Beyond Basics: Introducing Alternate Tunings for Fingerstyle Guitar

Using alternate (non-standard) tunings, artists such as Joni Mitchell, Leo Kottke, David Wilcox, Neil Young and many others draw beautiful and fascinating new sounds from the guitar. In this program, fingerstyle wizard Mark Hanson introduces the four most common alternate tunings, demonstrates some beautiful new chords, and teaches, note-for-note, four of his own compositions.