Christine Baranski is best known for her roles on shows like The Good Wife and Cybill, but she actually got her start in ...

Wild tunings, double thumbing and chicken picking. Sometimes with an 11-string. The Australian acoustic wizard's stunning ...

Open tunings are very popular with slide players as they offer the facility of playing triads with one finger (or slide), giving convenient groups of notes with which to build licks and patterns ...

This is Open D tuning, which means that the six strings, struck openly, sound a D major chord. To make other chords, players could simply bar the strings straight across, with one finger, and move it, ...

Open D minor tuning - surely the saddest of all tunings - is less often used than many others on this list, but its minor tonality proves very atmospheric - and major chords are a doddle to find, ...

Open G (D G D G B D) was a favourite of slide player Duane Allman, and Keith Richards uses his own five-string version of the tuning, removing the lowest string from his guitar all together – a vital ...

It's a primitive, janky sound voiced in open D tuning, played on four strings fretted up the neck. The easy-play guitar chord books will usually diagram it as a simple open A minor in standard tuning.