The Magic of Open G Tuning In 4 Simple Moves

Jeff man you have the best tone on You Tube. Love that sweet Gold Top as well. Makes me want to just plug in and have fun. Omg. Nice

Keith forgot how to do regular tuning

That Lydian thing you are doing doesnt sound right.

I decided to switch it up and try my hand at open G with Start Me Up then I saw this video, thanks so much, it's a lot of fun playing in this tuning!

I may have left this comment before, but for those of you who love the Stones and want a surreal experience, go to your local music store pick up a banjo and play your Keef chord hearts out.

5 String banjos are tuned to the same open G that Keith Richards uses.

You’re welcome…

The hat really puts it across! Nice playing mate!

I don't understand this. Why not just play the notes properly regardless of the tuning? Who cares where it's tuned? Play the notes. The end. Or am I missing something? Sorry, I'm a keyboardist. Isn't this just making things easier to play for certain songs? If so they should learn to play properly so the tuning doesn't make a bit of difference. I ask this because there are so many totally incompetent musicians in the pop world. They can't play even a simple scale with control and cover their lack of technical ability up by using special effects and turning up the volume til your ears melt. Jeff, I'm not putting you in this group of course. You sound like you have great control. I just wonder why the open G tuning even came about.

Thank a lot for uploading. Very well explained!

I believe Joe Walsh did the open g tuning for some songs he played slide guitar

It’s great for playing slide guitar

Raise the B string up 1/2 step and you have a GSus4. Page used a lot. Must be something about those Brit’s!

Dang, kind of took away the mystique and magic from Keiths playing

Slack-key players of Hawaii have been using that since 19th C.

Damn. I was hoping for some minor chord advice.

I’ve viewed numerous videos on guitar ‘open tunings’. This is a darn good one! Thank you!

Wow! thanks man. On holiday at the mo. Not near my instruments. So I have to keep myself sane with music tutorials. So thanks for the tips. When I get back home to Yorkshire I am on that. 57 still learning.

Just goes to show all the finger trickery in the world don't make a great riff and all the best tunes was sung 40-50 years ago and what was left ain't worth listening to.

Good stuff bro! Thank you. I’ve played for 50 years and I’m just now picking up slide. I dig your teaching style. 🤘🎼🎸

Thanks Jeff 👍

This was perfect! Finally, after watching your video, I had an aha moment. I love open G I’ve been practicing slides, but I just didn’t know what I was doing really. I was playing those chords you were playing with a slide no problem and I was discovering on my own some picking areas, but this really helps me see a different side of it when it comes to picking and strumming it open G. Thank you! Thank you.

don't forget, Keith also took off his high E string. Thats right 5 strings..no 1st string. keith played like that...what..you din't know that

So he makes the guitar into a 5 string banjo in open g

That last chord, the 'lydian thing ' , that clearly sounds like the Joe Satriani counter guitar from Flying In A Blue Dream ? Are me ears telling me right ?

It makes sense why after the mid 70s the Stones just got boring to me. It just all sounds the same all the time, hap hap happy chords.

THANKS, LEARNING MADE FUN.

thank you

Greg Lesson. Thanks👍👍👍👍

BTW Jeff, I got a message supposedly from you this morning on a 10 month old comment, where it claimed I had won a prize, and to contact you on telegram. Do you even use telegram?

Eric Clapton uses open G tuning for slide on his 335, which can explain how different his slide licks were from Duane Allman's on "Layla".

Best guitar instruction video in a long time.
Thank you!

Open G, the tuning that just goes on giving!

Thank Ry Cooder..... That's where the Stones got it from.

yes! can't you hear me knockin' IS one of the greatest rock and roll songs of all time!

Young people don't understand a world without information accessible about anything music. In the 60's and 70's most of us had no idea what open tunings meant. It was hard to try and sound like the Keith back then.

Thanks so much for this great explanation of open G tuning and its relation to all those great Stones tunes!

I think Keith got the inspiration from Ry Cooder, who worked with Stones (& Jagger solo, e.g. Memo from Turner). Cooder used All open tunings, to the point that when the album session was over, Keith reportedly gave Ry a hand written note that said,
"Hey Ry, here's a tuning I've found Really good....
E-A-D-G-B-E"
😊

Yep. Its a cracker of a tuning. Wasy to use and so creative when you spend the time on it. So many applications and styles come flying straight out of it.

It was Ry Cooder who showed Keith Richards the Open G Tuning. Honky Tonk Women guitar tune was actually a Ry Cooder guitar expirement on notes.

Anyone ever take a piece of tape and tape the low E(D) down onto the body around the 17th fret? You could tune it down a bit so you can pull it away from the G(A) string. For those of us who can't afford a 2nd axe like Keef. 😝💋

As a keyboard player I'm going out and getting a guitar. You just made it easy for me. Thanks

Wow! I had no idea!

Open tuning as easy as guitar hero...
it looks like🎸

Always worth having two (or more) guitars with both the tuning AND the change in string dia to complement the down tuning

Its where you go after the 5chord for movement I might figure out.

I am a bass player however I found this so interesting. Those are really rockin' chords! TYFP!

Hmmm, what guitar to buy for open G tuning? 🤔

There's something magical about a G-string

The magic is just (not equal) tuning, which is harmonically richer

Dang, thank you for that

I hear Zeppelin in the Lydian thing you did.