This site includes info such as this: (adapted from E-mail contribution by Frank (Bassman) Laughton)

Want to get that authentic Rolling Stones guitar sound?

OK first step:- Grab your axe - (preferably a road-worn tele), drop the top E string to D, drop the A string to G and remove the bottom E string altogether.

This is essentially Open G tuning, first heard on a Stones recording on the bluesy Little Red Rooster released in 1964. It was played by Brian Jones (who is acknowledged as the first person to play slide guitar professionally in the UK).

Try this: Little Red Rooster

D| ----0----5----3----0--------------------12-----
B| ----0----5----3----0--------------------12-----
G| ----0----5----3----0--------------------------- 
D| ----0----5----3----0--------------------------- 
G| ----0----5----3----0--------------------------- 

Whilst working with the brilliant slide guitarist, Ry Cooder in 1969, Keith quickly saw the potential for using Open G tuning in a rock setting. For Keith it was a revelation: "I realised that when you electrify an Open G tuning, you have the advantage of all those drone notes that can hang through all the chord changes and really ring." He was immediately inspired to write two Stones classics - Gimme Shelter, and Honky Tonk Woman, the latter relying heavily on the underrated Mick Taylor, Brian Jones' replacement, and his inspired country-flavoured double-stop bends.

Brown Sugar, Store Me Up, Jumpin' Jack Flash, all undoubted Stones classics feature the churning "Bulldozer Chords" Open G tuning. Note: Keith removes the sixth string to avoid hitting the D (the fifth of the scale) in open G tuning.

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