Everybody knows the guitar is a versatile instrument, not just for the convenience of being able to take it with you almost anywhere (unlike a drum kit) but due to the many styles in which it can be played. In spite of this, when you find a style that you enjoy the most, you tend to stick to it and pretty soon, you know what you're going to sound like when you pick up the guitar and mess around. There's one way to give yourself a new lease of life when you feel things are going stale, no matter what your favoured playing style is and it's great for when you're in the creative mood and writing your own songs.
Experimenting with new chords is really exciting but just when you think you've learned more or less every chord that will blow you away, you can regain the excitement of being a beginner guitar player discovering that you can play simple guitar chords all over again by retuning your guitar strings. You may have become familiar with your own techniques but that's about to go out of the window for a while.
If you have mainly played the guitar in standard tuning, E-A-D-G-B-A, you have several untapped tuning configurations which will transform how you sound.
First of all, try out G tuning, G-G-D-G-B-D, and see how by simply playing A minor as a bar chord up at the 12th fret for one strum, the next strum with just your index finger making a bar, you have the first two chords to Brown Sugar and it sounds exactly like Keith Richards. This is mind blowing yet simple and makes you sound completely different.
Alternatively, with this same tuning you could plat the first two chords to She Talks To Angels by Black Crowes by strumming the open chord, followed by the same chord shape as A Min 7 but in this tuning, you get the perfect sound, exactly the way that Rich Robinson plays it.
Go and check out videos of the Rolling Stones and Black Crowes and you will start to recognize the songs that are in this tuning. You will need to learn to play the guitar again in this style, but because you can already play, it's all of the pleasure of learning and none of the pain. You will stumble across new chords and find that you are writing your own riffs in no time.
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