Open g chords blues

The open G tuning is popular among guitar players who favor blues styles. It gives a slightly different sound than normal.

Open g tuning chords and scales

Open g tuning chords and scales

Open g tuning chords keith richards

Songs in open g

Open g chords

Open g guitar tuner

The many straightforward movable shapes make some chords very easy to memorize and it also gives chromatic possibilities.

To get the open G tuning on your guitar you tune it like this: DGDGBD. The strings that differ from the standard should be turned so the string tension is decreased and not the opposite.

Major chords (movable shapes)

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All you have to do is to lay your fingers over the strings and avoid playing on the lowest string (this will not be incorrect, but the chord will be inverted in the way the bass note will be the 5th instead of the root).

The shape is movable and if you move the finger two steps up the fretboard from D major you will get an E major. All common major chords in Open G with movable shapes:

G: X00000
A: X22222
B: X44444
C: X55555
D: X77777
E: X99999
F: X 10 10 10 10 10

Open chords