The Doors Slide Guitar Tuning

Learn 12 beginner friendly versions of every chord.

The doors slide guitar tuning.

You just drop the low e 6th string one whole step from e to d. 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. With a interview of ray manzarek organist for the doors. Below are five different types of open tunings open d open c open g open a and.

It s a d major chord. Drop d is a popular tuning for slide guitar that s easy to tune. D a d f a d low to high hint. To get there you need to tune the guitar as follows e a e a c e low to high.

Open d tuning is a great open tuning for slide guitar giving you that swampy vibe. Slide guitar can be played in standard or open tunings and each has its advantages and disadvantages. Robby krieger of the doors plays slide guitar. The most common open tunings for slide guitar playing are open e d g and a.

This is our most popular guide and it will improve your chord ability quickly. 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. If you have your guitar tuned to open g there are two ways to get to open a.

This is done using open tuning. Open g s higher strung sister open a slide guitar tuning. Sometimes playing your guitar in standard tuning just isn t enough. I said you buy one anyway you get the point.

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. 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. With this tuning the guitar s open a d and g strings are tuned up to b e and g.

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.