[@alexcorll90]

Yup, open G, capo 4th fret for a lot of songs.

[@5150show]

Just subbed

[@jonasisrael7158]

Merci....ça faitdu bien....(j'ai connu une époque où les guitaristes cachaient leur façon de jouer.)

[@Nick-vm2ut]

From the brief clips in the 1968 promo video (the only 60s performance where you can watch him play it in open E), it looks like Keef is playing the riff barred at the 7th fret. For me, it’s too hard to tell the difference though, since there are 3-4 guitars.

[@12footchain]

Yeah saw that, cant say i see enough there to say for sure what he's doing. Also saw him playing it on rock and roll circus at whst looked like standard tuning. I swear it never sounds right to me on standard tuning, but I don't know I've ever seen him play it in open E. Ppen g maybe and standard, but neither of those sound right to me.

[@Nick-vm2ut]

@@12footchain kzbin.info/www/bejne/fXfMfJmor8Rgms0 after the song came out in 1968, they recorded this promo where keith appears to be playing open E barred at the 7th. In the R&R circus he played standard tuning in B with barred A shapes, and since then he’s done it in open G with a capo at the 4th. I imagine this video is how he would’ve played it in the studio as well

[@1rwjwith]

Your absolutely right that KR originally recorded these tunes, along with a few others of the time in 1968, in OPEN E. Another notable one is STREET FIGHTING MAN. As he says in his book LIFE, he may have been tuned to D with a capo on 2 making it open E. when he discovered OPEN G he converted a lot of his live playing to that tuning on the OPEN TUNED songs. However in the first live versions of the STONES PLAYING these in 1968-69 he actally used STANDARD TUNING! You can hear this on the GET YOUR YA YA's album.So it gets kind of confusing. I think , in fact I am almost positive he STILL PLAYS GIMME SHELTER LIVE IN STANDARD. Thanks the open tuning really makes a difference!

[@12footchain]

yeah Keith is an interesting rabbit hole to chase. I've seen him play these songs in standard and open g. His right to play it however he wants, whenever he wants! But i love that he experiments and went outside of the box

[@THillick]

I was 12 when I bought my first two albums with my own hard earned money. Get your ya ya’s out and London Berry sessions… talk about going to school!

[@koll789]

If you watch this video in full, by the end, you will understand the genius of Keith Richards.

[@dionaddario6583]

Big fan of the channel and new patreon subscriber . Question man , do you think Nashville tuning is on JJF?

[@12footchain]

Hard to say. It's possible. There's so many guitars overdubbed it seems

[@dionaddario6583]

@@12footchain I’ll give it a try looped and see what it sounds like

[@12footchain]

@@dionaddario6583 let me know

[@dionaddario6583]

@@12footchain I’ll upload it on KZbin , I’ve been trying the Nashville tuning on a lot of stuff, it works well on go your own way by Fleetwood Mac

[@dionaddario6583]

@@12footchain I did a quick loop of the intro , I have no pick up in the Nashville tuned acoustic , it works but I bet that “chime” dynamic would pop more if I tune the Nashville strings to Ooen E, I have a heavier gauge of Nashville tuning strings ordered and a cheapie dean markley pup for the acoustic , I will try it in Nashville open E when they arrive ( I live in Florida Keys so no music stores ) kzbin.infooE3MWn9Kwu0?si=ZvVa0qzhxUrbHqro