Open G | Why EVERYONE Should Know It.

Open G tuning is one of the most beautiful guitar tunings out there, in this video Ill teach you how to tune to Open G as well as a few beginner licks and chords to get you started playing in this amazing tuning.

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[darrenblake]

When I feel like I'm in a rut, I tune my guitar. Opens up a whole new world and makes what I play sound very similar to music.

[googleboy]

Hi, Just found you. Instantly subscribed. Been playing for 60 years. Played rock, country and gospel. But I love blues. Your sound would make a baby curl it's toes and wrinkle it's nose. Thanks for helping us learn. I ran a guitar group at work. We had over 100 members. When I retired, one of the guys thanked me but asked why I would take time to "help us rookies". I told him I was just trying to give away what God had given me . Stay blessed! Shalom/gw (aka Graybear) ;-))

[dimamurzin]

Open G is great; there is a whole school of guitar in Russia, 7 string open G (D G B D G B D) with a lot of classical repertoire, songs, folk tunes spanning 2 centuries.

[TonyBurke]

I can remember the first time I discovered open G it opened up the whole world of blues songs. I was stunned, it seemed so easy. but it ain't that easy. That was over thirty years ago. Recently I spotted a lap steel in my local hock shop I bought it, brought it home and the first thing I did was put a set of flat wounds on it and tuned it to open G. Beautiful sound, great guitar.

[noahpauley]

Cemetery Gates by the Smiths is in open G and its so fucking fun to play with all the open chords

[ericnewcomb]

I've been playing in standard tuning for 40 years. Today I tried open G, and you were right. I love it, and it's changed how I play already. Thank you!

[keithdavies]

I've been messing around with open G for two decades and I can't believe how much new information and ideas I just got out that 17 minutes!! Well done, and thanks for that.

[thampysvenoo]

Venoo Thampy, from India. I am new to Open G. but your lesson has motivated me to try out the possibilities of this amazing open tuning.

[leehanson]

We have a half-set of open G tunes. Stones, Black Crowes, Pink Houses, etc. Always energizes the house.

[ericecklund]

I love the opening sequence playing slide coming up over over the trees in Georgia. Gives me me that warm down-home feeling, like I should be playing this on a log cabin front porch. Makes me glad I live in East Tennessee. Thanks for showing us this, Rhett!

[jonathanavery]

“In my time of dying”
Gave me chills Rhett. Wicked mate.

[golgothaassassin]

This reminds me of when I was 16 or 17, it was the early 90's. Everyone I knew played something, we had all the guys coming from the 70's and 80's and all the new sounds coming from Seattle. I miss those days, everything was music! I really wish that there hadn't been a plan B. I still play every day, still try to teach and occasionally a kid will come along with magic. This is the kind of video that teaches how everything starts to come together and shows the progression. Great video! Great lesson! More please!!

[matthogan-jones]

I've been playing open G for 30 years, and this is the first video I've seen that really gets it. Absolutely beautiful, plus the Mules are so dammed cool!

[luserdroog]

Open G combined with detuning led me to one of my favorites: Open F (CFCFAC). One of the marvelous things about it is you can notate guitar music using the Alto clef and the C's nicely straddle the first ledger lines around the staff, with the C in the middle actually being "middle C" and sitting on the middle line. Lots of music can be written like this with very few ledger lines needed, and the ledger lines themselves--when present--almost show you directly where to "capo".

[charlzthehuman]

I use open G a lot when I’m in a “rut’ or just feeling a bit down. Feels & sounds great. Also learned a bunch of scales & chord variations in this tuning. Very fun for an old guitar player who’s feeling bored with “standard” tunings

[HektorBandimar]

One of the great benefits of the internet and YouTube is access to information like this. When I was a young guy I learnt guitar from books, I never even heard of open tunings until many years after I began to play. I still find it fascinating and very enjoyable, but what really brought it to my attention was reading about Keith Richard playing in open G and listening to all those great Stones songs in that tuning.

[dreamscuba]

Totally wonderful. Your slide blues in Open G is so relaxing to listen to. I could listen to this for hours. It makes me want to experiment with this tuning. Thanks for the video!

[mediumshreddercheese]

Rhett’s channel found me like two or three weeks ago and I just binge watched every episode... now my screen time meter is through the roof!

[sambochen]

My favorite use of the Open G tuning is by far IN MY TIME OF DYING. You nailed the tone and the nuances Rhett! Jimmy would approve. Rock on!

[dannywoody]

Really thank you for this video. Greatly appreciated. Just starting to play around with this open G tuning. For the life of me I don’t understand why I didn’t do it sooner. I love the old blues.