![]() In blues, you will find many recordings of the guitar in an open E tuning by artists such as Robert Johnson, Elmore James, Tampa Red and others. Some great examples of songs played in an open E tuning are “Jumping Jack Flash” and “Gimme Shelter” by the Rolling Stones, The Black Crowe’s “She Talks to Angels,” Joe Walsh’s “Rocky Mountain Way,” ZZ Top's “Just Got Paid,” The Faces’ “Stay With Me” and many others. Open E tuning as an open guitar tuning may be the most prevalent open tuning of all in regard to rock and pop music. The guitar is now in “open E tuning,” sounding the same note series (low to high): E B E G# B E. The sixth, second and first strings remain tuned normally. We can easily convert standard tuning to an open E tuning by tuning the fifth and fourth strings up one whole step, from A to B and from D to E, respectively, and tuning the third string up one half step from G to G#. When strumming across all of the strings while holding an E chord form, the notes sounded are (low to high): E B E G# B E. ![]() The second and first strings are played unfretted, sounding B and E. ![]() A standard open E tuning is achieved by tuning the strings to the same series of notes that are sounded when fretting a first-position “cowboy” chord voicing for E: when playing a first-position E chord in standard tuning (low to high: E A D G B E), the sixth string is unfretted, sounding E the middle finger is placed at the second fret of the fifth string, sounding B the ring finger is placed at the second fret of the fourth string, sounding E and the index finger is placed at the first fret of the third string, sounding G#.
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