The tuning is common in many styles including Hawaiian ‘slack key’ and bottleneck blues. Here are five chord shapes you need to learn in open G tuning. With its G-G-G-D-D arrangement of notes ...

Having introduced 5 chord shapes for DADGAD tuning, let's turn our attention ... The final step is to drop the G string down a semitone to F#. The open D tuning is great for blues and fingerstyle ...