Street Fighting Man - The Rolling Stones

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Learn how to play Street Fighting Man as performed by The Rolling Stones released as a single in 1968. Though the song sounds like it might have some electric guitar in it, all guitars (except bass) were in fact acoustic. Keith Richards had a bright idea to use a Philips EL3302 cassette recorder to record one of the acoustic tracks, over drive the recording to get a semi-electric sound to it.

In terms of the guitar tuning and chords, he used an Open D tuning, tuning 6th string down to D, 3rd string down F#, 2nd string down to A, 1st string down to D. This leaves you with an open D chord when you play all strings open. Watch the video to see the chord shapes.

Got a suggestion for a piece of a song to cover on an upcoming episode? Leave it in the comments, would love to hear ideas.

00:00 Demo of how Keith used his tape recorder on this song
01:14 Introduction/lesson summary
02:20 How the guitars were recorded
04:41 Open D Tuning
06:07 Chord Shapes
09:42 "hidden" guitar part
11:09 Wrap up/final thoughts