DADGAD is a beautiful, versatile tuning, it can be used to play all styles of music, once you explore the tuning you will discover that you can play many different soundscapes.
Exactly. The high D was annoying after the first 5 minutes. Better off having a synth in the background playing it softer if he wants meditation music.
I learned this from my dad 20 years ago because he was a huge Led Zeppelin fan. It was my standard tuning for YEARS. Over the years though I noticed that every church worship band guitarist uses DADGAD too much (with delay and reverb, and so on...) so I adopted my own tuning: FADFAC. Been using it for about 12 years now.
DADGAD is easily my favorite tuning at this time. I use Nashville (standard EADGBE) on my acoustic, but DADGAD on my electric and classical. My question is this: *Why don't instructors show people the chord shapes on DADGAD tuning for basic chords?* E is xx2122, or 222122 with the bass strings. A is x02242 and Am is x02232. These shapes can be used at any fret to make other chords. Playing Pachelbel's Canon, or other progressions using the circle of fifths is relatively easy, so why not demonstrate them?
This has always been my favorite tuning, my guitar teacher never really understood why I liked it so much until he actually heard me play himself. It just sounds good
I've been writing/playing DADGAD for 15 years, and it's always kept me on my toes. The other one that I love is DADGCD. Not sure if there's a name for it, but I think of it as the "happier" version of DADGAD. It can be heard on most Sevendust and Dark New Day songs.
the more u learn the more u will know how to explain it . it then it very much helps to communicate with other musicians. sounds VERY douchy what i said but its still a fact
Jimmy page is a damn genius that’s all I have to say. I personally really enjoy tuning my 12 strings Taylor in Open Cm with thick gauges on it, and it sounds amazing , although I do “dig” on tuning the guitar in different tones but it all comes to one think only, being creative. Good job man , like your videos
Really cool stuff...Well Done 👍🏻👍🏻Im from Ireland and we use this Tuning a lot for old Irish Songs but with Capo we love it...Keep up the great work🙏👍🏻🇮🇪👍🏻
On a more serious note; halfway through I went and tuned my acoustic and made a few minor backing tracks to play some melodies along with and OH MY GOD can you play some beautiful somber melodies on top of these chords! I love that you can use a lot of accidentals to create some tension and resolution in places where I never really felt that standard tuning chords let me do. Also just have fun building chords from ear and seeing where things go. Thanks for sharing!
DADGAD is my "go to" tuning when I feel stagnant & it seems like I'm playing the same old songs. I've used alternate tunings a lot over the years & it's amazing how this can really inspire you to play & jump start some creativity simply by trying out a different tuning. I love how it changes the colors of the sound-scape in a way that almost feels like you're discovering new chords. That D'Angelico sounds fantastic in that tuning! Now I'm gonna have to check those out.........GAS never sleeps! Keep doing the good stuff!!! 🤘😁🤘
Dadgad is sometimes called celtic tuning because it’s used by trad irish and scottish guitarists a lot. It’s a drone based tuning and the bagpipes are a drone based instrument
It may not work well for every person's voice or every instrument, but I tune my Taylor down a full step from DADGAD to CGCFGC and get warmer tones. I use it for "Can't Find my Way Home," "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," Jack Bruce's "As You Said" among others. That CGCFGC tuning allows me to flat the number 3 string a half step and get a C-major open chord that' s great for bottleneck on "No Expectations" and others.
If you were a fan of Dashboard Confessional... and played guitar... you were forced to learn this tuning. It has a really cool sound! Best Deceptions by DBC was the first song I learned in this tuning.
Dadgad is probably my favorite tuning, I started making amazing progress once I finally just threw my guitar in dadgad and quit tuning back up to standard. Open tunings are a great way to understand something really complex like modes and scales without having to actually learn or know what a mode is. Truly worked wonders for my progress as a guitar player, drop d is really fun too.
Thanks for your time and effort, you have presented a fresh perspective on an old form and I commend you. Thanks and kind regards from Peter Bennett Victoria, Australia
8:05 🎶And I don't want the world to see me! Cause I don't think they'd understand. When everything is meant to be broken, I just want you to know who I am🎶
My uncle always loved the celtic sound and finding out DADGAD is the tuning makes me wish he was around still so I could actually show him. These lessons are simple, but they really open you up to how amazing this tuning is, and I never would've learned about it if he never introduced me to celtic.
Anything that means you don't have to do barre chords is ace in my opinion. Always good to have loads of strings to your bow. I'm coming to think dadgad should be your first string. It instills confidence if you can play some songs straight as soon as possible. May sound horrible to experienced guitarists but who cares about them.
Are you, or have you been in any band? You play so accurate, and creative. Total Professional. You should be HUGE. Thank you for taking time to show lessons. .
I started playing at 12 and now 72 but amazingly never much got into open tunings ...then a year ago was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma which is a blood and bone cancer...fortunately treatable...but pretty much wrecked my hands and made playing very difficult…....but...then I remembered open tunings and how much easier making great sounds is so now pretty much using open tunings exclusively... Your lesson was great and very easy to follow...ps. I tried the “Stairway to Heaven lick in a store recently and cracked up when asked not to...never got an intelligent explanation though...keep up the videos...A.J.
What's your favorite tuning?
Drop C, Standard, and Eb
Drop D
Open C or Standard
D standard, standard, and drop c.
Open G
My kid is crying in the other room but I don't care. I'm playing on BADDAD
Philip D Josh bruh thats pretty damn funny
I literally lol'd just now, haha
That was such a bad dad joke.
Didn't see dat coming
hah
You should get a 7 string and play CABBAGE
LOL XD
This ain't Davie504
@@chrisnguyen1186 Rob Scallon already did this
But can he play it with a cabbage ? wait wrong channel
OMG
christians: second coming of jesus
me, an intellectual: Gsus2
Man... That is so underrated...
....
Guitar inside joke with religious twist - ummmmm ......
QuackSpeed that is awesome and quite clever
You haven’t seen the shirts, have ye? “Gsus saves” under a chord diagramz
2:38 "that's a Gsus2"
oh boy i cant wait for gsus3: he's alive again
Underrated
Lmao
Gsus4 is definitely gonna be the last in the franchise. I can’t see a Gsus5 being made.
Your own
Personal
Gsus
Almost all the Gsus chords are primarily used in Christian music. 🤦
If Batman was a 7-string metal guitarist, the tuning would be DEADDAD.
If Jerry Garcia had played 7-string he would have played DEADDAD!
Holy shit that was hillarious XD
That tuning is musically stupid. Batman is not stupid.
spat out my drink!
666 likes!!!
I want an 8-string guitar so I can play in BEEGDEEC tuning
I don't know why but I do too. : )
hahaha
You could write a song with this chord progression in strandard.
Sounds like a chinaman saying big dick
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
So basically every chord makes you play Wonderwall?
Tyler Reddick MAYBEEEEE
DADGAD is a beautiful, versatile tuning, it can be used to play all styles of music, once you explore the tuning you will discover that you can play many different soundscapes.
DADGADFLOW you guys should totally follow this guy, his channel name says it all
@@dadgadflow439 that has literally nothing to see with what he said, no one asked for an opinion of this tuning
DADGADFLOW How bout reggae?
That high D note on all the chords is incredibly irritating after a while.
nbfdmd read my mind
Exactly. The high D was annoying after the first 5 minutes. Better off having a synth in the background playing it softer if he wants meditation music.
nbfdmd I scaled the comments to see if I was the only one who felt that. I don’t know why it’s so annoying to my ear
@@gabbishleegifted4752 cos it's in literally every single cord he played.. its almost like al those cords are just the same
YESSS ITS FUCKING KILLING ME
My man playin a G#bsus4sus7aug9add9majmin13 in the thumbnail
@@raddydydy Sometimes I wonder why I actually read things til the end
@@2k13Ghost i actually... Also read it to the end.
It was worth it tho.
LMAO
@@raddydydy Are you sure this is right?
@@raddydydy WOW!!! He's a damn genius!
I tune my guitar to DDDDDD because I love the D
Detune a half step lower !
said no woman ever!
Sounds great. : )
Ostrich tuning
Someone play beelzeboss with this
I learned this from my dad 20 years ago because he was a huge Led Zeppelin fan. It was my standard tuning for YEARS. Over the years though I noticed that every church worship band guitarist uses DADGAD too much (with delay and reverb, and so on...) so I adopted my own tuning: FADFAC. Been using it for about 12 years now.
i just tuned to fadfac and it actually sounds amazing for blues
I wanted to display my disapproval of alternative tunings, with ultimate hipster irony, so I play in BADFAD. 😂🤣😂
I know lots of people that use that tuning
FAT FACK
i'm more of FAGDAD player myself
I’m not even watching the video! The comment section has me 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Everything Sounds like wonderwall. Someone help me
I thought the exact same thing lol
All I hear is Goo Goo Dolls and that's not a good thing.
Wonderall has a capo on the second fret play it in E like that and use your to little fingers on the little e and b and there you have it
Holy Molly I was looking for this comment
@@Longhorn.Rock_Roll61 if ANYONE was thinking of playing "that" song,...please DON´T !!
This was the George W. Bush favorite tuning : BAGDAD
Rotfl
😂😂
Hahaaha oooooffff
It's the bomb! Like; it really blew my mind man
😂
Dude...!!!
That was funny.
Hahah...!!!
DADGAD is easily my favorite tuning at this time. I use Nashville (standard EADGBE) on my acoustic, but DADGAD on my electric and classical. My question is this: *Why don't instructors show people the chord shapes on DADGAD tuning for basic chords?* E is xx2122, or 222122 with the bass strings. A is x02242 and Am is x02232. These shapes can be used at any fret to make other chords. Playing Pachelbel's Canon, or other progressions using the circle of fifths is relatively easy, so why not demonstrate them?
That’s a VERY good point and I was watching this video to see if he would do that but ....
My favorite tuning is DADGAE.
oh wait
dad gay
I listen to a band that uses that tuning
@@juanvillanueva304 TTNG ftw.
Matheus Rafael I’ll check em out 👍🏼
No you
DADGAD, or as I like to call it, the Kashmir tuning
@@PurpleOverdrive because Kashmir (Zeppelin) was played in this tuning
Gay
@@SidmanJam no u
@@andreas-xd7pb original mate 👍 ya fucking helmet 😂
@@SidmanJam ur mum gae
The secret chord that David played was a Gsus
Nice one.
And It pleased the lord
Gsus Christ
Nice
That's was actually pretty good, 11/10.
This has always been my favorite tuning, my guitar teacher never really understood why I liked it so much until he actually heard me play himself. It just sounds good
5:52 I saw u grab for the whammy that wasn't there
He was putting his pick down but i think that might have been a cover up for his mistake
Tyler is killing it as always. Have a good day guys.
I've been writing/playing DADGAD for 15 years, and it's always kept me on my toes. The other one that I love is DADGCD. Not sure if there's a name for it, but I think of it as the "happier" version of DADGAD. It can be heard on most Sevendust and Dark New Day songs.
We believe in Satan, but we believe in Gsus2.
nice
nice
nice
nice
nice
Can you make a middle-eastern song using BAGDAD?
not really
its myxolydian
Badgum
6:34 sounds like something in movies when its 400° in the desert and the people cant find water anywhere 😂
Guitarist 24 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Only the hayball coming thru to greet ya 😂
Ah. I see we’re on the same PAGE!
Omkar Vinchure Nice
Nice
Nice
Very nice
Omkar Vinchure nice
Sounds very "Fall" or "Autumn" like. I don't know how to explain it. Just what I feel.
the more u learn the more u will know how to explain it . it then it very much helps to communicate with other musicians. sounds VERY douchy what i said but its still a fact
Matthew Rhodes the lower tuning sounds a bit more ‘melancholic’ and i think most of us just naturally associate the gloominess of autumn with sadness
What a great way to describe it!
Wtf, why do you have the same name as my Dad?
@@memoXX1 brilliantly said!
Jimmy page is a damn genius that’s all I have to say. I personally really enjoy tuning my 12 strings Taylor in Open Cm with thick gauges on it, and it sounds amazing , although I do “dig” on tuning the guitar in different tones but it all comes to one think only, being creative. Good job man , like your videos
Love DADGAD. Such a beautiful sound and so versatile
My favorite tuning is BAGDAD. It really helps me create new and EXPLOSIVE riffs
@@80srs11 r/woosh
Riffs that TERRORIZE everyone you know, riffs that will BLOW you away
EEEGAD
@@rakusin im sick of people using woosh in the wrong context
Nah EEEEEE best tuning
Really cool stuff...Well Done 👍🏻👍🏻Im from Ireland and we use this Tuning a lot for old Irish Songs but with Capo we love it...Keep up the great work🙏👍🏻🇮🇪👍🏻
I’m actually using DADGAD on my baritone Jazzmaster using a set of BassVI strings. It’s great!
you are living my dream
When I was in Iraq my guitar was tuned to BAGDAD
hahaaahaha!
YOO these jokes are amazing
Is it just me or does every chord sound the same?
"Let's see if it will give us the "d"
Very impressive, but can you play DABDAB tuning while dabbing?
Oh, sorry, wrong GUITARIST
*Davie504 triggers*
I see what you did there
XD
XD
XD
😂😂
On a more serious note; halfway through I went and tuned my acoustic and made a few minor backing tracks to play some melodies along with and OH MY GOD can you play some beautiful somber melodies on top of these chords! I love that you can use a lot of accidentals to create some tension and resolution in places where I never really felt that standard tuning chords let me do. Also just have fun building chords from ear and seeing where things go. Thanks for sharing!
I replayed 4:25 over and over again. I love this kind of sound
Left a guitar sitting forever, then picked it up to discover it was basically in CGCF#GD. I have loved that tuning ever since
My friend asked me how to make his guitar sound good. I said tune it DADGAD and throw it down the stairs. It will sound great.
DADGAD is my "go to" tuning when I feel stagnant & it seems like I'm playing the same old songs. I've used alternate tunings a lot over the years & it's amazing how this can really inspire you to play & jump start some creativity simply by trying out a different tuning. I love how it changes the colors of the sound-scape in a way that almost feels like you're discovering new chords. That D'Angelico sounds fantastic in that tuning! Now I'm gonna have to check those out.........GAS never sleeps! Keep doing the good stuff!!! 🤘😁🤘
Joni Mitchell has always used Crazy tunings
Her: I'm a Christian
Me: Oh cool, I'm a follower of 2:32
That guitar sounds like the music you would get for the final scenes of a very emotional movie. Its so good!
*Plays beautiful, soft acoustic licks for 12 minutes*
"Until next time, keep shredding \m/ "
Yes I felt that was pretty incongruous too.
This feels like an ad for D'Angelico guitars.
It is
Facts bro
Mom was feeling a little kinky tonight.. I’m playing on GAGDAD
Shahahahahah
I love it. I feel I should be seeing seagulls, waterfalls and babbling brooks behind it, all while drinking a Guinness.
I used to be terrified of playing around with alternate tunings but I am really excited to try this one
DADGAD and DADGCC are two of my favorite alternate tunings.
DADGAD is perfect for Celtic Music.
This tuning is the most late '90s/ early '00s thing i've ever heard in a good way.
I literally played for an hour straight from this lesson. I appreciate the good content.
Thank you for all the knowledge you share. You rock! 🤘
Anybody else getting bagpipe vibes at 10:55?
i think you mean traditional folk vibes 👍
Dadgad is sometimes called celtic tuning because it’s used by trad irish and scottish guitarists a lot. It’s a drone based tuning and the bagpipes are a drone based instrument
I CLOSE MY EYES, INIS MONA!
Yes. Bagpipes inherently have a drone tone in the bass so....you see right there
me yes fat bagpipe vibes
If I ever need to relax, I'm just going to listen to MIW talk and play acoustic guitar. Thank you for calming me down
It may not work well for every person's voice or every instrument, but I tune my Taylor down a full step from DADGAD to CGCFGC and get warmer tones. I use it for "Can't Find my Way Home," "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," Jack Bruce's "As You Said" among others. That CGCFGC tuning allows me to flat the number 3 string a half step and get a C-major open chord that' s great for bottleneck on "No Expectations" and others.
Why does your bass have 6 strings?
That scale was beautiful!
What a beautiful teacher you are!
Honestly love what you do man you help inspire so many people man. Keep up the great work man!
The comments are incredible!
Everybody's being so creative
BADGF 5 string
Time to get a whole banjo with a 5th
You better take care of that G string...
If you were a fan of Dashboard Confessional... and played guitar... you were forced to learn this tuning. It has a really cool sound! Best Deceptions by DBC was the first song I learned in this tuning.
Thanks for this lesson. It was eye opening and has helped me get out of ruts, especially on the acoustic. Very exciting.
this is so awesome! I cant wait to get home and try this out
Play this tuning for 5 mins and everything sounds the same
No kidding!
Me too! Could be my phone🎸🇺🇸
but it could defo make 1 very good track on a record or 2 tracks
But it makes good background chords for other instruments playing melody over it.
Lmao accurate
I thought he was going to play iris by goo goo dolls about a hundred times within this video.
Josh Pierce that is seriously all I could hear in this video. Lol
@@brentpeevyhouse7043 I know lol that is about the theme song for dadgad tuning
Iris is actually in BDDDDD
@@izzyohagan6837 you can play it in that tuning. You can even play it in standard.
Thank you man, so much. I have seen so many dadgad vids that pailed in exclamatory effectiveness.
Best, most inspirational DADGAD video on RUclips!
Every time I hear ABADAD tuning, it reminds me of the old man dancing around like a queen.
Dadgad is probably my favorite tuning, I started making amazing progress once I finally just threw my guitar in dadgad and quit tuning back up to standard. Open tunings are a great way to understand something really complex like modes and scales without having to actually learn or know what a mode is. Truly worked wonders for my progress as a guitar player, drop d is really fun too.
This is a KILLER vid...ive been playing for 61 years and i never knew about this ....waaaaaaaat coooool
Thanks for your time and effort, you have presented a fresh perspective on an old form and I commend you. Thanks and kind regards from Peter Bennett Victoria, Australia
Sound like every stock background music
i liked this comment, cause someone openly calls out his predicament in HIS USER NAME
8:05
🎶And I don't want the world to see me! Cause I don't think they'd understand. When everything is meant to be broken, I just want you to know who I am🎶
Heard so much of Colin Hay in this tuning demonstration. Just beautiful!
My uncle always loved the celtic sound and finding out DADGAD is the tuning makes me wish he was around still so I could actually show him. These lessons are simple, but they really open you up to how amazing this tuning is, and I never would've learned about it if he never introduced me to celtic.
Anything that means you don't have to do barre chords is ace in my opinion.
Always good to have loads of strings to your bow. I'm coming to think dadgad should be your first string.
It instills confidence if you can play some songs straight as soon as possible. May sound horrible to experienced guitarists but who cares about them.
You're still barring dad or you could bar with your third finger dad and first finger barring the whole step back
*Hey Gsus, Michael here !*
Go away Michael I don’t know u
This really bails me out of the hole I was stuck in for my "8 Hours Of Acoustic Guitar And Ocean Sounds To Cure Insomnia" video. Thanks!
Are you, or have you been in any band?
You play so accurate, and creative. Total Professional.
You should be HUGE.
Thank you for taking time to show lessons. .
You barely scratched the surface of DADGAD, but I think it's fine to let others make shapes and discover the tuning themselves.
But the question is.
Does it *dj0nt?*
Yes actually lol Monuments and Tesseract both use DADGAD just tuned down to A# and F
@@johnpaulvega2424 do they? I never noticed. Prolly cuz I dont hear them enough
Yup! Check out the gear God's tutorials for some of their riffs with Olly Steele
Drop π does
I am now a die hard monuments fan. Thanks man
Enjoyed the demo, that tuning is dreamy. On Father’s Day I wrote a song for my father in DADDAD tuning.
YOU ARE MY FAVOURITE GUITAR TUNING ! xD
I love the tuning ACDEEC. But Angus says “ never on an acoustic mate”
Try DADFAD. It's probably my favorite alternative tuning. John Fahey liked to use it with songs like Red Pony or Wine and Rose.
Rocky Wood Mmmm, Bentonia/Dm - Skip James used it a lot, sounds beautiful!
DADFAD for that famous Pnk Floyd, Welcome to the Machine, baroque sound.
I started playing at 12 and now 72 but amazingly never much got into open tunings ...then a year ago was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma which is a blood and bone cancer...fortunately treatable...but pretty much wrecked my hands and made playing very difficult…....but...then I remembered open tunings and how much easier making great sounds is so now pretty much using open tunings exclusively...
Your lesson was great and very easy to follow...ps. I tried the “Stairway to Heaven lick in a store recently and cracked up when asked not to...never got an intelligent explanation though...keep up the videos...A.J.
Bless you.
My other comment was at the middle of the video. This one is at the end.............mmm that was bloody beautiful, thank you so much.
My dad just busted into my room, made me to get on my knees and play DADGAG
Oh god oh fuck
I bet it sounds pretty similar to FAGDAD except a lot more muffled.
No
Your profile pic really enhances the comment...so messed up, yet funny ( please god let it be a joke)😅
This is high level dark humor 😂
6:32 sounds something out of Red Dead Redemption 2 after he says "its almost like an echo effect"
That acoustic is f****n BEAUTIFUL!!!!!
those are some gorgeous looking tuning keys
The magic of making everything sound like "Iris" by Goo Goo Dolls
Finally, another tuning to play Smoke on the Water in.
This is possibly the best DADGAD video I've seen, well done Tyler
Excellent video tutorial. Very easy to follow. Got me playing in DADGAD straight away. Many Thanks.
dadgad is putting me to sleep
This seems more like an ad for the guitar
Love the huge reverb on your voice for a split second after you play
Man that Headstock and fretboard looks awesome