www.rexpearson.com for a full description, more free guitar courses, guitar lessons and a great community of guitarists to help you out or share your experiences with! If you decide to tune your guitar to the open strings you need to know what those strings are. EADGBE is the pattern you will need to learn and I'll show you an easy way of remembering this pattern. Knowing the open strings is not just useful for tuning your guitar. It also helps with naming chords, finding what notes you are playing and many more things that you will discover in the beginner guitar course levels 1-4, so make sure you get this learnt.