The acoustic guitar remains one of the most ... is our trusty open first string! Open tunings don’t necessarily have to mean open chords – this example uses all six strings with a barre ...

Open G tuning is an alternate tuning favored by Keith Richards and requires the guitar to be tuned to D ... The open strings form a G chord, but, where open D tuning has its root note in the ...

As with Open D tuning, barre major chords are readily available all the way up the fretboard ... and instantly rewarding. Ditch the slide, add a guitar capo and there are some interesting ...

These chords should give you a good start at figuring out how the tuning works. Simply tune your guitar as pictured above to start ... are possible and well worth exploring, it is ringing open shapes ...

Until now, the only option has been a rather irritating one: tuning up or down each string of the guitar into an open chord. Guitars are generally designed to be kept in one tuning, and raising ...