Meg's 5 Favourite Open Tunings - Easy Alternate Tunings That You Can Try Today!

Meg shows us 5 of her favourite open tunings, that she likes to use in her playing and songwriting, offering a few open tuning tips along the way. Check out our full range of guitar tuners here: www.pmtonline.co.uk/products/...
For the demos in this video, Meg is playing a Faith Mars Legacy acoustic guitar, find out more here: www.pmtonline.co.uk/faith-fg1...
00:00 Intro & What Is An Open Tuning?
01:12 Open D Tuning Notes
02:10 Open D Demo Playing
03:40 Open G Tuning Notes (The Keith Richards Tuning!)
04:34 Open G Demo Playing
05:03 DADGAD Tuning Notes
05:43 DADGAD Demo Playing
06:22 Esus2 Tuning Notes
07:12 Esus2 Demo Playing
08:14 CACGAC Tuning Notes
09:09 CACGAC Demo Playing
09:45 Outro
Open tunings are a fantastic way to open up your guitar playing vocabulary, and can be a really inspiring way to find new ideas when playing or songwriting, and they can be used for either electric or acoustic guitars. In this video, Meg shows us how to tune a guitar to Open D, Open G, DADGAD, Esus2 and CACGAC, but for more alternate and drop tunings, check out our full "How To Tune A Guitar" series of videos...
Standard Tuning (EADGBE) - • How To Tune A Guitar E...
Half-Step Down (Eb) - • Half-Step Down Tuning ...
Whole-Step Down (D) - • Whole Step Down Tuning...
Drop D - • Drop D Tuning (D-A-D-G...
Double Drop D - • Double Drop D Tuning (...
Drop C - • Drop C Tuning (C-G-C-F...
Drop Db - • Drop D Flat Tuning (Db...
Dsus4 DADGAD - • Open Dsus4 Tuning (D-A...
Open A - • Open A Tuning (E-A-E-A...
Open D - • Open D Tuning (D-A-D-F...
Open E - • Open E Tuning (E-B-E-G...
Open G - • Open G Tuning (D-G-D-G...
How To Tune A 12-String Guitar - • How To Tune A 12-Strin...
How To Tune A Bass Guitar - • How To Tune A Bass Gui...
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[@buzzstankos8532]

Thanks, Meg… I’ve tended to avoid open tunings, but seeing your demo, Going to give it a try…

[@joelhughes5939]

Thanks, very useful - CACGAC and DADGAD sounded best to my tastes

[@williamcammer9211]

Great information and examples! Thank you Meg and PMT!

[@PMTVUK]

Thanks for watching, William!

[@paztheripper]

Nice work meg-atron great playing great presentation im gonna try these out today

[@petergandia5342]

great explanations. nicely done, Meg.

[@PMTVUK]

Glad it was helpful, thanks Peter!

[@MrNeilltupman]

Great video! I messed around with lots of open tunings on my acoustic in the first lockdown last year. As well as the Stones you can play a load of Black Crowes tunes in open G; Remedy, Wiser Time, Sting Me for example.

[@PMTVUK]

Absolutely, great tunes Neill 🤘

[@moonhead6165]

nice one

[@O_Towne_Bear]

That opening bit had some serious Nick Drake vibes dripping from it. Great Vid, thanks!

[@nikolajaerial2436]

Sounds great. What's the mic?

[@hithere748]

hm... I gotta try these.

[@cesarivancordobaruiz7395]

where can i hear MEG singing?

[@user-cx7kg6ok9b]

If you really want to go the classic Keith Richards style for open G, take off your low D string. At that time, Keith was only using 5 strings, figuring since he wasn't playing the root on the low string, he didn't need the low string. DADGAD is my favorite tuning. I've written alt.rock, punk and metal songs in that tuning.

[@dannythemedic]

So cute.

[@felixcoleosullivan1294]

Second lol