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Hi, how you doing? Justin here.
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Today, I'm going to show you how to get
your guitar into Open E Tuning.
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Now, Open D Tuning and Open E Tuning
are the same tuning, just a tone apart.
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The difference is that to get to Open D
Tuning, you're tuning a lot of notes down.
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But to get to Open E Tuning,
you're tuning a few notes up.
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Which is a little riskier as far as
breaking strings and stuff goes.
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So normally if-if I was playing in Open E,
I would tune down to Open D Tuning
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and put a capo on the 2nd fret,
and then I'm in Open E.
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But I'll show you how to get to Open E,
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just in case there's a song
you're doing that's using it,
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you'll wanna sus it out.
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So the tuning for Open E will be
E-B-E-G#-B-E.
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So the thickest string and
the thinnest two strings,
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are gonna stay exactly the same.
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First thing we have to do is tune the
A string up one tone to the note B.
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Easiest way to do that is to play
a harmonic at the 12th fret,
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and then an open B string.
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Okay? Shouldn't be...
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...it's not a huge kind of a tune that
one, just up a tone.
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Now we've gotta tune the open D string
up a tone to the note E.
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So, again we're gonna use the, uh,
harmonic at the 12th fret of the D string,
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with the thinnest E string.
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That's pretty good so far.
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Now we've got to get our, uh, G string
up a semitone to the note G#. Okay?
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Now to do that, because we've already
tuned our D string a little bit,
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We're gonna use the 4th fret of the
D string, or the fourth string,
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and that will be our note G#.
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It's just a little one,
it's only a semitone.
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Okay? And we've got it.
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So, 4th fret of the fourth string...
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...will get the open G string.
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We're tuning the G up to the note G#.
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Now, as usual, open tunings you gotta
have a little bit of a tweak at the end.
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Well, you usually do,
that's pretty damn near perfect.
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It's a beautiful tuning,
Open D and Open E.
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Lovely, lots of fun,
great fun with slide guitar as well.
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So, definitely a fun one to explore, if
you're checking out like "Gimme Shelter"
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or something like that, a lot of those
Stones songs are in Open E.
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Uh... great tuning, great tuning.
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Hope you have lots of fun exploring it,
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and I'll see you for plenty more
songs and lessons very soon.
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Take care of yourselves,
bye-bye.