Learn open D tuning, a 19th-century guitar setup where you lower the low E to D, the G to F-sharp, and the B to A. The video covers barre chords, open-position fingerings, and how to use a slide to bar the IV and V chords with proper intonation.
Hey gang, so now in the second video here for Slide Guitar 101, we're going to get to some chords that we're going to be using in open D. And first thing is we have to get into open D. Open D, by the way, is sometimes called Sebastopol, especially by the old-timers. And sometimes that was mispronounced as Bastopol, but Sebastopol or open D tuning comes from a parlor guitar piece published by Henry Worrell, I think in like 1860, and called Sebastopol. It was written during the Crimean War and was named for a very important battle in the Crimean War. I'm sure you're familiar with the Crimean War, aren't you? If not, you can go to Wikipedia, you can find more information about the Crimean War, about the Battle of Sebastopol, or the Siege of Sebastopol, and then the tuning itself, Sebastopol. But open D will be good enough for us. And to get to open D, we're just going to take our standard tuning, we're gonna come down to a D from low E. We're gonna keep our A and our D the same. Our G is gonna come down to the third, the major third, F sharp, F sharp. Our B is gonna come down to the fifth, that's an A. And then our high E will come down to the tonic D as well. Open D tuning provides us with this beautiful kind of open, airy, ethereal sound that I think is really beautiful. You have the tonic on the bottom and on the top. It's easy to find the scale. We'll get into that in the next video. And it lends itself to kind of a real open type of— you can just noodle around forever in open D and it sounds, it sounds great. Let's talk about the chord. So we have the open strings just provide us with our 1 chord D. And we have two different types of chords that we can play. We can play barred chords or open position chords. The barred chords are really easy. There's my open D, and then at the 5th fret, if I fret— if I bar across the 5th fret with my first finger here, I've got my IV chord G. And if I go to the 7th fret and do the same thing, that's my V chord A. So the very easiest way to play a 12-bar— a basic 12-bar blues would just be to establish a shuffle rhythm and go to those chords. Now I could also play a shuffle type of— well, that was a shuffle rhythm, but I could, I could do the alternating shuffle sound that we're so familiar with by just applying, going from the open or barred position to a note 2 frets higher on this 5th string. I'm going to use my 2nd finger in the open position, and then in the barred position I'll use my 3rd finger, but I'm just going 2 frets higher on the 5th string, and it will sound like this. I could also use the slide itself to bar the barred chords, and we're going to get really deep into slide technique in the third video in this series, but just to get the slide in the game here, we could bar with the slide. You need a slide that covers all the strings. And you want to put that slide, just rest it lightly on the string set, right on top of the 5th fret. If you're a little shy, you're going to be, you're going to be flat and awful sounding. If you're worse is if you overshoot the 5th fret and you're a little sharp. You want to be right on it. A little vibrato if you want. So if I did that, it would sound like this. Just sliding a little bit up to those barred chords. And then finally we have open position chords. Our open Position 4 chord G is going to be fretted with our 3 fingers, our 3 available fingers, and we've got the 2nd finger on the 2nd fret of the 5th string, so that's now a B, the 3rd of the chord. Then I've got my 1st finger on the 1st fret of the 3rd string and my 3rd finger on the 2nd fret of the 2nd string, and from the 5th string down, that's a G with a B in the bass. My 5 chord, I'm just going to take these two fingers, my second, third finger, and go down one string. And from the 5th string up, now I have A in the bass for my A chord. Great sound. Some people don't play the 1st string, just play it from A to A. Some people don't— will lift off their 3rd finger, play that. That's a suspended chord. That's kind of a cool sound, something that you can experiment with. But anyways, those are the open position chords. And if I played the blues, let's say in a style reminiscent of somebody like Buckle White, where on the I chord he alternates between the, the D and the G— it's called the plagal cadence, the I to IV or IV to I. And he didn't call it the plagal cadence, I don't reckon. But anyways, it would sound like this. So there's some basic blues using the available chords and open D. That will get you started on some rhythm playing, and in the third video we will finally really get— dive into the techniques necessary to get a really good slide sound.
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