Open C Tuning for Guitar

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Mike Lais, on behalf of Expert Village we are going to go over some guitar tuning techniques. Okay, so for alternative tuning open C, which is kind if one that's out there, it's really going to impress your friends if you know what you're doing in it too though. But basically what we're going to want to do is we're going to tune our guitar to where it goes the sixth string will be a C, the fifth string will be a G, the fourth string will be a C, the third string will remain a G, the second string we're going to tune to a G as well, and then the first string is going to be an E. And the way we're going to get that is we're going to drop our low string first. So right now it's an E, and we're going to drop it - here's the D that we're going to, as we did before, and then we're going to go all the way down. We're going to keep going below that, so that we can get ourselves a C. But I'm not actually going to tune it right now. I'm just going to get it down there, just for tension's sake on the guitar. Just because you really kind of want to keep everything distributed evenly and so if we loosen this up, we're going to be able to get the G a little bit better when we drop our A, but finding the G is just going to be as if we were to drop the sixth string from an E to a D is the same concept of dropping the fifth string A to a G. It's just in a different position on the guitar. So we're just going to drop this down. And again, you can do the seventh fret routine, seventh fret on the fifth string. That should give you the fourth string. Pretty close there. So now we have the seventh fret available on the low string, the sixth string, to get the C. I'm going to come up. All right. So now we want to drop the D string or the fourth string down to a C, so we're going to take that, we're going to take our low C and our fourth string, and just kind of try and match that. And again, we can check it by having the fifth fret of the fifth string and sort of check it that way. And there we go. I'm going to leave this string the same, although since I did all that stuff it might be a little bit out of whack. There we go. So now I'm going to take my B string or my second string. I'm going to drop that all the way down to a G, matching this string, so they're going to have the same tuning. There we go. Now the first string is going to remain the same, so now I have my open C tuned."