How to play a song in the style of Ry Cooder

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.

Let's play chords using only two fingers. Thanks to the open strings, they will sound more complex than they are.

Typical 80's rock style riffing in combination with open strings and E blues scale.

When we refer to open chords, we usually thinks to the basic positions played by beginners on the first three frets, to start learning guitars. They are a mixture of fretted notes and open notes, that's way open chords. The same concept can be applied to any chords creatively, building beautiful sounding new shapes.

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 E major.

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.

E is a popular key and it uses the lowest E note available on a standard tuned guitar, and is a powerful Rock and Blues key standard.

Celtic style with open Dsus4 tuning.