There's a few open tunings I've used such as open d open e open g etc.
I was trying a tuning by randomly tuning one day and there was a different sound. I read that the tuning was what's called-cross note tuning. Is there a difference between open tuning and cross not tuning. So this is the tuning I'm talking about
E A E A C E from low string to high string. It at first started as a open G Keith Richards like tuning but then there was the mysterious difference of one string...so I got out the tuner and this is what I found...the strings as described above and skip James used it...a minor open tuning ???

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Hours spent hunched over the guitar, trying to find interval patterns in the new tuning, that sound good together, followed by mapping of same in tab or score. And playing lots of worng notes.

Then, go the Wikipedia's music theory page for basic theory.

Start a lifelong journey of discovery. Or stop right there, and go "Oh. Is that really all it is?"
Awwwwrrrriiiighht...what is it you actually want? A basic chord chart for which tuning?

The fact that you've wasted an entire lfetime without learning any music theory at all is just...so...normal. I expected better.

The reason I sent you to that particular page is that it is a quite reasonable basic concentration of theory, that with only a little effort, could have allowed you to figure patterns for major and minor scalesin any tuning. And you normally seem like a person willing to DIY, sooo...my bad. Obviously.

But you want someone to just tell you the answer, without asking a specific question. Yes, alternative tunings. But WHICH ONE??!! The one referenced in this post? Or something else?

Man don't wanna learn to fish, man go hungry.
Yah, so I'm cranky today. BTW, I didn't mention the tuning. But now that you bring that up, my snotty response got you to ask some more specific questions in regards to that tuning, which appear to be what you really did wanna know, viz: Easier fingering? Easier chording?

But you first asked "How do we come up with chords?" Now that I know you played cello (not obvious from your first post), this makes me even more perturbed, as in WTF? Shirley you can suss out a major and a minor scale. Typical Major triad chord = root + major 3rd + perfect 5th, si? Typical minor triad chord = root + minor 3rd + perfect 5th. This is all in Wikipedia. As is discussion of what these terms mean. It's better and more condensed than many books I've bought and read on the subject, it's readily available, blah blah blah.

Sharecropper's response is probably more what you were looking for, as far as theory goes. But my response was a secondary response to my first one: hours spent over a guitar in a particular tuning, trying to map out patterns that "sound good (theory can explain why - part of my engineer's / architect's / scientist's curse)" on the fretboard for that tuning.

So that I can create...a map. A chart. Which, truth be told, I could also look up:

http://gtdb.org/eaeacse/chords

Nasty admission: haven't done this mapping for EAEACE. Not a tuning I've messed with. Like you, other things to do during the day (moving house, for example, which right now includes moving several hundred pounds of pavers and bricks by my lonesome, 50-100 pounds at a time. Why? Cuz I wanna say I DIM. Just like the little kid who laboriously ties his own shoes...).

So, never having looked up the guitar database website, I find myself more than a little intrigued. Lookit what I found.

For you. In my spare time. Which required a smidgen of theory to realize how valuable this is, to me, you and anyone else.

And many many thanks to GTDB for doing all this fine, look-up-able work, so that more sharing can occur between two middle aged curmudgeons. Statler and Waldorf, bud. >:-E

Oh, and you're welcome.

Hi, Jon .    Cross note tunings are minor open tunings .    EAEACE is an A minor open tuning .   If you put your finger at the first fret on the C string it will give you a C# and an A major chord (EAEAC#E).      "I" imagine cross note tuning was a term devised to explain some musicians approach to playing in an open minor tuning.    Keni Lee Burgess explains cross tunings/minor tunings here ......https://youtu.be/FFL4CgZx8nQ         I hope this helps.

Ok this is what I was looking for (answer) a minor open tuning. The cross-note description threw me off. Wikipedia through me off but did help.
In the past I've experimented with open tunings AFTER looking one up and using it. Hence I already knew open d open g, dropped d and c6 etc...

I was not near the Internet with my guitar ...had not known what I tuned to ...just sounded good. So this time when I got home used a tuner found out the actual tuned strings were.. they were aeaece ....then looked at Wikipedia and saw cross-note tuning...though why not ask others what's this really all about...and now I know more about it. I'm sorry if I caused any havoc here but I like human responses and appreciate all responses...especially on this forum. It's only the best one there is ....and here I thought I would be added to the worlds coolest guitarists as now I would have invented an ALL new tuning. Ehhh next time
Don't exactly sound minor to me without pressing any fingers down...that was kinda interested to see but not hear that it is a minor open tuning
Don't look at any of these charts or tunings ...tune your guitar in a way you never have. Play it. See what you hear. Lol. Kinda interesting ...my only mistake was I liked what I heard and I wanted to know if the tuning was known already in the large array of tunings....indeed it was listed ...thank you everyone for the help with the tunings.

 Hi, JL .     Gdb is a G major chord .   G,D, b flat is a G minor chord.    A standard guitar chord book , with the notes written underneath the chords, can be another good source of info. when building  chords.      Cheers.    

GDG is neither major nor minor.  You need that 3rd to define the flavor as JL and Sharecropper said. 

GDG (1 5 8) is called a G power cord, or more correctly G5, meaning playing the 1 and 5 notes, drop the 3rd that makes it major or minor.

Bass players use the 1 - 5 a lot, listen to most any country or bluegrass song's bass line, bop, boop, bop, boop, bop, boop, 1, 5, 1, 5, 1, 5,

D'oh, you are correct, I meant bb (b flat, than you)

GDG is neither major or minor - it is neutral. Remember how JL said a chord is built from 3 notes? GDG only has 2...

To make it major or minor you have to add the 3rd degree of the scale - either B for major or Bb for minor (a minor third is a semi-tone flat from the major third).

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