This is SO good, Tony! A woman I know who is bored with her playing asked me what she could do to re-inspire herself, and I sent her the link to this video. Learning Open-D saved my guitar life 12 years ago, I'm hoping it will work for her, too!

I have been meaning to try open tuning for years because of exactly what you said, being stuck in a rut. I had no idea it would be this easy to tune and start playing. Not one for being dramatic but I think this honestly just changed my life! Going to leave my guitar in open D and mess around with it whenever the mood takes me! Thank you!

been playing/writing pretty much exclusively in open D for years now, i'm a huge fan!

nothing,nowhere brought me here. Your incredible teaching style kept me here ❤️

Who the hell would thumbs down? Like what are your expectations? This is Golden.

Handy extra tip with these sort of open tunings. If you try barring with one finger across all the strings at either the 5th or 7th fret you'll get the corresponding 4th and 5th chords which can give some extra options when messing about.

Open tunings always sound so much better and I can tell when someone is using it because it just sounds so rich. Thank you, I’m gonna give this a go

I wish I’d seen this 45 years ago when everything I learned was in standard. Open tuning opens up a million new doors.

Dude, you’re the man. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge. I’ve played guitar for 20 years and needed something new. This was just the nudge I needed to regain interest.

Wow! THANK YOU Tony for simplifying this GORGEOUS TUNING & offering a fresh approach - I have now permanently tuned my old Martin to Open D. I always felt a bit limited w/Open D never quite sure where to go with it beyond a few Chords or find the Notes I didn't even know I was searching for!. Tony truly is an incredibly generous and talented Guitarist. Our Community is fortunate to have his Leadership.

Best thing about open timings - it’d the perfect excuse to buy a new guitar, so you can keep it in that tuning (also, excellent excuse to buy a resonator)

I have been playing guitar for a few years now and was never clear about how open tuning worked. So I’m really glad I stumbled upon this post because it seems so much easier than what I thought. I will not set up one of my guitars to be in drop d on a permanent basis and see what develops. Great post! Thank you 👍

This video was probably the most efficient thing I've ever seen for me personally I mean I had zero idea what I was doing watched this and sounded phenom messing around , thanks alot dude . subbed

Best video that could ever happen to me . Iv been playing for about 8 years but this is so freeing for me to just groove and stop thinking so much :)

I'll be dusting off my guitar for the first time in 2 years today. I've always wanted to learn fingerstyle and this looks like the basis for it. Thank you so much for reigniting that passion to play!

Thank you Ashton Kutcher. I had no idea you play and teach so well!❤️

Superbly precient .Many Thanks am I giving.

I really enjoy your teaching style. I watched your video on the same day I bought my first steel slide. I feel like a kid in a candy store. Thanks so much!

Tony this open D tuning is Divine. It's so Light and yet Full. It's quite the oxymoron ! More videos on this tuning please and the Drop Minor! DADFAD And of course DADGAD🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸 MY heart is overjoyed! ❤️❤️❤️❤️😂💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌤🌤🌤🌤🌤🌤🌦

I'm not a guitar player,don't read music,but I got this,so that means you have a good ability to make ppl understand what it is your teaching,however I'd say it was a bit quicker for new ppl to follow,but I don't think you're doing for completely new ppl. Thank you.

Great lesson!!! Simply explained; and a TON of fun to explore if you’re a frustrated low level intermediate like myself. -thanks so much, and God bless!

Cheers Tony. This is what its all about FUN. Thanks again Tony. Love the show by the way.

Hi Tony, thank you very much for explaining so well. After many years of playing I fell in love with an 25-years old acoustic guitar I bought. Its sound inspires me to play more. One theory I would like to add for all who want to know exactly. In musical theory at 3:17 the notes are a D-major scale D E F# G A B C# D. “Do Re Mi Fa So La Si Do” as you pointed is exactly the Italian names for C-major scale 😉.

Great lesson! I'm already finding all kinds of tunes and melodies with the few chords you showed me. I'll be watching. Thanks again.

I just listened to another video of the open D. Beautiful simply beautiful. I keep 4 hanging on the wall, I am going to tune the one to open D and just leave it there for a while. Thank you for your great videos Tony !

an amazing tutorial into Open D. Thank you

This is SO fun! I have been playing as as a way to unwind for about 20 years now but hadn't ever messed with this tuning. I was trying to find something to just noodle around with and play music with my kids. This is perfect for when we aren't wanting to try to cover songs and just want to mess around and jam together. Thank you so much for sharing!

It's fun to combine open D with the hybrid picking introduced here in an earlier video.

I've had a friend try to talk me into learning alternate tunings for years. I always put it off because "Ain't nothing wrong with the standard tuning." But this video broke it down so simple. And I already see a whole new level opening up immediately! Wow! Thanks!

Good day, I play myself only in open D it is always good to watch you teach us about the guitar you are the best inspiration guy fill with inspiration. Thank again.

Very nice! I really enjoy the way you present the teaching of this. Will try this when I get home tonight. Thanks

Many thanks, opens up a new world of writing songs!

Open D/E was the first alternate tuning I ever played thanks to my love for Bob Dylan's Shelter on the Tracks

This is awesome, love your teaching style.

I have written using this tuning so beautiful but you've brought it back home to me can't wait to get back to it....kudos bro

Thank you Tony! You are awesome! What a GREAT birthday present!

... so perfectly great in explaining and giving me defenitly a new horizon ... love & peace

Wow! You've just change my guitar playing. Thank you so much 👍👍🙏🙏🙏

Tony that was an excellent and simple explanation of the open tuning, fantastic my friend, you opened up the fretboard for me, now its so much more fun, Genius mate

Brilliant Lesson! Thank You! Today's new tuning to explore!

I never had so much fun playing the guitar since I first started 😃

Im sure you hear this all the time, but you are a great teacher. 36 been playing guitar many years and im still not afraid to learn something new. Will sub and check your back log. Much respect

just found this..great lesson.. TY... I have totally been jamming with this for an hour. so cool

GREAT little tutorial. Thank you!

Hello 👋 I am a complete beginner with a cheap electric guitar. I have come across your tutorial and it looks like I might be able to play some tunes a lot easier. I am going to tune my guitar to open D and have a go. I have liked and subscribed. Thanks John 🎸🎸👍😃

Beautifully explained and it takes away the fear of having a go in open tunings ! Nice one !!

Thank you for keeping this simple and fun. I appreciate everything that you put into this video, thank you sir.

The two people I suggest listening to are Leo Kottke and Ry Cooder for open D and open G stuff, especially using slide and fingerpicking

And with any open tuning grab a slide even if you’ve never played slide. Magic!

You are a great teacher!

thanks man, good work, cheers from Australia....

Wonderful video. 😊 JOANN (OPEN TUNING)(C)2006 and GOODBYE (C)2006 were both recorded with OPEN D TUNING.

I exclusively play in Open D with thumb-bass fingerstyle. Im originally a bassist, so the rhythmic aspect comes naturally, then it’s just a matter of playing melodically with my index and middle

Excited to try out Open D, or as I've dubbed it "Dad Fad" 🙃. Surprisingly, makes it easy to remember

Well presented buddy. I'm playing with a slide right now. Opened up a new door for me 😉🇺🇸

Great lesson Tony.

Finally someone who’s teaching at my exact speed!

Love this!!! Very inspiring. Man, I haven’t seen you since I was mandolin shopping years ago and you were demonstrating mandos

I'm late to the party but this really helps get through the standard rut I've been in for years... To the point i didn't play for months.. Thank you

If I'm not mistaken, this is just open E tuning, down one full step. So anything you can play in open E (e.g., Gimme Shelter) you can play in open D (but it'll be a full note lower).

man this answered a lot of questions in a really quick , simple video. thanks !!!

Tony, thanks so much for the primer on Open D tuning. I'm loving it! You are such a good instructor. Can you do more with this tool please?

I love this tuning and your videos

Love it, love it, love it, thank you.

Wow i learn something new today thanks 🙏

Pretty cool! I've just been tuning my guitar standard and sometimes a half step down and for the most part when I'm playing metal on my sixth string I just tune an entire step down from standard tuning which is exactly what korn does on their seven string. I thought that tuning an entire step down was called Open d. I don't read notes or play tablature so I was just mistaken but now I will be tuning to open d and trying that as well

I prefer a modified version, drop tuning the low and high E strings to D, keeping the standard chords, scales, triads and so forth that I'm used to, while adding that nice drop-D enhancement. I suppose that, ultimately, I'm too lazy to have to learn a whole new set of chords and patterns. But if I were to do it, I would come here first to get started. Great video!

Very nice and lots of fun Tony! See you on Tuesday and hopefully at the 90 day meeting!

Thanks for taking the time to walk us through it

Easy way to remember the string tuning: "Playing in Open D is a father's midlife crisis, it's just a DAD FAD."

Awesome Lesson. Thankyou

Man that's awesome! Came to see how to tune it and came away with a whole new sound, thankyou

Excellent.. Thanks for explaining this so even I can comprehend it...

Great explanation. Perfect if you want to try something similar to Kevin Cronin's intro to Time for Me to Fly (and the G and A chords with his thumb on the lower 4 strings).

That guitar is gorgeous.

Got the lovely Nick Drake feeling.

Thank you so much ! I've been reteaching myself to play guitar. I played professionally for the better part of 30 years.. But a few years back I took a nasty fall cracking my head open and fractured my neck. . My marbles are starting line up again but I have some memory loss. Some how my hands seem to know what to do , even though I can't hardly feel my left hand..Go figure. Thanks again !!! Thanks again

Loved it. This inspired to pick my guitar again.

Brilliant. Thank you.

I love this tuning but I keep the high e an e. Definitely one the best tunings.

Thanks so much for this video !

Thank you so much for knowledge

Great lesson!!

i will do this definitely when i get my next acoustic guitar ..great great interesting lesson

Super clear and enlightening. Thanks Tony!

Solid video. Thank you

Good teacher. Keep teaching bro

OH YEEAAAH Can't wait 2 try this it souds great and very fun I have known of athet ALT/ tunnings but this is a new one on me FUN Drp D is also a BLAST so this? Tony U R A Instructors Instructor and a Gentelman Thank U

Great lesson I'm going to try this! But now, it's Time for me to fly!

Tony.... I immediately took everything you taught me and started writing a song. I figured out the chord progression during the video and am now working on lyrics. Thanks man.

Great video 👍 very helpful

I just want to learn how to tune in open D, but I learn a lot of things here, thanks jesus.

This is exactly what i was looking for. Thank you! This is suuuuper helpful!

Tony and to all you other Guys thanks for the tips I’m new to guitar this Drop D stuff has a wonderful sound. Really like your way of teaching Tony it’s fun clear and structured. A big thanks from over the pond. Dave👌🏻

Great job brother. Love your approach to teaching. EXPLORE

thank u you do much I'm 63@an old hippie. I saw this this months ago and you. brought it to LYFE for me better than three gents before you.... can't wait to try it with my fat little fikngers lololol. I subscribed,!!!! does it work worth the 🎉one finger cords???? 😮

That's what my guitar was tuned to years ago and then someone tuned it to standard and then someone put it in drop d. I wrote songs on open d. But couldn't find them on standard or drop d. So I added metal distortion pedal and started making noise rock

3.17 it isn't boring,this is the entirety of the existence of the classical scale with notes Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni Sa in Eastern Music.

This is freaking awesome thanks brother you’re a lifesaver🙏🏽

Absolutely awesome video and lesson! So appreciate learning this. Thanks for sharing. Very generous. Cheers.