Muscle Shoals Open-G Weave — Suspended Riff & Taylor Replies
The rhythm is built around Richards' five-string open-G vocabulary, with suspended-fourth and sixth embellishments moving around compact chord inversions. Mick Taylor adds a second, standard-tuned guitar that darts around Richards' rhythm, but the precise Muscle Shoals guitars and amplifiers remain debated. Settings approximated from the documented tuning and two-guitar arrangement. Source: Guitar World's Rolling Stones riff feature, open-G guide and Stones guitarist history.
Signal Chain
Notes
Keep the low end lean and allow the open strings to ring through the chord changes. The two guitar parts should converse rather than play identical doubled chords.
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