Chords for She's So Cold (Tuning Explanation) - Rolling Stones

[N] _ _ Hey all.
_ _ [Db] _
_ _ I'm going to do something a little bit [F] different with this video.
_ _ [G] _ I was [B] on a _ [Db] Stones discussion [F] board _ and [Cm] there was a big debate on [B] one of the threads about
[Ab] guitar [Gm] playing and [Eb] tunes [B] and stuff.
_ _ There was a big debate about She's So Cold and whether
it's [Db] _ [B] Open G [F] or [B] Standard. _ _
[E] _ _ [F] [G] And _ _ people [B] were saying, well it has to be Standard [Db] because of [B] this
or it has to be Open G because of this.
[G] Talking about what Keith [Bb] does [A] on the live [Bb] versions
[Ab] back in the 81, [Bb] 82.
[B] _ _
_ [D] But _ [Gm] _ _ [Eb] my _ opinion, and we'll walk through why, but my opinion [Db] is that it's
both.
[Gm] _ _ _ _
There's one [Cm] Standard, there's one Open G, and I think there's [Bb] another Open G doing
the slide parts, which is [G] probably Ronnie.
_ Just judging from _ [B] the licks he does and stuff.
_ _ I think [G] the Standard [B] one, _ believe it or [Db] not, would be Keith.
Because _ [G] _
_ _ _ there's a couple of
Chuck Berry licks [B] in it that are very Keith [G] _ _ _
and not so much Ronnie.
But here's what we're
going to do.
[E] Just going to run through a little bit of it.
Play, this one's tuned to [G] Standard.
Play [B] a little bit of that and then tell you [Bb] why I'm [Gm] certain it's [Db] Standard.
And then [B] we'll
do the same with the Open G part.
So let's just play this for a second.
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [E]
[G] Alright, that's
just the Intro.
_ And already you can [Db] tell that's Standard for a couple of reasons.
One, because
[Gm] he's doing_
_ You can hear that.
_ _ [G] _
He's just doing [B] a G, you know, _ G5 really, just those
[Bb] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] strings.
Taking that off [E] and playing an Open E [Db] string.
Well, if you were tuned to Open
G, that wouldn't be an E note, [Gm] that would be [D] a D.
_ [B] _ So that's one, [Gm] and then [C] he goes to
the next one. _ _ _
_ [G] _ He does exactly the same thing, [Db]
just [B] moves everything up, down, a string,
[Bb] to do it in C.
[C] _ _ [Am] _ _
You can [Bb] hear the A note [C] when he does it.
[Am] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] He takes _ [Bb] that [Am] off.
_ _ [G] _ So again, if
that were an Open G, that would be [B] tuned down to G.
So you wouldn't [F] have an A note there
to go on and off.
And then he does the same thing when it finally gets through to the_
_ _ [Dm] _
_ Now that one, [Fm] technically, you could do an Open [Bb] G, because [B] that D string would be tuned
to D anyway, and [Bb] the G string would be tuned to G.
[E] But this is [Bb] very clearly a Standard
tuning.
[Gm] _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ [C] _ _ So [Eb] that's [Db] what I'm hearing on this one, and this is the one that [A] has _ a_
You
[B] know, those fills are done on this guitar, [Ab] _
[B] the Standard tuning.
[Eb] So now [Bb] let's switch to
[B] an Open [Ebm] G guitar.
_ [Db] _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ Alright, so now [Eb] we've got Open G on this one. _
[Dm] _ _ [Eb] And you can tell right
away, so if you were an Open G like [G] _ this_ _ _ _ _
[Eb] If you were [Gm] trying to do that_ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ So what are
you [Db] going to do?
That's your G [Gm] right there. _
[G] But if you do, [Gm] you'd have to [Ab] do_
_ [Cm] _ _
_ [G] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [C] _ But he's
not doing, because he's playing it as a fifth.
[Db] So there's two notes in there.
And doing it
like [Gm] this, _ _ [Cm] _
_ _ [C] _ [Db] you can't do it the same.
_ _ [D] But there's [Db] another reason [Bb] _ _ [B] why_
_ I know there's an Open
G guitar, so [Dm] let's just listen to it for a [C] second. _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Now [Eb] clearly, that's what he's doing [Bb] with this Open G guitar.
He's up here at the 12th fret,
and it's more typical [C] _ _
[B] Rolling Stones Open G shapes.
[G] _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ That's [D] clearly what he's doing on there.
You can hear [G] that high _ _ _ note [C] _
on this.
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[D] So it's just
an [G] octave G chord.
It's the same as an octave up from the open string. _ _ _
That [C] chord is the
same. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Db] So definitely too, the _ [G] _ [C] slide part [Gm] also sounds to me _ [Db] like_
Not done [Gm] the [G] same, it's
an overdub obviously.
[Eb] But I'm pretty [G] sure that's also _ Open G, because he does some licks
[Eb] down to the open [G] strings on it.
So hopefully that_
I was going to say it furthers the
debate, but hopefully it ends the [B] debate once and for all.
This is the studio [Gm] one.
On stage,
I haven't even [B] listened to [A] the live [Ab] versions of it, because [G] _ _ [F] _ [Db] frankly I don't like [B] the live
versions of it.
But _ [Db] on the studio one, [C] definitely one of [Bb] each, one part of each.
I'm [B] guessing
Keith and Standard.
_ _ [D] I don't know who would do [G] this. _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] I don't know about [B] that.
Maybe Keith
did both of them.
But _ [Dbm] certainly a mix of Standard and