Open G guitar tuning [DGDGBD] is a most evocative and versatile tuning. It has been a staple in blues and Hawaiian slack-key music, and it’s a revelation when you learn that the classic rock tune you’ve been struggling to perfect is actually in open G. 

In this book, authors El McMeen and Sandy Shalk propel this tuning in new directions with their Celtic, spiritual, jazz, Americana, and pop interests. The result is a cornucopia of styles and textures that inspire and convince readers that they can take this ingenious tuning in their own new directions!
 
Written in standard notation and tablature with computer generated audio files of each arrangement.

Tuning the Guitar to Open G

 Open G Chord Chart

Tab/Music Presentation

The Music

Americana

Battle Hymn of the Republic

She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain

Turkey in the Straw

American Patrol March

Blues

Careless Love

Tin Roof Blues

Celtic Music

Carolan Music

Captain O’Kain

Carolan’s Cottage

Fanny Power

George Brabazon, 2nd Air

Hewlett

Sir Festus Burke

Jigs, Reels, and Other Dance Tunes

The Killmoulis Jig

My Home Waltz

Saint Anne’s Reel

Songs and Airs

Castle of Dromore

Rose of Allendale

Ye Banks and Braes

Classic Songs/Standards

After You’ve Gone

Clarinet Polka

Golden Slippers

My Melancholy Baby

On Moonlight Bay

Some of These Days

Fiddle Tunes

Arkansas Traveler/Soldier’s Joy

Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine/Bonaparte’s Retreat

Red Haired Boy

Hymns and Spirituals

Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus (Hyfrydol)

El Noi de la Mare

Go, Tell It on the Mountain

Holy Manna

Simple Gifts

Ragtime

Alexander’s Ragtime Band