First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Preliminary table of Contents: Introduction The Perils of Standard Tuning Open Tunings or "Slack Key" Guitar Tablature vs. Music Notation Modified Capos Nashville "High Strung" Guitar Twelve String Guitar Partial Chords with Open Strings Other Resources 1 Retuning the 6th String to a D Using Different Chord Formations "Windy Blues" "Up the Neck" Double Dropped D Tuning "D Demon" 2 G Family Tunings Partial Chord Fingerings in Open Tunings Slide Guitar "Slidin'" "Slidin' #2" "Movin' Fast" "Roamin'" "Blues without Words" "Lonesome Blues" "Lonesome Blues #2" "The Parlor Pedal Point Waltz" G Minor Tuning "Minor Claw" "Darker Than Ever" DGDGAD Tuning "Across the Mountains" GDGFCD (Mountain minor) "The Cuckoo" 3 D Family Tunings "Dreaming" "Dreaming," expanded solo "D Blues" "Ridge Runner Blues" "Musing" "Dulcitar" "Good King Wenceslas" "In the Parlor" "D Blues" "For Whom the Bell Tolls" D major 7 tuning "Up The River" "Uncertainty" D minor tuning "Minor Moan" "Calling the Children Home" D major 7 tining DADGAD "Irnament" "Dulcidad" "Oud Food" "Blue Gad" "Plucky Pierre" 3 C Family Tunings "Impressions" "Walkin'" "C to Shining Sea Blues" Open C minor tuning "Too Much Suffering" "Shifting Gears" Other C Family Tunings "Marble Stairs" C9 Tuning "Ren Burned" "Banjo-It Is" C major 9 tuning Quadruple C tuning "West of East" 4 Other Tunings Open A Tuning "John Henry's Train Tune" "Carl's Carousel" Fourths Tuning "Beijing Nights" "Devilish Dance" Lute Tuning "John's Lute Fisk" Duplicate Tunings "Turning Still" Nashville High String Tuning "Country Fried" "Leadbelly's Music Box" Twelve string guitar tunings "12 X 5 Version 1" "12 X 5 Version 2" "Openings" "White Men At Eagle Pass" 5 Standard Tuning Tricks Using Capos Partial capos Using the Partial Capo "Partial Fulfillment" "Country Rhodes" "Nine Frets High" Open String Chords in Standard Tuning "Many Crossings" "Opening The E Blues" Appendix A Off the Wall Tunings: A Brief Inventory Appendix B Chord Charts Open G Open D DADGAD Open C E Tuning Bibliography