Lesson four of Andy’s advanced ‘Rudiments of Fingerstyle’ guitar course. This series is designed to iron out any kinks in your fingerstyle playing. In this lesson we look at the open D tuning.
Open D tuning is an awesome tuning for folk fingerstyle, among other genres. In this lessons, we'll look at the tuning, common chord shapes and example songs for you to learn!
The notes you need to tune to for open D are; D A D F# A D
Chords
The D chord can be played by just strumming the open strings (that's the idea of Open D!)
G and A major chords can be played with a flat first finger barring 5th and 7th frets.
The minor chords in this key can be played at 2nd, 4th and 9th frets either just by fretting string 7 at these frets, or with the chord shapes shown later in this video, like we do in my tutorial for Barcelona by George Ezra(click for tutorial!)
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