D6 Tuning

Owana Salazar taught this tunings at George Kahumoku’s Slack Key Guitar Workshop on Maui in June.  It’s based on an open D6 chord (D A D F# B D) where the sixth note of the scale (B) is played on the open second string.  This tuning is only one note different from Open D (D A D F# A D) and D Ni’ihau (D A D F# B E), and is sometimes referred to as Boogie’s D Tuning, after Boogie Kalama.  It has been used in recordings by Carlos Andrade (with Na Pali) and Kapono Beamer. A useful G chord with the root note on a bass string (sixth) can be made by fretting the sixth and third strings at the fifth fret.

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