American folk using hybrid picking technique (pick and fingers)

An open tuning is where the strings are intentionally tuned to achieve a chord with all the open strings played together. The open G tuning is also used with the bottleneck because it's easy to play these major chords with the slide technique.

It's time to get low! Come and join me for a Beginner's lesson on Drop D Tuning and some basics on how to play in Drop D!

Celtic style with open Dsus4 tuning.

Jerry shows you some of his favortie chords voicings for acoustic guitar. A fat and wide sound is achieved by using drop D and lots of open strings. Hop inside!

John Lee Hooker style Slide Bottleneck technique in Double Drop D tuning.

Tutorial intended for beginners who want to keep their guitar in tune and setup the intonations properly. 101 lesson with on screen text provides in-depth and intuitive explanations for developing good tuning skills.

This is the place for all you beginning guitarists to get started on your journey to great guitar playing. To start off with, we are going to learn a few open chords in the key of D major.

Absolute beginners lesson teaching parts of the guitar, notes and how to tune the guitar.