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To get the benefits of DADGAD, most of the time you’ll want to keep open strings ringing as much as possible. The main technical challenge will be to arch your fingers enough to keep the top strings ...

DADGAD is fairly easy tuning to understand because, unlike drop D or open G, its name tells you the notes you’ll be tuning to - which is pretty handy! You’ll be changing your standard tuned guitar’s ...

Popularised by Davey Graham, John Renbourn, Jimmy Page, Pierre Bensusan and, in more recent years, Newton Faulkner and Ed Sheeran, DADGAD is a great tuning for acoustic guitar. These chords should ...

1999 Watchlist Musician Laurence Juber explains the intricacies of DADGAD guitar tuning, a style long favored by Celtic-style guitarists. Harmonies, chord shapes, and notes of a different variety are ...