Jared James Nichols explains how to use open strings and Drop D tuning to bulk-up your blues fingerstyle

Park your electric guitar in Drop D. Throw your pick in the trash. It's time for some muscular fingerstyle with the purveyor ...
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Try these 16 inspiring guitar chords that use open strings

Utilising open strings can add new dimensions to basic chord progressions. This simple and effective technique has been used to great effect by players as diverse as Alex Lifeson, Jeff Buckley, The ...
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Open-position guitar chords for beginners

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 ...
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An old guitar is hot again and celebrated annually at the Tenor Guitar Gathering

Guitars come in many forms, mostly with six strings or doubled to 12. The tenor guitar — with just four strings — is a ...