Open C Tuning - Easy Simple Guitar Lesson - Beginner Guitar Playing
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Open C Tuning - PLAY GUITAR NOW - Easy Simple Guitar Lesson
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In this detailed guitar lesson we will learn how to play a simple scale on one string and learn several chords to play dozens of songs. Your imagination is the key to playing like a pro using the Open C Tuning Method.

Open C Tuning on Guitar

Learn how to tune your guitar to open C and start playing your favorite songs in open C tuning.

Standard tuning isn’t the only way to tune your guitar. To experiment with songwriting and make use of the entire range of the guitar, musicians will look to “alternate tunings,” which are basically any tuning that’s not in the standard E, A, D, G, B, E tuning. It might be difficult for beginners at first, but practicing alternate tunings will help enhance your knowledge of musical theory.

In this lesson, we’ll learn how to tune your guitar to open C, one of those alternate tunings. Also on the agenda: the benefits of alternate tunings and songs in open C tuning for you to play.
What is Open C Tuning?

Strumming open strings in open C tuning on guitar will sound like a C chord. Overall, the tuning creates a big, full sound. Achieving this tonality is one of the reasons why you might want to venture outside of standard tuning.

Another reason you may want to try your hand at alternate tunings like open C, is because they can allow you to experiment with more sounds and tones when writing songs. Several famous guitar players have used the open C tuning on guitar for exactly that reason and created some of the most popular songs of our time.

All six strings are tuned like so for standard guitar tuning:

-- E (lowest string)
-- A
-- D
-- G
-- B
-- E (highest string)

In open C tuning, your low E string will be taken down two whole steps to C, A will tune a whole step down to G, D will go one whole step down to C, G will stay the same, B is tuned up one half step to C, and the high E stays the same.

-- C (lowest string, tuned down two whole steps from E)
-- G (tuned one whole step down from A)
-- C (tuned one whole step down from D)
-- G (stays the same)
-- C (tuned up a half step from B)
-- E (highest string, stays the same)

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