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Easist & most versatile 3 string tuning.

Tuning big string to small string: DGB. The same as the DGB on a six string

G chord: open- nothing fretted.

C chord: index on the small string above the first fret and middle on the big string above the second fret.

D7 chord: index on small string above the first fret and middle on middle string above the 2nd fret.

D chord: middle on middle string above the 2nd fret and ring on the small string above the 3rd fret. (I mostly use the D7)

Em chord: any finger on the big string above the 2nd fret.

Am chord. Index on small string above the first fret.. And middle and ring on the other two strings above the second fret.

E chord: index on middle above the first fret. Middle on big string above the 2nd fret.

B7 chord: middle on the big string above the first fret and ring on the middle string on the middle string above the 2nd fret.

A chord: bar or fret all 3 strings above the 2nd fret

F chord: Index on the small string above the first fret, middle on the middle string above the 2nd fret and ring on the big string above the 3rd fret.

G chord Boogie Note: middle finger on the big string above the 2nd fret- do a four count strum and use the boogie note on the 3 count.

C chord boogie note. Make your C chord. Use a 4 count strum and on the 3 count, fret the middle string above the 2nd fret with your ring finger.

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Comment by Uncle John on March 5, 2015 at 3:32pm: Yup, Ritchie can do it. My fingers won't make the long stretches on IVI, but can do it on DGB.

Comment by RTZGUITARS on March 5, 2015 at 3:08pm: with a 3 string I'm lost after minor and 7th chords it is not easy to figure out the fancy chords. And even more so when you have 2 string tuned to same note. But it can be done by someone somewhere over the rainbowrainbowrainbow. Ritchie Blackmore rules!

Comment by Maddog on March 5, 2015 at 12:17pm: Not sure yet John, I'm goin' day to day at the moment.

Comment by Uncle John on March 5, 2015 at 6:25am: Any time, Patrick. What are you doin' Monday?

Comment by Maddog on March 5, 2015 at 6:23am: Might have to get an in person tutorial on this John! Well done!

Comment by Uncle John on March 4, 2015 at 8:46am: Sounds like a song, Dog. But maybe 'Waiting On The Outhouse Jig.'

Comment by smilingdog1 on March 4, 2015 at 8:29am: Thank you. This is kinda like Karaoke John.

Waiting on that outhouse blues.

Comment by Uncle John on March 4, 2015 at 2:59am: Thanks, Matthew. Twang, that opened up new horizons for me. I just don't understand them.

Comment by Jim Morris on March 3, 2015 at 12:44pm: Dammit TN Twang and RTZ. What the heck do them numbers mean? I just barely got I, IV, V figured out! All along I thought IV was something they gave to you in a hospital.

Comment by TN Twang on March 3, 2015 at 12:14pm: Cmi7 (-5) is also an E-flat mi with an added 6th

Couldn't resist. Hope that makes everything clear! :-)