Open D tuning

The open D tuning, named after a traditional folk piece as Vestapol mood, is a guitar tuning. The strings of the instrument are tuned so that when you hit the open strings will sound a D major chord.

Starting from the standard tuning (E -A -d -g -h -e ' ), we obtain the open D tuning (D -A -d -f # -a- d') as follows:

• The sixth string ( bass string ) is tuned a tone lower. You then have to sound an octave lower than the empty fourth string. The sixth string at the seventh fret and the empty fifth string should therefore sound the same.
• The third string is tuned a semitone lower and then sounds like the fretted at the fourth fret fourth string.
• The second string is tuned a tone lower. Then sounds an octave higher than the empty fifth string or the fretted at the third fret third string.
• The first string is also tuned a tone lower and then sounds an octave higher than the empty fourth string or as the second string at the fifth fret.

The Open D tuning corresponds to the interval structure of the open E tuning ( EheG # -h -e ' ), in which all sound the strings compared a major second higher.

Fingering chart

The numbers indicate the frets to the cross strings; left the bass string. With x designated strings are not struck.