When learning these shapes, it’s helpful to visualise the open chord shape within each barre chord. You may also notice when playing the C, A, G and E shapes, that your fretting hand’s first ...

Open G tuning is an alternate tuning favored by Keith Richards and requires the guitar to be tuned to D-G-D-G-B-D. To retune into open G from standard tuning, drop the sixth, fifth and first ...

The result is a guitar that is effectively tuned to an open "G" chord—making it easy to play all the major chords as barre chords with just one finger (or, for those who prefer, a slide or ...