Here are five chord shapes you need to learn in open G tuning. With its G-G-G-D-D arrangement of notes, this first chord is near impossible to play in standard tuning. This chord offers a way to ...

Moving up to C (the V chord) this idea involves transposing virtually the same set of possibilities up to the 5th fret, albeit limited by the necessity of the bar across the top five strings. Two bars ...

This first chord is a nice, easy fingering for C/G. Do your best not to accidentally mute the open third string. The F chord is the fourth chord in the key of C, so this will go well in a ...