Sunbreak - fingerstyle - Jeff Traugott guitar

[Doug Young]

I wrote this tune as a way to explore DADEAD tuning, which was a favorite of Alex de Grassi in his early days. It started out as a promo for Peghead Nation for my alternate tunings course, and has evolved and expanded a bit over time, so I'm finally recording it in its current form. I'm playing a Jeff Traugott "BK" model guitar, and also experimenting with a Royer SF24V tube ribbon mic for this recording.

[rémy64]

Very nice interpretation, well done Doug

[islandguitar]

That was beautiful, Doug!! Love the cascading notes and how they fit for this tuning!!

[AlyKat]

That was just perfect !!!!!
So pretty.

[Doug Young]

Thanks for listening!

[gibbyguy]

Thanks for sharing Doug… that was inspiring, now I’ll have to try DADEAD!
Beautiful sounding guitar!!!

[broy]

Wow, very nice - thanks for posting! (geeze that sounds good!)

[RilesMcGiles]

Hey Doug, that sounds very beautiful. Not being very theory-minded myself, how would you say the tuning differs from DADGAD? What does it lend itself towards?

[jseth]

Very nice work, Doug! It wasn't exactly clear as to whose song it is? One of Alex's or one of yours!

In any case, the guitar sounded marvelous, the playing was solid and the tune is lovely!

Thanks for posting this!

[Glennwillow]

Lovely piece and lovely playing, Doug! What a great sounding guitar and terrific recording! Beautiful job on this!

- Glenn

[broy]

Pretty phenomenal all the way around - thanks for posting.

[Doug Young]

Originally Posted by RilesMcGiles

Hey Doug, that sounds very beautiful. Not being very theory-minded myself, how would you say the tuning differs from DADGAD? What does it lend itself towards?

If you just consider the open strings, DADGAD is a sus4 chord, while DADEAD is a sus2, (or add9). It's a bit of an airier sound, less tension than DADGAD. Of course, once you're playing, you're not just getting the open string sound, so it's more about what chord voicings and notes you can reach. This tune started with the little lick that is the main theme, where I'm playing an F# to E pulloff on the 3rd string, followed by a hammer-on from D to E to F# on the 4th string. Having those same two notes, E and F# on the two different strings with a bit different tone just caught my ear. You can't really do that exact thing in DADGAD (or standard)

[Doug Young]

Originally Posted by jseth

Very nice work, Doug! It wasn't exactly clear as to whose song it is? One of Alex's or one of yours!

In any case, the guitar sounded marvelous, the playing was solid and the tune is lovely!

Thanks for posting this!

Thanks, it's my tune. I was just sort of thinking "what might Alex play?" while using his tuning.

[Doug Young]

Originally Posted by broy

Pretty phenomenal all the way around - thanks for posting.

Thanks, broy.

[RilesMcGiles]

Originally Posted by Doug Young

If you just consider the open strings, DADGAD is a sus4 chord, while DADEAD is a sus2, (or add9). It's a bit of an airier sound, less tension than DADGAD. Of course, once you're playing, you're not just getting the open string sound, so it's more about what chord voicings and notes you can reach. This tune started with the little lick that is the main theme, where I'm playing an F# to E pulloff on the 3rd string, followed by a hammer-on from D to E to F# on the 4th string. Having those same two notes, E and F# on the two different strings with a bit different tone just caught my ear. You can't really do that exact thing in DADGAD (or standard)

Thanks for the reply, that both makes sense and also perked my interest - just purchased your alternate tunings book - it gets here Sunday! Looking forward to that and I'll let you know how I get on