Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Keith Richards. Of all the alternative tunings in use today, open G must be a contender for ‘most popular’. But before we continue ...

Altered tunings can be one of the most fun and rewarding elements associated with the guitar. Specifically, the ability to change the tuning of some or all strings in the pursuit of finding new chord ...

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 ...