Channel: New Secret Guitar Teacher

Category: Music

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Description: Learn the classic licks and riffs of the great song The Last Time by The Rolling Stones. Nick teaches all the guitar parts so you can play as Brian Jones and Keith Richards! A free tab and chord printout is available at the Secret Guitar Teacher site, download here: secretguitarteacher.com/docs/su/SUCLR_001_last-time.jpg Abridged Script: Here’s a song that has everything for the developing guitarist: a classic rocky sounding Blues riff; a rare example of using the movable ‘G’ shape chord and three delicious blues scale fills. Let’s start with the main riff which was originally played by Brian Jones over the chords E D and A. Then over the chorus the electric guitar plays the A chord like this using the ‘E’ shape. You may like to think of this as a slimmed down version of the ‘E’ shaped barre chord. Then, after 4 times through, we move the same idea up to the 10th fret for the D chord played through 3 times, before returning to the A again. The bit you may find needs extra practice is changing from this A riff back into the main riff which must be done without missing a beat. So that main riff is played 12 times at the start of the song. That’s 4 times as the intro and then 8 times behind the verse, before moving into those chorus chords. The A up to the D then back to the A. And then the Main riff is played again twice as a little link before you start the next verse. Then, after another chorus, we return to the main riff, which Brian Jones continued to play in the background while Keith Richards took the spotlight with a great instrumental part. Up until this point Keith has been simply strumming the open chords behind Brian’s lead guitar and, of course, providing backing vocals behind Mick Jagger’s lead singing. But suddenly, it’s as if Keith is let off the leash… He comes up with some great voicings of the chords starting with this ‘G’ shaped E chord which is then moved down two frets to play the D before switching to the triad version of A at the fifth fret on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th strings… Then landing on the open E chord. He plays through this four times and fills in between with some great blues licks. The first time through he plays this lick linking the first and second positions then next time through it’s up to the 4th position for this lick. Then he repeats the first fill again, before moving all the way up to the upper first position to play a unique lick. Bending the G note at fret 15 on the top string.. playing the same string straight at fret 12 … then jumping across to fret 14 on the third string with a bend, a straight note and then on down to the G at fret 12. After that it’s into the chorus chords exactly as before. Then it’s back to the main riff for verse three. Then to the chorus with a stop after the Final A chord before playing out with the main riff played no less than 16 times before the fade. If you would like to understand more about the scales, chord voicings and riff patterns behind classic songs like this one, why not take advantage of the free trial membership we have on offer over at the Secret Guitar Teacher site? Visit secretguitarteacher.com