Open G Tuning Slide Guitar Lesson

[ubacam]

Hi john, really great lesson as always but I NEED TO KNOW.... do you use heavier gauge strings and have higher intonation when playing slide because when i use any of my guitars (all have lower normal intonation and 10's) it doesnt give me as clean of a slide sound. Thank you for everything

[johntuggle]

@ubacam Thanks. I use GHS Boomers .011s and raise the action a little to make it easier to play slide. Without doing that, you won't be able to do very much on slide.

[topicrass]

Hi John.

I really love your Videos! And there has been a great help for me and a lot of people.

I really think you should do a lesson about how to Set up a guitar for slide. like the string height and some tone tips.

Sliding with my strat with low strings is sometimes its really dificult! hope you do it! :)

[bnbfalcon]

Sweet!

[Saanell]

thank you for all the quality lessons :)

[rjluterii]

You're tuned to the 2, 5, and 7 of the G major scale (also the 1, 3, and 5 of the D Major scale). Played open, this is a D chord, or an F#m Aug 5, or an A sus 4th lacking a 5. This seems counter-intuitive to call this open G versus open D. Can you help us understand why it's called G versus D?

[johntuggle]

@rjluterii G major chord is G B D. D major chord is D F# A. That's the difference in the tuning. G Tuning is D G D G B D. There's no F # the tuning I'm using can't be a D major chord. Hope that helps.

[Maafa1619]

@rjluterii It's simply a G major (G, B & D) with a D on top. I think that it's called either G/D or the second inversion of G major.

[Maafa1619]

@rjluterii ...and it sounds bluesier than the other open G (like a Dobro) with the root on the top (for some reason, I keep saying top. Actually I mean the bottom)

[GuitarBlues3]

Absolutely wonderful tone, John!

[vdeferens]

@GuitarBlues3 Word!

[dvdsmlprstylr]

Isn't that open D tuning?

[johntuggle]

@dvdsmlprstylr No.

[dvdsmlprstylr]

@johntuggle Is there even an open D tuning?

[johntuggle]

@dvdsmlprstylr Yes. It's just like open e tuning except the notes are one whole step lower. D A D F# A D.

[Maafa1619]

@dvdsmlprstylr There is any kind of tuning that you want to make up. That dude from the Goo Goo Dolls plays "Iris" in B D D D D D. For some crazy tunings (where you have to lower or raise the pitch of a string by more than 2 semitones) you might want to go to the guitar store and buy a single string that is heavier or lighter than the normal one. 

[dvdsmlprstylr]

@Maafa1619 cool

[Maafa1619]

@dvdsmlprstylr ...Oh, and once you lock down which gauges you like, GHS (and maybe others) will make custom string sets. At my local guitar store, they don't even cost extra.

[SingleCoilVoodoo]

Fantastic! Is there an Open G lessons series in the future?? Hopefully????

[johntuggle]

@SingleCoilVoodoo Yes there is. Working on them now. Thanks!

[ArtDonna84]

Excellent slide lesson. Thank you. Having fun with it.

[chewiefrost]

Nice Job!