I've been into the Stones for about 25 years, and when I was a teen I learned to play all of Exile to a fair standard.

For some reason, some songs I never got into playing on the guitar.

Until now...

I've just (yeah, I know, what took me so long, right? Kids mainly) learned the main riff of Beast of Burden! One of my long time favourite songs, and what a joy to play it!!

Guitar players: what are you favourite ones to play?

(I'm thinking mainly the Keith, rhythm, parts here)

Thanks from a Mexican Saturday night!

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One of my favorite , Love in vain or YCAGWYW, Gimme shelter also as all the open G style songs.

JMI Hampton 1981

I am not a guitar player, but I think the Pittsburgh '72 soundboard recording would be a good one. There is almost complete separation of the guitars in the L-R channels. Want to play with Taylor? Turn the balance one way. Keith? Vice versa.

nice! Thanks for the ideas. Miss You is one that I'd never focused on, but it's such fun - especially to jam along with the extended studio versions.

From the days I first started learning up until now when I need to just relax and jam along at home it's Ya Ya's. I can play along with the best of Keith and Mick T. It's Always fun.

so much fun to add your guitar into the weave

My playing along with the Stones is limited to a wobbly rendition of the harp intro to "Sweet Virginia" and a rather manic take on the tambourine in "All Down the Line." Other than that, nada.

Jumping Jack Flash, Shattered, She's So Cold, Sympathy for The Devil ,Brown Sugar, Love in Vain, Stray Cat Blues.

I never tried playing along with an electric guitar. It would be difficult I think to get the volumes right.
On the acoustic guitar, it's always great to play along with "Sweet Virginia" and "No Expectations". Getting that rhythm just right (to really appreciate Keith as a guitar player, one should listen to his acoustic work I think), it's a lot of fun. I also try to play along with "Let It Loose", but wow, that's hard work and I still can't really do it.
For the rest, I love to play along the riff (albeit on the acoustic) with "Midnight Rambler" (the Get Yer Ya Ya's Out version). It's a lot of fun, especially the rhythm changes and the little fills when he slows down.
Occasionally I have a go at the "Sympathy For the Devil" solo on Get Yer Ya Ya's too (Keith's solo, Mick Taylor is way beyond my skills (so is Keith's but at least there one can hope).

In general, most early Stones songs are fun to play with, 60's - early 70's. On later albums, it gets harder, because the production makes it harder to distinguish what's going on, guitar-wise.

Still love to play the first one I learned which is Dead Flowers.

CYHMK is good fun.

In standard tuning, Down In The Hole gets you way down into the blues.

Trying to replicate the solo guitar at the end of Locked Away is always fun. The right hand is quite hard to get right.

Ry Cooder on MfT. A tough one to nail.

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I never tried playing along with an electric guitar. It would be difficult I think to get the volumes right.
On the acoustic guitar, it's always great to play along with "Sweet Virginia" and "No Expectations". Getting that rhythm just right (to really appreciate Keith as a guitar player, one should listen to his acoustic work I think), it's a lot of fun. I also try to play along with "Let It Loose", but wow, that's hard work and I still can't really do it.
For the rest, I love to play along the riff (albeit on the acoustic) with "Midnight Rambler" (the Get Yer Ya Ya's Out version). It's a lot of fun, especially the rhythm changes and the little fills when he slows down.
Occasionally I have a go at the "Sympathy For the Devil" solo on Get Yer Ya Ya's too (Keith's solo, Mick Taylor is way beyond my skills (so is Keith's but at least there one can hope).

In general, most early Stones songs are fun to play with, 60's - early 70's. On later albums, it gets harder, because the production makes it harder to distinguish what's going on, guitar-wise.

try with a bigger bang! It's really fun to play and not really complicated! I loved this album!

I was in heaven the first time I played Brown sugar and tumbling dice, discovering open G tuning...

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CYHMK is good fun.

In standard tuning, Down In The Hole gets you way down into the blues.

Are there any special chords involved in Down In The Hole? Or just standard Bm, G, F# and E7?

'I was in heaven the first time I played Brown sugar and tumbling dice, discovering open G tuning...'

Yeah, Rollingloc, I remember some UK guitar mag in the early 90s had the tab for Tumbling Dice, and, just as you describe, this teenager was also in heaven. I remember the trancelike state I got into having got that end riff going over and over.

I still manage to get into that zone every once in a while...

I play along with CYHMK to warm up. In fact, all of STICKY FINGERS is great to play along to.

Sweet Virginia - standard tuning, just put your capo at the second fret, and off you go!



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Respectable.

Crank up the power chords and ROCK.

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Ry Cooder on MfT. A tough one to nail.

Especially the fret-clanking

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CYHMK is good fun.

In standard tuning, Down In The Hole gets you way down into the blues.

Are there any special chords involved in Down In The Hole? Or just standard Bm, G, F# and E7?

Just standard, but I play a F#7-variation and Em.

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TheflyingDutchman
Ry Cooder on MfT. A tough one to nail.

Especially the fret-clanking

He's a sniper with a great vibrato indeed.

To intro to Angie is fun to play on acoustic, and you don't have to re-tune

There is a guy on the tube, who plays guitar on a bunch on "Exile' tracks; he supposedly is showing people how to do it. He never quite gets the camera angle right, is a little embarrassed,probably a bit drunk; definitely forgets his place at times - but you can tell he just loves the Stones, and playing the songs.

Beast of burden

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Ry Cooder on MfT. A tough one to nail.

Especially the fret-clanking

He's a sniper with a great vibrato indeed.

Wouldn't a sniper be saying "I wish I could stop this damn vibrato-ing"?

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Ry Cooder on MfT. A tough one to nail.

Especially the fret-clanking

He's a sniper with a great vibrato indeed.

He does really well with that clean sound.

Angie, Love in vain and Wild Horses still rekindle my acoustic Keith