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 ...

To try this tuning, simply drop both high and low E strings by a tone ... This Em7 makes use of the open first string, giving us the 7th (D) as the top note. We’re fretting the sixth string ...