Christine Baranski is best known for her roles on shows like The Good Wife and Cybill, but she actually got her start in ...

Expand your guitar vocab with chord ideas for Double Drop D, Open G, DADGAD, Open D and Open C tunings, favorite tunings for Keith Richards, Joni Mitchell, Jimmy Page and more ...

Having introduced 5 chord shapes for DADGAD tuning, let's turn our attention to open D (aka D A D F# A D). As with DADGAD, drop the sixth string down a tone to D, then drop the first and second ...

Open E tuning is essentially Open D tuning, two frets higher, and so licks in one of course translate readily to the other - but it deserves attention in our roundup here because of its appeal to ...

1. Use Open D for one-finger major chords (Image credit: Future) Change your tuning from standard to open D (D A D F# A D) and your guitar’s open strings produce the bright sound of a D major chord – ...

Guitar nerds would point you towards Leo Kottke, John Fahey, Ry Cooder and Duane Allman, too. To a degree, Open D is the sound of pre and postwar blues: Elmore James, Furry Lewis, Blind Willie Johnson ...

A ni DiFranco may not have tried every guitar tuning, but listening to her unique brand of dynamic and percussive ...

In 1856, the year the war ended, Worall composed a tune called “Sebastopol: A descriptive fantasy for the guitar,” a simple melody played in “open D” tuning.