Open G Tuning Songs

It s a simpler tuning than open d and it s perfect for playing with a bottleneck or slide.

Open g tuning songs. Really like open g tuning especially wild horses and joni mitchell songs too. Keith richards guitar chords. Since open g is one of the more popular tunings and because i noticed open g tuning listed as one of the search terms that brought someone to my website i decided to do a blog post about songs that you can play in that tuning. Songs how to play living in a ghost town by rolling stones no capo 4 chords guitar lesson brown s ferry blues guitar lesson in the style of billy strings and doc watson.

Posted dec 15 2017 12 tabs. Open g tuning songs open g blues guitar tuning the video above opens with an old clip of me playing crossroads by robert johnson on an old johnny joyce model aria and at 1 22 i start to explore the open g guitar tuning from a beginner s point of view. It s pretty easy to get going just tune strings 6 5 and 1 down one tone. All eagles of death metal songs are in open g tuning doubling the g on the 6th and 5th strings g g d g b d.

It s also used a lot in slide guitar. Open g tuning helps add to the atmospheric quality of both songs. This is a sound keith uses on dozens of rolling stones songs. Open g tuning in the blues genre originator of the delta blues and perhaps the founding father of american blues robert johnson paid homage to his mentor son house in his slide laden version of walkin blues house recorded the song in 1930 and it may have been one.

Playing in open g tuning. Tune your guitar to d g d g b d 942. Tumbling dice ver 2 58. Eagles of death metal.

Songs in open g tuning. Once you ve tuned up you ll want to play the classic keith richards open g riff strike the bottom five strings of the guitar then hammer your second finger onto the second fret of the fourth string and your first finger on to the first fret of the second string. The answer is at the bottom of this page. Open g tuning was probably the first ever open tuning i learned suddenly all the rolling stones songs i d been playing before sounded right and it was very exciting.