West I thought I had a good idea of what open tunings were, but still had to just google it to make sure. Ive never thought about doing it, just straight forward tuning. I did a couple of country songs with a drop D years back, but I don’t think that counts. All you guys amaze me with skill sets. I’m nowhere near your levels
Maybe now I’ve retired, I can go a bit further. Most songs I do are in Gmaj, or I’ve transposed them to G, or at least the G shape. For the key of A, I throw that capo on second fret and play chords in G on the fifth fret. Guys use to call me the “G man”. My only other MO is to capo around and go to the key of Emaj chord shapes so I can used open barred chords. So that’s it, two ways; key of G and it’s chords, key of E and it’s chords, plus a capo when needed. Now that’s probably boring to most I’m sure. But I’ve always been employed as a front man or lead vocalist first, since late 70’s then as a rhythm guitarist second, always a plus as well. And at 59, my focus is trying to remember all the dang words! With only having to remember words and the chord progressions in only two keys, I might can get through a song without having to sing the first first twice, because I can’t remember the second! I did that in heavy metal bars and clubs in the 80’s, but I forgot words due to other forces outside of my control…...
so thumbs up to all you guys