Alternate Tunings

Retune with confidence and play open G, DADGAD, open D, open E, open C and 18 more tunings on acoustic guitar, from one-finger chords to drones and harmonics.

What you will be able to play

• Retune from standard to open G, DADGAD, open D and open E string by string and back again.
• Slide one-finger bars and movable shapes over droning open strings in open G and the D tunings.
• Find familiar chords in a new tuning by moving standard-tuning shapes until they sound good.
• Play natural harmonics at the 12th, 7th and 5th frets and mix them into chord voicings.
• Play open-tuning blues: a one-finger minor blues in open G minor, finger-slide licks in open D and double-stop riffs in open E.
• Voice-lead smoothly through G, Am, C and D in DGCGCD tuning.
• Move one chord, riff or blues-scale shape to any string set in all fourths tuning.

Is it for you?

Acoustic players who know their basic open chords, can strum and pick single strings, and want new sounds without learning a whole new fretboard. The open G, open D, open E and low C lessons suit confident beginners; the DADGAD, modal and minor tunings are pitched at intermediate players who fingerpick or are happy to work shapes out by watching. Not for players who want full songs or note-for-note tab: the course teaches how tunings work and gives you shapes and ideas to build your own parts. Slide playing is not covered.

What you get

• 49 video lessons in teaching order
• Taught by David Taub, Ben Zinn, Dave Nassie, Jeffrey Paul Ross, Marty Schwartz
• Level: Beginner to intermediate
• Watch on the web or in the GuitarJamz app, on any device, with your progress kept
• Yours to keep: one payment, no subscription
• Backed by our money-back guarantee

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