Open "G"

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07-08-2023, 03:12 PM
OldStrummer

Open "G"

I've started messing around with open G tuning. Right now, I can't help but think everything I'm trying sounds like me wanting to emulate Keith Richards. Not that that's a bad thing, but I think I could get bored really quickly if that's all I'm doing. Anyone got tips, tricks, song suggestions, tabs, YouTube videos or the like to help me better get there?

Thanks!
08-14-2023, 04:44 AM
tugboat

Re: Open "G"

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Originally Posted by OldStrummer

I've started messing around with open G tuning. Right now, I can't help but think everything I'm trying sounds like me wanting to emulate Keith Richards. Not that that's a bad thing, but I think I could get bored really quickly if that's all I'm doing. Anyone got tips, tricks, song suggestions, tabs, YouTube videos or the like to help me better get there?

Thanks!

No help, he’s the only guy I’ve heard to use Open G for “not slide” playing. I assume it’s a slide tuning - may have even read where Keith started messing around with it first as a slide tuning they started figuring out how to make chord shapes with it. Maybe pivot to using it for slide?
08-14-2023, 07:14 AM
blackonblack

Re: Open "G"

Others that used open G.

Robert Johnson
Joni Mitchell
George Thorogood
Rich Robinson
08-17-2023, 06:30 AM
tugboat

Re: Open "G"

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Originally Posted by blackonblack

Others that used open G.

Robert Johnson
Joni Mitchell
George Thorogood
Rich Robinson

I forgot that The Black Crowes had a bunch of stuff in open g. Which I don’t know but I saw a rig rundown with Rich robinson’s guitar tech and I think he only had one guitar in standard tuning, the other like 13 guitars were all in open tunings, open g included.