Lesson 7: Open C tuning

Open C Tuning is an open tuning for guitar. The open string notes in this tuning are CGCGCE. It uses the three notes that form the triad of a C major chord: C, the root note; G, the perfect fifth; and E the major third. When the guitar is strummed without fretting any of the strings a C major chord is sounded. This means that any major chord can be easily created using one finger, fretting all the strings at once. Variants CACGCE (Open C 6th) - used by Jimmy Page in Led Zeppelin songs "Friends" (Led Zeppelin III) and "Bron-Yr-Aur" (Physical Graffiti). CGCGGE (Open C doubled 5th) - used by Soundgarden on songs "Pretty Noose" and "Burden in my Hand" (Down on the Upside) and "Head Down" and "Half" (Superunknown) Devin Townsend of Strapping Young Lad tunes his guitars to CGCGCE, sometimes with the addition of a lower seventh string, which is tuned to G. CGCCGE - used by Lemon Demon in This Hyper World, Indie Cindy and the Low-Fi Lullabies, and Nothing Worth Loving Isn't Askew. CECGCC - used by Bad Company on "Can't Get Enough."

Open C tuning - CGCGCE How to tune a guitar to open "C" tuning August Rush Acoustic Guitar Slap (Open C tuning) Friends - Led Zeppelin The guitar tuning for the song is an open-C6 chord (C-A-C-G-C-E).

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