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Open tunings are common in Blues Music and some Rock and Folk Music . In Hawai`ian Music , for Slack-key Guitar , an example would be the Taro Patch , or open 'G' tuning, with strings low-high; D-G-D-G-B-D. Notable players who make extensive or exclusive use of open tunings include Richard Thompson , Martin Carthy , Blind Blake , Jimmy Page , Keith Richards , Leo Kottke , Richie Havens , Joni Mitchell , Jonatha Brooke , Michael Hedges , Ted Hawkins , and Alan Sparhawk . Tunings can be named anything a player would like them to be called. There are many 'Open C' tunings. A player could call them by colors or moods. The whole purpose of open tunings is to free the player from compulsive naming & Western approaches to playing instruments that can be tuned to an array of possibilities. A standard acoustic guitar can reach nearly 150,000 different tunings. There is still an infinite amount of uncharted territory in the world of open tunings. This territory can provide every player on earth their own chord vocabulary. EXAMPLES Major Tunings Major open tunings (giving a Major Chord with the open strings) include:
Crossnote tunings The above open tunings all give a '' Major Chord '' with open strings. Since it is highly likely guitarists will need to play Minor Chord s as well, open tunings must be adapted to allow this by lowering the pitch of one of the strings forming the open chord by half a step. To avoid the relatively cumbersone designation "open D minor", "open C minor", such tunings are sometimes called ''"crossnote tunings"''. The term also expresses the fact that, by fretting the lowered string at the first fret, it is possible to produce a major chord very easily. Crossnote tunings include
Modal tunings Sometimes a guitarist will want a tuning that will permit very easy chords but ''not'' be defintively minor or major. In this case, modal tunings can be used. They can be especially effective with droning open strings, and give "suspended" second or fourth chords: Modal tunings include:
"Extended chord" tunings These tunings allow a guitarist to play an open seventh, ninth, eleventh or thirteenth chord. One or more of the strings is retuned to the appropriate note of the required Scale . Such tunings may be either minor or major. Examples are:
Nearly infinite. These open tunings offer much room for experiment, but can only be used in a few keys. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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