9 Awesome Alternate Tunings for Guitar | Spice up Your Playing With a New Guitar Tuning!
Alternate Tunings Are FUN!! Whether you play Acoustic or Electric guitar or Both! you will benefit from experimenting with Alternate tunings for guitar! Here are 9 awesome alternate tunings for Guitar! This lesson will also show you How to Figure Out different tunings for guitar without a Reference.
Open tunings work great for blues and slide guitar such as OPEN E used by players such as Duane Allman and derek trucks. Open G tuning by the likes of Keith Richards and open A tuning by the delta blues legend Robert Johnson.
Alternate Tunings for Acoustic Guitar such as DADGAD tuning (celtic tuning) work especially well for traditional celtic fingerstyle by players such as tony mcmanus but the alternate DADGAD tuning is also used on electric guitar to great effect on songs like kashmir.
And if you want to get Heavy then you need to know your way around Drop tunings such as Drop D - Drop - C & Drop B.
In this Alternate tunings for Guitar lesson I will show you how to figure out & Tune your guitar to all these Alternate - Open & Drop Tunings and many more
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 INTRO
0:17 Drop D Tuning
0:31 Drop D Song Examples
0:57 Drop C Tuning
1:25 Drop B Tuning
1:42 Double Drop Tuning Examples
1:52 How to tune to Double Drop D
2:11 Open Tunings Explained
2:16 Open G Examples
2:33 How to tune to Open G
3:00 Open G Tuning Playthrough
3:08 Open A Tuning Examples
3:22 How to tune to Open A
3:39 Open A Slide Guitar Example
4:03 Open D Tuning Examples
4:21 How to tune to Open D
4:40 Open E Examples
5:02 How to tune to Open E
5:15 Open E CAPO TRICK
5.32 DADGAD tuning
5:53 DADGAD examples
6:16 DADGAD Playthrough
6:30 Why you should try Alternate Tunings
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Thank you for all your videos
@Samjamguitar
Ай бұрын
Glad you like them!
Man this my 2nd video of your's I have had the pleasure of seeing and I am proud to say I am hooked I subscribed and I am giving up my others I have been following these last 2 videos are so James packed in info it's hard to belive that you can teach an idiot like me that fast and you have and that speaks volumes because I have Parkinsons and some times retaining knowledge is hard to do and the way you teach it all falls into piece for me. You certainly deserve a great big pat on the back , He'll for a feat that great I think You Tube should give you your golden and platinum plaque'sto go on your wall.
@Samjamguitar
Ай бұрын
That's absolutely fantastic!! I really appreciate the kind words and am glad that my videos are working for you!! Welcome to the channel!
Thanks Sam! I've wanted to utilize these different tunings for a while now because of boredom, and a desire to make my guitar playing more interesting. Not only are you a terrific teacher, but you play extremely well. All your work has paid off. I'll be looking for even more inspiration from you if that's alright. Your music friend, Billy
@Samjamguitar
Жыл бұрын
Hi William! Alternate Tunings are a great source of inspiration if you are finding yourself in a guitar rut! I would suggest DADGAD as a starting point. And yes feel free to browse through my other Lessons... I'm sure you will find plenty of material to get stuck into👍 if you have any questions feel free to drop a comment under any video and Thanks again!
You are so right about finding new inspiration by changing tunings!
for drop tunings how do u do scales especially on a 7 string, love ur vids btw, so helpful
Using these tunings is like forgetting everything you know to relearn it from scratch.
@Samjamguitar
Жыл бұрын
It's alot of fun though!
Nice one.
@Samjamguitar
2 жыл бұрын
Cheers! Glad you enjoyed it👌
@russelldesigner2682
2 жыл бұрын
@@Samjamguitar come over and you might help you
All 4ths and all 5ths are perfect to move chords all around..
@Samjamguitar
2 жыл бұрын
Very true! I believe Tom Quayle tunes in complete 4ths👍
@Amatteus
2 жыл бұрын
@@Samjamguitar Yes,. Tom Quayle and many others. in all 4ths.. The asymmetrical shape of having a major 3rd between the third and second string means you have to have 3 shapes for a single chord shape. It is useful for open chords, but not for any moving around all the closed chord shapes. The good thing about guitar at all 5fiths is that you can learn violin, viola, cello, banjo, and others at the same time.
@Samjamguitar
2 жыл бұрын
+Amatteus certainly worth experimenting with👌
@Amatteus
2 жыл бұрын
@@Samjamguitar By the way. I love your channel. Very good videos.. I like that you concentrate the video on the fretboard.. Many teachers explain guitars showing their face and body and you can not see what happens on the fretboard since the front camera position does not allow you to see exactly which fingers are pushing a string... "I do not need to see you, I need to see what your hand is doing on the fretboard" .sometimes left hand, right hand, or both...That is the important thing I need to see. . I keep telling them, but almost nobody seems to understand. Just look at how many guitar teachers keep showing themselves full body, the room, the studio, and other irrelevant things instead of showing the fretboard.. Amazing..
@Samjamguitar
2 жыл бұрын
+Amatteus thanks! it's something I have been trying to make a focal point of the channel. although I can understand the face and studio camera/teaching style as this also builds up a recognizable personality which helps with a channels brand👍 I try to mix both on screen animated diagrams and myself on-screen when necessary. Glad your enjoying the content and feel free to share it around! thanks once again!
Well explained.
@Samjamguitar
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Andy! Have you used many open tunings before?
@andydug
2 жыл бұрын
@@Samjamguitar No never, I am still back on earlier videos. But will in the future.
@Samjamguitar
2 жыл бұрын
+Andy Dug I would Recommend DADGAD to begin with👌
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