Ani DiFranco may not have tried every guitar tuning, but listening to her unique brand of dynamic and percussive folk/punk/rock songs, it can certainly seem that way. What is clear, however, is that ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Keith Richards. Of all the alternative tunings in use today, open G must be a contender for ‘most popular’. But before we continue ...

Non-standard open or altered tunings crop up frequently in blues, folk and country music. One reason for this is that they can greatly facilitate slide playing. But another is that unusual chord ...