@@farukleonaltinsoy9151 I think what you're saying is taste in music is subjective? If sound intentionally moves up and down in pitch to a regulated tempo, that is objectively music whether someone likes what's playing or not. Even what I do technically counts 🤣
Hi, Just found you. Instantly subscribed. Been playing for 60 years. Played rock, country and gospel. But I love blues. Your sound would make a baby curl it's toes and wrinkle it's nose. Thanks for helping us learn. I ran a guitar group at work. We had over 100 members. When I retired, one of the guys thanked me but asked why I would take time to "help us rookies". I told him I was just trying to give away what God had given me . Stay blessed! Shalom/gw (aka Graybear) ;-))
Rhett, I dunno if youre going to see this, but I gotta share my thoughts with you anyway. Your content blows me away. Im not just blowing smoke here and Im not just giving a general compliment. But the diversity of your videos is one of the biggest things that keeps me progressing as a player. Anytime I find myself in a rut, getting bored, or just feeling uninspired, I can literally open your video library and blindly click something....and it's relevant. Every. Single. Time. Your videos have helped me broaden my approach to the guitar, it has helped me embrace learning things that Im unfamiliar with, it has helped me bolster the curiosity I had in the instrument that I had when I first picked it up. So I guess I really just want to say thank you for not having a plan B. It has really helped me stay in love with the guitar.
Open G rocks, so does DADGAD! We need more DADGAD appreciation in the guitar world. I basically dropped standard tuning for that and open tunings. Open D is wonderful, too.
@@andreasfrom582 For sure. DADAAD mirrors other conceptual open-fifth tunings like ones that Robbie Basho has used before. Bb-F-Bb-F-Bb-F is a really fun tuning to play with, if you can find an acoustic that can handle that level of detuning!
Devin Townsend got me into open B and when I went back to standard tuning, my writing got less creative. Hopefully my next guitar, I'll be going back to open B.
@@felinekaiju4517 I'm currently learning a song in open B! Sam Wong Hotel by Sun Kil Moon (Mark Kozelek incidentally is the one who got me into DADGAD, too)
I love the opening sequence playing slide coming up over over the trees in Georgia. Gives me me that warm down-home feeling, like I should be playing this on a log cabin front porch. Makes me glad I live in East Tennessee. Thanks for showing us this, Rhett!
I use open G a lot when I’m in a “rut’ or just feeling a bit down. Feels & sounds great. Also learned a bunch of scales & chord variations in this tuning. Very fun for an old guitar player who’s feeling bored with “standard” tunings
I've been playing in standard tuning for 40 years. Today I tried open G, and you were right. I love it, and it's changed how I play already. Thank you!
DGDGBD is also a very popular folk tuning too. Listen to John Renbourn’s “English Dance”; that’s in open G, albeit with a capo on the 2nd fret. It’s a super versatile tuning!
This is a great tuning. Its amazing how many people really don't know or don't care about using it. It has such a full, rich, big sound... sonically pleasing to listen to. and fun to play! 'Dancing days' from Zeppelin is a great example of open G used in a hard rock fashion.Put this tuning in your guitar playing tool kit, cause it's too good not to take with you.
I’ve been a big fan of playing slack key guitar so I can play for my grandparents and I love open g for it. (It’s called taro patch tuning in slack key music) I’ve always loved the peaceful vocal type melodies that become very accessible from this tuning.
Thank you, so much for this, Rhett! For many years, I've suffered with arthritis in my left hand, which has taken me from an avid guitarist to a frustrated musician. This looks to be very "finger-friendly".
When I first started playing the guitar I was getting frustrated because of the usual new player frustrations. Fingers needing to get tougher, learning strumming patterns, and all of the basic stuff. I almost gave up and then I ran across a RU-vid video about open tuning. I decided to give open G a try. I was amazed at how much of a melody I could come up with by just experimenting up and down the fretboard by randomly barring frets. It was enough that it kept me interested in continuing my quest to learn. I got better at strumming patterns by doing this as well. That was about 3 years ago and 5 guitars so things have definitely started working for me, and I owe it to open tuning.
I am extremely interested in hearing more of your story of learning to play using Open G!!! Next week I will be starting my granddaughter on guitar and intend to use Open G. I'm going to take 3 strings off the guitar...leaving only strings 3, 4, and 5 (root, 5th, octave of root). If she is successful playing along "on the 1" (beat 1 of the measures) with "Tulsa Time" (just 2 chords) then I'll give her a 4th string (string 2) and we'll get into more songs with minors and additional fingers. Then, add the 1st string, then the 6th string. I have been looking for tutorials here on RU-vid that use this approach but your comment is the closest thing I've found yet.
@@retiredwonks I am responding not knowing your level of guitar expertise.. if you already know some of this please just disregard it.....What I did was tune the guitar to open G. Even though I kept the Low E string on the guitar I rarely strummed it. It was easier for me to bar the first 5 strings and not worry about the 6th string. Since I was trying to just learn strumming patterns thats what I focused on. I used my index finger and barred across the first 5 strings. I think in reality I was probably just getting 3 strings 75% of the time when I first started, but over time my fingers got stronger and I was covering all of them, even though I still just strummed the first 5. To me it just sounded better if I left the 6th string out. Then I checked what the sound was like at each fret when I barred that particular fret. For the most part they all sounded good, but I wanted to hear how it sounded if I combined a few in sequence. So occasionally I would take a break from practicing patterns and would just go from fret to fret barring it and strumming once on each one to see what it sounded like. Hearing how melodic that sounded kept me interested in continuing. As a side note I found if I tipped my hand so the side of my finger did the barring it seemed to work better. To help eliminate the pain, I cut the finger off a surgical glove and just covered my finger with that, when I was just doing the barring exercises. Depending on how small your granddaughter's fingers are may make it necessary to find something else. But honestly after a little while it wasn't necessary for me to do that. I found I was probably pressing too hard. Anyway, I found a youtube video that provided me information on different strumming patterns and then I started practicing the patterns like, down, down, up, down being one of them. There are many to learn as you may already be aware of. I didn't try to learn them all. I just worked on it until I was confident I could emulate a pattern if I heard it in a song. I also found that a thinner pick was more forgiving when strumming. The flexibility of a thinner pick really helped when I was just starting. I think I used a .46mm pick when I started and went up as I felt needed. Also lower guage strings will also help. They flex more and are easier to press down to the fretboard. For strings, if you have an electric guitar you can get 5 sets for something like $13.99 on Amazon. They are made by Donner. They are decent enough strings to learn on and very affordable. They sell them in single sets also but the 5 set box is a great deal. Usually as you probably know you can only get 3 sets for what they give 5 for. Once I got the strumming down I started working on learning Chords. They have videos out there that will teach two finger chords as well as the more complicated ones. I did a search on RU-vid for "songs with two finger chords and a whole bunch came up. So I started with 2 finger chords because it was easier for me. Once I got decent at those I started adding the more complicated chords using 3 and 4 fingers. I used a site from a guy called Eric Blackman who teaches these chords. He has a very calming voice and was very easy to follow. That being said, there are so many out there I'm sure you will find something that fits your needs. If you have any other questions I would be happy to answer them.
Put my Tele in open G about 7 years ago and it’s never left it. I’ve also discovered you can do some pretty fun Sonic Youth style stuff in open G as well.
Open G is also the primary tuning for Hawaiian slack key. When I was a young grom one of the local uncles took my guitar, tuned it all crazy, and showed me a bunch of slack key licks. It was awesome, but I didn’t know whether I could ever remember the tuning if I tuned it back to standard so I left it like that for a solid month. I just happened to find a glass medicine bottle in the dry creek (can’t beat real life stories) near my buddy’s house and out of curiosity I ran it up the neck and gave myself goosebumps. IT WAS THE LED ZEPPELIN SOUND! I hadn’t been able to figure out the chords and had no idea about open tuning. The keys of the kingdom were given to me that day.
What's crazy is that even AC/DC used this once which is probably the last band expected. Of their 2008 album Black ice, in the song Stormy May Day the rhythm guitar is in standard, while they have a track played by Angus that uses open G and a slide.
Really thank you for this video. Greatly appreciated. Just starting to play around with this open G tuning. For the life of me I don’t understand why I didn’t do it sooner. I love the old blues.
What a great lesson! I love Open G but have always struggled with how to play anything other than Stones songs. This really opens up so many possibilities. Beautiful tuning! Thanks Rhett!
Thanks for reminding me how useful and enjoyable such chords can be. A local kid and I played old timey music from Eastern Kentucky in various London (UK) pubs one summer and the Irish folks we befriended used such open tunings frequently and with considerable skill. I always thought the open tunings recreated the drone notes that come to mind when considering the folk music of the British Isles and related Appalachian variations. The pipes of the Irish and Scots, the dulcimer with its drone strings and the 5-string banjo's droning fifth string. Your presentation of this material, your enthusiasm and manner are most engaging. Thanks again and greetings from darkest Appalachia!
Back in the 1930s - 50s open G was often called Spanish. In the late 60s I was at a local college in the South one night recording intros for characters in a children's play the drama dept was putting on. I was using a different open tuning for each character. The janitor stopped and listened for a while and then asked if I was "in Spanish." I was surprised and realized he must be able to play, so I told him it wasn't Spanish, but I could tune it in Spanish if he would like to play. He could definitely play! I lent him my father's old Harmony Sovereign and I used my Gibson J50. We toured coffee houses in the South for 6 months and then one day he took off and I never saw him or my father's guitar again. But I learned more about guitar playing and blues in those 6 months than I did in the previous 10 years.
Open G was the first alternate tuning I played around with, even before messing with Drop D. Such a beautiful, rich sound. I think learning Zeppelin's "That's the Way" got me turned on to it.
I'm a lifelong John Lee Hooker fan, I tried for years to play as close as possible like him. I'd be the guy in the front row or sitting on the floor in front of John watching his hands as anytime I could. But only came away with a little bit of what he was doing? 1 it confirmed my adoration of JLH, but 2 it added to my frustration! When I discovered Open G tuning, BAM! There within lay all of John's chords!😊
Rhett as usual you continue to educate and inspire! Thank you for dumbing things down and providing simple explanations for us that simply play by ear. Grateful.
hey, I watched this when it first dropped and I wanted to come back and say I wrote one of my favorite songs of my own in this tuning after I learned this from you so thanks for the inspiration
I would be really interested in seeing a "Standard Tuning | Why EVERYONE Should know it" as if you started in some other tuning and went to standard tuning
Nice command of pitch, time, tone, vibrato, muting and groove. I am often shocked by how many slide guitar teachers out there who don't have even the basics nailed down. It's refreshing to hear you play. Good job!
Rhett, you are steadily becoming a solid guitarist and a great guitar teacher. Literally every time I view a new (or old) vlog of yours, I learn something new to improve my playing and listening abilities. I look forward to any new material from you. It's always interesting and educational. Your dad definitely got a great ROI when he gifted you that Gibson ES335! Thanks and keep on trucking!
You can find the open G tuning in classical guitar music in the late 19th, early 20th century. The composer Agustín Barrios used a lot. listen to the Choro de saudade. It is a good example.
This really made me wonder why I never got around to playing more in open g. I used to tune my high E string to D to play slide. So I was in open G on the first 4 - D, B, G, D (high to low). Finally I learned to play slide in standard tuning for convenience. I use open D, open E, double drop D, and DADGAD a lot. I never got back to open G. Until NOW! Thank you for this, Rhett. Can't wait to learn some fun stuff!
You graced my day with a wonderful smile. I will open the caste to an old friend my Dad played and enjoy open G with greater understanding of it's wonders. Thanks to you. Awesome Rhett! Sam
Open G is used in a lot of irish folk music, along with dadgad. Surprised to see no mention of it. Also... what the hell kinda guitar is that? Never seen a tremolo system like that til now. Looks perfect.
Rhett: 'so when you're finished tuning you should sound like this' *plays simple but incredibe lick* Me: *tries to imitate him* 'i guess mine must be broken'
Keep playing it. I saw another video on Travis Picking, and even the pro's needed TEN years before those thumb picks felt normal. So, give it some time. Here you gotta get used to the dropped tuning, there is a slide on one of your fingers. Maybe you got yourself a resonator guitar. Your brain has enough stuff to process, that is new. My enthusiastic advice: make many hours on that thing, don't give up early. Good licks will come, good luck!
@@voornaam3191 I had a friend years ago whose tutor taught him Travis picking right from the outset. Seeing him get fingerpicking so soon is what inspired me to persist at it when I took up guitar myself much later in life. It took just a weekend to learn the basics; one finger pattern bedded in so that it cycles with hardly a thought is all that's needed to begin with and it sounds so pleasing. After that I couldn't put the guitar down; since they won their independence my fingers and thumb seem to learn all by themselves now. To begin with I learned the basics of Freight Train and Dust in the Wind and just played them over and over whilst watching TV. Eventually the motion becomes second nature and each new pattern just a variation built on that foundation.
Wow! I am blown away by the slide playing, the sound of those guitars and what I learned from this video! Thanks, Rhett! BTW, does anyone know what T-style electric guitar was used in this video?
I started with open E and Open A. Open D and Open G are the same tunings a whole step lower. Some songs: Elmore James "Dust My Broom" is open E or open D. Allman Brothers "One Way Out" is open A (G). Johnny Winter "Mean Town Blues" Open A (G). Back when I was in my 20s I could sing in open E and open A. Now I prefer to sing a whole step lower in D and G. Keith Richards is supposed to have learned open G tuning from Ry Cooder during the recording sessions for the movie "Performance" (Memo From Turner etc.). He's used it ever since. Try this in open G: capo on the 4th fret = open B, now try to play the intro licks from "Tumblin' Dice". Falls right into place. Thanks for a great video Rhett.
When I wanted to start guitar, I wanted to just do some simple stuff, and discovered that with Open G I can play most songs as a series of barre chords. Then I started to explore, and “play all the chords”: but in Open G. Mostly self taught. It’s so flexible. Now I never play in standard tuning
Came to learn about the classic delta blues sound only to find that you can use open g tuning to create Plini-esque cool prog jazzy chord voicings too. Consider my mind thoroughly blown. Thank you!
Awesome Rhett! Cool, too, that you're from GA. I'm looking at the Les Paul Studio I bought at Atlanta Discount Music back in '95, when it was on Clairmont. I miss all the cool shops in the ATL back in the day, why didn't I pick up a silver face or black face amp, or one of the many Silvertone's I'd see for $75. The good 'ol days. Also, I went to the adjacent HS as the Crowes... original Crowe Mafia member here! Grew up in E. Cobb... just left Gwinnett/Mall of Ga area after 25 years, moved a few hours south to Bama. Been learning Open E for Duane, but have been playing Open G since 1990 thanks to Rich and Keith... Keep on Rockin'!
I haven't strayed from A440 in a long while now, and I completely forgot how damn fun alt tunings really are. MANY MANY THANKS Rhett for posting this video. I'm having a ton of fun playing with this tuning at the moment. Awesome indeed! I should say that I tuned one of my 335's to the open G and it sounds great.
I would like to see more video's on your Chanel on more alternate runnings, just like this. This is the best open g video tutorial iv seen so far.mthanks for sharing
Thanks Rhett. I found your chord theory really helpful - I need to learn that! ! I've been playing in open G recently as I love Sonny Landreth's playing - he uses it quite a bit. His harmonic effects using the heal of his right hand to slightly mute over the bridge while the slide is on the 12th fret and he frets behind the slide with his left hand opens up another whole world of experimentation.
Excellent video. I've been playing guitar for some time now and I have played around with open G before but this video really brought it all together for me. Thanks brother!
Rhett, this lesson on open G… FANTASTIC! This helps me to understand this beautiful tuning, and then to add the slide, Incredible feel! Just liked 👍 and subscribed!
Great lesson, best video yet, I always keep a guitar in open G with the 6th string removed just like Keith Richards did. This saves you having to work out what to do with the 6th string notes and really sets you free. Capo at the 4th fret turns you into Francis Rossi ( Status Quos, Down Down ) Brilliant tuning , Brilliant video.
Great video. Guitar player for 20+years and have used open g but definitely a good instruction on it that helped show me something I hadn't realized before.
Open D. Been doing it for several years exclusively. You can play anything from blues to classical. Multiple 1sts and 5ths make the alternate tunings go.
Thanks for posting this. Music to me ears. Open G has been my main tuning for over 20 years. I moved home and had to sell all my guitars, except one. Which happened to be in Open G at that time (inspired y John Fahey). Being busy with work and kids I just kept playing in that tuning and used it for everything. So much can be achieved. Also a quick twiddle on the B string and you can get minor or modal options. And pick up a standard 5 string banjo yer' on easy street!
@@MrChrisPalmer Thanks. Exceptional workmanship on that guitar. I've built 7 diff ones from scratch (not partscasters), and just looking at the frets tells me a ton about the quality of the builder.
A lot of this sounds like what Eric Johnson plays in standard! That, by the way, does not belittle either what you’re doing here or what Johnson does there. Just to say that the sounding like a piano in terms of spread intervals makes these kinds of voicings beautiful.
More slides and more open tuning videos. I've been obsessed with old school blues and slide for months now lol. Well years but finally am playing myself
Kings head pub in Buckhead, I think that was the pubs name. opened for the Crowes, slept on the pool table that night,lol, I`m getting old. Great video, Great work .Thanx Rhett !!
Dude… this was hands-down the most amazingly informative tutorial I have ever watched. You are a master of your art and a great communicator. Thank you for sharing! I’m picking up my guitar and tuning to open G right now.
Its Canned Heats Al Wilson that does me in every time. His tone, rhythm and all that ...but he puts the emotion in...his voice and harp playing are as good as his slide,you can tell he plays to sort his feelings out. he means it all. I love all Beefhearts slide players...Ry is amazing on his first album...safe as milk. I'm getting a cheap and cheerful Harley Benton resonator...it's on the way,got stuck in post Brexit customs with new fees due. Punished for wriggling free from tyranny! If it ever gets here my first song is gonna be The E.U's .killing democracy blues ! The brits need a new luthier industry...we've got a great range of resonanr native woods we hardly touch. Great video thanks!
