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Permalink Reply by Uncle John on October 15, 2014 at 8:25am

Rob, you need to tell us which open E tuning.  There would be at least several ways to do it.   I would suggest Googling Horvath open E.    This Mr. Horvath has a lot of info and finger chord charts for the open tunings.  Good guy.   Good stuff.

 

For a really low tone you could use the 4 big strings from a set of 6 and tune them E-B-E-G♯.   Mr. Horvath's stuff should be helpful if that was the case.   You would just view the charts and omit the two high strings.   Of course played with a slide, you would mostly use open -  an E chord,  5th fret an A chord and 7th fret, B chord.  For blues, add a large dash of the slide across the 3rd fret and occasional use of the 12th. 

Permalink Reply by Rob Bennett on October 15, 2014 at 8:33am

EG#BE...is my tuning...it sounds great with this build...thanks for info.......just need to know where things are

Permalink Reply by Jeff McFadden on October 15, 2014 at 9:59am

So that's 1-3-5-1 in terms of scale degree... 1st note, 3rd note, 5th note, 1st note an octave up.
Any major chord is 1-3-5. So you could: bar at 5th fret for your A chord (4 chord) bar at 7th fret for your B chord (5 chord).
Count up your frets: open is E, 1st fret is F (there is no E sharp or F flat note or chord) 2nd fret is F# (F sharp) 3rd fret is G. .. When you get to B there is no B sharp or C flat so you jump direct.to C...
Any fret, any chord, if you fret your first and third & 4th strings there and fret your second string one fret lower you'll produce a minor chord named by the counting system I showed you above...
Search youtube for my name & view my free tutorials on music theory for beginners. You can figure out your own chords and don't need any charts.
This ain't rocket science.
Jeff McFadden

Permalink Reply by Slowpaw Steve T on October 15, 2014 at 10:14am

might be something here...

http://www.4stringchords.com/

Permalink Reply by Uncle John on October 15, 2014 at 2:30pm

Rob, I think those chord charts from Hovath will work fine.  Just use the four small strings off the chord charts.   For the most part, you just need to use the open E and the slide or finger chords for the A and chords.  I just messed with that tuning on a six and the finger chord A and B should be easy 2 finger chords.   Good wishes.  Over and out.