9 Awesome Alternate Tunings for Guitar | Spice up Your Playing With a New Guitar Tuning!

Alternate Tunings Are FUN!! Whether you play Acoustic or Electric guitar or Both! you will benefit from experimenting with Alternate tunings for guitar! Here are 9 awesome alternate tunings for Guitar! This lesson will also show you How to Figure Out different tunings for guitar without a Reference.
Open tunings work great for blues and slide guitar such as OPEN E used by players such as Duane Allman and derek trucks. Open G tuning by the likes of Keith Richards and open A tuning by the delta blues legend Robert Johnson.
Alternate Tunings for Acoustic Guitar such as DADGAD tuning (celtic tuning) work especially well for traditional celtic fingerstyle by players such as tony mcmanus but the alternate DADGAD tuning is also used on electric guitar to great effect on songs like kashmir.
And if you want to get Heavy then you need to know your way around Drop tunings such as Drop D - Drop - C & Drop B.
In this Alternate tunings for Guitar lesson I will show you how to figure out & Tune your guitar to all these Alternate - Open & Drop Tunings and many more

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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 INTRO
0:17 Drop D Tuning
0:31 Drop D Song Examples
0:57 Drop C Tuning
1:25 Drop B Tuning
1:42 Double Drop Tuning Examples
1:52 How to tune to Double Drop D
2:11 Open Tunings Explained
2:16 Open G Examples
2:33 How to tune to Open G
3:00 Open G Tuning Playthrough
3:08 Open A Tuning Examples
3:22 How to tune to Open A
3:39 Open A Slide Guitar Example
4:03 Open D Tuning Examples
4:21 How to tune to Open D
4:40 Open E Examples
5:02 How to tune to Open E
5:15 Open E CAPO TRICK
5.32 DADGAD tuning
5:53 DADGAD examples
6:16 DADGAD Playthrough
6:30 Why you should try Alternate Tunings

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[williamreaves]

Thanks Sam! I've wanted to utilize these different tunings for
a while now because of boredom, and a desire to make my
guitar playing more interesting. Not only are you a terrific
teacher, but you play extremely well. All your work has paid
off. I'll be looking for even more inspiration from you if that's
alright. Your music friend, Billy

[darrell]

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[waynemiller]

You are so right about finding new inspiration by changing tunings!

[migerrancan]

for drop tunings how do u do scales especially on a 7 string, love ur vids btw, so helpful

[Amatteus]

All 4ths and all 5ths are perfect to move chords all around..

[danieljbdj]

Using these tunings is like forgetting everything you know to relearn it from scratch.