Open and alternate tunings can broaden the range and expression of your guitar playing and allow you to play seemingly impossible riffs with surprising ease. This is even more true when playing slide guitar. When you use the finger slide to play, you are essentially playing everything with one finger, so having a thorough understanding of open tunings and alternate tunings is even more important! Check out the video above, as I walk you through my 10 favorite tunings for slide guitar. Hopefully these tunings will give you some new ideas, and help you break out of your old boxes!

10 BEST TUNINGS FOR SLIDE GUITAR:

Open G: D-G-D-G-B-D

Open A: E-A-E-A-C#-E

Open D: D-A-D-F#-A-D

Open E: E-B-E-G#-B-E

Open E Minor: E-B-E-G-B-E

Open G Hybrid: D-G-D-G-B-E

Drop D: D-A-D-G-B-E

Drop G: E-G-D-G-B-E

Drop High D: E-A-D-G-B-D

Standard: E-A-D-G-B-E