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DADGAD tuning. D A D G A D, or Celtic tuning, is an alternative guitar tuning most associated with Celtic music, though it has also found use in rock, folk, metal and several other genres. Instead of the standard tuning (E 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 B 3 E 4) the six guitar strings are tuned, from low to high, D 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 A 3 D 4.
DADGAD tuning (listen) D-A-d-g-a-d' DADGAD was developed by Davey Graham in the early 1960s when he was travelling in Morocco, to more easily play along with Oud music. Among the first to use this tuning were the folk-blues guitarists of the '60s like Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Martin Carthy, and John Martyn.
Al Petteway was an American guitarist known primarily for his acoustic fingerstyle work [1] both as a soloist and with well-known folk artists such as Amy White, Tom Paxton, Jethro Burns, Jonathan Edwards, Cheryl Wheeler, Debi Smith, Bonnie Rideout, Maggie Sansone and many others.
It uses an alternative guitar tuning - DGCGCD, a variation of DADGAD. [3] [4] [5] It was released in March 1973 as the second track on their fifth album, Houses of ...
Dáithí is well known as a guitarist and was one of the first guitarists to use the DADGAD guitar tuning for Irish music after the originator Davy Graham. In 1992 he joined Irish supergroup Altan with whom he sings and plays guitar. Of his use of DADGAD tuning, Sproule says, it "just seemed to instantly gel with Irish music.
The Bach Uke Book - duets for two ukuleles, one in gCEA tuning, the other a baritone in DGBE tuning - arranged and recorded by Rob MacKillop, ukulele, and Gordon Ferries (guitar). Mel Bay Publications MB30024M; Easy DADGAD Celtic Guitar - arranged and recorded by Rob MacKillop. Mel Bay Publications MB30543M
The guitars use DADGAD or Celtic tuning decreased by a semitone, [2] and the chords are in a pattern of D ♭ - B ♭ m7 - G ♭ - E ♭ m - D ♭ on the verses, and G ♭ - D ♭ - B ♭ m7 - A ♭ three times on the chorus. [3]
One of Graham's lasting legacies is the DADGAD (open D sus4) guitar tuning, which he popularised in the early 1960s. [17] While travelling in Morocco, he developed the tuning so he could better play along with and translate the traditional oud music he heard to guitar. Graham then went on to experiment playing traditional folk pieces in DADGAD ...