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I used to avoid alternate tunings altogether, but in recent years I’ve found that if I’m ever in a creative funk, I’ll put the guitar in DADGAD or open D and just start making up random, interesting-sounding chords/progressions that might otherwise be more difficult in standard tuning.
I remember thinking, why on earth did I wait so long to play in DADGAD!?
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Which is really a part of what makes these alternate tunings work as they do. Last edited by rmp; 11-30-2020 at 11:47 AM. |
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Generally, an arrangement in DADGAD is written in that tuning to take advantage of the tuning.
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I'm going to bookmark this thread for future reference. I've only ever learned one DADGAD song, "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues," and that was probably over 15 years ago (not long after I began playing guitar). It would be fun to go back and ace that song now that I'm 100x better than I was back then. While we're here, what other songs would you all recommend?
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The tab for my version of Shendandoah (there's a You Tube video, quite old now) is available free on my website. It's a fairly easy piece using DADGAD in the key of G. But there's tons of material out there, some free, some paid. Al Petteway has a lot of great, and fairly easy tunes in DADGAD. Pat Kirtley has some nice Irish DADGAD tunes. Simon Fox has a lot of nice pieces. For more advanced challenges, Laurence Juber has a lot of DADGAD arrangements and compositions. And for the ultimate challenge, Pierre Benususan is the master of DADGAD, and worth studying for anyone serious about it, even if most of the pieces are tough for mere mortals to play.
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Thanks for the quick visualization tip! You know how they say that the guitar is heavily based on patterns and shapes.... Do you find this is the same in DADGAD? Are chords, patterns, and scales movable as well and are they repeatable if played in a different key? |
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So, for example, you can play a D (no 3rd) like: 000200 Barre, and move that shape up two frets: 222422, and that's an E (no 3rd) and so on. I definitely think in terms of shapes a lot of the time, but as a fingerstyle player, I'm rarely fingering big full 6-string chords. I'm thinking voices - melody, bass, some inner chord tones. So I'm more selecting notes from within a general shape that I'm visualizing. But I'd do the same in standard tuning as well.
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Actually, I should have said, instead of needing to barre, that shapes are moveable as long as they're not using open strings. Example, in DADGAD:
5x345x is a G7. Move it up two frets: 7x567x is an A7, and so on
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We've got 2 DADGAD threads going on and I think I posted to the wrong one...
If there's interest in an intro to DADGAD online workshop, learning the logic of the fretboard and so on, I'd be happy to schedule one.
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If you like DADGAD just wait until you get into C tuning and it`s variants...a world of joy.
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If you want to achieve a somewhat similar sound to DADGAD but in standard tuning, check out Paul Baloche's "Open Chord Concept". It's a basic concept that for some reason many haven't seen before. I use it extensively. It leaves the 1 & 2 strings (e & b) open for all of the chords in the key. This gives something like the droning sound you get in DADGAD but without having to retune.
Here's a video where he explains it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAlh...l=AlinCacovean |
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That's an interesting concept, might come in usefull when playing celtic type 'airs' if the melody can be played on strings 3 4 & 5 with a drone acompaniment on the other strings.
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Hi! Thank you so much — yes, the harmonies are mine as well. “Paradise” is my favorite John Prine song, and I thought I’d try out my own cover of it. Eventually, I’d like to add a little banjo to the mix, too!
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