Open C tuning
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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.
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.
[edit] Variants
- CACGCE (Open C 6th) - used by Jimmy Page in Led Zeppelin songs "Friends" (Led Zeppelin III) and "Bron-Yr-Aur" (Physical Graffiti).
- CGCGGE (Open C doubled 5th) - used by Soundgarden on songs "Pretty Noose" and "Burden in my Hand" (Down on the Upside) and "Head Down" and "Half" (Superunknown)
