This is a cover of the Rolling Stones "Wild Horses" from the Sticky Fingers album, and is in Open G tuning. Keith Richards fell in love with Open G in the late 60s and most of the great Rolling Stones songs feature Keiths rhythm guitar in this tuning. You can play this song real nice in standard tuning, but the open tuning adds a droning, sympathetic sound of the open strings that give it a fuller sound. Keith got into this tuning by exploring other genres of music, and realized that Ry Cooder, Bo Diddley and the Everly Brothers, whom he listened to a lot, were using this tuning. Keith removed the low E string as it is not used and can get in the way. He plays with just 5 strings when hes playing an Open G tuned guitar such as his Tele. Just for fun that is what Ive done in this video. As a side note, Keith gave this song to his buddy Graham Parsons who included the song on the Flying Burrito Brothers "Burrito Deluxe" album and was actually the first to release this song to the public – even before the Stones! Check out my channel: www.youtube.com Thanks for watching!!

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25 thoughts on “Wild Horses – Rolling Stones acoustic cover in Open G”

  1. John Geary
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    Great rendition! I’m still trying to pick up on all the little riffs you got going on. Wish I could identify all the notes after the "I watched you suffer" bit. Thanks Man!

  4. thatch2018
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    Thank you, you made my day! – Merci, vous avez fait ma journée!  🙂

  8. thatch2018
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    Thank you for the kind comment. It’s always a blast learning a new song!!! Good luck!!

  9. luchococho1
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    You are my inspiration and I don’t even know how to play but starting today I will learn .
    You are the best. Thank you.
    Luis 55 Chevy

  10. SmileyMoTutorials
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    My pleasure. This is one of the few videos I’ve favorited, so it got shared with my subscribers. Keep up the amazing work! 🙂

  16. Alter Reality Productions
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    you made such a nice cover,,, awesome! full of feelings!

  18. RodrigoLara123321
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    Bravo ! very nice cover my friend

    Cheers from Brazil !

  21. thatch2018
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    Thank you very much!!! I appreciate the nice comment.  Have fun with the five remaining strings!!!!

  22. BorderRebels
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    Very nice! Bye-bye 6th string for a while, I think…

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