Open G Tuning for Beginners to Advanced | Acoustic Guitar Lesson
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0:00 Intro
1:20 Tuning to open G
3:40 A basic blues song you can play quickly
3:50 The chords I - IV - V
4:52 How to easily play any major chord in Open G
6:00 Creating the rhythm
7:34 The importance of smooth transitions
9:50 Motherless Child - Performance/Example
10:56 Using a slide in Open G
13:05 Walking Blues by Robert Johnson - Some tips on how to play
14:10 Walking Blues - Performance
15:46 Fingerpicking in Open G
16:44 Fandango - Performance
18:30 A couple of Rolling Stones songs played in Open G
21:00 Romeo & Juliet
22:30 Closing thoughts
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What a phenomenal lesson. Detailed, comprehensive, and a pleasure to watch. Truly a gifted instructor. Thanks 🙏
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
5 ай бұрын
Thanks for taking the time to comment. Glad you enjoyed the video. just in case you are interested i have a patreon page where i have lots of exclusive content. here is link www.patreon.com/joesguitarlessons
i'm glad I stuck w/ the vid all the way through to enjoy that nice 'R&J' cover... heading out to conquer...
Been thinking of open G tuning for a while now. You've convinced me to tune in. Thanks for the lesson. Nice and clear.
Great! Thank you VERY much. I am a songwriter from Uruguay and also a guitar teacher, so This gave me a lot of ideas to work with my students.
Joe, you've got me. This has really helped me get over into another space as an older guitar player. Everything you said makes sense to me. Thanks so much. Subscribed!!!
More great stuff here! Thanks again!
After playing 5 string banjo after all these years I just use open g on guitar play what I love on banjo such as Cripple Creek, Cumberland Gap, Oh Susanna, Skip to my Lou, Ida Red and many others. I playing without picks on my fingers because it has a nice more mellow tone and sound. I l know a lot of old banjo tunes on guitar in open g. I'm just gonna stick with that. Thanks this video really helped yours truly Ed Ljungdahl.
It's a lot of fun and a whole new learning experience using open chord tunings. If memory serves me correctly, my first song using Open G was "Little Red Rooster".
great stuff joe i love it that helped me a lot joe thanks
I love this lesson! Thank you so much!
The audio for your vocals and guitar sounds really good. Thanks for the ideas !
You’re a bloody gem Joe. Thankyou.
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Grahame, for taking the time to comment. Glad you enjoyed the video. just in case you are interested i have a patreon page where i have lots of exclusive content. here is link www.patreon.com/joesguitarlessons
Thanks so much. Great lessons, very clear and understandable.What I love about the guitar is that there is always something new and different to learn, and you have reminded me to keep exploring other styles, tunings, etc. I'm inspired to add some open G tunes to my repertoire.
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Carey for taking the time to comment. Glad you enjoyed the video. just in case you are interested i have a patreon page where i have lots of exclusive content. here is link www.patreon.com/joesguitarlessons
Thanks! i love the sound of Open G and your lessons. Most everyone just cover how to do the tuning, but I really like how you show how to play with the tuning. thanks again
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Chris
A great tutorial Joe, many thanks.
Thx much. Great teaching approach.
That was a great lesson Joe!
gona try it , thanks
Really helpful mate thanks!
Thanks so much for your great lessons. Your explanations and tips are greatly appreciated.
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
11 ай бұрын
Thank you 🙏
Very good introduction lesson. I’ve never heard of you before today. I’m very impressed & I definitely have skills to pick this stuff up. I subscribed & liked. Thank you!
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Mark, for taking the time to comment. Glad you enjoyed the video. just in case you are interested i have a patreon page where i have lots of exclusive content. here is link www.patreon.com/joesguitarlessons
Just trying this tuning out for the first time glad I found this video and your channel.
Great teacher.
You’re killing me
Your a great teacher and I am looking forward to seeing your videos every chance I can get I am 66 years old and I have been trying to learn how to tune my guitar For my beginner guitar I've got a Epiphone I think they have a great sound but I'm still learning how to play Thanks for sharing your videos with us all
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
Жыл бұрын
Thanks David, glad you are enjoying the lessons. Epiphone are great guitars. Good luck with your learning
Great video!! I’m from Brazil and just watched this video. English is not my language, bit i could understand you perfectly. You don't speak fast, so it helps a lot. The first time I “heard” about Open G was last year, reading the Keith Richards' biography, where he tells about it! That was amazing to learn! I have never heard about before. So i tuned my guitar and came to learn how to play some of the Rolling Stones songs. It was incredible to see how was different and easy. Now i'm here to learn more about it and learn other songs. Thanks for sharing your knowledge 👏🏻
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
2 ай бұрын
Thanks for taking the time to comment. Glad you enjoyed the video. just in case you are interested i have a patreon page where i have lots of exclusive content. here is link www.patreon.com/joesguitarlessons
Good lesson, thanks!
thank you so much .. I tuned to open G earlier this week and then came across your video. Totally inspired me to continue to practice my finger picking acoustic and electric for the Stones classics. Just subscribed .. really appreciate you sharing sir.
What an utterly brilliant video. Cheers Joe!
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Dan, for taking the time to comment. Glad you enjoyed the video. just in case you are interested i have a patreon page where i have lots of exclusive content. here is link www.patreon.com/joesguitarlessons
Great stuff!
Absolutely great! More than 30 years I tried to check out the secret of Romeo and Juliet. You´re so GREAT! Thank you! so much!
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Andrea for taking the time to comment. Glad you enjoyed the video. just in case you are interested i have a patreon page where i have lots of exclusive content. here is link www.patreon.com/joesguitarlessons
Well done , you are good teacher and the tunes are very kind to the beginner . Thank you for taking the time to share .
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
9 ай бұрын
My pleasure!
Very good. I've played guitar 60 of my 70 years and only played open tuning less then half a dozen times. Even then it was only experimental and went right back to standard tuning quickly.
Joe... Ive been playing guitar for 40 years just to entertain myself. Im not bad but always enjoy learning new stuff. Just ran across you today and really like the way you put the hay down where the aheep can eat! Good job! I look forward to checking out more of your videos. Your style is soothing and encouraging. Exactly what i like.
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Tony, for taking the time to comment. Glad you enjoyed the video. just in case you are interested i have a patreon page where i have lots of exclusive content. here is link www.patreon.com/joesguitarlessons
Nice job. Open tunings expand the vocabulary of the musician. Led Zeppelin III took me forever to learn, but it was worth the instructional value into open tunings.
Been playing for 40 yrs and always over thought how to play in open G, you opened a new world for me. Thank you!
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting Becca 🙏
@Tom_Emody
Жыл бұрын
I play blues with open g. Also some gospel and rock. I just make it up. I don’t know how to describe it. I’m musically illiterate. But I do have soul.
Absolutely brilliant lesson 👏
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Kevin, glad you enjoyed the lesson
Excellent lesson joe keep it going
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Liam 🙏
Fantastic lesson thank you
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
3 ай бұрын
Thanks for taking the time to comment. Glad you enjoyed the video. just in case you are interested i have a patreon page where i have lots of exclusive content. here is link www.patreon.com/joesguitarlessons
Great!
Love your lessons and your style of teaching…please send some more open tunings and slide blues songs this is great and exactly what I want to learn with blues playing 🎸🎶
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Jeff, for taking the time to comment. Glad you enjoyed the video. just in case you are interested i have a patreon page where i have lots of exclusive content. here is link www.patreon.com/joesguitarlessons
Great video Joe got me hooked thanks,,,hope you do many more
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
Жыл бұрын
Very welcome Woody 👍
Mate that was great. You have a new subscriber cant wait to learn more slide stuff
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
Жыл бұрын
Welcome aboard!
I'm a bass player but like banging on the guitar as well, I heard about the open chords a while back but it didn't spark my interest, until now. I can't believe all the enjoyment I was loosing out on, I will get right on that, Thanks.👏
I did enjoy that.
Thanks for an excellent introduction lesson to Open G. I found it very interesting and helpful…. I’m definitely going to be experimenting with Open G & D now…
Brilliant. Thanks.
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
3 ай бұрын
Thanks Matthew, for taking the time to comment. Glad you enjoyed the video. just in case you are interested i have a patreon page where i have lots of exclusive content. here is link www.patreon.com/joesguitarlessons
@matthewcritchley1214
3 ай бұрын
I will definitely check it out, thanks again.
Great lesson shows how to get that real blues feel .
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
Жыл бұрын
Hey thanks James 🙏
12:20 Great lesson, Joe. Thank you. 12:45
Just subscribed to your channel. Very good tutorial! 👍😃
Thanks Joe, I really needed a break from what I've been doing on the guitar with standard tuning!
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
3 ай бұрын
Welcome Ron thanks for posting
Thank you 🙏🏽
First time viewer from America. You have a great teaching skill. Easy to understand and I’m gonna try some of these ideas.
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
9 ай бұрын
Thanks Fred 👍
It's my 1st time watching your channel and this video. Im fairly new to guitar playing but I'm loving it and have calouses 😊😊. I'm going to love the versatility of styles (using a slide, etc) while in open G tuning. When you were barring the fret, I was a bit confused. I couldn't see if you also were playng/ holding down other string. If it was just barring; yay... super cool and easy. Thank you!!
Excellent video 👏
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for taking the time to comment Ambrose
Great stuff Joe. Keep up the great work!!
The Keith Richards tuning!
@TeddScheckler
10 ай бұрын
Who?
@PD-jj4fo
10 ай бұрын
I believe it was Gram Parsons who showed Keef
@patrickoneal3498
8 ай бұрын
Keith said it was one of the Everly brothers.
@seanogrady1762
8 ай бұрын
Blues guys in the 20s and 30s, who Keith loved, played in open g a lot
@jonbigg7385
2 ай бұрын
The Myles Kennedy tuning
Good show man.
Well now that is refreshing. I have been playing in open E and D but there is a subtle nuance in the open G that I really like. Thank you Sir for a new thing to try. Living in Nashville it is always good to have a different sound. Cheers. Gerry.
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Gerry, I'm hoping to come to Nashville later this year
Good stuff. 👏👏👏👍
Great Video
Great lessons Joe ...👍👍👌
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
7 ай бұрын
Thanks Paul
Well done nice touch
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Robert
Outstanding lesson I just happened to stumble upon while bouncing around Open G tuning pages. I've been looking at some slide guitar, this snippet really caught my eye. I did register at your Patreon page. Let's go !! 🙂
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
10 ай бұрын
Thanks for your support Sammie, that really helps 👍
good teaching. Open G tuning. I want to inderstand the chords up and down the fret board and play slide.
Thanks!
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
6 ай бұрын
Thank you so much
A Great Music Teacher/Person!
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Ter for taking the time to comment. Glad you enjoyed the video. just in case you are interested i have a patreon page where i have lots of exclusive content. here is link www.patreon.com/joesguitarlessons
wow joe this is a cool video you are a cool guy and your teaching style is also cool. thanks a lot
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Felix for taking the time to comment. Glad you enjoyed the video. just in case you are interested i have a patreon page where i have lots of exclusive content. here is link www.patreon.com/joesguitarlessons
Thank you Joe. There is no shortage of online guitar tutors plying their trade, but I really enjoyed your relaxed and encouraging style of instruction. Have a 🎉🎉🎉
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
Жыл бұрын
Thanks David, maybe you would consider subscribing to my channel if you haven’t already?
@baynesstreetblues
Жыл бұрын
@@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons I have Joe - thanks.
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
Жыл бұрын
🙏
Thank you very much. I just got a new guitar today. Finally found a chambered godin .
Hey Joe, great job on this video! I'm sure you could spend hours going through and teaching all the songs you know in open g tuning..keep up the great work, it's appreciated!
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
Жыл бұрын
Hey thanks Ken
@isaachunt7107
Жыл бұрын
"Hey Joe" lol... nice!
Thanks Joe, I've learned so much from your videos, you're a natural teacher. Will be practising on the open G tunings. If I'm playing with others can they stay in normal G C etc?
Your singing is really nice.
Klasse, herzlichen Dank für deinen schönen Content. Beste Grüße aus Deutschland 👋
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
10 ай бұрын
Thanks Andre,for taking the time to comment. Glad you enjoyed the video. just in case you are interested i have a patreon page where i have lots of exclusive content. here is link www.patreon.com/joesguitarlessons
Danke!
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
4 күн бұрын
Thanks Max, for taking the time to comment. Glad you enjoyed the video. just in case you are interested i have a patreon page where i have lots of exclusive content. here is link www.patreon.com/joesguitarlessons
Impressive!
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Carter for taking the time to comment. Glad you enjoyed the video. just in case you are interested i have a patreon page where i have lots of exclusive content. here is link www.patreon.com/joesguitarlessons
Enjoyed this…I have a short index, severely bent middle finger due to arthritis and so I play in Open G. I find this tuning great and manage to play in care centres 60s/70s stuff and sing…i think you can adapt most things to this tuning. Ely chord website is a great chord finder tool I use. Loved your video
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting John 🙏
I like you Joe. I am Tom. May all of your lifetimes be filled with music and playing of music.
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
Жыл бұрын
I like you 👍
Nice lesson, very nice voice, too
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Chris 🙏
Great video, thanks Joe !
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, Steve
Super
The strumming at 8 min, is the beginning of Squeeze Box by the Who..... I had no idea it could be played in Open G. Thanks
Thanks Joe, been playing now for 60 years, still learning new tricks, your videos are great.
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
4 ай бұрын
Thanks Graham for taking the time to comment. Glad you enjoyed the video. just in case you are interested i have a patreon page where i have lots of exclusive content. here is link www.patreon.com/joesguitarlessons
Thank you, that lesson was so good! I just ordered a 12 string and am anxious to attempt G tuning with it... I'm guessing it should sound pretty nice!
@danielschaeffer1294
Жыл бұрын
Once you get that guitar in your hand track down the “Armadillo” album by the great Leo Kottke. There are a number of things in his catalogue that are performed on 12- string in open G that are actually very easy but wonderful fun to play. “Watermelon,” “Machine Gun,” “Up Tempo,” “Easter in the Sargasso Sea,” etc.
@drespo-oe9hr
Жыл бұрын
@@danielschaeffer1294 Thank you Daniel. Yes, I had the wonderful opportunity to hear Leo in person when he performed at the State Theater in Easton, PA. He was truly amazing! Thanks for the tips on his Open G tunes I will certainly give them a look.
Hey Joe, another Great video, especially for the Open G tuning. I’m looking forward to learning the song you pointed out however, I couldn’t find Romeo and Juliet. Thank you sir, Mark
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
6 ай бұрын
Romeo & Juliet - Guitar lesson - Joe Murphy kzread.info/dash/bejne/da2Lk7VmdsnXe84.html
@markgriffis8304
6 ай бұрын
@@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons Awesome Joe!!! Thank You.
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
5 ай бұрын
Just in case your interested Mark I have a Patreon page with a ton of exclusive: www.patreon.com/joesguitarlessons
Thanks! 🙏😅 Was almost at the point of trading away my soul at the crossroads...
Another Stones one - Wild Horses. Cheers
Totally excellent - very informative and educational, thanks - good job !
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
4 ай бұрын
Thanks for taking the time to comment. Glad you enjoyed the video. just in case you are interested i have a patreon page where i have lots of exclusive content. here is link www.patreon.com/joesguitarlessons
Great video! I like your style. I'll be back!
What a great lesson!!!
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Marcelo I appreciate your feedback
@marcelovelasquez3953
Жыл бұрын
@@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons I am a faithful follower of yours from Bolivia. Thanks to you I learned many techniques, and I improved a lot in my way of playing the guitar.
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for following, I'm glad the lessons have helped you. Did you know I have a Patreon page where I have many exclusive lessons ? Here is a link www.patreon.com/joesguitarlessons it would be great to have you join us
6 months ago this was a foreign language to me. Things are making sense to me on guitar now. Some people don't learn the fretboard before they learn to play. I recommend drawing a fretboard on a good sized piece of paper that you can see while your practicing. you'll find every note on the board pretty quickly. use a power chord shape on say like all of the E notes up and down the neck. not all of them will sound good together mix it up and try rephrasing. once you can move around the E's, try the D'S. As you advance more, change to more of a bar chord shape, try different root notes(chords}. go from major to minor by lifting your 2 finger on and off the g string (3rd string in standard E tuning). Learn chord shapes also you can move them all around the fretboard. they sound awesome too! Good luck !😀
I have to admit for me being an advanced player, I almost turned this off...no offence meant, but then you did walking Blues your video made it all worth it !! Plus you did a great job singing it....Thanks Joe !
Your voice is very soothing. You would do good for voice-over work too.
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
4 ай бұрын
Thank you
I learned open G tuning through being a big black crowes fan,Even open E tuning which they use,
Great lesson Joe! Thank-you. Anyone know what kind of guitar he's playing?
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
Жыл бұрын
Hey Fred it's a 00028EC by Martin
Check this out. . 😊 I've been playing guitar 35 years. Mind you I started playing WAY before KZread existed. And I've only known about "open G" since I stumbled on a "how to play like Keith Richards" video a couple months ago. It blew me away and I've been kicking myself for not having already known about this.. anyway, I've been tooling around with this wonderful tuning and was at home noodling around on my SG and decided to grab my strat that I had tuned to open G and started playing... And my wife actually walked in the room because she thought I had someone else in there playing guitar. 😲 She said she'd never heard me playing anything like that and thought it was someone else playing a guitar. 🤣 😏 And I've just realized how old I've gotten.😕
I wish I'd found your channel 30 years ago 🤣
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
10 ай бұрын
Well at least you found me now 👍
Fandango is beautiful. Your song? Killer
@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons
9 ай бұрын
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Romeo and Juliet is great
Open g sounds great because of how the chords are stacked.I take off top string off