DADGAD guitar tuning

[-oli]

ie an alternative tuning of a guitar


beautiful chord even when open strummed


has anyone ever tuned to this


EADGBe


becomes


DADGAd


i found it helps LOADS with makin up songs
Edited by: -oli

[coreybyrnes]

yes indeed.... i love that tuning... also, try taking it to DADDDD... that's even more beautiful when strummed open... takes some serious tweaking on the strings though...

[cneill]

I'm partial to open G - dgdgbd

[the professor]

i'm currently working out "the girl who does yoga" and im positive damien uses either DADGAd tuning, or open G. damien even talks about tuning the guitar differently before he begins the song and the first string he hits (low e) he tunes down to a low D. i'm going to fiddle around with those tunings today and try to see what i come up with. anything good will be posted!

[Closing Doors]

It's a great tuning if you're playing slide guitar smileys/smiley1.gif

[Lemonhead]

its threads like this that make me think i'm never gonna be able to play my guitar....................... smileys/smiley19.gifsmileys/smiley36.gif

[sezmo]

me too. http://www.eskimofriends.com/forum/smileys/smiley5.gifsmileys/smiley36.gif

[Lemonhead]

smileys/smiley36.gifwe can always pretend we know what we're talking about!! or we can raaaaaaawwwk out playing air-guitar!!smileys/smiley2.gifsmileys/smiley4.gif

[sezmo]

Yeah that'll work. I'm great at air guitar! http://www.eskimofriends.com/forum/smileys/smiley36.gif

[Lemonhead]

woohoo! we can set up a band and call ourselves the airheads!!smileys/smiley36.gif

[sezmo]

Perfect! smileys/smiley4.gifSo do you want to be air lead guitar, air bass, or air what?

[Lemonhead]

smileys/smiley3.gifoooh wow, responsibility!smileys/smiley36.gifhmmmmm...air anything and i'm happy!! we gotta round up a drummer!!....gather round folks!smileys/smiley36.gif


heehee, did you ever play air harmonica?its hilarious if you're really hypersmileys/smiley4.gif

[Lynchpin]

Serously tho, how to you tune to DADGAd? I've an electric tuner and a severe mental block! Help!
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[tomas]

i am not sure how your electric tuner works...but but i imagine it should be capableof tuning to different tones, right?smileys/smiley5.gif


..or simply tune by ear and use tones on your guitar as a reference (3rd fret on H for little E to tune it to D for example and so on) smileys/smiley2.gifEdited by: tomas

[isaac]

Tune it by ear to the 4th string/D string.



Pluck the D string and then lower the bottom E string until it
resonates at a similar pitch to the D string. Keep hitting the D string
to check whether or not it's to D yet.



Do the same with the high E string.

[-oli]

n you need to take down the b string a whole tone


pluck the a string and the b string together and tune down the b till it sounds right, its only about half a turn but you'l know when it does.

[fluffyspoon]

just tune your 1st&amp;6th string to the 3rd (D), then tune your 5th string to the 2nd (A). Standard tuners won't generally allow you to open-tune so just tune by ear it's good for your pitch reference as well


* good tuning eabebe


pretty damn funky..smileys/smiley4.gif