Rob Schumann: This is the Open E Tuning Tutorial, part 2. In this segment we will look at some chords that diatonically fit with the key of E and we will look at how we have to alter the fingerings to make them work with these tuning.
Of course, we already talked about how we could bar across six strings to make major barre chords. But to get sort of the open tuning chord type of sound, let's add drones to each chord. And what we are going to do is have an open first string and open second string ringing over every chord. That will add an E and a B on top of every chord. So we are still thinking of these fingerings as being the actually chord that's associated with this key, but these will produce some other extensions that could make them other chords. We will be just thinking of them as the chord who is associated with the key of E. So, of course, for an E major we can just play open six strings. For F sharp minor, try adding the second finger to the sixth strings, second fret, the third finger to the fourth string second fret and the first finger to the first fret third string.
So as that we get an F sharp minor and we are just adding an E and a B on top of that. For the G sharp minor, which is the third chord of this key, you can take the same fingering and move it two frets forwards to the fourth fret, and the third fret. For an A major chord take your second and third finger, move a one fret forward to the fifth fret, add the forth finger behind on the fifth fret, third string. It adds a pretty modern sound to it. We are taking an A major chord and adding a ninth on it with that open B string. We will go up two more frets with that same fingering to the seventh fret for a B major.
For a C sharp minor type of sound we can take the second and third finger, move up two frets to the ninth fret and use the first finger on the eighth fret of the third string. For a chord that we could use over in place of the seventh chord, we will take the same fingering and move it up two frets. This is leaving the fifth out of this diminished chords. It's not actually a D sharp diminished, but we could use it in its place. It's more like a sort of B chord that's not in reposition, but we can get away with it. So in context running all those together. Notice that cool open tuning drone.
Erik Mongrain: Hi, I am Erik Mongrain and today I am going to try and show you how to manage to play Silent Fool. First chord here is harmonics, these two notes picked. So just use your mid finger here to take your harmonics without touching these two strings.
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