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 ...

Here’s the way I like to do it: Take your open “little” E (1st string), match it to your electronic tuner, then (by ear) match it with the E at the 2nd fret of the 4th (D) string.

In 1856, the year the war ended, Worall composed a tune called “Sebastopol: A descriptive fantasy for the guitar,” a simple melody played in “open D” tuning.

Once you've filled your boots with DADGAD or double drop D, why not turn your attention to an open tuning that is very popular for clawhammer acoustic guitar, open Gsus4?

A favorite of Mumford & Sons, open D tunes your guitar to DADF#AD and makes a great platform for fingerstyle blues excursions ...