The ol' DADGAD tuning

Steverino

Steverino

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Every now and then I'll venture into an alternate tunings, and for some reason I'd never realized how easy Kashmir is to play in DADGAD. Wow. There are backing tracks all over YouTube these days for just about anything, so I plugged my iphone into the aux jack on my little practice amp. Drove my wife crazy jamming along with a Kashmir backing track. Love learning new stuff.
 
DADGAD sounds so cool. However, I find myself playing the same stupid shit every time I mess with it. I rarely come up with anything truly usable.
 
micwalt said:
DADGAD sounds so cool. However, I find myself playing the same stupid shit every time I mess with it. I rarely come up with anything truly usable.
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Same here, so I went to YT to see what other players were doing with it. It didn't take long to see that I'd totally missed Kashmir, I stopped there and watched a couple of lessons. Super easy and sounds awesome.

I also saw a video with Jimmy Page and he'd been screwing around with DADGAD for quite a while before he came up with the Kashmir riffs.
 
micwalt said:
DADGAD sounds so cool. However, I find myself playing the same stupid shit every time I mess with it. I rarely come up with anything truly usable.
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That's what happened when I tried messing around with open G. Everything I played sounded like the Stones :grin:
 
Have you played in Drop D much? I like it as its so similar to standard, yet you get the added benefit of having one finger power chords, and the lovely drop D note. It's good for Celtic fingerstyle, that I know of since I learned some Irish standards arranged for fingerstyle guitar from Tony McManus's TrueFire course "The Celtic Journeyman".

DADGAD is a cool tuning. Drifting by Andy Mckee always comes to mind when I think of it.

 
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