The thing I love most about DADFAD is that it's very close to standard tuning but you still get the open chord when you strum. the capitalized notes I am highlighting in DadFAD are the same as D standard, and remaining a and d notes are the same as e standard. I learned the fretboard in standard and what really helped me to do it was memorizing shapes and patterns of different scales and chords. With DADFAD, I only have to make a minor adjustment and I can easily play my standard tuning repertoire without having to completely rework it due to different string intervals
I have a 3-string cigar box guitar. Can I recreate the minor D scale by tuning the 3 strings FAD...? Because major D scale on a 3-string would be DAD, so minor would be FAD...
@@-jank-willson yeah DADF#AD is just open d major, Since the 3rd of d major is an f#. Only difference between that and open d minor is flattening the f# to f to make it a minor third. But yeah, tuning your cigar box guitar to FAD will produce an open d minor chord. Then just tune the f up a half step to get d major
@@Baghdadbatterymusic so, would DAD be the open D major, or would F#AD be the open D major? I don't know anything about music theory lol. I got into a cigar box guitar because I wanted to play guitar, but didn't have much money, and a CBG was 80 dollars. It also looks cooler than a regular guitar, and has 3 strings instead of 6, so the chord shapes are much easier. And IMO, I couldn't tell the difference between a 3 string and a 6 string.
@@-jank-willson f# a d would be open d major. There are 3 notes that make up a minor and major chord. The 1 (root), 3, and 5. The only difference between a minor and major chord is the 3rd is flattened 1 half step for minor. So d minor = D(1), F(3), A(5). To make it major just move that F up a half step to F#! The 1,3, and 5 don’t have to be in that order either, it just means you’re playing an inversion of that chord.
As someone who's learnt by ear and knows basically no music theory this blew my mind. TIL almost everything I write is in a minor scale, I play so much on that 0-2-3-5-7-8-10-12-13-15-17 etc pattern, I think this is my dream tuning lol
Open tuning has help me out a lot. I have a fuse left wrist and it's hard playing but with open tuning it has help me to enjoy the guitar again. Thanks for you videos and Tony's Tuesdays keeps me going.
Sick one man. This is the explanation of not only someone who knows what they are talking about but one of a true artist as well. Id be way further if I could connect with more people who explain things so straight forward. -Thanks
I was reading Keith Richards Biography "Life" when and on page 239 he talks about how he primarily uses open tuning. Also he said he turned Ike Turner on to open tuning. So I went to my guitar dictionary, "Guitar for Dummy’s" to get more clues, and they mention how Keith Richards is one of the champions of open tuning. So I tried it out (open E) on the blues songs I know. I never got how slide guitar works best until I tried the open tuning. It opens a whole new world of exciting sounds. The Blues are the root note to rock and roll. I've bee a long time amateur guitar player and thought open tuning seemed too difficult, however with the advent of portable tuners getting to open tuning is much easier. Thank you for broadening the horizons by showing the stacked and staggered progressions.
Open tunings are gas and when played with a slide, are hauntingly beautiful. I play my slide on my pinky and use the other fingers to strum and pinch. magic.
Probably one of the best sounding open tunings getting around. So beautiful and rich with endless thoughts of reflection echoing through the third eye of the beholder....went a bit of track there man but yeah...GREAT VID MAN 👌😌🤘
First I tried Open D major tuning (after having watched your video), then tuned it down to Open D minor... and suddenly got an intuitive approach DADGAD (after practicing for two years). Magic. ;o)
Been play open D for a while now but just tried out open Dm today and it's insane how much of a different feeling and how big the difference in how you play is between the two tunings and all that from such a miniscule change in the tuning itself
Cheers bud just messing around in GarageBand in d minor and thought I wonder what open tuning would sound like on this. The chord shapes and fret positions in general were really helpful. Will try more when sober. All the best.
This would work perfectly on a 3-string Cigar Box Guitar!!! (tuned FAD), since it is just the bottom 3 strings that are used with the 'stacked' and staggered' shapes.
I’ve been making hundreds of neat licks in CGCGCG tuning. I can’t find info on it anywhere but playing finger style with it is so satisfying and beautiful.
super simple too. You can do good sounding music on an open tuning by just putting you finger on a fret across all the strings, and just sliding it to the different frets to make different notes. Very useful so that people who can't play a guitar (chord shapes) can still enjoy a guitar. Although of course it will be very simple music and you can't do as much with it without chord shapes.
Hello Acoustic Life Great Channel I subscribed 😀..I've started using D.minor open tuning quite a lot lately, So yeah ,love it !!!☆...All the best ,Regards Caen, 🎸🎸🎸
Where has this been my whole life? My dude, I get so frustrated because E standard isn't what im looking for. C# sounds moody but to muddy. I can't wait to try this. Just subscribed.
Thanks, Tony. I’m playing banjo now but I bought a Dminor harmonica to learn Jewish Music. This was a fun video to watch (and subscribe to) ... a very pleasant way to learn guitar. Ya got me interested.
Cool lesson. I have only the least rudimentary grasp on theory, but I did notice that you showed a total of 7 chord shapes. I also noticed that there are 7 notes in the scale. Theres a relationship there for sure, I just don't know what it is.
At the bare minimum, there are really only 3 shapes you NEED to know to play the basic chords in a key. Major, minor, and diminished. In a major key, using the major scale, we have 7 notes and these 7 notes combine in different ways to give you chords of that key ( which just means all the notes of that chord are contained in the respective key). If we are in key C Major, the 1 chord is a c major. That's because the first and root note of the c major scale is C, and the major scale only contains the major 3rd, and lacking a minor 3rd, of a c chord, so therefore the 1 chord is c major. The second note of the c major scale is d, and the 2 chord would be d minor. Again, since the c major scale doesn't contain the major 3rd of D, its a minor chord - even though the key is major. If you follow this logic you get these chords for major keys I-major, ii-minor, iii-minor, IV-major, V-major, vi-minor, VII-diminished And for minor keys i-minor, II-diminished, III-major, iv-minor, v-minor, VI-major, VII-major (diminished just means that the 5 note of chord is flattened 1 half step) If you know the major and minor scales, and a few different shapes of those 3 chords, you can really play any song. Once you get comfortable with that you can start adding in more extended harmony
Nice! Now drop the high E string down another tone to C, giving Dm7th open. The downside is the major now takes 2 fingers. The upside is yoù can easily play the major and dominant 7th. Since this is a bar chord you can now play any chord type for every semitone.
My second favorite tuning (after ADADAD), thanks for this lesson Tony! I've used Open D Minor a lot for moody tunes, gonna switch to Open D to experiment with a bottleneck slide.
Fascinating stuff! Loved this vid. I’m a slide player and I had never tried open Dm tuning until now. This turned on the “light bulb” for me in the tuning. OG Rev
@@kroekadoke8212 Well it helps to know the notes of the scale your'e trying to play, as for the slide it doesn't matter as long as you have a good left/right hand muting technique.
@@kroekadoke8212 You can just try practicing with a slide. You'll notice a much cleaner slide sound if you apply even pressure on all the strings you want to ring out and mute the ones you don't. If you want a chord, you want to try keeping the slide from pressing on strings you don't want to play. Its like learning how to fret all over again. Get use to applying pressure with the slide like you would with your left hand.
@@kroekadoke8212 Im not entirely sure since I don't use those tunings much. If you can figure a way out for the open tuning, the notes of the scale are: D, E, F, G, A, Bb, and C
this is the tuning crying Sam Collins uses mostly ( its about a half step up ) I'm just trying to figure a few of his tunes on my Mule tri cone. cool sounds. here is a link to one of sam's most famous songs . ruclips.net/video/0h2zi7oMlz4/видео.html
This lesson was fantastic now I must practice this for a little while now I have 12 note blues chord now this it is truly opening something inside. Another question about paying monthly can someone please address this for me I need monthly payments. I’m terminally ill and most of my money to pay a flat sum. Please can someone please help a girl guitarist
Look I knew it was the half guitar. No more hockey still you face my Russians Cec republic read our roster sports but GO CAPS! Dude I live in Maryland. I really dig your Tuesday nmorning is that Saturday’s and blessed Sunday
basically this tuning is drop D for the top 3 strings (E is dropped a tone to D, A and D are the same) then the rest of the guitar is D standard which means that you tune everything down 1 tone. hope that helps you understand. if you know all the positions of the minor/major/ whatever scale you want on all of the guitar, this will help you visualize. if you except the thickest string, everything is the same, just with a discrepancy of 1 tone (2 frets) on the lower 3 strings
OMG, this is awesome. After this, nothing else matters....
This is my favorite tuning! It's used in a lot of old blues tunes, particularly by Skip James.
Love some Skip James. What a talent that could have been lost to the ages.
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that's who brought me here
The thing I love most about DADFAD is that it's very close to standard tuning but you still get the open chord when you strum. the capitalized notes I am highlighting in DadFAD are the same as D standard, and remaining a and d notes are the same as e standard. I learned the fretboard in standard and what really helped me to do it was memorizing shapes and patterns of different scales and chords. With DADFAD, I only have to make a minor adjustment and I can easily play my standard tuning repertoire without having to completely rework it due to different string intervals
I have a 3-string cigar box guitar. Can I recreate the minor D scale by tuning the 3 strings FAD...? Because major D scale on a 3-string would be DAD, so minor would be FAD...
I also have heard somewhere about DADF#AD tuning
@@-jank-willson yeah DADF#AD is just open d major, Since the 3rd of d major is an f#. Only difference between that and open d minor is flattening the f# to f to make it a minor third.
But yeah, tuning your cigar box guitar to FAD will produce an open d minor chord. Then just tune the f up a half step to get d major
@@Baghdadbatterymusic so, would DAD be the open D major, or would F#AD be the open D major? I don't know anything about music theory lol.
I got into a cigar box guitar because I wanted to play guitar, but didn't have much money, and a CBG was 80 dollars. It also looks cooler than a regular guitar, and has 3 strings instead of 6, so the chord shapes are much easier. And IMO, I couldn't tell the difference between a 3 string and a 6 string.
@@-jank-willson f# a d would be open d major. There are 3 notes that make up a minor and major chord. The 1 (root), 3, and 5. The only difference between a minor and major chord is the 3rd is flattened 1 half step for minor. So d minor = D(1), F(3), A(5). To make it major just move that F up a half step to F#! The 1,3, and 5 don’t have to be in that order either, it just means you’re playing an inversion of that chord.
As someone who's learnt by ear and knows basically no music theory this blew my mind. TIL almost everything I write is in a minor scale, I play so much on that 0-2-3-5-7-8-10-12-13-15-17 etc pattern, I think this is my dream tuning lol
minor scale >>>> major scale. Partially because I am forever stuck as an edgy 15 year old boy lol
Open tuning has help me out a lot. I have a fuse left wrist and it's hard playing but with open tuning it has help me to enjoy the guitar again. Thanks for you videos and Tony's Tuesdays keeps me going.
Sick one man. This is the explanation of not only someone who knows what they are talking about but one of a true artist as well. Id be way further if I could connect with more people who explain things so straight forward.
-Thanks
I was reading Keith Richards Biography "Life" when and on page 239 he talks about how he primarily uses open tuning. Also he said he turned Ike Turner on to open tuning. So I went to my guitar dictionary, "Guitar for Dummy’s" to get more clues, and they mention how Keith Richards is one of the champions of open tuning. So I tried it out (open E) on the blues songs I know. I never got how slide guitar works best until I tried the open tuning. It opens a whole new world of exciting sounds. The Blues are the root note to rock and roll. I've bee a long time amateur guitar player and thought open tuning seemed too difficult, however with the advent of portable tuners getting to open tuning is much easier. Thank you for broadening the horizons by showing the stacked and staggered progressions.
Open tunings are gas and when played with a slide, are hauntingly beautiful. I play my slide on my pinky and use the other fingers to strum and pinch. magic.
This is my new favorite video on the whole internet
Probably one of the best sounding open tunings getting around. So beautiful and rich with endless thoughts of reflection echoing through the third eye of the beholder....went a bit of track there man but yeah...GREAT VID MAN 👌😌🤘
I tuned my guitar yesterday in minor D, today I will be playing around. Great lesson!.
First I tried Open D major tuning (after having watched your video), then tuned it down to Open D minor... and suddenly got an intuitive approach DADGAD (after practicing for two years). Magic. ;o)
Been play open D for a while now but just tried out open Dm today and it's insane how much of a different feeling and how big the difference in how you play is between the two tunings and all that from such a miniscule change in the tuning itself
I like this small lesson for Open D Minor tuning. Got some ideas to try out with that tuning myself to try out asap.
Love this tuning, its got a medieval type sound. Thank you bro.
Cheers bud just messing
around in GarageBand in d minor and thought I wonder what open tuning would sound like on this. The chord shapes and fret positions in general were really helpful. Will try more when sober. All the best.
The part you play at th beginning is so good. I'm just starting to learn how to play, it's amazing to see what you can do with this tuning
such an incredible sound
such a great video
such a great find
thanks dude
Thankyou
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Its like being set free !
This would work perfectly on a 3-string Cigar Box Guitar!!! (tuned FAD), since it is just the bottom 3 strings that are used with the 'stacked' and staggered' shapes.
I’ve been making hundreds of neat licks in CGCGCG tuning. I can’t find info on it anywhere but playing finger style with it is so satisfying and beautiful.
super simple too. You can do good sounding music on an open tuning by just putting you finger on a fret across all the strings, and just sliding it to the different frets to make different notes. Very useful so that people who can't play a guitar (chord shapes) can still enjoy a guitar. Although of course it will be very simple music and you can't do as much with it without chord shapes.
Gah, I’ve got shows tonight and tomorrow night! I can’t wait to dive into this on Sunday! Great video, man! Minor key stuff is my bread and butter!
You are awesome techer by seing your video I feel that learning guitar is little bit easy your information is very pure sir
Hello Acoustic Life Great Channel I subscribed 😀..I've started using D.minor open tuning quite a lot lately, So yeah ,love it !!!☆...All the best ,Regards Caen, 🎸🎸🎸
I really appreciate this video - Anita from London, England !
You make learning a delightful experience thanks
Where has this been my whole life? My dude, I get so frustrated because E standard isn't what im looking for. C# sounds moody but to muddy. I can't wait to try this. Just subscribed.
I’m giving Noah great freaking album it’s truly amazing down into the rabbit hole
Thanks, Tony. I’m playing banjo now but I bought a Dminor harmonica to learn Jewish Music. This was a fun video to watch (and subscribe to) ... a very pleasant way to learn guitar. Ya got me interested.
very inspiring lesson - thanks
I've got a 60 Kay acoustic arch top that lives only here. My favorite tuning
Pretty badass love it amazing what one string or two can sound so cool
Thanks 🙏🏼
You sir are the man! This is really really amazing, thank you so much!
Could you please make a tutorial about finger roll, please?!! 🙏🙏
Perfect! Thanks for breaking it down quickly!
Got the tuning! Now I need to learn to play.
A BIG light bulb, BIG! More please.
Cool lesson. I have only the least rudimentary grasp on theory, but I did notice that you showed a total of 7 chord shapes. I also noticed that there are 7 notes in the scale. Theres a relationship there for sure, I just don't know what it is.
At the bare minimum, there are really only 3 shapes you NEED to know to play the basic chords in a key. Major, minor, and diminished. In a major key, using the major scale, we have 7 notes and these 7 notes combine in different ways to give you chords of that key ( which just means all the notes of that chord are contained in the respective key). If we are in key C Major, the 1 chord is a c major. That's because the first and root note of the c major scale is C, and the major scale only contains the major 3rd, and lacking a minor 3rd, of a c chord, so therefore the 1 chord is c major. The second note of the c major scale is d, and the 2 chord would be d minor. Again, since the c major scale doesn't contain the major 3rd of D, its a minor chord - even though the key is major.
If you follow this logic you get these chords for major keys
I-major, ii-minor, iii-minor, IV-major, V-major, vi-minor, VII-diminished
And for minor keys
i-minor, II-diminished, III-major, iv-minor, v-minor, VI-major, VII-major
(diminished just means that the 5 note of chord is flattened 1 half step)
If you know the major and minor scales, and a few different shapes of those 3 chords, you can really play any song. Once you get comfortable with that you can start adding in more extended harmony
Thank you for sharing Tony.
I have learned so much from this show!
Nice! Now drop the high E string down another tone to C, giving Dm7th open. The downside is the major now takes 2 fingers. The upside is yoù can easily play the major and dominant 7th. Since this is a bar chord you can now play any chord type for every semitone.
Love it! Thank you!!
Yeah, this is a crazy fun tuning, I just discovered it from a resonator guitar swamp blues video.
Open
Stacked
Staggered
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Stacked
Staggered
Staggered
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Thanks, that was helpful
Part of why Skip James was so great
Hi Tony would you plas e provide a lesson on open funding combined with finger picking. Enjoy your lesso n .thanks.Jim.
Dude I'm going to try to convince the guitarist to play that. I just got done writing a song in D Minor it's crying for it
Great lesson Tony, thanks. Interesting idea, well that my next few weeks of exploring sorted.
Cheers brother.
this was tight thanks man
My second favorite tuning (after ADADAD), thanks for this lesson Tony! I've used Open D Minor a lot for moody tunes, gonna switch to Open D to experiment with a bottleneck slide.
also DADADA
and, if you have a 7-string guitar, ABCDEFG tuning. (what I call my 'diatar' [because it has all 7 diatonic notes on the strings])
This is magic.
Nice lesson ^^
Great video!
Nice1, Thank you
Does the standard d minor scale work for open tuning? How do you make this good? Im finger-style. Getting frustrated. Doing slide guitar
I wanna see if you can play harmonic minor over this tuning as is or would you have to drop one of the string a half step lower still
thanks!!
hey, what is the first song ? thanks !!
great video.
which guitar is this?
i simply love this man
Fascinating stuff! Loved this vid. I’m a slide player and I had never tried open Dm tuning until now. This turned on the “light bulb” for me in the tuning.
OG Rev
Most of my money is tie up with doctors and meds. I really enjoyed this
Move to Britain. The only real healthcare costs are parking your car - everything else is pretty much free at the point of use.
Ganacci? you also good at guitar...gg bro
So haunting.
Easy way to remember the tuning is to just fret the chord and adjust to make it unfretted. Low E becomes root or 5th
This was great. How do i use a slide with this?
How do i use the scale in this? Does the standard tuning dm scale work for this?
@@kroekadoke8212 Well it helps to know the notes of the scale your'e trying to play, as for the slide it doesn't matter as long as you have a good left/right hand muting technique.
Vincent Lamb oh so its muting technique? Does the standard tuning D minor scale work for open D minor minor tuning?
@@kroekadoke8212 You can just try practicing with a slide. You'll notice a much cleaner slide sound if you apply even pressure on all the strings you want to ring out and mute the ones you don't. If you want a chord, you want to try keeping the slide from pressing on strings you don't want to play. Its like learning how to fret all over again. Get use to applying pressure with the slide like you would with your left hand.
@@kroekadoke8212 Im not entirely sure since I don't use those tunings much. If you can figure a way out for the open tuning, the notes of the scale are: D, E, F, G, A, Bb, and C
using this for black metal, wont discuss, thanks.
1000th like lol , very helpful tho i really appreciate this
this is the tuning crying Sam Collins uses mostly ( its about a half step up ) I'm just trying to figure a few of his tunes on my Mule tri cone. cool sounds. here is a link to one of sam's most famous songs . ruclips.net/video/0h2zi7oMlz4/видео.html
Nigel reference! Yes
are the shapes the same for open E and open G tuning?
Yes. Because you're just playing in a different key, but the tuning is essentially the same.
2:45 Mind blown haha. I have to mess with this now
This lesson was fantastic now I must practice this for a little while now I have 12 note blues chord now this it is truly opening something inside. Another question about paying monthly can someone please address this for me I need monthly payments. I’m terminally ill and most of my money to pay a flat sum. Please can someone please help a girl guitarist
2:47 Another Brick In The Wall
If it sounds good it is good
WOOW THATS WORKS GREAT THANKS
Look I knew it was the half guitar. No more hockey still you face my Russians Cec republic read our roster sports but GO CAPS! Dude I live in Maryland. I really dig your Tuesday nmorning is that Saturday’s and blessed Sunday
What the fuck are you talking about
Today I found that open D minor is perfect for playing black metal.
This tuning sounds 10 times better on a 12 string!!
Is this the same tunning that Albert Collins would use
That's not Skip James tuning is it?..he favored some kind of open d minor didn't he?
Fucking awesome!!!
I watched this because I like Big Wreck😜
basically this tuning is drop D for the top 3 strings (E is dropped a tone to D, A and D are the same) then the rest of the guitar is D standard which means that you tune everything down 1 tone. hope that helps you understand. if you know all the positions of the minor/major/ whatever scale you want on all of the guitar, this will help you visualize. if you except the thickest string, everything is the same, just with a discrepancy of 1 tone (2 frets) on the lower 3 strings
Or Skip James tuning!
Yay now I can play megalovania
I hear System of a Down “aerials in the sky” 🎵
Without Wings lead me here
Opeth sent me here
I am the tiniest gasp that my name
Sailing Christopher Cross … made easy
This Argentine uses that tuning quite a bit. ruclips.net/video/HrTk-lSZGx4/видео.html
i am here because of opeth
Good for Armenian music
Ah, the saddest of all keys
Much confusioning
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