DADGAD! The Tuning of the Gods

sometimes a couple small changes can have drastic consequences like replacing eggs with applesauce and all your baking activities or replacing premium gasoline with Mountain Dew Baja blast to improve fuel efficiency you the same can be done on standard tuning for a guitar so we're gonna talk about the alternate tuning dadgad and maybe just kind of like an intro some different things you can do and kind of why certain things work okay I'm using a faith guitars parlor guitar because they're the official the first official sponsor of the Celtic album that is upcoming but basically all dad get is is we're retuning three of the strings so instead of e a d g b e is d ad a okay so an open string set with something like this alright all that means the a particular low E string turn it down to a D you're a D and g strings are gonna stay the same which is going to be an important concept of what we're talking about here and then the B string goes down to an A and then the high E string also goes down to a D so we have alodia a middle D and Heidi that's a lot of DS I haven't seen that many DS since before my snapchat was unlisted but the first thing I want to talk about is what all these notes make when you just hear this that kind of sounds good it sounds better than just like the open string set of the standard tune guitar because we'd really just have some DS and a a couple a is and a G so da ji what chord does that make that actually makes a D suspended for okay so now that's not major it's not minor it's just a D it's v d e f G a and then also the the 4th in there alright d e f g okay so d sus two shows up in a couple different keys but for the purposes of this lesson we're going to talk about just the key of D minor which also is the same as the key of F so if you don't know what any of that stuff means I'm gonna link you to a video on relative minor and how important that is but a lot of what makes this sound really cool is gluing things together with a bunch of D and a notes through what's called a chord scale so the first thing you're gonna do is we're gonna turn just the the open string set into a D minor right so we have this one strain that is giving us in genome otherwise everything else is a DNA okay addy and it's fifth all we need to do is find the minor third in D which is an F so we have to find a F on one of these strings okay so now if we have the the D string D d sharp e half okay so the third fret on the D string is F now by introducing this we already get a very minor sound now we still have a G note in there we can easily change that to an A what's going on G g-sharp a so now if we have this little thing here the third fret on the D string the second fret on the g string this is a D minor chord okay so it's good to know a couple different chord voicings in any kind of alternate tuning because it's a good way to kind of guide your ears and maybe relate things back to something that might be a little more familiar okay so now this shape probably isn't too unfamiliar you know if you have to play C chord or a G chord or F chord that's a big chiming open D minor right there now what I think is really valuable is knowing just all the chords in a key throughout to play what's called a chord scale okay so like I said D minor is the same key chord wise as F major right so in a standard tune guitar an F major Barre chord looks like this if you play it like this sounds really bad because we've changed a lot of the strings but the thing to keep in mind is the a D and g strings have remained unchanged from standard tuning so we can use everything that we know on a standard rina guitar all the shapes on specifically these three strings and then add in the other notes which again are a D a high D and an egg okay so those three strings are gonna glue everything together in this Dada Getty goodness while we go through the chords in the key of D minor key of F right so again an F major but only using the nail D and g strings is gonna sound like this if you play as an open chord with the open strings here it sounds like that and that already is kind of a cool [Music] different kind of sounding f ish cord then a lot of us are maybe easier yeah so you know the naming of the cords I don't think is so important for this but really if you think about it we have an F with A's and B's in there an F chord F major F VCF he has an A in it so we kind of count through and be like okay F G a B C D it's like an F major six something like that right now the second chord and that key is a G minor right standard tuning AG mind looks like that again sounds not as bad as a barre chord F but that's not really the shape that we're looking for we're gonna use again just those a B and C strings to get that G minor and then add the open swings along to help okay so in my mind I am thinking of a F major and in G minor and maybe in a minor something like that then would be like a b-flat major and that key that chord scale which would be a F major G minor a minor B flat C D minor so on and so forth right but when we just hold down the a D and g strings end up getting a bigger open sounding dadgad e chord scale okay so again those are just the first chord the one chord [Music] three four five and then six would go back to D minor which again we could just open it on or at the F on the [Music] all right so really we're working with two shapes here so far we have this you can look at this think of this as like a major bar chord shape or an E major shape kind of taking care of what's under the bar there right again our major shape and then our minor shape looks like this all right ring fingers on the fifth fret of the a-string think he's on the fifth fret of the D string pointer fingers on the third fret of the g string and then again all those open droney type sounds are coming from the actual open tuning and not from the chords that were threatened okay so let's go through the main six chords again starting with the one two minor three is also a minor four is major five is major six is binary gotta and we do that now another cool thing you can do is let's take what we've made this whole thing minor in the first place the introduction of the third fret on the d-string the dip C major minor is just one note right the the third of a chord so in the key of D minor the third note is an F in the key of D major third note is f sharp so a cool thing that you can do is really quickly switch from minor to major just by going three to four and then start maybe kind of thinking of like where maybe other F sharps are or other things that you can do to kind of add this because as long as you don't have that in there anything is kind of fair game right and that's why knowing maybe like the D major scale or the D minor scale can come in really handy in that spot that is still in that holdover from standard tuning that we've kind of you know come to really really know well hopefully right and then any of those things are gonna work on top of these open Chinese sounds from this scale shape all right guys the D major scale inside the shape 5/7 I'm a string four or five seven on the D string four six seven any combination of these and then with the open strings are just gonna get a bigger chime here D major ish sound right [Music] I'm not even thinking about what I'm playing I'm just kind of partnering up notes from that D major scale handshape for the really the three strings that matter as far as this lesson is concerned now there's a million different things a million ways you can get involved in a dadgad this is just one way to kind of you know really quickly retune your guitar and just kind of make things that are gonna sound right but again it's always up to you to experiment kind of use different chord voicings in general I just think this is kind of a cool way to maybe differentiate between major stuff - stuff [Music] kind of adding those movable hand positions and porch shapes all over the place because it's really a fun way to kind of switch up maybe your guitar playing if you see you seem like you're you're kind of stagnant and you're playing try out an alternate tuning make up your own alternative tuning this is just one of you know an infinite amount of ways you can retune an acoustic guitar so definitely uh I hope you enjoyed it I'm gonna have some some dead get songs coming to you in a hot second thank you again to faith guitars for the 12 string I'll probably do like a like a video demo on this guitar soon and if you have any questions hit me up in the comment section Instagram Twitter or the website and I'll talk to y'all later make a lot

Channel: Sean Daniel

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Length: 10min 3sec (603 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 20 2018