Open tunings are very popular with slide players as they offer the facility of playing triads with one finger (or slide), ...

While we’re in open position, this is what happens when we use a Cmaj7 shape. The 9th (D) is provided by the open first string. Play a regular C chord and you’ll get Cadd9. Example 3. F6 ...

Having introduced 5 chord shapes for DADGAD tuning, let's turn our attention to open D (aka D A D F# A D). As with DADGAD, drop the sixth string down a tone to D, then drop the first and second ...