Open Tunings Fingerstyle Guitar - Open D, Open G & DADGAd (Udemy.com)
Learn Open Tunings For Fingerstyle Guitar, Exercises, Etudes and Full Arrangements in a Practical Thorough Method
Created by: Nir Mehlman
Last updated October 2022
What you will learn
- 3 Open guitar tunings - Open D, Open G & DADGAd
- Fingerstyle guitar picking patterns & Exercises
- Chords and Etudes for each of the tunings
- Tunes and Arrangements for those tunings
- A deep and thorough method for learning
- Play Harmony and Melody at the same time
How it compares
Against the other 183 rated Udemy courses in Guitar on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.8 out of 5higher than 81% of them
- Reviews96#121 of 184 by number of reviews
- Length25.9 hourslonger than 97% of them
- Last updatedOctober 2022more recently than 65% of them
Course Description
Discovering the world of Open Tunings truly changed my guitar playing, it had opened a huge window for creativity, it made me play and compose and wander around with chords and harmonies in a way that I never knew before.
Here you got an Open Tunings Fingerstyle Guitar Course, where you'll learn three common guitar open tunings - Open D, Open G, and DADGAd (Open Dsus4).
with a great learning method, a thorough method, that will lead you to truly succeed and progress. In this method, we'll learn how to take a whole tune, etude, or an exercise, and break it to manageable pieces, and with repetitive playing to implement it to our muscle memory.
We'll starts from the very basics of Fingerstyle Guitar, We'll learn how to tune the guitar to those three tunings.
For each tuning, there is an Exercises Section, with many exercises and picking patterns.
Then there is an Etudes Section, in which we'll learn chords for each of the tunings, and play with them all over the guitar's neck.
And then, there are Songs for each of the tunings, an Open D Blues and Amazing Grace for The Open D Tuning, Barn Owl (a beautiful original composition) For the Open G Tuning, and Looking For A Home (another original tune) For the DADGAd Tuning.
So, There's a lot to learn with a thorough method that leads slowly and gradually towards success.
I'm here for every question, you can message me or ask a question, I'll answer as soon as I see it.
Instructor Details
- 4.8 Rating
96 Reviews
Nir Mehlman
Born in Dimona, A small city in the south of Israel. Started playing the guitar a the age of 12.5, and since then never put it down. Learned classical guitar at the local conservatorium, and contemporary music and blues with local guitar teachers. At first, I loved to learn the songs of The Beatles. A turning point in my guitar playing was when I discovered folk music, and the beauty of fingerstyle guitar, with artists like Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Nick Drake, Tommy Emmanuel, and more.
Since then (about 16 years ago), I have mainly played fingerstyle guitar, I compose and arrange for fingerstyle guitar and love it very much.
In the last ten years, I mainly taught guitar playing, from kids to adults, I try to reveal them to the magic of guitar playing and the magic of acoustic and fingerstyle guitar, many of my students buying acoustic guitars which for me is a great achievement.
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Reviews
By Mikey Maguire on 2/25/2025
This course is fantastic. It covers the two areas of playing that I had no previous experience with - namely fingerpicking and open tunings. It is taught in a very clever way. You are constantly building on the things you learn as the course goes on and as your playing develops. The teacher is excellent and has really put a great deal of consideration into what he is teaching and how he teaches it. I found that I had to take it really, really slowly in the beginning, making sure that I was picking the correct string with the correct finger, but once I developed muscle memory regarding this, the pace at which I continued grew faster and faster. I am so pleased that I found this course, and I am finding that I am growing exponentially as a guitar player now. I am very grateful to Nir for creating this course. I cannot recommend it enough.
By Don Belanger on 2/16/2023
Although we are at the introductory stage of this course presentation, I find the instructor very organized and knowledgeable. His pacing is slow and steady and he gets his points across very understandably. I feel this bodes well as we progress into the heart of learning open tunings. His historical presentation of open tunings was also appreciated by this student. The instructor has put a lot of effort into this course presentation and it shows.
By Doelf Weder on 10/14/2021
Excellently graded and paced extensive course, starting very simple in each tuning and then getting complexer step by step, thereby opening up new worlds of chords and sounds. Inspiring and inviting to improvise.
By Hannah Jane on 9/4/2021
I would of liked to see more scales/ chord diagrams for improv
By Gadriela on 2/20/2021
Yes, it is a thorough introduction to the world of open tunings and fingerstyle guitar, from the basics to more advanced etudes. I enjoy the tunes, after playing the Blues and amazing grace, now I'm learning Barn Owl on the Open G, beautiful tune.
By Lou Tibon on 2/18/2021
Great course, I feel that I learned a lot so far, the open D etude gave many chords, I even started messing around with them and composing my own tune on open D tuning.
By Gregory Pace on 2/12/2021
Excellent course. The exercises and etudes are fun to play, sound great, and really get the chord shapes/sounds of each tuning under your fingers. There are individual videos breaking down every bar of every exercise/etude. This level of detail is outstanding. Well done!
By D.Dinesh on 10/16/2020
His teaching is fabulous,,, if someone wants to learn fingerstyle guitar playing quickly it's better to start with his courses,,, if he brings another course i will buy it too,,, Nir is the best in his own class,,,
By Michael Auerswald on 9/29/2020
I already took Nir's first fingerstyle course and just like the one before, this one too is excellent. He's about as thorough as you can possibly get at demonstrating exactly what and how to play each section of a song. Add to that the etudes and exercises, something most other courses just skip over but is very essential both for learning to control your fingers and also just for warming up. Highly recommended!
By H Kotelansky on 9/13/2020
I am new to the open tunings,and I find them fascinating, the guitar sounds full tuned that way. The etude and the open D blues were great to start with, now I begin Amazing Grace.
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