The Doors Slide Guitar Tuning

D a d f a d low to high hint.

The doors slide guitar tuning.

Standard tuning can be easier to play because your melodic instincts don t have to be translated to. I said you buy one anyway you get the point. Open g s higher strung sister open a slide guitar tuning. It s like you buy one you get one free.

It s a d major chord. The august issue of guitarist magazine onsale now features an in depth review of the new very cool gibson robby krieger sg vos meanwhile the doors legendary six stringer took the time to shoot the breeze with guitarist about his signature instrument the guitar loves of his. If you have your guitar tuned to open g there are two ways to get to open a. Either tune every string on your guitar up a whole step or place your capo on your open g.

Open d tuning is a great open tuning for slide guitar giving you that swampy vibe. Slide guitar can be played in standard or open tunings and each has its advantages and disadvantages. Robby krieger of the doors plays slide guitar. You just drop the low e 6th string one whole step from e to d.

The above video is a good example of a slide guitarist making a great sound come from a standard acoustic guitar not a resonator guitar. With a interview of ray manzarek organist for the doors. Learn 12 beginner friendly versions of every chord. Robby krieger is the latest guitarist to be honoured by an inspired by instrument from the gibson custom shop.

With this tuning the guitar s open a d and g strings are tuned up to b e and g. The most common open tunings for slide guitar playing are open e d g and a. Below are five different types of open tunings open d open c open g open a and. This is our most popular guide and it will improve your chord ability quickly.

Guitar teacher blues specialist jim bruce takes a look at the open g tuning covering its history use technique a handful of examples. Learning the various different methods to tune for slide guitar will give you more options to let you suit the tunings to your playing style. To get there you need to tune the guitar as follows e a e a c e low to high. When playing particular music types it s often easier to tune your guitar so that chords are played instead of individual notes.

Drop d is a popular tuning for slide guitar that s easy to tune.