As you can see, this tuning allows for quite a few ‘standard’ chord shapes (similar to open G), but the open D strings do allow us to stretch out a little.

A favorite of Mumford & Sons, open D tunes your guitar to DADF#AD and makes a great platform for fingerstyle blues excursions ...

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 ...