I own a great record (CD) of their live concert Get Your Ya Yas Out and the very first song on it is Jumping Jack Flash. I have been happily playing along to the recording of that song in standard tuning in the key of B.
Now I find that the way Mike teaches it is the real way it was played. So I am going to retune my axe and see how If I prefer it that way. This song lesson has three parts Tuning and Intro, Verse and Chorus, Middle 8. Way Cool!
The third song of this guitar lesson is 'Angie' and offers 2 menu selections: Intro and Chorus Progression and Verse, Breakdown & Mid Section. Michael uses an nice sounding Yamaha acoustic guitar in standard tuning. The chords are essentially Am, E7, G, Fsus4, F, Csus4, C then the verse G, Dm, Am. F, C, G. Sort of anyway. He teaches all the little melodic bits you need to get the whole song down!
Brown Sugar is in my opinion a rite of passage for all rock guitar players (or it ought to be) and is our 4th song.
Here things get a bit more complicated and we have 5 menu entries for the song: Tuning & Intro Riffs, Verse Riffs, Chorus, Bridge and 2nd Verse and finally, Sax section, 3rd Verse and Outro.
Michael tells us there are two main guitar parts and that Keith Richards' guitar is tuned to open G. Here he uses a Gibson ES-335 and lets us tune to him. Low to high D, G, D, G, B, D. He uses a Fender Strat in standard tuning for the other guitar part which plays a 4 note figure and some fill rhythm. So you get to learn it both ways!
Honky Tonk Woman is our last Rolling Stones song in Vol 1. Its menu selection offers 7 sections: Tuning and Intro Riff, Verse, Chorus and 2nd Verse, 2nd Chorus, Solo Rhythm and Outro, Lead Phrases, Main Solo and lastly Outro Phrases.
"...Suffering to see your youth pass like a drift of smoke, but if it springs up again and comes to life in what you do, nothing has been lost and the power to work is another youth." --- Vincent Van Gogh