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Topic: Open tunings

I was thinking of tuning one of my guitars to an open tuning to mess around with it.  Does anyone know of any good books or on-line lessons for using open tunings?

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Re: Open tunings

DGDGBD and sound like the Rolling Stones

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Re: Open tunings

Butch8844 wrote:

DGDGBD and sound like the Rolling Stones

+1   I like Taropatch tuning also (open G)   

Here's an old Tahitian slack key piece that I really enjoyed playing.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4VE66NiCGE   His tab is on Acoustic Guitar Magazines site from the Feb '08 issue. If you're interested, I'll send you the password to unlock it in their archives as it also has a few exorcises/breakdowns that help with it....

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Re: Open tunings

Maybe this will get you started. Check out Marty Shwartz open D tuning. http://video.search.yahoo.com/search/vi … amp;fr=sfp

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Re: Open tunings

Guitarpix!  that bug gif had me reaching toward the screen to squish it!

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I thought it was a gnat!

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Re: Open tunings

Zurf,
I know I sound like a broken record but visit www.justinguitar.com. He has some good information on alternate/open tunings. (This website would be my only guitar instruction website if I could only have one.)

Also, if you have time, read "Life" by Keith Richards, he talks about the origins of "his" method for Open G tuning - the five string version.
David

p.s. I piddled around (for a few minutes) with Open G. I failed. I'm not ready for this. My only albeit limited success is with tuning a half (or whole) step down.

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Re: Open tunings

Zurf,

Alan Horvath has graciously posted some printable chord charts for open tunings.  I have them on the wall in my "guitar lounge" and constantly refer to them.  Here's the link to his Open G chart

http://alanhorvath.com/Gchart.php

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hey pix,that thing you have by your name is "bugging people".

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Re: Open tunings

Open E is used in quite a few good songs.