How to Play Guitar in Open D Tuning

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Mike Lais. On behalf of Expert Village we are going to go over some guitar tuning techniques. So now that I have my guitar tuned to an open D chord, it's really easy to play chords because all I got to do is lay my finger across the whole strings just like so and you have a new chord. So there's the open D and if I just grab a fret, will say the fifth fret here, I'm going to have a G chord. So now using that we can just play around, notice I'm still strumming over my hole. Now you got to realize that your scales are going to off a little bit too, so your going to just want to just keep in mind, and basically the best way to learn to play in alternate tuning, without getting in to to much technical stuff, is to just play around with it, see what sounds good. Look up songs that have used the alternate tunings. Like the open D, I know that the Black Crows use this on quite a bit as well as many other rock groups will use this tuning. It's great for everything that's going to be rock or slide guitars."