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D-G-D-G-B-D
| Name: Open G - Spanish | Family: Major | Root: G | Voicing: 5-1-5-1-3-5 |
Open G / Open A-Tuning
This is one of the "classic" open tunings, and it is often called "Spanish", with reference to a tune called The Spanish Fandango. Probably the most popular tuning for slide guitar. Also favored by Hawaiian slack-key guitarists, who refer to it as Taro-patch tuning.
If you tune to Open G, you tune down the low E-string to D, the A-string to G and the high E-string to E. This gives you the tuning D-G-D-G-B-G, which is a G-major chord on open strings. The chord has the voicing 5-1-5-1-3-5.
Open A has the same relation between the strings, but it is one note higher. When re-tuning from standard tuning, you tune the D-string up to E, the G-string up to A and the B-string up to C#. All the exampes given here are written out in open G-tuning. But everything would apply to open A as well. In fact, the TAB would have been exactly the same, but the music notation, chord symbols and of course the sound would have been different.
If you are re-tuning from standard tuning to Open G, you should get these notes:
| Standard | E | A | D | G | B | E |
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| Open G | D | G | D | G | B | D |
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You tune your 6th string (Low E) down one whole step to D. I prefer to tune it to the 4th string, which should be one octave above. The 5th string goes down one whole step from A to G. I tune this to the 3rd string, one octave above. Then the 1st string is tuned down one whole step from E to D, and again I tune to 4th string. If you prefer to tune to adjacent strings, tune as on the figure to the right:
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If you tune to Open A, you tune 4th string up one whole tone to E, 3rd string up one whole tone to A and 2nd string up one half step to C#. The relationship between the strings are the same as for Open G.
| Open A | E | A | E | A | C# | E |
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| Standard | E | A | D | G | B | E |
ls:GT 99, 2004-06.
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