Meg shows us 5 of her favourite open tunings, that she likes to use in her playing and songwriting, offering a few open tuning tips along the way. Check out our full range of guitar tuners here: https://www.pmtonline.co.uk/products/guitar/guitaraccessories/tuners
For the demos in this video, Meg is playing a Faith Mars Legacy acoustic guitar, find out more here: https://www.pmtonline.co.uk/faith-fg1re-legacy-mars-electro-acoustic
00:00 Intro & What Is An Open Tuning?
01:12 Open D Tuning Notes
02:10 Open D Demo Playing
03:40 Open G Tuning Notes (The Keith Richards Tuning!)
04:34 Open G Demo Playing
05:03 DADGAD Tuning Notes
05:43 DADGAD Demo Playing
06:22 Esus2 Tuning Notes
07:12 Esus2 Demo Playing
08:14 CACGAC Tuning Notes
09:09 CACGAC Demo Playing
09:45 Outro
Open tunings are a fantastic way to open up your guitar playing vocabulary, and can be a really inspiring way to find new ideas when playing or songwriting, and they can be used for either electric or acoustic guitars. In this video, Meg shows us how to tune a guitar to Open D, Open G, DADGAD, Esus2 and CACGAC, but for more alternate and drop tunings, check out our full "How To Tune A Guitar" series of videos...
Standard Tuning (EADGBE) - https://youtu.be/aQN6ztoX77o
Half-Step Down (Eb) - https://youtu.be/Q6qf4LG3BjY
Whole-Step Down (D) - https://youtu.be/HGX5yWUHBm0
Drop D - https://youtu.be/m-PKEbpsObg
Double Drop D - https://youtu.be/1Xec0B0xwMY
Drop C - https://youtu.be/5onPbc5IjA0
Drop Db - https://youtu.be/L5ylkUoVZwE
Dsus4 DADGAD - https://youtu.be/0UW5kkuXpqc
Open A - https://youtu.be/1CF68QlzB_Q
Open D - https://youtu.be/K-1gtWit068
Open E - https://youtu.be/bEcEQKac2nI
Open G - https://youtu.be/mn-qHjOTG5Y
How To Tune A 12-String Guitar - https://youtu.be/9Uk_cfKuDME
How To Tune A Bass Guitar - https://youtu.be/BMJ2TLBxvuU
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