Jimmy Page used this tuning for the open chords, and Nick Drake has used this or a very similar tuning for its deep, droning bass notes. The low C is four notes lower than your usual E, and the tuning itself forms an F chord. Because the bottom string is so low, it sounds a bit out of whack if you include it in barre chords like 424232. So it's often best left open. With these chords, the 6th string is always optional.

Ano3 is an A powerchord -  barring across all the strings at the 4th fret will create an A major chord. The low F-string note in the Ebadd9 chord is optional.

The Bm shape is a barre chord, and playable at any fret; Bbm is the same shape, played open. Barre chords in Open F don't tend to use the low C.

Cm is the same shape as Bm, and the C is the second major barre shape. x13121 is B, I just fogot about that one. Cno3 is a C powerchord and not exactly easy to play - but 232 on the high three strings is also a powerchord.

Dm7 could equally be called F6th, but I didn't have enough D-chords! D and D7 are only different because of the open low C.

Three different Fmaj7 chords, either with or without extra notes.

BLUES SCALE IN F

This is the 6-note blues scale in the key of F, or the minor pentatonic scale with a flat 5th. The notes are F, Ab, Bb, B, C and Eb, with C being the 'blue note'. The basic pattern is simpler than standard tuning, and in the key of F all the strings can be played open except for the A-string.

These chord names with worked out using the Guitar Chord Name Finder.
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