Open D Tuning for Dobro Slide Guitar

Video Transcript

" Hi! I'm Ed Dowling from eddowling.com. I'm here to talk about tuning your guitar to open D on behalf of Expert Village. The previous clip was just tuning your guitar to open E and why it is open E. Mainly, we start with a guitar tuned normally and rather than make this E chord all the time like this, we've tuned the guitar to open E and it'll play. The trouble is that stretches the strings a lot. It also may be a little high for some people you can do the same tuning by lowering the strings to D. If this was a E note, you go back to fret D. So in this case, we're going to take the guitar that starts in the concert tuning and tune it to open D instead of open E. In this case, the fat string is going to go down to a D note. The A will stay where it is. The high E string is going to match this one and go down to D. The B string is going to come down 2 frets to A. The G is going to come down I believe one. Now let's find tuning. I know what's going on. So we're going to end up in open D with the strings tuned from fat to skinny as D, A, D. Notice that these strings didn't really change from the other tuning. F sharp, which means we've dropped the G. You can't find that one on a tuner. A, excuse me, A and D. So D, A, D, F sharp, A, D. Open D tuning. "