“I use open and alternate tunings to get music out of the guitar,” says fingerstyle master Martin Simpson. “Do you want to move people? You can’t be struggling with holding down the damn strings.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Loved by the likes of Davey Graham, Roy Harper and Jimmy Page, DADGAD remains a great place to start when exploring alternate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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Not just the open tuning that’s most fun to say, DADGAD is also one of the most versatile guitar tunings. When you strum the open strings it produces a Dsus4 chord which, being neither major nor minor ...