“I didn’t want to copy Keith Richards or Rich Robinson from the Black Crowes. I wanted to try to find my own guitar voice”: Charlie Starr on how to make open G tuning work for you

Hello, and welcome to my new column for Guitar World! Over the course of these lessons, I will be sharing and demonstrating my approaches to rhythm playing, soloing, slide guitar, open tunings and songwriting, all of which have contributed to the music I’ve written and recorded with my band, Blackberry Smoke.

I’d like to start off with a look at open G tuning, which I used to write the Blackberry Smoke song Ain’t Much Left of Me from our 2012 album, The Whippoorwill.