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Studio

Song · 1971

Can't You Hear Me Knocking

Artist
The Rolling Stones
Released
1971
Guitar
Keith Richards
  • Riff
  • Open tuning

What makes the part famous

The techniques to work on to play it, each in one sentence.

  • Riff

    A short, catchy figure repeated through the song: the part everyone recognizes first.

  • Open tuning

    The strings tuned away from standard, often to a chord: played open, they already ring together.

Can't You Hear Me Knocking chords

What the studio found on the isolated guitar of the recording: the key and the chords, with fingerings that flow from one to the next.

Key
D minor
Chords
C · G · Dm · F · Em

The progressions that come back

    1. C
    2. G

The chords and their fingerings

  • C
    C majorbVII · Dominant×321
  • G
    G majorIV · borrowed213
  • Dm
    D minori · Tonic5fr×1342
  • F
    F majorbIII · Tonic××132
  • Em
    E minorii · borrowed7fr×1342

Automatic analysis: it can get a chord wrong, and your ear has the last word.

Analyze your own recording

Record yourself playing it, or upload a version you have the right to use: the studio isolates the guitar and finds the chords, tempo, strumming and fingerings, with a fretboard video and a PDF.

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