Chords for Ron Wood's Rhythm Guitar Riffs in Faces and Rolling Stones | Reverb Learn to Play

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_ _ _ _ _ _ Hey everybody, this is Jeff with Reverb.com, and today I'd like to talk a little bit about
the guitar playing of Mr.
Ron Wood.
Ron Wood of course faces Rolling Stones, has a bunch of great [G] solo records, _ _ [D] obviously a
name everybody knows in the music world.
Ron Wood is really a multifaceted musician, I mean he plays [G] lap steel, [D] acoustic instruments,
slide guitar, he's a great lead guitar player.
But in this video I wanted to focus on some things that I took from his playing from a rhythm aspect.
He's such an original rhythm player, _ [G] and I'm going to talk about some things he did specifically
with the faces, but rather than note for note, I'm more concerned with getting [B] the idea of
what he's doing and maybe you can get it into your own playing a little bit.
But one thing that he does would be like a typical Chuck Berry rhythm.
_ _ _ _ You _ _ _ _ know when Ron of course would play something like that, but he would add things, kind of
dissonant sounding things _ like_
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_ _ _ And of course you might recognize that if you're a Faces fan, if you go to the key of
D that's typical of the riff of Miss [G] Judy's Farm.
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_ _ _ [Bm] But I've kind of taken that concept and used it in other songs, especially when I'm playing
a driving rock and roll rhythm like that.
And if you look at what I'm doing, I moved it to B, I'm in the key of B, but you know
you've got your Chuck Berry style rhythm here, but I'm actually throwing in a little hammer
on here and getting these two middle notes _ on the 7th fret of the D and G string, which
adds a little bit to it.
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_ _ _ _ You can do so much from there to spice that up, I mean Ron would add little notes. _ _
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_ For example there I'm using my pinky to go from 10 to 11 back into the chord, but those
are things that are so definitively the Ron Woods style. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ Another thing about Ron's playing that I've worked into my own playing is the way that
he works single notes into his rhythm. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ What I'm doing there is I'm just kind of improv-ing licks, but because I'm in the key of B, I've
just got my [E] B minor pentatonic right [G] there, [D] and I'm playing a lot of little just broken _ _ _ _ _ _
there for example I'm just hammering 7, 9 on the D string to 7 on the G string, _ _ and
the same [Em] thing off [A] the A string.
_ _ [B] _ And then kind of descending picking [D] bends that he does. _ _
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within the scale. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [B] _ _ _ Sometimes I'll even use my thumb to grab the chord to free up my other fingers to do that. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [E] Now if we change the feel a little bit more instead of a straight beat, doing more like
a shuffle, for example like with the faces would be something like 3 button hand me down
or a song of that style.
One trick that Ron does is he's really good at stretching his fingers.
If he's playing a shuffle say off an E chord for example, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ he'll sneak his ring finger _ across
the major shape, kind of throw that in at times, _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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even [E] throw some licks in. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [E] _ _ _ [F] And also notice, if you notice how percussive he plays, I mean he's really up and down with
the pressure on the chord, and that's all feel.
That's just a great feel.
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[B] Another concept I've taken from Ron Wood is the way he breaks chords up and moves with
these cool half steps.
So again, if I stay on a B chord but maybe move it here.
You know, _ Ron must have long fingers because he does these amazing _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ stretch things that
you can do here.
But if I'm off more like a B here with my first finger, this allows me to do these kind of rhythms. _ _ _ _
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_ _ [Bm] _ [B] And there's that [C] half step that [D] you hear him do in a lot of [C#] his songs.
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_ _ And that works great too if you're playing, you know, perhaps you're playing with another
guitar player and he's down in this position. _ _
_ You can complement that by being up. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ So I'm basically playing off that B chord, I'm doing these little half step _ fourths [A] from
the 7 down to the 6, grabbing the two middle [D] strings.
[B] _ _ _ _ And again, more half steps, all about the half steps [G] with Ron.
I'm on the 5th fret to the 6th fret on the A string, single notes I'm throwing in back
to the chord.
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[C#] _ [D] _ [B] _ _ And I'm just improv-ing a rhythm here but trying to grab that, you know, that essence
of what Ron might do.
So those are a couple concepts that I've taken from Ron Wood's rhythm playing.
I incorporated them into my own playing.
Works great for, you know, rock and roll and blues, cool little tricks.
If you'd like to see some more future videos on Ron Wood, let us know.
Because, I mean, like I said earlier, Ron Wood is a great slide player, he's a great
lead player, multi-instrumentalist.
I mean, we haven't really even, we're just getting started with the rhythm aspect of it.
So I'd love to do more videos on Ron Wood if you guys are interested.
But until next time. _ _ _ _ _ _
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