Slide guitar tuning open a. This is done using open tuning. And if you like you can tune to open g and capo on the 2nd fret for open a since open a requires tuning up. Open a slide guitar tuning is used in jimmy page and the black crowes version of in my time of dying you can easily play the intro to this song by using the above chart.
The guitar is tuned to the same pitch as an open d major chord d f a but unlike open g tuning the root of the chord is on the sixth string lowest string. Open e e b e g b e low to high is close to standard tuning because the top two strings are tuned the same. As the use of a slide across several strings may require retuning the instrument to voice chords two of the most popular open tunings for slide guitar to have developed are open e and open g.
The most prevalent is that an open tuning provides a major chord across all six strings so holding the slide straight across at any fret yields a chord on any set of strings. Below are five different types of open tunings open d open c open g open a and open e. This tuning doesnt require tuning up any strings.
Work it out using the open strings and frets 2 3 and 5 and at the end you get to slide all the way up to fret 12. In the above video ted provides some background information on slide guitar and open tunings like which tunings are best for which genres.