OPEN D: The most beautiful tuning for guitar! 

Great comment. Totally agree.

It's so beautiful it's hard to listen.

@@breal6718 start playing it extremely slowly. Use your foot to give you the rhythm and play everything in slow motion. Then when you get everything right and feel comfortable increase speed a little. And so on, until you reach a speed you think sounds good! Have fun practicing my dude!!!

@@gouldbergvariations Legend Nice response man Fully Appreciate Your Advice dude Already doing it and stuck at a rather slow speed cant speed up without slippin. Gonna take me ages to get this one. Love man 💙

@@breal6718 You will get it my dude! Just wait and see! One day you will wake up and your fingers will know what to do! Just keep on doing it slo mo with a metronome and your foot and play note by note. In the beginning just concentrate on the thumb! Then add everything else slowly slowly! One by one! Common you got this! ✨🎶🎶

oh, i feel so sorry( keep playing it, so your father can enjoy you playing this song from heaven

Beautiful tranquility light affliction. 😊

Great story

Plot twist: Time travel is discovered in a few years and you go back in time, leaving guitars in Open D, and become said mystery person.

I just tried this tuning, and I'm blown away! Suddenly it's so easy to play stuff exactly to my taste

this is a beautiful story ffs

@@khristopherkomodoensis4734paradox!

Oh my lanta,,,,THAT'S IT!!!

Paul David analogized with Bob Ross is so perfect. Instead of happy little trees we get spicy little chords.

scrolled down to write exactly this.. you were faster :)

No bad notes, just happy accidents

Hello perfect hypster

That's the magic of open D for you bro 👍

His dialogue doesnt even ruin it either. One of the best things about his content is how hes able to blend everything together so well. Normally dialogue like that would ruin it but not for this. I watch this on repeat cause its just that good….

@@bradsuhrbier3647 Totally agree

@@gman2380 I agree with you, it´s so lovely to hear that tuning

@@bradsuhrbier3647 Him talking kinda adds some emotional value to it. His voice is relaxing

Where can I find a version of this without him talking??

@@henry20o82 keep practicing and you can make it yourself!

@@henry20o82 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-n3TgPiVu4C4.html&ab_channel=PaulMooneyMusic the guy in the parent comment actually did a cover of sorts

@@khimaros lol damn

That's exactly where I was a while ago. Just playing my electrics forever after my acoustic got smashed. Then one day I FINALLY got a new acoustic and man... something about that

Hey, just wanted that Jesus loves you, and waits for you!

hope you have much progress in playing!

Hope everything is going well, Guitar is a wonderful hobby to learn!

i hope 8 months later your doing well ... A simple 1 finger barre chord over 1 fret does wonders in open D for begginers

jesus was a guitarist, not a carpenter.@@mishatsai5200

Couldn’t have summed him up any better.

Your wife has a delicious sense of humor

So true. "Now we'll add some happy little chords, remember, it's your song, your world!"

Getting tired of this Bob Ross thing, massively overused.

@@HiVizCamo Harrumph!

**Cries in one guitar**

Tell us you have a trust fund without telling us you have a trust fund.

Same I have four different guitars all four different tunings

I don't even play standard and just stick with the alternates. Right now I use open G minor 7 G-D-G-B-D-F

B flat in there whoops

Just bought a D18 myself with graduation money and a chunk of my savings 😅 absolutely beautiful guitar

Go for it

This sounds like a supervillain origin story, the only question is what you will call yourself. Heatseeker, Riff Raff, High Voltage, Soul Stripper or some other AC/DC themed name? I guess it depends on the nature of the misfortune that bestows powers on you, and what those powers are... in any case, good luck killing Spider Man! Don't let the bastards grind you down (for some reason I decided your new musical direction will be ska)

@@bubbafug00gle51 He'll be called War Machine

Good for you man! Make your own sound! A man and a acoustic can still a room. Nothing to hide and nowhere to hide.

yep cuz no one would wanna skip that

@@johnfran3218 your god does not exist

This wasn't a class, just advertising. Pure and simple.

I never understood how guitar teachers can talk and play at the same time like that.

@@peterkossits4794 practice, practice, practice , practice……..

It changes the game, for sure.

If you know theory then yes.

@@robertahli3738 I'd even argue that knowing the theory or not doesn't matter as whatever sounds good to you can probably be justified somehow though I'll concede that knowing the theory allows you to find your way around more easily.

@@yessirmiller5430 the thing is if you change tuning ..d chord for example isnt the d chord where it used to be...if you dont know what chords are anymore its kinda limited..dunk...if its sounds good for you what you play and dont matter for you then god speed..if the band mate changes tuning i dont know how to follow its disastrous.

@@robertahli3738 one point is not knowing what you're doing or any related theory to the tuning. Just making improvising, making shapes and listening.

....and that we're all STILL no closer to learn'n to play it ourselves 😖

I just came to this video after getting word my mother had a stroke yesterday. I lost my father a few years ago as well. Love to you Alex 🤙

I offer my condolences man.

Ik it’s been 3 weeks but I hope you’re doing ok man 🙏🏽

And coincidentally, the Notes read DADFAD

Please kindly accept my most Heartfelt Condolences

Free? He’s making it for the money RU-vid pays

@@gustavopaulette3496his whole 84 dollars

@@gustavopaulette3496 what has his earning to do with the fact that its free? We have free access to it and dont have to pay for it.

Were you watching at 4:48 when this video turns into a commercial for his course? Paul is a great dude, but he has a living to make and this isn’t about generosity. Even if it were, a free RU-vid video is the highest example of generosity you could find in a millennium of searching across planet earth? You should really get out of the house more often.

@@yasch3696 Because some people think that way, doesn't matter that Paul is doing it for free to us, they care how and what money he is making, which should be none of their business, instead of enjoying the beautiful free lessons.

אשכרה

I don't know if you've seen it but his video on Travis Picking is just like this one and puts me in a trance too

Jar of Flies

kinda like ASMR with the good audio quality :)

Badass profile pic my friend 🤘

I entered the green world❣️

Alternate tunings are... fun.. addictive.. and mess me up for standard tuning. But try DADGAD it is also a fun tuning

@@TedSchoenling CGCGCC and DGDGBD are fun which Alter Bridge uses often (careful with tuning the G string up any more though). Petteri Sariola has some cool applications of DADGAD and other open tunings too.

Bro, alternate tunings like Open D are easy to play and fun, also sounds beautiful, but like the other comments, there´s a lot of tunings, thanks to some music I discovered a variation of Drop D, DADGCE (instead of the conventional DADGBE) and it sounds pretty cool

I've been playing DGEDGD from high to low. Pretty sounding chords

If it makes you feel any better; a vast majority of Mumford & Son's old songs are in open D tuning.

You WON’T ever get to this level of playing if you tell yourself you won’t. If you have the passion, the rest will follow. You WILL get to this level if you want. It takes Lots of practice but if you have the passion, the word “practice “ even sounds funny. I thought I’d never get to this level but here I am. I still feel like I suck and doubt myself sometimes. It sounds Cliche but I’m telling you it’s the truth that if you truly believe in yourself you can do it. Don’t forget why you wanted to play in the first place. I started so I could just rock out and have fun because I just love making noise.

Amen brother. Andy, you can do it, don’t ever give up

You can do it Andy, we are all behind you

Don't say that man. You've gotta believe you can make it to this level of playing! Anything is possible as long as you put your mind to it.

You got it Andy. I’m also a beginner but I play everyday! It sure doesn’t come fast but don’t give up!

@Igor Szy I’ll let you guys know when I release it

@@tedanderson667 tactical comment here

Essentially the same thing happened to me as well

I wonder if he realised it yet or not

Share it please

So is 29 #Strafford APTS

is every song in D tuning depressing ?

@@mortifer8655 No, The Gardner by The Tallest Man on Earth sound rather blissful in my opinion

@@mortifer8655 since you are mentioning "D Tuning". Then it isn't. There's many kind of D tuning. Open D is generally soothing. Sometimes can be depressing. Standard D (Full step down) is the same with Standard E but lower pitch. And can be used for almost everything. Mostly it depends on the scale used in the song (not a strict rule as some Aeolian / Minor songs can sound happy). Tuning is just the media or a bridge for the musician themselves to interact with their instruments. There's many more tuning variations but my main point is the same.

Link?

Thanks

What the hell your mixing religion with the damn music?

Who pay you for this 😂

@@rashidbinzaiyed7149 begone satan with your bad vibes

Thanks man!

It probably is witchcraft if you are open to receive that spirit

focus on standard tuning first. get used to chord strumming.

@@GUITARTIME2024 *pulls out gun boom! Your dead next time me helpful

How is that witchcraft? It's a man playing the guitar from his soul..... Qiwiz man what's up??

It's on. Open D is where it's at.

D is historically the triumphant key. Probably scientifically too.

@@PaulDavids get Rhett on dial for a guitar duet/duel on open D/open G. That could be epic.

Lol

Open C is where its at, Just ask Devin Townsend :)

@@mischko1960 ty dude

@@mischko1960 thanks for this comment, pal!

Start with the picking pattern

Anybody here knows the notes and picking pattern?🙇

@@pruthvirajtemak3673 there was a guy who posted the tabs for them here cant find it no more

I think Going To California is in double drop D - standard tuning with both low and high e-strings tuned down to D. Beautiful song. Beautiful to listen to, more beautiful to play - imagine how beautiful it was to write!!

Well spotted sir. I was racking my brains trying to think of the Zeppelin track it reminded me of.

I thought in Going to California too

the delta blues was not built around open d tuning. lol yikes, talk about a bad hot take.

@@uncledeadhead3674 He said something that sounds fine on its own. Open E with a slide sounds about right to me

Couldn't agree with you more.

@@severinghams You have to give a shit about yourself first

@@severinghams Then you'll turn out fine mate

Makes me sad I can't write something like it yet, boom get done

This is really hard to reproduce with virtual instruments, and why acoustic will always have its place

Very nice indeed. In the beginning I thought he was going to play "going to Califonia" same picking technique. Love me some Zep, best rock band ever imo!

I see what your saying, I heard a violin when he started strumming.

Exactly😂❤

Fun fact,Leo Kottke has been playing and talking for the past 58 years.But on a very different level😊

and he does it all in a language that isn't his mother tongue!

Maybe that will work for me as well. Wrist pain is really fucking with me atm :(

This is so pretty. I am a newbie and have 2 acoustic guitars. I would love to tune one to open D after hearing this video. Now…how does one learn to play in open D? RU-vid, I guess?

@@TheBanana93 Be careful, if you have wrist pain you should take a break from playing for a week or so, dont rush it. Its much easier to prevent injuries then to fix it after, could take years .. Im talking from my experience.

@@_Nitrous_ Yeah man I gotta stop being stubborn I did take a whole month off and it kinda got better and then got bad again.. I gotta go to the doctor I don't want to not be able to play... :( just when I was getting into it

@@TheBanana93 keep me updated I hope the best for you.

Always nice to change the tunning. You end up discovering new sounds

Zo riemembur. Ei talkt about oezing te pik reit? Ei tink its tijm toe greb et.

@@kavi1844 jes

They hit the dislike button by mistake

hell yeah, want this on repeat for hours to just chill out.....

Tabs would help!

I second this. Paul, we need this as another one of your looping tracks! It’s just such a sweet melody, I can’t rest until I have it in my playlist.

Tuning a guitar

I listened to it on repeat maybe 30 times .. the melody was just too haunting. Paul is the best teacher on youTube aside from being a fantastic player and person !

That's exactly what I thought, gonna give it a try right now

Listen to “Vancouver” by Jeff Buckley

Sources say he's still tuning it

@@DasOmen02 xD actually I just forgot to write my experiences ^^ if you play a lot of 12-string, you get quick at tuning. Honestly, I think it sounds better on the regular 6-string guitar, because it has more oomph to the bass and more independence between low and high register. On the 12-string guitar it sounds full and beautiful and all, but the definition of the bass notes and the distinct contrast with the high notes are missing. Maybe if you remove the octave strings from the low E and A string... But I don't want to try that. So it sounds great on 12-string, but the richness and fullness of the sound take away the definition of the pattern.

@@rayhutto2063 I'm a huge Scottie fan

That’s actually the best time for your creativity, so many options are open because you just don’t care, but feel. Hard to play guitar with that sentiment ever again

reminded me of the scientist

That’s one of the better reasons to tune your guitar to an unfamiliar tuning; your fingers no longer "know where to go" so you have to play more by how the music feels again - you don’t know what shape a G chord is, or a C, D whatever. Great way to get inspiration. I often do it and come up with something I think sounds great so I think it must be something really different and unusual, then I work out what I was actually playing and it’s so simple I’d discard it out of hand if I’d done it in normal tuning. I guess it makes me listen with my ears more and less with my eyes - if that makes sense. From the heart rather than from the brain.

@@BlueGrenadeTom exactly why I don't seem to really pick up the entirety of music theory. Honestly, note intervals and their relationship to each other make it more like math instead of what it is supposed to be, music. Alternate (or alternative tuning) brings that guitar magic again. Remember the first time a favorite chord resonated through your body the first time you learned playing it? It's just like it.

@@peterquailman2460 Ha - yes. Just taking pleasure in the sound of a chord. I could play an Emadd9 all day (either 024000 or 022002 low to high). But you’re actually right - music theory is very mathematical and made no sense to me while I played guitar. I taught myself piano a few years ago and then all these chord names with numbers in them, and harmonic structure made so much more sense to me because on a keyboard it’s all just laid out in front of you. For example the Emadd9 I mentioned - I had no idea what it was. It was just a shape (like all chords on a guitar), I had no idea what add9 referred to, I think I picked it up,from a Radiohead song. But on a piano you just find the E note and count up 9 keys in the scale (with E being 1) and land on an F#, so I looked at the notes in my guitar shape and realised that they were the notes of an Em chord with an F# added. Literally “Em add 9”! And it all just went like that. But playing two different types of instrument - string and keys - added greatly to my creativity without need necessarily for music theory: I’d come up with something on one instrument that I liked, then take it over to the other and learn it and find a little easy change that sounded cool and take that back to the original instrument and it would be insanely difficult to achieve and/or would be something I would never have played on it in a thousand years. For example I was writing this song on my guitar that landed on an Em and just hung around on it for a couple of bars, but needed a bit of tension adding in the second bar before the change. I took it over to the piano and played it and Em is really easy to play - E G B - and in the second bar I just moved my last finger down from the white to the black (a B down to Bb as it happens) and it was sooo simple to do but sounded exactly right, just what I’d been hearing in my head. Great, I thought, I’ll just go back to my guitar and flatten all the Bs. So easy on a piano, *sooooo* difficult (for me) on a guitar - I ended up playing 012320 for some reason. I didn’t know it but it was an E diminished I was playing (not quite sure about the guitar though) and it was one of those chord names that struck fear into me as a guitarist, and whatever it was on the guitar I would never have played that in a million years! So yeah, if you find yourself drying up, alternate tunings or learn a different instrument - anything to take you out of your stale comfort zone and bring that fresh joy back.

Well said

@@zollyclaman yep

That makes no literal sense

@@docsavage8640 yeah, my guitars can't seem to do that... or maybe its me...

@@fredstevens799 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Sk1VxUmRvBg.html 😊 🎸

there's no thing as "gifted", by saying that he is, you're saying all his hard work was for nothing lmao

@@sliverbox271991 gifted and hard working are not mutually exclusive. I imagine Paul is very hard working. Unnecessary to argue here.

@@VintageRadius I work hard but still suck, hahaha, guess I am lacking in the gifted department.

You described it perfectly

Exactly what I was thinking! It sounds really similar to the music from the game

same!