Chords for Beast of Burden (Explained) - Rolling Stones

Hey y'all
_ _ _ You know on the list of stone songs that
_ People get confused about the tuning.
I think Beast of Burden is right up near the top this one and Midnight Rambler a few other ones _
This one a lot of people
_ _ declare is
In Open G, and you can play it in Open G.
It would sound like it's very similar to the way you do it in standard
[E] _ _ _ [C#m] _ [B] _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ [C#m] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C#] [B] You could play like that
[G] That's Open G
_ _ Now of course
at that period
[Em] and since
Keith wouldn't have the low E string on [G] it, so
It'd just be a five string _ _ _
Now it's [N] in the key of E
so one
sort of clue
To what tuning it is
Would be if it's in the key of E
Again he wouldn't have an E string, but if it's in the key of E
_ You could do an Open G tuning for a song that's in the key of E.
No [B] reason why you couldn't _
[G#m] _ _ _ [A] _ [N] but
It's not the logical thing to do
But setting all that aside
There's one
Giveaway from the very first note the first note of the song _
That tells you that it's it's actually standard tuning and not
Open G
This _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ one is [A] tuned to [E] standard _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ [D#] _ _
_ The key is [G#m] when you listen to that [E] very first [B] you hear this
_ _ The low B note is in that when he hammers on that B to E
[E] _ _ [B] _ You're playing this day if you listen to
The recording so you have to have
_ You have to have the low E string on there tuned to E to do that
So he would do thumb over the top again.
I think you could
_ _ _ _ Not a good way to hit it cleanly this is
_ [E] _ _ [B] _ [A] So [D#] that's the giveaway standard because you can't do it otherwise
So let's let's just walk through it how to play it
_ That the first thing is hammering on a B to an [E] E
_ _ _ And
Hitting a [N] string is muted
Hitting that low when he kind of whacks it because you can even see [B] him in the studio imagine it _
Pat to Keith arm swing and kind of whack it [E] so you hammer on the
[N] _ Your whack your ring finger down across DGB up there at 9 to [E] get an equal _ _ _
[C] _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _
_ _ _ [E] I was like C sharp minor _
_ [A] _ _ [B] [C#m] So that's _ _ up there be at [B] 11
_ TB at 9
_ _ [A] _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _
_ [A] _ _ _ Don't whack it [E] too enthusiastically like I did because you don't want to get _ _ _ _ _ _
Which is different from it _ _ _
So you hammer on
[A] _ _ _ [N] I
Hammer on the D.
Don't use the ear the a and this don't use the high E
So this is all on DGB very similar to what you might do with an open G
_ [C#m] chord suspension _ from 9 to 11
_ _ [A] _ _ _
9 11 on D and [D#] then one up 9 to 10
[A] _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] It's good for you keep motion [E] then you go back a million of these
[A] _
_ _ _ Am I hard enough?
That's the [E] spinning it on
_ _ _ [A] _ You can even hit the a string of that that's _ an a corner _ _
[E] _ _ Can you hit the low E on the second one _ _ _ _ low E [G#] string open [A] a at 11 [E] DGB at 9
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ D _
You suspended on it only goes and it only does one of them _
_ [E] for the first time then back [B] to the main record
[A] second time through it
[E] _ _ _ [B] _ _ Stay that so _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ [F#] that's it six minutes.
That's all you need to know about be super now you can
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _
[A] _ _ _ [N] Good good one to practice your
Major pentatonic fills on it and that's another clue to it being standard tuning because if you listen close, it's the classic
_ Probably one of the first maybe the first example really of the Keith and Ronnie
weaving in and out among
Who's playing lead and who's playing rhythm?
Because they both are but if you listen close Keith is doing the main riff and Ronnie's doing most of the fills and stuff
But Keith does fills all over the place with his rhythm part and he's doing those major pentatonic fills to again with
You'd want to be in standard tuning to do that to do those kind of
Fiddles that he does so
Hope this sort of ends the debate
beast of burden
standard tuning standard pitch key of E
[B] B
[C#m] C sharp [A] minor
_ [E] _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ [E] _ [B] _ _ _ [A] _
_ [E] Those would be the chords, you know, [N] if you were doing a campfire _