My brother, you got all the skills.. Thank you for sharing your amazingness. Peace to all who survey this message.

Thank you. I just tuned a guitar to open D last week and was looking for this.

Nice playing!

That little lick between 5:26 / 5:29 is so good. Thanks David

Oh, I am so looking forward to this workshop :-)

Signed up... can't wait!

Awesome lesson. Thanks!!❤

Succinct powerful lesson. Thanks 🙏

Thanks David! Looking forward to the workshop. Hoping to clean up my technique so that I can keep my squeaky high E string sound to a minimum.

Many thanks. I'm used to open G but I struggle with open D. Its the high D that I'm not used to. It sounds fantastic when used right but I keep hitting it at the wrong time. I can make great raw delta blues sounds in open G, especially with the slide. Open D has a different feel that I need to get used to. I tend to do more fingerpicking in open D. I would love to see some example songs in open D. I can do police dog blues, rambling on my mind, and a few others but would like to see some more classics in open D.

@FinnBjerke

4 ай бұрын

Open G is almost identical to open D. Same chord shapes just moved one string closer to your nose X00000 G root X21222 Am X55555 C 4th X77777 D 5th XX2000 Bm Open D tuning same shapes 000000 root 0200020 Bm 555555 777777 Open D minor Dsus is DADGAD is fun too. Riddle: DGDGCD what "religous" about that chord?....

@FinnBjerke

4 ай бұрын

Also try DADF#AC or DADF#AB TOTAL gamechangers but easy to learn once you know open tunings. D7 tuning and D6 tuning.

@rodjones117

4 ай бұрын

Yeah - same kind of experience to me. I can do Son House-type stuff in open G, but I really need to work on D.

Next dropped D Tuning ..do it on a 12 string

The fun very tense progression in Lennons "Isolation" is D Daug D6 D7 G D like this: 000000 010010 020020 030030 555555 000000 Try it in open D. Good fun lotsa tension. Same shapes in open G, just X00000 G X010001 Gaug X020002 G6 X030003 G7

Hey David great stuff again, much appreciated. Question. You grab the flatted third off the sixth string now and again and that confuses me a little bit because I always think you only do that for minor stuff... But these chords such we looked at here appear to be more major than minor.. Any words to clear up my thinking?

@FretboardConfidential

4 ай бұрын

To my way of thinking, what I'm playing here is still blues, even if it's a relatively bright kind of blues. So blues licks are still fair game, including that b3 in the bass (which I'm theoretically goosing towards the major 3rd with a bit of a bend, though not actually reaching it). If you think about it, we all play minor pentatonic over dominant-chord blues forms all the time and never think twice about it - all while doing that same sort of b3/3 move, or hammering on from b3 to 3, or doing all of that and including the major 6 from time to time. It's the major/minor contrast that makes it sound good, whether you're brightening up a minor blues with the major 6th (see: Charlie Christian) or darkening a more major-sounding progression with b3rds and b7ths.

@MacLindsayJr

3 ай бұрын

Thanks man, greatly appreciated!​@@FretboardConfidential

This lesson would instantly and effortlessly be much more valuable (especially for beginners like myself) if you had just said which strings and which frets you were holding down. Just saying "E7" isn't very useful for a beginner. So you, for no good reason, just excluded a lot of people who could really have gained something from your lesson. Just saying.

@FretboardConfidential

4 ай бұрын

Fair point. I almost always *do* call out the details like that, but every now and then, I think "Come on, Hamburger, get to the point; can't you say this in under ten minutes?" And then, inevitably, I manage to leave out something useful like exactly where I've got my fingers. Thanks for taking the time to post your feedback. For what it's worth: for the G/D chord (the IV chord), I've got my middle finger on the second fret of the 5th string and my index finger on the first fret of the 3rd string, with an option to put down ring finger on the second fret of the 2nd string. And for the A7 chord (the V chord) I've got my middle finger on the second fret of the 4th string and index on the first fret of the 3rd string, with an option to put the ring finger on the second fret of the 1st string.

@rodjones117

4 ай бұрын

@@FretboardConfidentialThat's great, thank you for your reply and explanation. I've been playing for some time in open G, and I'm starting out with open D, so this is very helpful. (Don't play standard tuning very much, I find it confusing).

@mikefullerton832

3 ай бұрын

I am also relatively new to Open D. And have almost no experience with guitars in standard tuning, but did play a baritone ukulele for awhile. I was wondering if you have tablature of a piece I’d pay for as I figure it would be fair that earn a living. In this lesson I figured our the chord shapes no problem, but was lost when you stated adding melody notes, bass runs, fills etc as this is, as yet, beyond my level. So a tab of a tune or improve I IV V with maybe a couple of verses with a variation or two would be a great help (assuming it would not be too expensive). Cheers from Ottawa, Canada. Mike F.