Though not as commonplace as its major counterpart, G minor tuning is used in many songs including John Renbourn’s The Mist ...

For instance, in the key of C major, we can take the iii chord of E minor (E, G, B) and make it E major by raising the third, G, to G#. G# is not in the scale of C major, so that makes it chromatic.

The chords for “American Pie” are in the key of G major with the exception of the A7 chord that occurs in the chorus. Most of the chords are in standard position. But sometimes he plays a D/F# ...

Open G tuning is an alternate tuning favored by Keith Richards and requires the guitar to be tuned to D-G-D-G-B-D. To retune into open G from standard tuning, drop the sixth, fifth and first ...

The open strings form a G chord, but, where open D tuning has its root note in the bass, here in open G, the low string is a D. It’s still a note in the G chord (G-B-D), but it means you’ll ...