Altered tunings can be one of the most fun and rewarding elements associated with the guitar. Specifically, the ability to change the tuning of some or all strings in the pursuit of finding new chord ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Keith Richards. Of all the alternative tunings in use today, open G must be a contender for ‘most popular’. But before we continue ...

My eyes tell me that Keith is not playing a traditional chord shape in this photo, just barring the neck in typical G-tuning fashion. Check out Chuck Yarborough's interview with Keith's bandmate, a ...

There's huge inspiration in your choice of acoustic and electric guitar, effects pedals and guitar amps. Even the guitar pick you choose plays a part, but before all that there's the huge world of ...

Open G tuning Although Keith dispensed with his sixth string entirely, for the sake of convenience we’re keeping all six, tuned low to high: DGDGBD. It’s therefore only the first, fifth and sixth ...