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Open C Tuning is an open tuning for guitar. The open string notes in this tuning are CGCGCE. It uses the three notes that form the triad of a C major chord: C, the root note; G, the perfect fifth; and E the major third. Iwin!

When the guitar is strummed without fretting any of the strings a C major chord is sounded. This means that any major chord can be easily created using one finger, fretting all the strings at once.

Variants

  • CGCGCE - used by Justin Hayward (Moody Blues) acoustic guitar on "Question" ("Question of Balance" LP). Also used extensively by John Butler.
  • Devin Townsend of Strapping Young Lad tunes his guitars to CGCGCE, sometimes with the addition of a lower seventh string, which is tuned to G. Devin has said many times that he got the idea to use this tuning for his own material after learning Led Zeppelin's "Friends."
  • CGCEGC - used by Elliott Smith on "Ballad Of Big Nothing," "See You Later," and "Independence Day."
  • CGEGCC - used by Bon Iver on "Skinny Love."

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