When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: David Redfern/Redferns/Getty Images For this open tuning lesson, we are going to take ...

Change the major 3rd of an open A chord to either a 4th or a 2nd to add movement, but without changing the sound of the chord too much. Great for folk and pop. This is a Jimi Hendrix-style ...

In this lesson, we're creating rhythm parts using chords that exploit the open strings. We'll make things simple by limiting our study here to major and minor triads. As you may have guessed from the ...