Having introduced 5 chord shapes for DADGAD tuning, let's turn our attention to open D (aka D A D F# A D). As with DADGAD, drop the sixth string down a tone to D, then drop the first and second ...

Take the open C major chord. The intervals in ascending order from the fifth string up to the first are: root, major 3rd, 5th, octave and 10th (essentially another major 3rd stacked an octave higher).

In this lesson, we focus on major triads and their inversions (when the notes of a chord are rearranged). Instead of the usual ‘root, 3rd, 5th’ arrangement, the sequence can change to ‘3rd ...