@@DoubleBoi I think what you're saying is taste in music is subjective? If sound intentionally moves up and down in pitch to a regulated tempo, that is objectively music whether someone likes what's playing or not. Even what I do technically counts 🤣
Hi, Just found you. Instantly subscribed. Been playing for 60 years. Played rock, country and gospel. But I love blues. Your sound would make a baby curl it's toes and wrinkle it's nose. Thanks for helping us learn. I ran a guitar group at work. We had over 100 members. When I retired, one of the guys thanked me but asked why I would take time to "help us rookies". I told him I was just trying to give away what God had given me . Stay blessed! Shalom/gw (aka Graybear) ;-))
I use open G a lot when I’m in a “rut’ or just feeling a bit down. Feels & sounds great. Also learned a bunch of scales & chord variations in this tuning. Very fun for an old guitar player who’s feeling bored with “standard” tunings
I love the opening sequence playing slide coming up over over the trees in Georgia. Gives me me that warm down-home feeling, like I should be playing this on a log cabin front porch. Makes me glad I live in East Tennessee. Thanks for showing us this, Rhett!
Rhett, I dunno if youre going to see this, but I gotta share my thoughts with you anyway. Your content blows me away. Im not just blowing smoke here and Im not just giving a general compliment. But the diversity of your videos is one of the biggest things that keeps me progressing as a player. Anytime I find myself in a rut, getting bored, or just feeling uninspired, I can literally open your video library and blindly click something....and it's relevant. Every. Single. Time. Your videos have helped me broaden my approach to the guitar, it has helped me embrace learning things that Im unfamiliar with, it has helped me bolster the curiosity I had in the instrument that I had when I first picked it up. So I guess I really just want to say thank you for not having a plan B. It has really helped me stay in love with the guitar.
Open G is great; there is a whole school of guitar in Russia, 7 string open G (D G B D G B D) with a lot of classical repertoire, songs, folk tunes spanning 2 centuries.
The closely related D G D G B E is used occasionally used in the Classical Guitar repertoire, particularly in transcriptions of Spanish piano pieces. It's another beautiful tuning.
@@bernalm3067 Not sure if your comment was directed to me or not. If it was, I would recommend learning "La Maja De Goya" by Enrique Granados. Listen to Segovia to hear how this fantastic piece should be played.
I can remember the first time I discovered open G it opened up the whole world of blues songs. I was stunned, it seemed so easy. but it ain't that easy. That was over thirty years ago. Recently I spotted a lap steel in my local hock shop I bought it, brought it home and the first thing I did was put a set of flat wounds on it and tuned it to open G. Beautiful sound, great guitar.
DGDGBD is also a very popular folk tuning too. Listen to John Renbourn’s “English Dance”; that’s in open G, albeit with a capo on the 2nd fret. It’s a super versatile tuning!
Totally wonderful. Your slide blues in Open G is so relaxing to listen to. I could listen to this for hours. It makes me want to experiment with this tuning. Thanks for the video!
I've been messing around with open G for two decades and I can't believe how much new information and ideas I just got out that 17 minutes!! Well done, and thanks for that.
Open G rocks, so does DADGAD! We need more DADGAD appreciation in the guitar world. I basically dropped standard tuning for that and open tunings. Open D is wonderful, too.
@@andreasfrom582 For sure. DADAAD mirrors other conceptual open-fifth tunings like ones that Robbie Basho has used before. Bb-F-Bb-F-Bb-F is a really fun tuning to play with, if you can find an acoustic that can handle that level of detuning!
Devin Townsend got me into open B and when I went back to standard tuning, my writing got less creative. Hopefully my next guitar, I'll be going back to open B.
@@felinekaiju4517 I'm currently learning a song in open B! Sam Wong Hotel by Sun Kil Moon (Mark Kozelek incidentally is the one who got me into DADGAD, too)
I’ve been a big fan of playing slack key guitar so I can play for my grandparents and I love open g for it. (It’s called taro patch tuning in slack key music) I’ve always loved the peaceful vocal type melodies that become very accessible from this tuning.
I've been playing open G for 30 years, and this is the first video I've seen that really gets it. Absolutely beautiful, plus the Mules are so dammed cool!
Open G combined with detuning led me to one of my favorites: Open F (CFCFAC). One of the marvelous things about it is you can notate guitar music using the Alto clef and the C's nicely straddle the first ledger lines around the staff, with the C in the middle actually being "middle C" and sitting on the middle line. Lots of music can be written like this with very few ledger lines needed, and the ledger lines themselves--when present--almost show you directly where to "capo".
I literally just watched Greg Koch and he was tuned to open g so was looking for info on it when this popped up in notifications. I love this kind of lesson. Informative and simple.
I've been playing in standard tuning for 40 years. Today I tried open G, and you were right. I love it, and it's changed how I play already. Thank you!
This reminds me of when I was 16 or 17, it was the early 90's. Everyone I knew played something, we had all the guys coming from the 70's and 80's and all the new sounds coming from Seattle. I miss those days, everything was music! I really wish that there hadn't been a plan B. I still play every day, still try to teach and occasionally a kid will come along with magic. This is the kind of video that teaches how everything starts to come together and shows the progression. Great video! Great lesson! More please!!
The guy who taught me everything in the early years (not in person ... just by me obsessively listening to his albums) was Johnny Winter. He taught me major and minor pentatonics (long before there was internet, and long before I knew such terminology existed) but he also taught me slide. He used open E and open G, but I think the open G songs stand out for me (with the possible exception of Hwy 61 Revisited off Second Winter, which was clearly open E). Mean Town Blues off Johnny Winter And Live was my intro to slide. To this day, I think it is one of the best.
What a great lesson! I love Open G but have always struggled with how to play anything other than Stones songs. This really opens up so many possibilities. Beautiful tuning! Thanks Rhett!
Thank you, so much for this, Rhett! For many years, I've suffered with arthritis in my left hand, which has taken me from an avid guitarist to a frustrated musician. This looks to be very "finger-friendly".
Really thank you for this video. Greatly appreciated. Just starting to play around with this open G tuning. For the life of me I don’t understand why I didn’t do it sooner. I love the old blues.
This is a great tuning. Its amazing how many people really don't know or don't care about using it. It has such a full, rich, big sound... sonically pleasing to listen to. and fun to play! 'Dancing days' from Zeppelin is a great example of open G used in a hard rock fashion.Put this tuning in your guitar playing tool kit, cause it's too good not to take with you.
Which is odd, considering his previous band mate Brian Jones played in open tunings (see I Can’t Be Satisfied from 1965 where Jones plays in open G)... Keef’s revisionism does him no favours.
Thanks for reminding me how useful and enjoyable such chords can be. A local kid and I played old timey music from Eastern Kentucky in various London (UK) pubs one summer and the Irish folks we befriended used such open tunings frequently and with considerable skill. I always thought the open tunings recreated the drone notes that come to mind when considering the folk music of the British Isles and related Appalachian variations. The pipes of the Irish and Scots, the dulcimer with its drone strings and the 5-string banjo's droning fifth string. Your presentation of this material, your enthusiasm and manner are most engaging. Thanks again and greetings from darkest Appalachia!
Put my Tele in open G about 7 years ago and it’s never left it. I’ve also discovered you can do some pretty fun Sonic Youth style stuff in open G as well.
Rhett, you are steadily becoming a solid guitarist and a great guitar teacher. Literally every time I view a new (or old) vlog of yours, I learn something new to improve my playing and listening abilities. I look forward to any new material from you. It's always interesting and educational. Your dad definitely got a great ROI when he gifted you that Gibson ES335! Thanks and keep on trucking!
One of my favorite videos of yours and I’ve seen a lot of them. I learned Sting Me by the Crowes (Open G) and was poking around to find other songs. Thanks for the list and the instruction. I’m really enjoying “O.G.”!
When I first started playing the guitar I was getting frustrated because of the usual new player frustrations. Fingers needing to get tougher, learning strumming patterns, and all of the basic stuff. I almost gave up and then I ran across a UA-cam video about open tuning. I decided to give open G a try. I was amazed at how much of a melody I could come up with by just experimenting up and down the fretboard by randomly barring frets. It was enough that it kept me interested in continuing my quest to learn. I got better at strumming patterns by doing this as well. That was about 3 years ago and 5 guitars so things have definitely started working for me, and I owe it to open tuning.
I am extremely interested in hearing more of your story of learning to play using Open G!!! Next week I will be starting my granddaughter on guitar and intend to use Open G. I'm going to take 3 strings off the guitar...leaving only strings 3, 4, and 5 (root, 5th, octave of root). If she is successful playing along "on the 1" (beat 1 of the measures) with "Tulsa Time" (just 2 chords) then I'll give her a 4th string (string 2) and we'll get into more songs with minors and additional fingers. Then, add the 1st string, then the 6th string. I have been looking for tutorials here on UA-cam that use this approach but your comment is the closest thing I've found yet.
@@retiredwonk I am responding not knowing your level of guitar expertise.. if you already know some of this please just disregard it.....What I did was tune the guitar to open G. Even though I kept the Low E string on the guitar I rarely strummed it. It was easier for me to bar the first 5 strings and not worry about the 6th string. Since I was trying to just learn strumming patterns thats what I focused on. I used my index finger and barred across the first 5 strings. I think in reality I was probably just getting 3 strings 75% of the time when I first started, but over time my fingers got stronger and I was covering all of them, even though I still just strummed the first 5. To me it just sounded better if I left the 6th string out. Then I checked what the sound was like at each fret when I barred that particular fret. For the most part they all sounded good, but I wanted to hear how it sounded if I combined a few in sequence. So occasionally I would take a break from practicing patterns and would just go from fret to fret barring it and strumming once on each one to see what it sounded like. Hearing how melodic that sounded kept me interested in continuing. As a side note I found if I tipped my hand so the side of my finger did the barring it seemed to work better. To help eliminate the pain, I cut the finger off a surgical glove and just covered my finger with that, when I was just doing the barring exercises. Depending on how small your granddaughter's fingers are may make it necessary to find something else. But honestly after a little while it wasn't necessary for me to do that. I found I was probably pressing too hard. Anyway, I found a youtube video that provided me information on different strumming patterns and then I started practicing the patterns like, down, down, up, down being one of them. There are many to learn as you may already be aware of. I didn't try to learn them all. I just worked on it until I was confident I could emulate a pattern if I heard it in a song. I also found that a thinner pick was more forgiving when strumming. The flexibility of a thinner pick really helped when I was just starting. I think I used a .46mm pick when I started and went up as I felt needed. Also lower guage strings will also help. They flex more and are easier to press down to the fretboard. For strings, if you have an electric guitar you can get 5 sets for something like $13.99 on Amazon. They are made by Donner. They are decent enough strings to learn on and very affordable. They sell them in single sets also but the 5 set box is a great deal. Usually as you probably know you can only get 3 sets for what they give 5 for. Once I got the strumming down I started working on learning Chords. They have videos out there that will teach two finger chords as well as the more complicated ones. I did a search on UA-cam for "songs with two finger chords and a whole bunch came up. So I started with 2 finger chords because it was easier for me. Once I got decent at those I started adding the more complicated chords using 3 and 4 fingers. I used a site from a guy called Eric Blackman who teaches these chords. He has a very calming voice and was very easy to follow. That being said, there are so many out there I'm sure you will find something that fits your needs. If you have any other questions I would be happy to answer them.
Cannot fault this one, Rhett. Playing in open G for the first time was the first time my guitar sounded half-way decent in my hands. Got me into my first decent band too, at age 45!
Rhett as usual you continue to educate and inspire! Thank you for dumbing things down and providing simple explanations for us that simply play by ear. Grateful.
hey, I watched this when it first dropped and I wanted to come back and say I wrote one of my favorite songs of my own in this tuning after I learned this from you so thanks for the inspiration
Nice command of pitch, time, tone, vibrato, muting and groove. I am often shocked by how many slide guitar teachers out there who don't have even the basics nailed down. It's refreshing to hear you play. Good job!
Open G is, honestly, THE delta blues tuning. Robert Johnson, Son House, and Charley Patton played in it more than Open E. Then there are all those Keith Richards riffs driving those classic Stones songs, or the Faces and the Black Crowes copping those riffs and that tuning. Open G is also the doorway to playing blues slide guitar in standard by just playing the D, G, and B strings with a slide or a barre... Muddy Waters and Mick Taylor both played standard-tuning slide in G by doing this.
@@67goldtops Duane Allman? He sounds like Southern Rock and therefore strongly country influenced lol, if that's who you were referring to. Either way, the Allman brothers do not sound swampy at all
@@malaquiasalfaro81 Swampy? Who said anything about swampy? I responded to YOUR comment that Open E sounded like "country rock." Duane Allman made his living playing bottleneck in Open E. So Does Derek Trucks. Neither of those guys sound "country." And your Southern Rock. moniker for the Allman Bros is grossly incompetent. They hated that label despite spawning many bands who used it. The Allman Bros were a Progressive Blues band, as Greg always said. They had far more in common with Mingus than anything "southern." That you think "In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed" sounds "country" is just elite level comedy. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you've never experienced much of Duane's playing, let alone that of Mingus.
@@67goldtops well I would definitely agree that the Allman Brothers could be much better classified as progressive Blues. And yes I think I misread my previous comment and blurred it into yours (I’m at work haha) Still I would say still say the Allman Brothers doesn’t sound particularly bluesy, even with the Open E Tuning. This is similar to how Hard Rock like Led Zeppelin and Cream draw heavily from the Blues but the majority of their work pulls in such a different direction, it no longer resembles the 1950s Electric Blues and early 1960s soul on which they had originally based their sound. I still stand by the term country however, as the term itself is a gross oversimplification of rural American music. The earliest Country records that were not old-time music were literally called Hillbilly Blues, an apt description. So Country music by the late 20s and onward would continue to embrace the Blues and other popular black music like Swing in different quantities over the following decades. To my point, Country Music has built itself on embracing the Blues tradition, but often times without the same cultural experiences that Bluesmen faced, and it produced a similar sounding but distinct sound. Country Boogie vs Jump Blues, Honky-Tonk vs late 40s and 50s R&B etc…. So, because of the progressive nature of many of the hippie-psychedelic-age bands, their blues influenced music resembles the blues less and less, just like Country music. That is why I said Open E sounds more “country” because it IS based on Blues, but has more or less appropriated certain tunings, keys and motifs to the point that it is common for folks to hear a certain lick and think it is, “Country.” Hope I was able to explain more clearly, but yeah I agree a lot with what you said, just disagreeing to what degree I find many late 60s early 70s bands to be ‘bluesy.’
One of the great benefits of the internet and UA-cam is access to information like this. When I was a young guy I learnt guitar from books, I never even heard of open tunings until many years after I began to play. I still find it fascinating and very enjoyable, but what really brought it to my attention was reading about Keith Richard playing in open G and listening to all those great Stones songs in that tuning.
First thing I thought when I saw the video was "Keef Richards". Great stuff Rhett, and inspirational too. Hope to see you around in the Orange Room one of these days - MattyK
Open G is also the primary tuning for Hawaiian slack key. When I was a young grom one of the local uncles took my guitar, tuned it all crazy, and showed me a bunch of slack key licks. It was awesome, but I didn’t know whether I could ever remember the tuning if I tuned it back to standard so I left it like that for a solid month. I just happened to find a glass medicine bottle in the dry creek (can’t beat real life stories) near my buddy’s house and out of curiosity I ran it up the neck and gave myself goosebumps. IT WAS THE LED ZEPPELIN SOUND! I hadn’t been able to figure out the chords and had no idea about open tuning. The keys of the kingdom were given to me that day.
You graced my day with a wonderful smile. I will open the caste to an old friend my Dad played and enjoy open G with greater understanding of it's wonders. Thanks to you. Awesome Rhett! Sam
What's crazy is that even AC/DC used this once which is probably the last band expected. Of their 2008 album Black ice, in the song Stormy May Day the rhythm guitar is in standard, while they have a track played by Angus that uses open G and a slide.
I've been playing Metal(Blues/Country) with this tuning on fretless electric slide for about a decade. Bad table saw accident 20 years ago changed my life but this has kept me playing. I didn't know the extent of its pedigree! There are WAAAY more possibilities with this stuff than any of us musicians have come to understand, IMHO. I've discovered some absolutely otherwordly sounds with slide(s) alone. It doesn't just have to be about traditional blues anymore - It can go forward as well. Watching this I couldn't help but feel connected to the cycle of music throughout time, especially Metal (Sabbath). Some comments below talk about how common it is in folk tunes around the world... something else to explore. That's *some* magic little box you opened up there, Hellraiser! Haha!
Excellent video...I too love the atmosphere you created in the opening. If you haven't already done an Open D video then might I suggest that. I wasn't sure whether to learn Open G or Open D first...then I realized that interval-wise strings 1 thru 5 in Open G and strings 2 thru 6 in Open D are the same (just in a different key)...very transferable skill set!
Open G was the first alternate tuning I played around with, even before messing with Drop D. Such a beautiful, rich sound. I think learning Zeppelin's "That's the Way" got me turned on to it.
Awesome Rhett! Cool, too, that you're from GA. I'm looking at the Les Paul Studio I bought at Atlanta Discount Music back in '95, when it was on Clairmont. I miss all the cool shops in the ATL back in the day, why didn't I pick up a silver face or black face amp, or one of the many Silvertone's I'd see for $75. The good 'ol days. Also, I went to the adjacent HS as the Crowes... original Crowe Mafia member here! Grew up in E. Cobb... just left Gwinnett/Mall of Ga area after 25 years, moved a few hours south to Bama. Been learning Open E for Duane, but have been playing Open G since 1990 thanks to Rich and Keith... Keep on Rockin'!
Wow! I am blown away by the slide playing, the sound of those guitars and what I learned from this video! Thanks, Rhett! BTW, does anyone know what T-style electric guitar was used in this video?
I started with open E and Open A. Open D and Open G are the same tunings a whole step lower. Some songs: Elmore James "Dust My Broom" is open E or open D. Allman Brothers "One Way Out" is open A (G). Johnny Winter "Mean Town Blues" Open A (G). Back when I was in my 20s I could sing in open E and open A. Now I prefer to sing a whole step lower in D and G. Keith Richards is supposed to have learned open G tuning from Ry Cooder during the recording sessions for the movie "Performance" (Memo From Turner etc.). He's used it ever since. Try this in open G: capo on the 4th fret = open B, now try to play the intro licks from "Tumblin' Dice". Falls right into place. Thanks for a great video Rhett.
I live in Hawaii and I've always loved the Slack Key guitar playing. I've also seen Leo Kottke play twice live he loves open G tuning one of my favorite songs is "Easter". I took my 12-string Martin and put nine strings on it keeping single strings on the 3 Bass strings Guitar is tuned to open F#, I haven't been able to put the guitar down; for almost a year I've been playing everyday in open G. Now I have three of my guitars set up in open G tuning all the time.
I love this tunning. Not only because i'm a huge Zeppelin fan but also because it's commonly used in cigar box guitar and brazilian viola (aka viola caipira). do not confuse with the viola, sister of the violin. The brazilian "violeiros" call this tunning "rio abaixo" (down the river) and it's an alternative tunning to the more used open D (cebolão / big onion - cause it makes you cry. haha) It's also used in the banjo and the brazilian cavaquinho, so all this musicians can't be wrong, right? I suppose you can go back to the Iberic Peninsula to check ancient songs in this tunings in spanish and portuguese guitars and vihuelas.
Adorooooooo viola caipira !! E cavaquinho também 🙏🙌 I wish our two countries could mail things back-and-forth without problems and enormous cost 😢 I don’t know if the issue is with Correiros ou customs at the USA but, the struggle is real. I telephoned staff at Mercado Livre because I wanted to buy a zabumba, but the lady in brasil said “não podemos mandar pra fora do país.” I asked her why and she just said: “não se. Mas não podemos.” I love Brazilian music so so so much though 🇺🇸↔️🇧🇷
Excellent video. I've been playing guitar for some time now and I have played around with open G before but this video really brought it all together for me. Thanks brother!
CGCGCD (open csus2) is a personal favorite of mine when I'm in a rut. Sounds absolutely beautiful on a 12 string and massive on an overdriven electric.
In 1979 I attended a Doobies concert and tripped out for a song called, Clear as the Driven Snow. The fingering looked simple so I went home to try to play it. Years later, i found out it was in modal C. That opened the world of open tunings to me.
Thanks Rhett. I found your chord theory really helpful - I need to learn that! ! I've been playing in open G recently as I love Sonny Landreth's playing - he uses it quite a bit. His harmonic effects using the heal of his right hand to slightly mute over the bridge while the slide is on the 12th fret and he frets behind the slide with his left hand opens up another whole world of experimentation.
Great video all around but especially for those who might not be familiar with it and/or who are having a creative slump. I'm dying to know who made that Tele style guitar. Thing sounds frickin' phenomenal!
Started testning open g about 6 months ago and coming back to it all the time Started playing again after i did stopp playing in the end of the 80s Open g has got me to experiment and realy listening to what i play A hole new world is opening upp 😊😊
I have so many questions about that guitar! It's obviously a thinline telecaster (style?) But I could never completely see the headstock to see who makes it, and I've never seen a trimalo setup like that before! What is this beast!? Its sounds amazing! 🤩
Fantastic. I love the open G and the resonator slide. Can't help but grin during the intro at how you look so amazed the classic machine started. And just how many turns lock to lock does that thing have? Better put a power peg attachment on the boss...
Rhett, it is interesting that you brought up Open G tuning. I wanted to learn the Doobie Brothers Song - South City Midnight Lady and guess what?!?! It is easier played in Open G turning. Thank you for the video, it has been a great help.
Great lesson Rhett, thank you. I love Open G! Rich Robinson of the Black Crowes made a career of open G tuning. The stuff he does is more advanced than what Keith was able to do with it... By the way, what is that beautiful Tele style guitar you're playing? I can't find it in the description of your gear. I need one, bad! Thanks in advance...😎 Cheers!
This really made me wonder why I never got around to playing more in open g. I used to tune my high E string to D to play slide. So I was in open G on the first 4 - D, B, G, D (high to low). Finally I learned to play slide in standard tuning for convenience. I use open D, open E, double drop D, and DADGAD a lot. I never got back to open G. Until NOW! Thank you for this, Rhett. Can't wait to learn some fun stuff!
You can find the open G tuning in classical guitar music in the late 19th, early 20th century. The composer Agustín Barrios used a lot. listen to the Choro de saudade. It is a good example.
I haven't strayed from A440 in a long while now, and I completely forgot how damn fun alt tunings really are. MANY MANY THANKS Rhett for posting this video. I'm having a ton of fun playing with this tuning at the moment. Awesome indeed! I should say that I tuned one of my 335's to the open G and it sounds great.
Open G is used in a lot of irish folk music, along with dadgad. Surprised to see no mention of it. Also... what the hell kinda guitar is that? Never seen a tremolo system like that til now. Looks perfect.
Great video, very informative and taught me a few new shapes. Open G was the first tuning I was taught by a lovely American musician named Bob Devlin when he was in the UK fifty years ago. Now, it's common knowledge that Keef Richards whips the bottom E right off rather than tuning it down and I can understand that as it often seems like bit of an "orphan" even though there are 2 other Ds in the tuning. My friend Bob showed me that rather than dropping the E to a D, take it up to a G (easier with lighter strings of course) effectively giving you two Gs on the same octave. This gives a powerful bit of punch on the barre chords and makes for a very effective bass-drone when flat or finger-picking. I can honestly say that I've never missed that bottom D. Try it.
This is such a great review of Open G. It was always one of my favourite tunings for playing slide and I can't remember if I discovered myself or was told about it (back in the day when there was no internet and you had to take a bus to visit someone who knew something on guitar you didn't know yet and give them free cigarettes until they showed you how to play it 🤣)
Rhett: 'so when you're finished tuning you should sound like this' *plays simple but incredibe lick* Me: *tries to imitate him* 'i guess mine must be broken'
Keep playing it. I saw another video on Travis Picking, and even the pro's needed TEN years before those thumb picks felt normal. So, give it some time. Here you gotta get used to the dropped tuning, there is a slide on one of your fingers. Maybe you got yourself a resonator guitar. Your brain has enough stuff to process, that is new. My enthusiastic advice: make many hours on that thing, don't give up early. Good licks will come, good luck!
@@voornaam3191 I had a friend years ago whose tutor taught him Travis picking right from the outset. Seeing him get fingerpicking so soon is what inspired me to persist at it when I took up guitar myself much later in life. It took just a weekend to learn the basics; one finger pattern bedded in so that it cycles with hardly a thought is all that's needed to begin with and it sounds so pleasing. After that I couldn't put the guitar down; since they won their independence my fingers and thumb seem to learn all by themselves now. To begin with I learned the basics of Freight Train and Dust in the Wind and just played them over and over whilst watching TV. Eventually the motion becomes second nature and each new pattern just a variation built on that foundation.
Rhett, this lesson on open G… FANTASTIC! This helps me to understand this beautiful tuning, and then to add the slide, Incredible feel! Just liked 👍 and subscribed!
Came to learn about the classic delta blues sound only to find that you can use open g tuning to create Plini-esque cool prog jazzy chord voicings too. Consider my mind thoroughly blown. Thank you!
I would be really interested in seeing a "Standard Tuning | Why EVERYONE Should know it" as if you started in some other tuning and went to standard tuning
I learned of open g from a band called Remo Drive (Midwest emo band). Definitely the heaviest I’ve heard from that tuning other than Them Crooked Vultures on Elephants.
Great video. Guitar player for 20+years and have used open g but definitely a good instruction on it that helped show me something I hadn't realized before.
I came to alternate tunings via The Doobie Brothers as I'm crazy about their songs. I wish I could say I learned directly from the old delta bluesmen or even the Brits. But it was the Doobs for me. That being said, I love playing She Talks to Angels.
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When I feel like I'm in a rut, I tune my guitar. Opens up a whole new world and makes what I play sound very similar to music.
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All your sounds are music bro, music is subjective
When your in a rut, bust a nut.
This should be taught in school. Ruts are part of life. Musically, I agree %100 with change. Especially when you get stuck or hit a “rut”.
@@DoubleBoi I think what you're saying is taste in music is subjective? If sound intentionally moves up and down in pitch to a regulated tempo, that is objectively music whether someone likes what's playing or not. Even what I do technically counts 🤣
Hi, Just found you. Instantly subscribed. Been playing for 60 years. Played rock, country and gospel. But I love blues. Your sound would make a baby curl it's toes and wrinkle it's nose. Thanks for helping us learn. I ran a guitar group at work. We had over 100 members. When I retired, one of the guys thanked me but asked why I would take time to "help us rookies". I told him I was just trying to give away what God had given me . Stay blessed! Shalom/gw (aka Graybear) ;-))
I use open G a lot when I’m in a “rut’ or just feeling a bit down. Feels & sounds great. Also learned a bunch of scales & chord variations in this tuning. Very fun for an old guitar player who’s feeling bored with “standard” tunings
I love the opening sequence playing slide coming up over over the trees in Georgia. Gives me me that warm down-home feeling, like I should be playing this on a log cabin front porch. Makes me glad I live in East Tennessee. Thanks for showing us this, Rhett!
We have a half-set of open G tunes. Stones, Black Crowes, Pink Houses, etc. Always energizes the house.
Rhett, I dunno if youre going to see this, but I gotta share my thoughts with you anyway. Your content blows me away. Im not just blowing smoke here and Im not just giving a general compliment. But the diversity of your videos is one of the biggest things that keeps me progressing as a player. Anytime I find myself in a rut, getting bored, or just feeling uninspired, I can literally open your video library and blindly click something....and it's relevant. Every. Single. Time. Your videos have helped me broaden my approach to the guitar, it has helped me embrace learning things that Im unfamiliar with, it has helped me bolster the curiosity I had in the instrument that I had when I first picked it up. So I guess I really just want to say thank you for not having a plan B. It has really helped me stay in love with the guitar.
I saw it.
I saw it too, felt it even more
Open G is great; there is a whole school of guitar in Russia, 7 string open G (D G B D G B D) with a lot of classical repertoire, songs, folk tunes spanning 2 centuries.
Alexander Rosenbaum comes to mind.
The closely related D G D G B E is used occasionally used in the Classical Guitar repertoire, particularly in transcriptions of Spanish piano pieces. It's another beautiful tuning.
What songs or pieces would you recommend in this style?
What songs or pieces would you recommend in this style?
@@bernalm3067 Not sure if your comment was directed to me or not. If it was, I would recommend learning "La Maja De Goya" by Enrique Granados. Listen to Segovia to hear how this fantastic piece should be played.
I can remember the first time I discovered open G it opened up the whole world of blues songs. I was stunned, it seemed so easy. but it ain't that easy. That was over thirty years ago. Recently I spotted a lap steel in my local hock shop I bought it, brought it home and the first thing I did was put a set of flat wounds on it and tuned it to open G. Beautiful sound, great guitar.
DGDGBD is also a very popular folk tuning too. Listen to John Renbourn’s “English Dance”; that’s in open G, albeit with a capo on the 2nd fret. It’s a super versatile tuning!
Totally wonderful. Your slide blues in Open G is so relaxing to listen to. I could listen to this for hours. It makes me want to experiment with this tuning. Thanks for the video!
I've been messing around with open G for two decades and I can't believe how much new information and ideas I just got out that 17 minutes!! Well done, and thanks for that.
Open G rocks, so does DADGAD! We need more DADGAD appreciation in the guitar world. I basically dropped standard tuning for that and open tunings. Open D is wonderful, too.
A slight tweak is to make it DADAAD which works phenomenally with any drone instrument in D or A.
@@andreasfrom582 For sure. DADAAD mirrors other conceptual open-fifth tunings like ones that Robbie Basho has used before. Bb-F-Bb-F-Bb-F is a really fun tuning to play with, if you can find an acoustic that can handle that level of detuning!
Devin Townsend got me into open B and when I went back to standard tuning, my writing got less creative. Hopefully my next guitar, I'll be going back to open B.
Love DADGAD!
@@felinekaiju4517 I'm currently learning a song in open B! Sam Wong Hotel by Sun Kil Moon (Mark Kozelek incidentally is the one who got me into DADGAD, too)
I’ve been a big fan of playing slack key guitar so I can play for my grandparents and I love open g for it. (It’s called taro patch tuning in slack key music) I’ve always loved the peaceful vocal type melodies that become very accessible from this tuning.
I've been playing open G for 30 years, and this is the first video I've seen that really gets it. Absolutely beautiful, plus the Mules are so dammed cool!
My favorite use of the Open G tuning is by far IN MY TIME OF DYING. You nailed the tone and the nuances Rhett! Jimmy would approve. Rock on!
Open G combined with detuning led me to one of my favorites: Open F (CFCFAC). One of the marvelous things about it is you can notate guitar music using the Alto clef and the C's nicely straddle the first ledger lines around the staff, with the C in the middle actually being "middle C" and sitting on the middle line. Lots of music can be written like this with very few ledger lines needed, and the ledger lines themselves--when present--almost show you directly where to "capo".
Any violist can tell you...what is THE TRUTH? C IS ON THE MIDDLE LINE!
I literally just watched Greg Koch and he was tuned to open g so was looking for info on it when this popped up in notifications. I love this kind of lesson. Informative and simple.
I've been playing in standard tuning for 40 years. Today I tried open G, and you were right. I love it, and it's changed how I play already. Thank you!
There are always interesting and cool tunings to go about! Open G is definitely one to experiment with.
This reminds me of when I was 16 or 17, it was the early 90's. Everyone I knew played something, we had all the guys coming from the 70's and 80's and all the new sounds coming from Seattle. I miss those days, everything was music! I really wish that there hadn't been a plan B. I still play every day, still try to teach and occasionally a kid will come along with magic. This is the kind of video that teaches how everything starts to come together and shows the progression. Great video! Great lesson! More please!!
The guy who taught me everything in the early years (not in person ... just by me obsessively listening to his albums) was Johnny Winter. He taught me major and minor pentatonics (long before there was internet, and long before I knew such terminology existed) but he also taught me slide. He used open E and open G, but I think the open G songs stand out for me (with the possible exception of Hwy 61 Revisited off Second Winter, which was clearly open E). Mean Town Blues off Johnny Winter And Live was my intro to slide. To this day, I think it is one of the best.
I totally agree about Johnny Winter....and Edgar ain't half bad either :-)
Rhett’s channel found me like two or three weeks ago and I just binge watched every episode... now my screen time meter is through the roof!
What a great lesson! I love Open G but have always struggled with how to play anything other than Stones songs. This really opens up so many possibilities. Beautiful tuning! Thanks Rhett!
Check out John Fahey and Leo,Kottke. Both are acoustic but that may be a good way to,get out of a rut.
Loved that intro. It threaded a line from somewhere between "Amazing Grace" and "No Ecpectations" so beautifully.
Thank you, so much for this, Rhett! For many years, I've suffered with arthritis in my left hand, which has taken me from an avid guitarist to a frustrated musician. This looks to be very "finger-friendly".
Look at Keith
Really thank you for this video. Greatly appreciated. Just starting to play around with this open G tuning. For the life of me I don’t understand why I didn’t do it sooner. I love the old blues.
Love the Crowes mention. She Talks To Angels was the first open tuning song I learned when I decided to expand my horizons a bit. Lol
Me too lol
I play that one in open E.
This is a great tuning. Its amazing how many people really don't know or don't care about using it. It has such a full, rich, big sound... sonically pleasing to listen to. and fun to play! 'Dancing days' from Zeppelin is a great example of open G used in a hard rock fashion.Put this tuning in your guitar playing tool kit, cause it's too good not to take with you.
6:05 - Muddy waters - I can‘t be satisfied! Oooohyessss! 😍
Keith Richards learned about open G from Ry Cooder - the master of open G slide.
Muddy called it “Spanish tuning.” But he also played slide tuned to standard pitch. The man knew his business.
Which is odd, considering his previous band mate Brian Jones played in open tunings (see I Can’t Be Satisfied from 1965 where Jones plays in open G)... Keef’s revisionism does him no favours.
@@larrypower8659 Warren does it too, sez then he doesn't have to switch gtrs or re-tune.
It’s great
@@qbslim😂Yeah but Ry Cooder certainly called Keef out for “Stealing” it from him. Also called the Stones the “worst kind of people…” 😂
Venoo Thampy, from India. I am new to Open G. but your lesson has motivated me to try out the possibilities of this amazing open tuning.
Cemetery Gates by the Smiths is in open G and its so fucking fun to play with all the open chords
Ahhh... the great Johnny Marr, so so good
Thanks for reminding me how useful and enjoyable such chords can be. A local kid and I played old timey music from Eastern Kentucky in various London (UK) pubs one summer and the Irish folks we befriended used such open tunings frequently and with considerable skill. I always thought the open tunings recreated the drone notes that come to mind when considering the folk music of the British Isles and related Appalachian variations. The pipes of the Irish and Scots, the dulcimer with its drone strings and the 5-string banjo's droning fifth string. Your presentation of this material, your enthusiasm and manner are most engaging. Thanks again and greetings from darkest Appalachia!
Put my Tele in open G about 7 years ago and it’s never left it. I’ve also discovered you can do some pretty fun Sonic Youth style stuff in open G as well.
Rhett, you are steadily becoming a solid guitarist and a great guitar teacher. Literally every time I view a new (or old) vlog of yours, I learn something new to improve my playing and listening abilities. I look forward to any new material from you. It's always interesting and educational. Your dad definitely got a great ROI when he gifted you that Gibson ES335! Thanks and keep on trucking!
One of my favorite videos of yours and I’ve seen a lot of them. I learned Sting Me by the Crowes (Open G) and was poking around to find other songs. Thanks for the list and the instruction. I’m really enjoying “O.G.”!
This video got me to try slide for the first time and I’m having the time of my life learning the basic delta blues style. THANK YOU
When I first started playing the guitar I was getting frustrated because of the usual new player frustrations. Fingers needing to get tougher, learning strumming patterns, and all of the basic stuff. I almost gave up and then I ran across a UA-cam video about open tuning. I decided to give open G a try. I was amazed at how much of a melody I could come up with by just experimenting up and down the fretboard by randomly barring frets. It was enough that it kept me interested in continuing my quest to learn. I got better at strumming patterns by doing this as well. That was about 3 years ago and 5 guitars so things have definitely started working for me, and I owe it to open tuning.
I am extremely interested in hearing more of your story of learning to play using Open G!!! Next week I will be starting my granddaughter on guitar and intend to use Open G. I'm going to take 3 strings off the guitar...leaving only strings 3, 4, and 5 (root, 5th, octave of root). If she is successful playing along "on the 1" (beat 1 of the measures) with "Tulsa Time" (just 2 chords) then I'll give her a 4th string (string 2) and we'll get into more songs with minors and additional fingers. Then, add the 1st string, then the 6th string. I have been looking for tutorials here on UA-cam that use this approach but your comment is the closest thing I've found yet.
@@retiredwonk I am responding not knowing your level of guitar expertise.. if you already know some of this please just disregard it.....What I did was tune the guitar to open G. Even though I kept the Low E string on the guitar I rarely strummed it. It was easier for me to bar the first 5 strings and not worry about the 6th string. Since I was trying to just learn strumming patterns thats what I focused on. I used my index finger and barred across the first 5 strings. I think in reality I was probably just getting 3 strings 75% of the time when I first started, but over time my fingers got stronger and I was covering all of them, even though I still just strummed the first 5. To me it just sounded better if I left the 6th string out. Then I checked what the sound was like at each fret when I barred that particular fret. For the most part they all sounded good, but I wanted to hear how it sounded if I combined a few in sequence. So occasionally I would take a break from practicing patterns and would just go from fret to fret barring it and strumming once on each one to see what it sounded like. Hearing how melodic that sounded kept me interested in continuing. As a side note I found if I tipped my hand so the side of my finger did the barring it seemed to work better. To help eliminate the pain, I cut the finger off a surgical glove and just covered my finger with that, when I was just doing the barring exercises. Depending on how small your granddaughter's fingers are may make it necessary to find something else. But honestly after a little while it wasn't necessary for me to do that. I found I was probably pressing too hard. Anyway, I found a youtube video that provided me information on different strumming patterns and then I started practicing the patterns like, down, down, up, down being one of them. There are many to learn as you may already be aware of. I didn't try to learn them all. I just worked on it until I was confident I could emulate a pattern if I heard it in a song. I also found that a thinner pick was more forgiving when strumming. The flexibility of a thinner pick really helped when I was just starting. I think I used a .46mm pick when I started and went up as I felt needed. Also lower guage strings will also help. They flex more and are easier to press down to the fretboard. For strings, if you have an electric guitar you can get 5 sets for something like $13.99 on Amazon. They are made by Donner. They are decent enough strings to learn on and very affordable. They sell them in single sets also but the 5 set box is a great deal. Usually as you probably know you can only get 3 sets for what they give 5 for. Once I got the strumming down I started working on learning Chords. They have videos out there that will teach two finger chords as well as the more complicated ones. I did a search on UA-cam for "songs with two finger chords and a whole bunch came up. So I started with 2 finger chords because it was easier for me. Once I got decent at those I started adding the more complicated chords using 3 and 4 fingers. I used a site from a guy called Eric Blackman who teaches these chords. He has a very calming voice and was very easy to follow. That being said, there are so many out there I'm sure you will find something that fits your needs. If you have any other questions I would be happy to answer them.
Brett. One of your best episodes yet. These tunings can really help to break out of a writers rut. Thanks
I've been tuning at least one of my guitars to Open C ever since I heard Devin Townsend. Definitely opens up new ideas.
Indeed, just recorded a song on Open-C
Cannot fault this one, Rhett. Playing in open G for the first time was the first time my guitar sounded half-way decent in my hands. Got me into my first decent band too, at age 45!
Rhett as usual you continue to educate and inspire! Thank you for dumbing things down and providing simple explanations for us that simply play by ear. Grateful.
hey, I watched this when it first dropped and I wanted to come back and say I wrote one of my favorite songs of my own in this tuning after I learned this from you so thanks for the inspiration
“In my time of dying”
Gave me chills Rhett. Wicked mate.
Nice command of pitch, time, tone, vibrato, muting and groove. I am often shocked by how many slide guitar teachers out there who don't have even the basics nailed down. It's refreshing to hear you play. Good job!
Yep my favorite
I’ve been playing open G for the past 2 weeks and I am struggling to tune out of it. Loving it! So great for relaxing playing
Open G is, honestly, THE delta blues tuning. Robert Johnson, Son House, and Charley Patton played in it more than Open E. Then there are all those Keith Richards riffs driving those classic Stones songs, or the Faces and the Black Crowes copping those riffs and that tuning. Open G is also the doorway to playing blues slide guitar in standard by just playing the D, G, and B strings with a slide or a barre... Muddy Waters and Mick Taylor both played standard-tuning slide in G by doing this.
Yeah open E always sounded more like country rock to me, but Open G is crazy, it can sound bluegrass, country, swampy blues, and even metal
@@malaquiasalfaro81 Open E sounds country? I've never felt that way. Duane was all open E.
@@67goldtops Duane Allman? He sounds like Southern Rock and therefore strongly country influenced lol, if that's who you were referring to. Either way, the Allman brothers do not sound swampy at all
@@malaquiasalfaro81 Swampy? Who said anything about swampy? I responded to YOUR comment that Open E sounded like "country rock." Duane Allman made his living playing bottleneck in Open E. So Does Derek Trucks. Neither of those guys sound "country." And your Southern Rock. moniker for the Allman Bros is grossly incompetent. They hated that label despite spawning many bands who used it. The Allman Bros were a Progressive Blues band, as Greg always said. They had far more in common with Mingus than anything "southern." That you think "In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed" sounds "country" is just elite level comedy. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you've never experienced much of Duane's playing, let alone that of Mingus.
@@67goldtops well I would definitely agree that the Allman Brothers could be much better classified as progressive Blues. And yes I think I misread my previous comment and blurred it into yours (I’m at work haha)
Still I would say still say the Allman Brothers doesn’t sound particularly bluesy, even with the Open E Tuning. This is similar to how Hard Rock like Led Zeppelin and Cream draw heavily from the Blues but the majority of their work pulls in such a different direction, it no longer resembles the 1950s Electric Blues and early 1960s soul on which they had originally based their sound.
I still stand by the term country however, as the term itself is a gross oversimplification of rural American music. The earliest Country records that were not old-time music were literally called Hillbilly Blues, an apt description. So Country music by the late 20s and onward would continue to embrace the Blues and other popular black music like Swing in different quantities over the following decades. To my point, Country Music has built itself on embracing the Blues tradition, but often times without the same cultural experiences that Bluesmen faced, and it produced a similar sounding but distinct sound. Country Boogie vs Jump Blues, Honky-Tonk vs late 40s and 50s R&B etc….
So, because of the progressive nature of many of the hippie-psychedelic-age bands, their blues influenced music resembles the blues less and less, just like Country music.
That is why I said Open E sounds more “country” because it IS based on Blues, but has more or less appropriated certain tunings, keys and motifs to the point that it is common for folks to hear a certain lick and think it is, “Country.”
Hope I was able to explain more clearly, but yeah I agree a lot with what you said, just disagreeing to what degree I find many late 60s early 70s bands to be ‘bluesy.’
One of the great benefits of the internet and UA-cam is access to information like this. When I was a young guy I learnt guitar from books, I never even heard of open tunings until many years after I began to play. I still find it fascinating and very enjoyable, but what really brought it to my attention was reading about Keith Richard playing in open G and listening to all those great Stones songs in that tuning.
First thing I thought when I saw the video was "Keef Richards". Great stuff Rhett, and inspirational too. Hope to see you around in the Orange Room one of these days - MattyK
Open G is also the primary tuning for Hawaiian slack key. When I was a young grom one of the local uncles took my guitar, tuned it all crazy, and showed me a bunch of slack key licks. It was awesome, but I didn’t know whether I could ever remember the tuning if I tuned it back to standard so I left it like that for a solid month. I just happened to find a glass medicine bottle in the dry creek (can’t beat real life stories) near my buddy’s house and out of curiosity I ran it up the neck and gave myself goosebumps. IT WAS THE LED ZEPPELIN SOUND! I hadn’t been able to figure out the chords and had no idea about open tuning. The keys of the kingdom were given to me that day.
My friend's call it "Greg Tuning" and hate jamming with me.
😂
funny you should say dat . i believe Gregory's Come&Go Blues is in Open G; easy to play...Just noticed someone posted a version 7 yrs. ago in
DGDGAD.
If your name was Bob, would they think differently?
Wait why would they hate jamming with you for a tuning?
It’s clear this is one of your favourite tunings man, beautiful playing and great, clear instruction.
Hi Rhett: Great lesson, I filled out the newsletter request several times, but I can't find the G guide.
You must to check your Carry and filll un the buy guaps. Is free but info details must nedeed.
You graced my day with a wonderful smile. I will open the caste to an old friend my Dad played and enjoy open G with greater understanding of it's wonders. Thanks to you. Awesome Rhett! Sam
What's crazy is that even AC/DC used this once which is probably the last band expected.
Of their 2008 album Black ice, in the song Stormy May Day the rhythm guitar is in standard,
while they have a track played by Angus that uses open G and a slide.
I've been playing Metal(Blues/Country) with this tuning on fretless electric slide for about a decade.
Bad table saw accident 20 years ago changed my life but this has kept me playing. I didn't know the extent of its pedigree! There are WAAAY more possibilities with this stuff than any of us musicians have come to understand, IMHO. I've discovered some absolutely otherwordly sounds with slide(s) alone. It doesn't just have to be about traditional blues anymore - It can go forward as well.
Watching this I couldn't help but feel connected to the cycle of music throughout time, especially Metal (Sabbath). Some comments below talk about how common it is in folk tunes around the world... something else to explore.
That's *some* magic little box you opened up there, Hellraiser! Haha!
In open G.
Try tunning the 5th string
B down to A#
@@rev.jimjonesandthekool-aid4488 I'll try that. Thanks!
Slide is so cool...been trying for over 30 years...My favorite song in G is That's the Way, Led Zep...Took me forever to figure that one out...
Kevin Davis
... Me too. Just now getting the hang of it. Keep trying....
Excellent video...I too love the atmosphere you created in the opening.
If you haven't already done an Open D video then might I suggest that.
I wasn't sure whether to learn Open G or Open D first...then I realized that interval-wise strings 1 thru 5 in Open G and strings 2 thru 6 in Open D are the same (just in a different key)...very transferable skill set!
Open G was the first alternate tuning I played around with, even before messing with Drop D. Such a beautiful, rich sound. I think learning Zeppelin's "That's the Way" got me turned on to it.
technically it was in open F# ..
Awesome Rhett! Cool, too, that you're from GA. I'm looking at the Les Paul Studio I bought at Atlanta Discount Music back in '95, when it was on Clairmont. I miss all the cool shops in the ATL back in the day, why didn't I pick up a silver face or black face amp, or one of the many Silvertone's I'd see for $75. The good 'ol days. Also, I went to the adjacent HS as the Crowes... original Crowe Mafia member here! Grew up in E. Cobb... just left Gwinnett/Mall of Ga area after 25 years, moved a few hours south to Bama. Been learning Open E for Duane, but have been playing Open G since 1990 thanks to Rich and Keith... Keep on Rockin'!
Wow! I am blown away by the slide playing, the sound of those guitars and what I learned from this video! Thanks, Rhett! BTW, does anyone know what T-style electric guitar was used in this video?
I started with open E and Open A. Open D and Open G are the same tunings a whole step lower. Some songs: Elmore James "Dust My Broom" is open E or open D. Allman Brothers "One Way Out" is open A (G). Johnny Winter "Mean Town Blues" Open A (G). Back when I was in my 20s I could sing in open E and open A. Now I prefer to sing a whole step lower in D and G. Keith Richards is supposed to have learned open G tuning from Ry Cooder during the recording sessions for the movie "Performance" (Memo From Turner etc.). He's used it ever since. Try this in open G: capo on the 4th fret = open B, now try to play the intro licks from "Tumblin' Dice". Falls right into place. Thanks for a great video Rhett.
I’ve been working a ton in Open G lately. Open tunings in general. They’re basically song writing cheat codes
I live in Hawaii and I've always loved the Slack Key guitar playing. I've also seen Leo Kottke play twice live he loves open G tuning one of my favorite songs is "Easter".
I took my 12-string Martin and put nine strings on it keeping single strings on the 3 Bass strings Guitar is tuned to open F#, I haven't been able to put the guitar down; for almost a year I've been playing everyday in open G. Now I have three of my guitars set up in open G tuning all the time.
The late, great Lowell George and Bonnie Raitt use the open G tuning. It's kind of a country blues tuning that Robert Johnson used way back when.
I like watching your Pro Tools show recorded audio as you go, and seeing the cuts. It adds a natural feeling. Keep that up
I love this tunning. Not only because i'm a huge Zeppelin fan but also because it's commonly used in cigar box guitar and brazilian viola (aka viola caipira). do not confuse with the viola, sister of the violin. The brazilian "violeiros" call this tunning "rio abaixo" (down the river) and it's an alternative tunning to the more used open D (cebolão / big onion - cause it makes you cry. haha) It's also used in the banjo and the brazilian cavaquinho, so all this musicians can't be wrong, right? I suppose you can go back to the Iberic Peninsula to check ancient songs in this tunings in spanish and portuguese guitars and vihuelas.
Oia o cara ensinando cultura estrangeira. Rachei no big onion kkkk.
Adorooooooo viola caipira !! E cavaquinho também 🙏🙌 I wish our two countries could mail things back-and-forth without problems and enormous cost 😢 I don’t know if the issue is with Correiros ou customs at the USA but, the struggle is real. I telephoned staff at Mercado Livre because I wanted to buy a zabumba, but the lady in brasil said “não podemos mandar pra fora do país.” I asked her why and she just said: “não se. Mas não podemos.” I love Brazilian music so so so much though 🇺🇸↔️🇧🇷
Also there's Russian tuning ( 7 strings, dbgDBGD). A whole new world to explore.
Excellent video. I've been playing guitar for some time now and I have played around with open G before but this video really brought it all together for me. Thanks brother!
CGCGCD (open csus2) is a personal favorite of mine when I'm in a rut. Sounds absolutely beautiful on a 12 string and massive on an overdriven electric.
In 1979 I attended a Doobies concert and tripped out for a song called, Clear as the Driven Snow. The fingering looked simple so I went home to try to play it. Years later, i found out it was in modal C. That opened the world of open tunings to me.
Thanks Rhett. I found your chord theory really helpful - I need to learn that! ! I've been playing in open G recently as I love Sonny Landreth's playing - he uses it quite a bit. His harmonic effects using the heal of his right hand to slightly mute over the bridge while the slide is on the 12th fret and he frets behind the slide with his left hand opens up another whole world of experimentation.
Great video all around but especially for those who might not be familiar with it and/or who are having a creative slump. I'm dying to know who made that Tele style guitar. Thing sounds frickin' phenomenal!
Started testning open g about 6 months ago and coming back to it all the time
Started playing again after i did stopp playing in the end of the 80s
Open g has got me to experiment and realy listening to what i play
A hole new world is opening upp 😊😊
I have so many questions about that guitar! It's obviously a thinline telecaster (style?) But I could never completely see the headstock to see who makes it, and I've never seen a trimalo setup like that before! What is this beast!? Its sounds amazing! 🤩
Fantastic. I love the open G and the resonator slide.
Can't help but grin during the intro at how you look so amazed the classic machine started. And just how many turns lock to lock does that thing have? Better put a power peg attachment on the boss...
Rhett, it is interesting that you brought up Open G tuning. I wanted to learn the Doobie Brothers Song - South City Midnight Lady and guess what?!?! It is easier played in Open G turning. Thank you for the video, it has been a great help.
Just being a true genuine person with a passion for art makes a good program , thanks Rhett.
Great lesson Rhett, thank you.
I love Open G! Rich Robinson of the Black Crowes made a career of open G tuning. The stuff he does is more advanced than what Keith was able to do with it...
By the way, what is that beautiful Tele style guitar you're playing? I can't find it in the description of your gear. I need one, bad! Thanks in advance...😎
Cheers!
This really made me wonder why I never got around to playing more in open g.
I used to tune my high E string to D to play slide. So I was in open G on the first 4 - D, B, G, D (high to low).
Finally I learned to play slide in standard tuning for convenience.
I use open D, open E, double drop D, and DADGAD a lot. I never got back to open G.
Until NOW! Thank you for this, Rhett. Can't wait to learn some fun stuff!
In my time of dying brought tears of joy to my eyes when I heard this. Well done!
One of the greatest Zep tunes ever....Achilles Last Stand is another.
You can find the open G tuning in classical guitar music in the late 19th, early 20th century. The composer Agustín Barrios used a lot. listen to the Choro de saudade. It is a good example.
I haven't strayed from A440 in a long while now, and I completely forgot how damn fun alt tunings really are. MANY MANY THANKS Rhett for posting this video. I'm having a ton of fun playing with this tuning at the moment. Awesome indeed!
I should say that I tuned one of my 335's to the open G and it sounds great.
Your love for music is contagious - this video is just superb!
Open G is used in a lot of irish folk music, along with dadgad. Surprised to see no mention of it. Also... what the hell kinda guitar is that? Never seen a tremolo system like that til now. Looks perfect.
Great video, very informative and taught me a few new shapes. Open G was the first tuning I was taught by a lovely American musician named Bob Devlin when he was in the UK fifty years ago. Now, it's common knowledge that Keef Richards whips the bottom E right off rather than tuning it down and I can understand that as it often seems like bit of an "orphan" even though there are 2 other Ds in the tuning. My friend Bob showed me that rather than dropping the E to a D, take it up to a G (easier with lighter strings of course) effectively giving you two Gs on the same octave. This gives a powerful bit of punch on the barre chords and makes for a very effective bass-drone when flat or finger-picking.
I can honestly say that I've never missed that bottom D.
Try it.
I believe Jimmy Page played “Dancing Days” from House of the Holy in open G, and it rocks
Yes it is!
Also that’s the way, from Led Zep III :)
Traveling Riverside Blues, In My Time Of Dying
This is such a great review of Open G. It was always one of my favourite tunings for playing slide and I can't remember if I discovered myself or was told about it (back in the day when there was no internet and you had to take a bus to visit someone who knew something on guitar you didn't know yet and give them free cigarettes until they showed you how to play it 🤣)
Rhett: 'so when you're finished tuning you should sound like this' *plays simple but incredibe lick*
Me: *tries to imitate him* 'i guess mine must be broken'
Keep playing it. I saw another video on Travis Picking, and even the pro's needed TEN years before those thumb picks felt normal. So, give it some time.
Here you gotta get used to the dropped tuning, there is a slide on one of your fingers. Maybe you got yourself a resonator guitar. Your brain has enough stuff to process, that is new. My enthusiastic advice: make many hours on that thing, don't give up early. Good licks will come, good luck!
@@voornaam3191 I'm inspired by reading this, thank you Sir!! 💯
@@voornaam3191 I had a friend years ago whose tutor taught him Travis picking right from the outset.
Seeing him get fingerpicking so soon is what inspired me to persist at it when I took up guitar myself much later in life. It took just a weekend to learn the basics; one finger pattern bedded in so that it cycles with hardly a thought is all that's needed to begin with and it sounds so pleasing. After that I couldn't put the guitar down; since they won their independence my fingers and thumb seem to learn all by themselves now.
To begin with I learned the basics of Freight Train and Dust in the Wind and just played them over and over whilst watching TV. Eventually the motion becomes second nature and each new pattern just a variation built on that foundation.
@@-Pol- WOW -what a rap!!! So, there is indeed HOPE?!?!? lol. The Journey of thousand miles begins with one step...!
Hey, you are so talented! thank you so much! The material in the video is so musical, meditative, and informative! Really appreciate this stuff! Hugs!
I always remembered the tuning by calling it “Do GooD, Go BaD” 😎
I always remember it because the 3 inner strings make a G chord and tune the other 3 strings accordingly.
I'm back playing in open G so I just had to come back to your video, glad I did as its extremely useful .Cheers!
Shit this guy is a great guitarist. Been watching for years, don't say it enough.
Rhett, this lesson on open G… FANTASTIC!
This helps me to understand this beautiful tuning, and then to add the slide, Incredible feel!
Just liked 👍 and subscribed!
Looks like someone got a drone... unbelievable!!
Came to learn about the classic delta blues sound only to find that you can use open g tuning to create Plini-esque cool prog jazzy chord voicings too. Consider my mind thoroughly blown. Thank you!
I would be really interested in seeing a "Standard Tuning | Why EVERYONE Should know it" as if you started in some other tuning and went to standard tuning
hahaha
watched some of your live gig videos. you are a really great player. Classic rock guitar playing. great sound .
I learned of open g from a band called Remo Drive (Midwest emo band). Definitely the heaviest I’ve heard from that tuning other than Them Crooked Vultures on Elephants.
That’s the band I always think of whenever anyone talks about open g
Strapping Young Lad/Devin Townsend uses that tuning if I’m not mistaking
Most Heavy Devy I believe is Open C
@@playdelay you are right!! My bad 🤦♂️
@@allakazoo6267 Always a pleasure to meet fellow Devy fan
Great video. Guitar player for 20+years and have used open g but definitely a good instruction on it that helped show me something I hadn't realized before.
Love that Black Crowes sound, such an underrated Band.
I came to alternate tunings via The Doobie Brothers as I'm crazy about their songs. I wish I could say I learned directly from the old delta bluesmen or even the Brits. But it was the Doobs for me.
That being said, I love playing She Talks to Angels.
Damn....thanks Rhett! I can’t wait to find an Open Weekend to explore my new open G tuning! That resonator sounded Gorgeous BTW!