When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Graham Wiltshire/Redferns/Getty Images Open G tuning is an alternate tuning favored by ...

Of all the alternative tunings in use today, open G must be a contender for ‘most popular’. But before we continue, please allow me to be pedantic for a moment and point out that ‘altered’ and ‘open’ ...

Non-standard open or altered tunings crop up frequently in blues, folk and country music. One reason for this is that they can greatly facilitate slide playing. But another is that unusual chord ...