To retune into open G from standard tuning, drop the sixth, fifth and first strings down a tone. The open strings form a G chord, but, where open D tuning has its root note in the bass ...

Though the name sounds complex, it’s really just a Bm with a ringing open third string. This gives us the #5 (G). Here’s a movable chord ... try tuning the third string down a tone to F ...

Mr Page aside, open G has been used by many legendary players, including Robert Johnson and Son House [pictured]. The beauty of an open tuning like this is that it allows whole chords to be fretted ...

Popularised by Davey Graham, John Renbourn, Jimmy Page, Pierre Bensusan and, in more recent years, Newton Faulkner and Ed Sheeran, DADGAD is a great tuning ... G, A and D. Though fully fretted chords ...

For this open tuning lesson ... 3rd to make a major chord in this minor tuning. The G chord is the fifth chord of G major and ...