First song? Mine was Let it bleed and YCAGWYW in standard. Then a very primitive version of Midnight Rambler.

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DandelionPowderman
No, but I learned how to read music when I played the piano earlier. I learned how to play guitar a different way, though, by listening to records and by discovering licks when trying out different things...

You & me both! I quit piano when I brought a Hot Rocks songbook in to my teacher and told her I wanted to learn "Sympathy". She said no. I kept taking piano lessons for another couple of years but got a guitar and a Mel Bay book a month later, got the basics down, and let records take over from there...

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Redhotcarpet
14! ><

You are more experienced than me, then

As a 6-string player (so far), do you 5-string players (or anyone else) think the 6-string START ME UP bit below sounds authentic enough? Or is 5-string the only way to go for SMU?

It's a guitar lesson and he uses START ME UP as just an incidental example. But what do you think? His example starts around 3:10:

The minors are a little tough in Open G. Keith tends to "cheat" a little by just barring three strings and leaving out the 3rd note of the scale, which needs to be flatted to make a minor (Hand Of Fate is a good example). But you also can get a cool minor by just adding the pinky to the second string to make what would normally be an A minor, and letting the highest string (a "D" in open G tuning) ring. You can hear this in Wild Horses.

nope

can't read a note, just listened, no idea of technical stuff

all i know is the open g gives a drone effect because of the tuning of g-d-g-b-d - there's only 3 notes there so you get a ring off the octave notes all the time

which is the genius of it (merci keith)

and all you really need is your middle finger vamping off the b string. and your ring finger off the g or the d string, how ever you want to do it, to varify the sound

piece off piss to do, really

but sounds awesome

i play monkey man in standard, capoed at 2nd