The Doors Slide Guitar Tuning

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The doors slide guitar tuning.

Learn 12 beginner friendly versions of every chord. Sometimes playing your guitar in standard tuning just isn t enough. Standard tuning can be easier to play because your melodic instincts don t have to be translated to. Robby krieger of the doors plays slide guitar.

Open d tuning is a great open tuning for slide guitar giving you that swampy vibe. D a d f a d low to high hint. Either tune every string on your guitar up a whole step or place your capo on your open g. Allman and trucks widely considered to be two of the greatest slide players ever have mostly preferred to play slide in open e tuning which is spelled low to high e b e g b e.

Robby krieger is the latest guitarist to be honoured by an inspired by instrument from the gibson custom shop. The august issue of guitarist magazine onsale now features an in depth review of the new very cool gibson robby krieger sg vos meanwhile the doors legendary six stringer took the time to shoot the breeze with guitarist about his signature instrument the guitar loves of his. It s like you buy one you get one free. Guitar teacher blues specialist jim bruce takes a look at the open g tuning covering its history use technique a handful of examples.

I said you buy one anyway you get the point. When playing particular music types it s often easier to tune your guitar so that chords are played instead of individual notes. This is done using open tuning. Below are five different types of open tunings open d open c open g open a and.

Learning the various different methods to tune for slide guitar will give you more options to let you suit the tunings to your playing style. Open g s higher strung sister open a slide guitar tuning. The most common open tunings for slide guitar playing are open e d g and a. Drop d is a popular tuning for slide guitar that s easy to tune.

To get there you need to tune the guitar as follows e a e a c e low to high. It s a d major chord. The above video is a good example of a slide guitarist making a great sound come from a standard acoustic guitar not a resonator guitar. You just drop the low e 6th string one whole step from e to d.

With a interview of ray manzarek organist for the doors.