Midnight Rambler - The Rolling Stones | Guitar Lesson

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Learn how to play Midnight Rambler, as performed by The Rolling Stones released from their 1969 Let it Bleed album. This lesson is focused on the Let it Bleed studio album version.

The lesson covers the primary rhythm guitar and the slide guitar parts, both played by Keith Richards on the album.

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00:00 Introduction / What to expect
01:44 Getting your tone & tuning - rhythm guitar
03:38 Lesson - intro / Verse part A
05:13 Lesson - Verse part B
07:00 the jams and vamping approach
07:55 Getting your tone & tuning - slide guitar
10:31 Lesson - slide parts
11:56 Demo - slide over verse part A
12:33 Lesson - remaining slide parts
15:04 Final thoughts

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[Pedro]

Get yer Ya Ya's live version of this is a total banger.Keef at his magisterial best-sloppy and funky.Great lesson man-keep it up.

[seachild]

Nice job on this classic Stones tune. Thanks!

[blakelycreative]

That slide part has always intrigued me. thanks for breaking it down.

[paullavallee]

You are getting close to 100k subscribers, hope it happens soon you certainly deserve it

[kimalexander]

Another e-z to play winner ! Thanks Doug... you rock, from Les Paul's hometown.

[fxsrider]

I can hardly listen to my earlier recording efforts. Didn't have a clue what I was doing to begin with but that was part of the challenge that kept me in it. I call them timestamps. Thanks for putting the lesson together!!

[sampopkin]

Amazing! Just saw them the other night in Philly and Keith got some great tones with his LP junior capo'd for this song

[sterlingmcvay]

Woo-Hoo!! That's probably my Favorite Stones album!!

[rrrayrrray]

Another excellent song and lesson. Thank you!

[pmckillion]

Hot rocks my first too. Great introduction

[markhorton]

Such a fantastic and fun song to play!! A Great lesson, and now I know what I was doing wrong, lol!!

[cgavin]

Great stuff dude! Love the sound of those P90s. They sound fantastic.

[andyshaughnessy]

Thanks! I didn’t know I was playing it wrong for 45 years.

[chilledmonkeebrains]

Really good, thank u
Keith’s parts were so unique ❤

[JeanMarieMessa]

I must have played this song a hundred times and really thought you’d teach me how slightly wrong I was, again. But it didn’t happen this time, pheew. One thing though : I never thought about the Stones slowing down that tape but now.. the very dark warm-up intro, the pitch and Jagger’s deep voice would make this a very valid theory.

[gustavofranck]

I’m not sure if he did the slide part, but Ry Cooder had recorded some things on this album. There’s this album, called “Jamming with Edward” that was recorded at the same time.

[guydouglas]

What a classic Stones song. Keith was ahead of the times with this song following his 'Keep It Simple, Stupid' - 'KISS' approach. The E tuning for slide guitar part is so f'kn obvious. A great jammin' song.

I had known for years the incorrect concert pitch, however I believe the in-between pitch makes it sound moodier/darker. I used to think the Stones, as did many other bands at the time experimented with pitch. A very good lesson. Good work.

[stevepope]

Ill come back after i get to hear the song.

[johndaugherty]

Interesting choice for guitar. My intro to the Stones was also Hot Rocks. Check out You Cant Always GetWhat You Want from Love You Live. It is imho the greatest solo of all time. Ronnie hits every note on the board!

[rexmonarch]

They played the Los Anneles Forum in '69. When they started up MIdnight Rambler Mick Jagger grabbed a hat off a cop's head who was guarding the front of the stage. Mick was dancing around the stage with cop hat on his head with cops chasing him and then he threw the hat out into the crowd. He held his hands up like "Ok, you got me." The cops backed off and MIck went back to singing the tune. It was really perfectly theatericaly in synch with the song. .