Christine Baranski is best known for her roles on shows like The Good Wife and Cybill, but she actually got her start in theater, and that’s how she met her late husband, Matthew Cowles. Baranski, a ...

The final step is to drop the G string down a semitone to F#. The open D tuning is great for blues and fingerstyle acoustic pieces.

Though they have frequently been used on electric guitar (think Keith Richards and Jimmy Page), open tunings are particularly effective on acoustic guitar (look to Joni Mitchell, Nick Drake, Nick ...