The Last Time - The Rolling Stones | Guitar Lesson

[@bennettbernerproject3289]

I could have used this video 55 years ago! Great !

[@Gto1927]

Early Stones have always been my favorite and always will be.

[@miltonnespatti]

It is a nice video to do a study! Thank'ya fella!❤

[@1724gino]

Early stones, YES!

[@jarhead3038]

Hell, I was there! saw them in 1964. That was the real Rolling stones. Big Dual Shoman amps a'n stuff. I've played guitar and bass since 1963. You ever got a good channel and don't it right counts. 👍

[@donnsunderland2684]

Played that song at every dance in my Junior High school band when it was released. Had all the notes right but knew it wasn't quite exact. Very popular with our crowd but haven't thought about it in decades. Hearing your excellent breakdown of this finally hits it spot on.

[@Glicksman1]

Ah! The elegant simplicity of rock and roll! Brian's great riff is one of he best of all time and virtually no one plays it correctly. You got it right here. The Teardrop Vox that Brian probably played it on has pickups that are said to be similar to a Strat's. Thanks.

[@terrypussypower]

A million songwriters wished they’d written “The Last Time” once they saw how simple it was. But that’s genius for you…makin’ it look easy!!

[@shaunmcdonough9016]

Song is based on an old gospel tune, but the Stones added that absolute killer riff (one of the greatest riffs of all time of course). Based on what Keith says, Brian probably came up with the riff which is why Brian played it (Keith said that whoever came up with the riff generally played it) with Keith doing the guitar solo and the rhythm work including the acoustic playing. So there were definitely a number of hands involved in coming up with this song, but that riff is the thing that really makes it great.

[@terrypussypower]

@@shaunmcdonough9016 That riff is definitely Brian’s!

[@danielhutchinson6604]

The abundance of excellent Musicians in British Rock scene areas, contributed to the assembly of several great groups. From Greenie and the Mac, to Ronnie Lane assembling some great groups, the presentation of excellent tunes was a collaborative effect. The USA delivered the Blues to the Brits, they returned the Tunes with an imported flavor. John Lee saw it and collaborated with Brits..... The ability to exchange tips on tunes, created some lovely examples......

[@phillipbrown7062]

Great lesson. When I first heard Brian play that riff back in the 60s I was hooked on electric guitars for ever!

[@rossammellino9045]

I Love this song what a great melody

[@Joe-ce3wh]

If You get the chance, I’d love to see you break down the Stones “It’s All Over Now.” Your lessons are outstanding. Thank you for all of the time and effort that you put forth. Much appreciated!

[@ziblot1235]

That one is simple. G,F,C,D. Then move it up to A,G,D,E and you got Empty Heart

[@SGC90-t5y]

Because I used to love her!

[@Andrew-rv6if]

Great teaching video and thanks for giving proper credit to Brian Jones. Andrew from Bath UK, age 71

[@zeppelinmexicano]

This is the song that rocked the high school in 1965. No party or night out was complete without it.

[@yesterdayproductions1019]

You have the riff SPOT ON! The position & the hammers are perfect. I always LOVED the way that riff is just rammed down your throat continually. LOL

[@makalu877]

That was a best instructional video I've seen done on this song. "The Last Time" is my favorite song of all time, and I would echo the request below for "It's All Over Now". Thank you for posting and great job!!

[@artisticglow7486]

Great lesson! This song is the essence of rock n' roll: simple, yet perfect! The blues and country roots are so evident when you break it all down. Keep up the great work. much appreciated!

[@eggman1732]

Missed this one… what a cool riff by BJ

[@jimkelehan1366]

Ok, I’m old! I love this song! Thank you!

[@peterdstark462]

So appreciate the humbleness You exhibit in your lessons Doug. You always ask us viewers to inform You if we think You've missed something, have the wrong guitars, amp settings, etc. on these songs. You're always open to suggestions and comments. Thank You very much for these tremendous lessons. You make it easy to learn and play! :)

[@tommcnally3646]

Love the Neil Diamond observation, he wrote so many great hits with 3 chords!

[@ziblot1235]

But he missed the best one..G,L,O, RIA

[@lamper2]

@@ziblot1235 Where the cover by The Shadows Of Knight was superior! one of the warmest mixes EVER!

[@duanefogle1666]

IMHO, YOU'RE THE PERFECT GUY.., YOUR WHOLE PERSONALITY AND INSTRUCTION. YOU WILL PROBABLY NEVER KNOW IT, BUT FINALLY I FEEL A TRUE CHEMISTRY HERE...AND I AM FOREVER GRATEFUL!! KEEP IT COMIN'

[@WScott-gd2mj]

Agree...I also like Howard Hart's 24/7 Guitar channel for the same reason...great songs, clear instruction and a nice chill vibe.

[@charleskinsey2141]

I learned it the same way you did back in the day . I learned it from another guitar player who then complained "do you know how long it took me to learn that ?" When I started playing it too lol . Sounded close enough at the time .

[@twezzo99]

THANK YOU!!! You´re the only person I ever heard apart from Brian Jones who got it right. This is the best riff in history in my opinion, a melodic motion that makes the world go round.

[@Fuff63]

The more I learn about the Stones guitar work, that sounds ‘simple’, the more I realize how intelligent they are.

[@danielhutchinson6604]

I struggled to find the Combination that was working for Brian and Kieth. A friend and I were attempting to play this with acoustic Guitars, that seemed to just never produce the sound that Stones Recorded. 14 year old Hormones simply do not get how the blend of a two guitar twang can produce the effects that Chet Atkins was capable of generating. The ability to understand Music Theory helped . But by then Brian was gone, and I had traded off that Nice Gibson Acoustic......

[@robertevans2143]

Great lesson. Thanks. One of my favorite Stones songs.

[@DC-ip1sc]

Hour after hour of playing and re-winding this on my little Phillips tape deck back in 1976, the first song I ever played with a band, thanks for confirming I got it spot on. Cheers.

[@ziblot1235]

Haha, you must have beeni n my band!We had the same line up. With a few Paul Revere tunes thrown in. We played around Ft Benning, so we had a deal with all of the EM clubs on the base, playing for all the boys going overseas. (We were only a year away from it ourselves)But the Army paid good, and paid with good checks. There were about 6 of these clubs and we could have a gig almost evry night. Summer of 65-66. We were Decembers Children, (Real original) There were probably several 100 of them.

[@WScott-gd2mj]

Love this...and like you I see Brian using the hammer-on at the 5th string for the last part of the main riff, sted of picking the 4th string as some other youtubers teach it....I suppose Brian is the only one who could settle that argument....from later concert vids it looks like Ronnie uses a simplified version?

[@christianlacheze3323]

So proud I got it right ( after 40 years making the same mistake as you did) !

[@randybackgammon890]

The solo is kinda similar to the solo on Bad Mon rising

[@Darkwell0071]

Remember for all his jumping around Mick is close to 80

[@elusivetoddini8917]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Always loved this song. Always played it wrong. Keep going. Your channel rocks

[@larnold7649]

AWESOME TRANSCIPTION YOU MAKE IT SO EASY TO LEARN👏👏

[@tone.1]

Every one a winner ❤️

[@jonjepson3650]

Awesome, a good one for the looper 👍

[@jroc2201]

Love it, it's not complicated, but that's the fascinating thing about these tunes, the genius is in the simplicity, , you can discover it for yourself if you try to write one yourself

[@reddove108]

What a great dive into what is for me their finest moment. Thank you.

[@fabientissier1218]

Excellent lesson passing in review all guitars 👍👍

[@listairgin]

Another brilliant demo/ lesson from TFC ! 🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠 5 star!

[@lesbois53]

This is a great song. It seems to just shamble along, but it gets there in the end. Brian Jones’s raw influence was critical to their early songs. It’s that Vox Teardrop that did it! ❤❤❤❤❤

[@Bmiah127]

Wow! My favorite Stones song! I have been playing this totally wrong...for decades!! Like you were playing it erroneously. Now, once I heard your lesson, I can't unhear my mistake. Thank you so much. Keep it coming and take care.

[@pheldge8806]

you nailed it ! I used to play the wrong way, and it wasn't satisfying. so thx

[@johncarlo7395]

Great video, I wondered how that opening riff was played; with those open strings I thought it was two Guitars, keep on pluckin'

[@RallyNova350]

Thanks for the video and lesson. Great, great song. Have really been enjoying your channel and content. Will definitely be practicing this one!

[@roytonai255]

Finally! I can play it right! Thank you for another great lesson for a great song!

[@sterlingmcvay2469]

Worked on this today. One of my favorite Stones songs, too.

[@theHAL9000]

Simple yes but achieving that wonderful swinging flow of the tune requires some focus and discipline. Super video! Last Time amounts to an electric guitar celebration.

[@markdesod561]

Love Your Taste In MUSIC, MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank You!!

[@zeke7142003]

I've been playing it the way you used to since 1981. I too didn't know any better.

[@tschaffner4970]

I had been playing the lick wrong for almost 60 years. I always thought I was missing something. Now I know what it is. Thanks

[@chrisst8922]

My favourite track by the Stones. There's that many people going into every bit of Beatle songs.

[@DAGDRUM53]

Not to argue, just share information, I've seen a hundred photos of Brian's teardrop guitar as well as video of Brian playing The Last Time live on his Firebird in 1965. I knew he was playing it right because his hands were exactly where yours are.

[@counterbalancelife4305]

The best part is that you record in that cool little music store we'd all like to visit.

[@12footchain]

Haha. Its my office. Does look like a music store though, you're right

[@McMahonGary]

That high note at the end of Keith's solo is a G#. Bend that G note on the high E string at fret 15 up just a HALF step. G# fits the E chord.

[@Joe-ce3wh]

Thank you, Sir!

[@greg6L6GC]

That sounded very cool.

[@lamper2]

Who else watched the T.A.M.I. show of this song till their eyes were blurry and neck hurt from tilting your head? This song caught my eye so I subscribed! Look Through Any Window by The Hollies please! And I Am a Rock because Paul Simon said he loved to get a guitar sound of "a knife cutting through burlap"

[@TheTwangKings]

This is a really great lesson. Any rock guitarist should know this fantastic song. I bought a Vox Teardrop guitar just to play it. Well, that and many other cool 60s stuff 🙂

[@12footchain]

Cool!

[@michaelsternberg6180]

Good job! So many people play the first figure wrong.. and you nail Keith’s feel.. btw.. keef says he’s really playing both parts since Brian was totally spaced out..

[@jansimmelman267]

I've seen Brian Jones play the lick perfectly on youtube and I've read interviews with Keith where he says he only played chords on the song.The Stones recorded the song in 1965 when Brian was still a very good musician.

[@michaelsternberg6180]

@@jansimmelman267 Yes, I’ve seen Brian play it on TV and live.. in ‘65 at the old Academy of Music on 14 th st . In NYC. . (The week Satisfaction was released) I may be mistaken.. but keith kind of took credit for all the parts.. in his autobiography.

[@makalu877]

Brian was a great musician and I have no doubt that it was he who came up with the riff and he played it as well.

[@michaelsternberg6180]

@@makalu877 It’s what keith claims in his autobiography. Of course, it doesn’t mean it’s accurate.

[@makalu877]

@@michaelsternberg6180 I believe Brian was responsible for many of the iconic riffs in the early days. I feel he may have been "bullied" to some extent, by more powerful personalties in the group. To put it nicely.

[@hippyskin6490]

Great video's nice sounds

[@frankanda9288]

You have a divine sound in your opening. First the riff, then the chords, then the bass, then the lead guitar…. It sounds way better than the original record. You know something about the development of the song….

[@jimwalshonline9346]

One of my favorite Stones tracks; I too played it "wrong" for literally decades...

[@patszer8314]

Thanks for the lesson! I have wanted to learn this riff for a long time.

[@1taylorgibson]

This could be the last time i try to play that riff. You explained it better than the rest so here’s hoping. I subscribed.

[@12footchain]

welcome!

[@Bluepillphil-d1w]

The live in Ireland video 1965 Keith is playing his Epi Casino and Brian the Gibson Firebird. Sounds good to me. Best of the performances, the crowd is going nuts, the girls screaming.

[@wonder6789]

Great Brian Jones riff

[@calliopivogiatzis2235]

This song definitely utilizes the entire fretboard of the guitar very well

[@markfahey3921]

Loved the lesson - I saw the Stones in Liverpool in June, sadly they didn't play this one. But what a show!

[@santrixhimself3679]

as usual a very nice lesson! thank you :) however i feel like i need to tell this: i would appreciate just a normal tab of the riffs on screen rather then the pic with the moving dots. i've been basicly ignoring that dot thing and just looked at your hands. normal tab might even be more easy for you to put on screen

[@WScott-gd2mj]

respectfully, I agree with this

[@paulrossi4863]

It sounds just like the original in the first several seconds of your video, good job..👍

[@ZigbertD]

Ha! I always played it the same way on the G an B string down at the third and fourth fret, but I always knew it wasn't quite right. And I LOVE all the reverb on this track, I guess that was a big studio plate back then. I use hardware (Strymon BigSky) and software (Waves Abby Road Plates) emulations when I want that kind of sound on a recording. Those sound good, but it's never quite the same. This song was the Stones' first original song issued as an A-side single, and their first original song to hit number one. It's signature early Stones, really the sound and attitude that defined them. EDIT: Their first number one with any song was the Bobby and Shirley Womack penned "It's All Over Now". Womack originally opposed letting them record it and Sam Cooke talked him into it. That decision made him a rich man, and he later said the Stones could have any song they wanted.

[@paulcarr4435]

Awesome guitar you have there!

[@StarvingMorlock]

You nailed the tone man, much respect.

[@LeeMcDaidDonegal]

If I had a quid for every bad transcription of this riff I've come across in books and magazines over the years .. well, .I'd have a tenner at least? (*cough*)

[@MAMRetro]

From America; what’s a quid and a tenner?

[@daverench2327]

awesome job. Thanks very much!😀

[@johndodson4527]

Wow.

[@jamestilby2223]

GREAT PLAYING 👍

[@user-vc4sk3fz9d]

wow u r a great teacher...................:)

[@chrishedlund3196]

Nice. Really cool. Thanks.

[@user-yu9rl1tz1m]

Your stuff is the best!

[@12footchain]

Thank you!

[@RebelTheUncanny1]

Much appreciated!

[@jaimemino2641]

Great job! Keep it up. Your videos are excellent for learning how to play it right! 👏👏👏👏

[@12footchain]

Thanks a lot!

[@victortomasetti5186]

Awesome thanks so much for this wonderful lesson. I have been playing the riff in the 1sr position. This sounds so much better.

[@kennethmccann630]

Awesome 👍👍

[@jonnyb2532]

Nice! Thanks much.

[@glassslide]

Awesome song, great lesson, thanks!!!

[@kennethburrows1458]

Thanks

[@12footchain]

Thanks very much Kenneth!

[@markliesinger2805]

I played this as a "new release" with my high school band. Now I know why I "almost" had it right. LOL

[@bennettbernerproject3289]

I played it wrong too and then a few years ago saw the Ed Sullivan clip and realized it was way easier than the way we all were doing it.

[@kevinmalone8903]

Yup, always played it wrong until I saw the Ed Sullivan performance. We have this in our band set list. Always a crowd pleaser

[@cliveandmoiradekoster6477]

Awesome tutorial! Well done you! Would love to see you do a similar thing with Fleetwood Mac's Albatross.

[@HektorBandimar]

I believe Keith had a black Les Paul standard that he played a lot in those days, but he had it stolen from their house in France.

[@DETROITBULLET]

Nice

[@ceooflonelinessinc.267]

Thank u mate

[@natetheannihilnater1886]

The solo was very much in the style of Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley. Chuck's No Particular Place to Go uses alot of those chord shapes but is much harder to play right.

[@jerryjohnson2421]

great love it

[@williardbillmore5713]

“Mick and I knew by now that really our job was to write songs for the Stones. It took us eight, nine months before we came up with “The Last Time,” which is the first one that we felt we could give to the rest of the guys without being sent out of the room. If I’d gone to the Rolling Stones with “As Tears Go By,” it would have been ‘Get out and don’t come back.’ Mick and I were trying to hone it down. We kept coming up with these ballads, nothing to do with what we were doing. And then finally we came up with “The Last Time” and looked at each other and said, *let’s try this with the boys. The song has the first recognizable Stones riff or guitar figure on it* ; the chorus is from the Staple Singers’ version, “This May Be the Last Time.” We could work this hook; now we had to find the verse. It had a Stones twist to it, one that maybe couldn’t have been written earlier-a song about going on the road and dumping some chick. “You don’t try very hard to please me.” Not the usual serenade to the unattainable object of desire. That was when it really clicked, with that song, when Mick and I felt confident enough to actually lay it in front of Brian and Charlie and Ian Stewart, especially, arbiter of events. With those earlier songs, we would have been chased out the room. But that song defined us in a way, and it went to number one in the UK. - Keith Richards from his autobiography “Life” *I guess this makes it clear where the riff Brian plays came from...* *Keith wrote it when he wrote the song well before he brought it to the rest of the band*

[@jimzeleny7213]

So I bought a Bassman identical to yours in the video. For $90.00 in 1972. Sold it in 2001 for $500 and figured I did pretty good on the sale. Maybe not that great. Used to run it flat out to get some sort of distortion.

[@numbat0072]

What model is the electric black Gibson he plays the riff on ?

[@jimzeleny7213]

@@numbat0072 SG special

[@1rwjwith]

It took me a few years too to realize how he was doing that riff…Brian Jones really loved those repetitive riffs early on…he kind of did the same thing on Get Off My Cloud as far as repetition but it was much lower in the mix. The Last Time, is a direct ripoff of the Staple Singers THIS COULD BE THE LAST TIME in the chorus, look that one up! But the guitar riffs the Stones do are totally different and their own . Good example of the Richards- Jones guitar duo before Taylor and Wood took over. Thanks.

[@J..398]

Keith plays the solo, not the lead, Brian plays lead

[@MAMRetro]

Doesn’t the lead guitarist play the solo, and the rhythm guitarist play the repetitive pattern of chords?

[@davidlind8427]

Thank you! Your great. Could you show us Happy by the Stones?

[@tapx1707]

Great instructions as usual. Request: could you please teach Arlen Roth’s version of Suzy Q. Thanks.

[@marcbolan1818]

Never sure how they got away with crediting Jagger/Richards and not Pop Staples (Staples "Maybe the Last Time circa 1961). I too played the riff wrong for ages until KZbin arrived. When I "got it," it was one of those "Of course, now it sound closer).

[@12footchain]

yeah i just listened to the Staples singers original - great. RS totally ripped that off - I read that they openly admit it. wonder if they arranged any publishing $$ to go to Staples.

[@marcbolan1818]

@@12footchain Well, since ABKCO, Allen Klein owned the publishing, I doubt it. One could argue, I suppose, and I am not an attorney, that it is a "traditional" gospel song I suppose. The Stones singles in 1965/66 are just amazing when you think about it: "Satisfaction, "Get off My Cloud, " 19th Nervous Breakdown," "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby..;" and "Paint It Black." What a streak and sound.