This is about Guitar Playing. What is open tuning on a 6 string guitar?

Answer 1

According to Matt "Guitar" Murphy, open tuning allows you to play an open E chord when the guitar is strummed without any notes fingered.

Answer 2

There are a lot of different open tunings on guitar. Most of them have the strings tuned to a chord, like open D would be (from fat to thinnest) D A D F# A D, open G would be D G D G B D and so on.

If you retune a string all the notes end up in different places, of course, so your chord fingerings would change too. There are websites you can find out more, just do a search for open tuning guitar.

Answer 3

Open tuning means you can play a nice-sounding chord without having to hold any strings down. In other words, you can play a tune right away. Lots of 12-bar songs are played in open tuning....like all the blues tunes.

The best one is open E. Play the E chord and try to memorise it or record it, then tune all the strings to the sounds you hear. I think you can buy a whistle that will help you.

Then off you go. Use the 5th and 7th dots up the fret-board to guide you ....and have a good time. You'll get loads of friends right off, impress a few people, and most of all, being able to play something straight away will encourage you to learn more.

HAVE FUN XXX

Sorry...I should have also said that you will need to put a bar across all the strings with the index finger of whichever hand you DON'T write with. ......on the 5th and 7th dots up the fret-board to make a12-bar song.
Good luck.

Answer 4

Open tuning is tuning the guitar so it is properly tuned not using fingering to do the actual tuning....the most common way to properly tune (open tune) a guitar is with an electronic tuner. If you don't own one here is a website that has one built in and you can use with your computer for free. Just scroll down a little and click on the string you want to tune.

Answer 5

Alternate tuning where you tune the guitar to make a chord without having to hold a chord shape.

See dropped D - you can play a chord with no fingers on the fret board - useful for harmonics and also for sliding chords.

Listen to Kyuss - guitar always tuned to a dropped C which is why they sound like no-one else.

Answer 6

It's simply not tuning the strings as is traditionally done. E, A, D, G, B, E is normal. Sometimes some people will re-set one or two of the strings to different notes to make a sing easier to play (usually for picking, not strumming). Some professional artists do this, (Fleetwood Mac did occasionally, for example) but most do not, or do so only occasionally.

Answer 7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_tuning