The Open-D Tuning Guitar Spot

I'm going to do the research, but be interested in any quick answers all the same, guitar lovers. It was probably some medieval sharpie lute teacher or something who saw the opportunity -

"hee hee hee, If I just re-set some of these strings, there's no way to play a decent chord right off the bat, hee hee hee...."

Really, there has to be a reason why the ol's 6-string has this peculiar, virtually alien starting point EADGBE. The DGB part makes some sense, I guess, that's a semblance of a chord (an inversion, anyway), but then - why throw in an E on one side and a A on the other, for gosh sakes?

Here's a comparison I intend to publish in a future article, as an illustration:

open-d guitar tuning – number of fingers D - 0
standard guitar tuning – number of fingers D - 3

open-d guitar tuning – number of fingers E - 1
standard guitar tuning – number of fingers E - 3

open-d guitar tuning – number of fingers F - 1
standard guitar tuning – number of fingers F - 4-5

open-d guitar tuning – number of fingers F# - 1
standard guitar tuning – number of fingers F# - 4-5

open-d guitar tuning – number of fingers G - 1
standard guitar tuning – number of fingers G - 3

... and so on. You get the pick-ture (that's a guitar pun). Keep pickin' and check back!

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