5 Keith Richards Style Playing Habits & Techniques - Sound Like The Rolling Stones Guitarist!

Watch our Keith Richards guitar lesson and find out how to sound like Keith Richards in 5 easy steps.

Leigh Fuge discusses 5 key Keith Richards guitar habits and playing techniques that every guitarist and Rolling Stones fan will appreciate. Here we delve into a range of riffs, tips and techniques that Keith Richards uses when crafting a song.

0:00 Intro to Keith Richards guitar lesson
0:42 Keith Richards Open G tuning
1:55 Keith Richards Style One Finger Major Chords / 1 Finger Barre Chords
3:35 6sus4 Chords in the style of Keith Richards
5:55 Keith using open string pedal notes
7:24 Chuck Berry inspired licks

In this easy to follow lesson, we learn all about the Keith Richards tuning (Open G), how he uses one-finger major chords and 6sus4 chords to sculpt his iconic riffs. We also get an insight into how Keith uses open string pedal notes that you will instantly recognise. finally, we also get to hear how Chuck Berry has inspired Keith to create his signature sound.

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[MaxyG]

Excellent clear lesson. I like to put another A string in place of the low E and tune it to G. The double G tuned 5 and 6 strings allows you to play all 6 strings and having 3 G tuned strings resonates nicely.

[michaelreidperry]

This opens up an entirely new world for me on my guitar.

[kurtdavidson]

Well I will give you this my friend. Everyone wants to show you how they play Keith licks. Your the only one that comes close to actually explaining it. 5 videos tonight with guys playing stones songs. But with no bloody explication. I can watch Stones video if I wanted to see Keith play. So thank you for at least a brief explication. Cheers mate…

[nigelwallis]

Brilliant video, pure content no bluster, easy to understand, thank you

[robertgallagher]

Maybe the best Keith Richards lesson I've seen by keeping it Keith simple always wondered why you can't just stay in Open G and you clarified it by saying you CAN do Chuck Berry in Open G why not?!!!!

[Galidi]

Keith loves his 6ths and 3rd intervals!

[SullenMorbius]

great lesson -- love Keith's playing

[creamydistortion]

Pro Tip: Build up a very high tolerance for alcohol so you can play this stuff all night without passing out. Keith used booze, barbitarates (sleeping pills which are almost impossible to get these days because they're very deadly - especially when mixed with alcohol), cigarettes, a very small amount of coke to keep the blood flowing, and smack for smooth sailing...Add weed to taste.

[deerunter]

Thank you been looking for this tuning just couldn’t figure out which one it was thank you!

[Mr.D]

Hi, cool video. He may be one of the simplest guitar player's on earth but made many great songs and albums. And blues wise no one plays like him, his last album "Crosseyed Heart" is a great example. Also i just wanted to mention that it's supposed to be "D" in the 1st string, you're saying "E" even though you're tuned to "D" 🙂

[adrianjabs]

Really appreciate this I learnt a lot Keith is a God problem is if anyone rips off his style we all know they are a fake copy so I can learn all this but I can't use it 😪

[bobwallace]

When the argument comes up about who is the greatest living guitar player, I always said Keith Richards was. There are super shredders in the local bar and great technicians on the radio but....none come close to the length of time nor the catalog of iconic songs that Richards has produced.

[mrdellferr]

Just for beginers... Only a little bit about Keith Richards styles.

[JammyGit]

Isn't anyone going to comment about how decent that cheap Tele sounds? How much are those East Coast guitars? About 100 quid?
No? Well just me it is then 😆

[hendrikheemels]

Keith didn't play the Fender telecaster the first 20 years.

[miraposajehano]

As a guitar player, Keith Richards has neither style and most certainly no techniques to speak of but as a public personality, he embodied completely the wash off rock star persona that he is. For the others who think that he plays guitar....here's how to sound like him: Get a Telecaster and get rid of the big E string and find an old Vox amplifier. Tune your guitar to G and make spasmodic moves around your living room as if you had the onset of Parkinson Disease without actually having it.

[riobaskoro]

I think keith is a legend with a little skill of Guitar LOL ... precisely mick taylor is the one who teaches them and takes them to a different level

[Pushyhog]

take string off an tune it open G as keith does.