Members Brindleleaf Posted April 15, 2012 Members Share Posted April 15, 2012 I stumbled over this video (again!), and as usual, I think.....that sounds fantastic....and seems such fun to play around with! [video=youtube;psnfaydhOrs] Thoughts on DADGAD or other alternate tunings anyone...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EdBega Posted April 15, 2012 Members Share Posted April 15, 2012 Only DADGAD song I can think of off the top of my head, it's one of the easiest songs to play also. [video=youtube;G8IZNIBB8Pc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8IZNIBB8Pc&list=FLcX_ymF5cGVtpdmmL4ORR6A&index=4&feature=plpp_video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Toke Posted April 15, 2012 Members Share Posted April 15, 2012 I use lots of alternate tunings... DADGAD, DADF#AD (Open D major), DADFAD (Open D minor), CGCFCE, BEBEBE, EADEBE (Nick Drake tunings), DGCGCD (Rain Song for example) etc. They're fun to mess around with, and you can get some interesting sounds especially combined with a capo, but I do tend to break more strings than I probably should Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Seorie Posted April 15, 2012 Members Share Posted April 15, 2012 Mmmm, this is a difficult question for me, it could (and has ) gotten me into a lot of trouble when I say what I think about DADGAD.best not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Terry Allan Hall Posted April 15, 2012 Members Share Posted April 15, 2012 Probably do only a dozen tunes in DADGAD...really haven't explored it as much as I, eventually, intend to. Standard, Open G and Open D are much more familiar/comfortable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members C70man Posted April 16, 2012 Members Share Posted April 16, 2012 Not exclusively, but I use numerous tunings....love to experiment....DGCGCD, Double DropD, EBEEBE, EBDGAD to name a few....Neil Young, Zep and CSN use those and modifications of them. I have written a few songs in DADF#AD...love that sound too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Toke Posted April 16, 2012 Members Share Posted April 16, 2012 I think I see the rub where a simply fretted and picked tune in some alternate tuning that sells better than a complex one in standard could slight the skills required of the latter. May as well find a decent beer to cry in because the audience just doesn't empathize. Eh, who cares how hard it is to play? it's how it sounds that matters. It's a musical instrument, not a finger-gymnastics device. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Greymuzzle Posted April 16, 2012 Members Share Posted April 16, 2012 I think that there is a tendency to regard DADGAD as a predominantly traddy/folkie tuning. Anyone who feels like that should give ear to some stuff, like 'Hemingways Shotgun', by Americana/Blues/Country maestro Eric Taylor... or, from youtube 'Prison Movie' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Terry Allan Hall Posted April 16, 2012 Members Share Posted April 16, 2012 I think that there is a tendency to regard DADGAD as a predominantly traddy/folkie tuning.Anyone who feels like that should give ear to some stuff, like 'Hemingways Shotgun', by Americana/Blues/Country maestro Eric Taylor...or, from youtube 'Prison Movie' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjv_TKFVq9s Pierre Bensusan uses it a lot, too...suppose his music could be called "New Age"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Opa John Posted April 16, 2012 Members Share Posted April 16, 2012 The only tunings I use, other than standard, is "Drop D" and "Open G". (DGDGBD). I learned a couple of instrumental pieces way back when I was in the Army that are done in open G, so I mess with those every once in ahwile. I'm pretty much (99%) a standard tuning type guy. I've got only two guitars and don't care for a lot of tuning and retuning. Actually, mine are tuned down to D-G-C-F-A-D...suits my voice range better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members HeimBrent Posted April 16, 2012 Members Share Posted April 16, 2012 Alternate tunings... I like open G. And open D. But I mainly use those with a slide. Haven't played much in DADGAD, but that's mainly because I always end up playing Kashmir by Led Zep whenever I tune that way, and that is a song I find impossible to stop playing. I've had some fun with DDDDAD, though. Both playing 4+20, and even writing a tune of my own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Freeman Keller Posted April 16, 2012 Members Share Posted April 16, 2012 Its kind of funny - I play in a lot of open tunings - G, D, and C, plus "high bass G" - and a little in dropped D, but absolutely nothing in DADGAD. However Michael Hedges and several of the other what I call "Windem Hill" artistics used in almost exclusively. It is a very popular tuning for Celtic music and other stuff that has a lot of droning strings (since I don't play any of that I don't use DADGAD, duh). DADGAD and dropped D are what I have heard called "altered tunings", they make it easier to play in certain keys, often more difficult to play in others, but they are not really "open tunings" since they are not tuned to a true chord. Open tunings (G, D, Dminor, etc) are also altered, but they are also a chord. I use them a lot for both slide and fingerstyle stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Starrshine Posted April 16, 2012 Members Share Posted April 16, 2012 I do play in a lot of the open tunings, but not so much in DADGAD. For years I played almost exclusively in open G and dropped D and double dropped D. I also used Sandy Bull's tuning for raga style BBBG#BE. I quit playing for a long time, many years, and I think mainly because it got too limiting and things started all sounding the same. I find, now that I have paid more attention to music theory that I enjoy regular tuning a lot more. I seem to experiment a lot with jazz style chords and find that to be very satisfying. OTOH, I recently got a spider capo and find it to be entertaining as well.Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Toke Posted April 16, 2012 Members Share Posted April 16, 2012 Live and let live is what I always say. People can play however they want, what's it to me? You can obtain different sounds by retuning a guitar and/or using a capo (plus a capo is damn handy for those of us who sing or accompany singers), that aren't even possible in standard tuning, so I don't really see how it's cheating.As for keyboard vs guitar, sure they can play the same notes, but they do not sound the same. Nor is a keyboard as portable or as conductive to performing on a stage while singing and moving about. They're completely different instruments. Neither is better than the other per se, just different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MDLMUSIC Posted April 17, 2012 Members Share Posted April 17, 2012 I have a $5 classical 3/4 sized guitar that I bought at a yard sale. I use a modified DADGAD tuning that I call DADXAD. I removed the G string so that it's really easy to play melody on the two treble strings and use the three bass strings as a kind of drone chord/pedal note sound. I've used this guitar when I'm doing quiet instrumental gigs in restaurants and people always tell me how much they like the sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EdBega Posted April 17, 2012 Members Share Posted April 17, 2012 Here's a good open G song, Dale/Tonedr has a good tutorial on it also. I had it down pretty good but it's been a while since I played it ... [video=youtube;AM2gALWoJEc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM2gALWoJEc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EdBega Posted April 17, 2012 Members Share Posted April 17, 2012 That song is much more convincing in standard tuning with different open chording. Dale's version might follow the DB's actual chording but if you're going for the open sound of strings the C/F chording resolving to Bb sounds better, albeit a bit harder, but it nuances out much more melodically. The thing about alternate tuning is the chords are not something I'm likely to remember too far down the road. Tabs please ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EdBega Posted April 17, 2012 Members Share Posted April 17, 2012 Tabs? I don't know tablature. Have never used it. I figured out the song back when it first debuted. I might get some chords up for you, though. Playing them should cue the melody. They're in standard tuning. I'd pretty much need the tabs and a tutorial to boot probably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members garthman Posted April 17, 2012 Members Share Posted April 17, 2012 Standard, Open G and Open D are much more familiar/comfortable. Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rhino55 Posted April 17, 2012 Members Share Posted April 17, 2012 I met the mod of the Song Writing Forum when I was out his way last year. Hey Blue We did some picking and he showed it to me. I really like open tunings but that was one I'd never played around with before that day. I need to spend some more time with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pk1fan Posted April 17, 2012 Members Share Posted April 17, 2012 Phil Keaggy got me turned on to DADGAD and i like DADEAD also . Here's an Alternate tuning thats not much altered EADGAE try it I like it ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Greg.Coal Posted April 18, 2012 Members Share Posted April 18, 2012 This is a great DADGAD tune by the great David Wilcox. I put it here as an example of a dadgad song that is not so "drone-ish" or new age as dadgad might be associated with - and rightly so.[video=youtube;szRv55H7DPs] Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tstrahle Posted June 11, 2012 Members Share Posted June 11, 2012 I was messing around with the opposite of DADGAD, at least I think it's the opposite, instead of tuning the 6th, 2nd and 1st down a whole step I tuned the 5th, 4th and 3rd string down a whole step. I call it Inside Out DADGAD or EGCFBE...[video=youtube;cyRVeIJHf7k] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GuitarVlog Posted June 14, 2012 Members Share Posted June 14, 2012 I think half of my repertoire is in alternate tunings but DADGAD makes up only 30% of that half. My DADF#AD repertoire seems to be growing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JohnnyDD Posted June 19, 2012 Members Share Posted June 19, 2012 Lest we forget DADGBD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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