Getting My Keith On

Being housebound on a rainy pre-hurricane Saturday has some advantages - one of which is time to play guitar. I recently finished Keith Richards' autobiography, which I liked a lot. He goes into a lot of detail about his guitar playing, and talk about open-G tuning, which I discovered last year (and wrote about on my other blog.)

I've simulated open-G tuning by just playing 3 string of the guitar, but today I decided to actually tune my Telecaster in open-G. It's so easy, and sounds so good, and I started playing Rolling Stones songs, and looking at YouTube lessons of Stones songs.

It's so easy it feels like cheating. I think I'm going to leave the Telecaster in open-G for a while.

Here's some of what I've been playing:

• Brown Sugar
• Can't You Hear Me Knocking
• Happy
• Tumbling Dice
• Honky Tonk Women