You make things so easy. I really appreciate you I’ve been playing for a year and four months and 58 years old you’ve made my guitar journey a lot better. Thank you
Now this is very good. I've book marked your tutorial and have gone back to it 4 times now to check fingering. I haven't played in nearly 20 years and am just now picking it back up.
Open D is such a lovely tune. I tried it out first by learning Both sides now by Joni Mitchell and then started playing around with the chords in it :)
Thanks ANDY. Been meaning to explore open turnings & backed off from dropped D & DADGAD - but this is completely eye-opening & inspirational. Thanks again!
As someone who, for the purpose of guitar, only has access to two fingers on my left hand as a result of a disability, open tunings look like a lot of fun.
Excellent Andy from one teacher to another Thanks for avery helpful Very articulate and Well explained introduction to The Wonders of Open Tunings .. Lovely stuff
Hi Andy, thanks for all your tutorials you are my favourite teacher!! I was wondering if you would do a lesson on playing Iron and Wines 'Naked as they came'. You've taught me how to finger pick and id love you to teach me this one!! Thanks Ria
Man I have watched a ton of your videos and learned a lot. You are a favorite. But What you just taught with those little improvisations up and down with the scale on each string made a HUGE light come on. That scale on the top(low) E string was one of he first things I learned but something new just clicked several pieces together about how all the scales work. Thanks brother!
The scale notes on the two A strings do not include the 11th fret. The correct scale note is the 10th. Also, the scale notes on the 3rd string are 1 3 5 7 8 10 12.
Hi, Andy. You can play minor chords in open D on the top 4 strings, second fret, second fret, first fret, second. But I find them a bit thin. Especially the closer you get to the sound hole. Are there other ways to play minor chords in this tuning, and make them sound fuller? Ideally without any thumb wrap on the low E string, because it's something I struggle with.
Can you do Dark Tower by Miniature Tigers, I cant find a tutorial anywhere and the tabs online are confusing, people please like this to help me out 👌😁
+Ilyas lamrani yes at some point, but for now Justin's tutorial os excellent and you should use that in the meantime. If it is still a struggle, work on the major scale in open position and position 1- that should get you warmed up for it! All the best
Hi Andy thank you for this video! If I may ask you a question. What would be the easiest generalist guitar tuning for someone who finds the physical part of guitar playing a tad difficult (for quasi-medical reasons). Am talking primarily about rhythm and chords of course. In your view, would it be Open D... or something else. Not sure know if an easy answer exists of course. Thanks again.
How's it been going for you? I know this is late, but I think Open D would be a good choice. Any Open chord tuning I guess, but what I like about Open D is that the root is on the lowest string. Even better could be a modal tuning, since minor chords require some amount of fingering in Open D. Like CGCGCC or DADGAD; simple barre chords work over any chord, except that you miss the musicality of the third.
@@seenonyt2210 Yes I still play, in my own clumsy way. Last 2-3 years not so much because of some personal problems but resuming now so, yeah, good timing. I think I will try the Open D from your suggestion esp. since like you said I will have the root note right on top. Will look up modal tunings as well. Thanks!
@@accentontheoff I'm glad to hear this. Nothing clumsy if you are having fun! I feel clumsy too compared to others. And yeah, those kind of problems can get at you. I'm also just starting out on Open D. Best wishes to you and happy playing!
Well, i went to my local guitar store to test it (didnt have it in the shop but had it on the website) and saw a cort guitar that looked great. I tried it and absolutely loved it, an employee came up to me and asked me to test another cort guitar (mrf710f) and it was even better. It costed 350 dollars but they had a sale and dropped it to 330, the employee then dropped it to 280 for me and i bought it. Absolutely lovely guitar!
They are actually interchangeable, in fact to save your strings, you can capo open D at fret 2 at use it as open E, you can do the same with open G and use it as open A.
@@simon8126 Thank you for the information, and I will try that on fret 2 and try playing slide guitar that is cool in Open tuning. Still learning in this complicated universe.
I always assume that most musicians, and most tunes, are played with the guitars tuned to "STANDARD tuning" (E,A,D,G,B,E), but, perhaps, this is seldom the case?!... IDK?!.... WTF?!....
Aashish Masih, just learn the major scale from every octave. The natural minor is quite similar. Or start with the pentatonic. Its the same scale shape in different spots whether major or minor.
