Open G tuning

sudancat · January 19th, 2006, 12:56 AM

Is this tuning mostly used with slide guitar and Dobros and how do you tune to open G? I know,I'm from the sticks!!!

cowboytwang · January 19th, 2006, 01:16 AM

There is a thread going on in Bad Dog Cafe that Heather Anne Peel started about Teles In Open G Tuning.

The best way to tune to open G is to turn those little shiny things on the end of the guitar neck.
Once you start turning those tuners you want them to go from low string to high string- D G D G B D. Another open G tuning (that used on Dobro's) is - G B D G B D.

I also like open "D"- D A D F# A D, or go up a hole step to "E"- E B E G# B E.
Sometimes I also use a "Dm" tuning- D A D A D F or D A D F A D.
Some folks like using D A D G A D, it's just standard tuning with the top and low E's droped to D's. You can do quite a bit with that tuning.

I have guitars laying around the house in all sort of open tunings.

I spent my first 20 years as a banjo picker and also non-pedal steel and Dobro, so I love using open chord tunings.
Open tunings not just for Slide and Dobro's anymore.

John Backlund · January 19th, 2006, 02:38 AM

I have seven guitars now, all are in open 'A' tunings (same as G, just a tad 'higher'....I think). I'm exclusively a 'picker', not slider (yet).

January 19th, 2006, 12:56 AM	#1 (permalink)
sudancat Tele-Holic Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: North Carolina Posts: 700 12 Photos	Open G tuning Is this tuning mostly used with slide guitar and Dobros and how do you tune to open G? I know,I'm from the sticks!!!

January 19th, 2006, 01:16 AM	#2 (permalink)
cowboytwang Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: mojave desert Posts: 1,583 14 Photos	There is a thread going on in Bad Dog Cafe that Heather Anne Peel started about Teles In Open G Tuning. The best way to tune to open G is to turn those little shiny things on the end of the guitar neck. Once you start turning those tuners you want them to go from low string to high string- D G D G B D. Another open G tuning (that used on Dobro's) is - G B D G B D. I also like open "D"- D A D F# A D, or go up a hole step to "E"- E B E G# B E. Sometimes I also use a "Dm" tuning- D A D A D F or D A D F A D. Some folks like using D A D G A D, it's just standard tuning with the top and low E's droped to D's. You can do quite a bit with that tuning. I have guitars laying around the house in all sort of open tunings. I spent my first 20 years as a banjo picker and also non-pedal steel and Dobro, so I love using open chord tunings. Open tunings not just for Slide and Dobro's anymore. __________________ Alvin http://www.myspace.com/alvinblaine http://www.oldbluesound.com/about.htm _________________________ Originality is just undetected Plagiarism!

January 19th, 2006, 02:38 AM	#3 (permalink)
John Backlund Tele-Holic Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: South Dakota Posts: 613 13 Photos	I have seven guitars now, all are in open 'A' tunings (same as G, just a tad 'higher'....I think). I'm exclusively a 'picker', not slider (yet).