Song · 1981
Start Me Up
- Artist
- The Rolling Stones
- Released
- 1981
- 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.
Start Me Up 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
- F major
- Chords
- C · Bb · F
The progressions that come back
- C
- Bb
- F
- C
- F
- C
- C
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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