DADGAD & Ambient Guitar? An Awesome Tuning!

[@Thirsty_Fox]

Sounds great. I really enjoy AEADEA (the DADGAD of the baritone)

[@asherbeal8357]

I use ADAADA on my baritone. 🤘🤘

[@ArtinRu]

я этот комментарий искал весь день! 🤝

[@huynhngocnamgiang]

My goodness... I literally just watched this channel yesterday and got very drawn to it. I started to wonder how DADGAD would sound with this ambient style (because I play DADGAG all the time) and then he uploaded this video TODAY!

[@bernieboi8943]

you should upload some riffs on YT :D

[@eearts]

Bill you have become one of my favorite channels! 🙏🏼

[@Tres21]

I’ve been playing in DADGAD for a little while trying to get better and better. I am loving it. I’m playing and singing my original songs. And some covers. Discovering new ways for new chords. It’s an Awesome tuning and a lot of Fun. Thank you for posting a very informative video on DADGAD tuning. Tres

[@vj9988]

I love this tuning. I've found it to be, for myself, the most conducive to creativity. I get my most compelling and exciting ideas playing in this tuning.

[@chrisegg7936]

saw Emma Ruth Rundle play in NYC early this year, she plays a lot of her songs in DADGAD but tuned a full step down and it sounded phenomenal

[@thatellipsisguy8984]

Christian Eggers yeah, 'CGCFGC' just doesn’t have the same ring to it, does it..?

[@whimsythecrypto-hippy-wolf1900]

Full step down means it would be CGCFGC yea? I'm a noob

[@markallen381]

I played with DADGAD tuning in the late 60s. Remember the song by the Doors? The End. The melody was in a minor scale using DADGAD.

[@michaelmoon9021]

The part with the power chords reminds me of the sound of Helmet in the 90s. So this is how they did it :)

[@Black_Swan777]

By way of extension: Any and every tuning can be used for the creation of ambient music... As always, the guitarist’s imagination is the *only* limitation. The Ambient Sky is the ‘limit’!

[@southernmainesonicexperime3438]

I love DADGAD. I started experimenting with it a few years back, and now my acoustic lives in that tuning. 2 months ago I installed an LR Baggs mic in there which has allowed me to start running the acoustic through my pedalboard and I have been in heaven! Love the chord voicings, and all the available octaves “in the box”. Lends itself very well to ambient soundscapes. Great video! Keep on rockin

[@chordsoforion]

Great to hear!!

[@boblathim7424]

Another Great one Bill! Once Bill starts moving his Head and becoming animated you just know He is feeling it and in the Zone! Love Love Love it!

[@wayneknazek7362]

Holy Smokes Bill! I've watched dozens of your vids. This one is awesome, for many reasons. Yeah, because it's informative, yadda yadda. I opened this one because I was specifically looking for more to do with DADGAD that's NOT on an acoustic guitar. I'm 73, and been playing (and gigging since 1965) a long time. I play electric because I don't personally care for acoustic. I'm working with a new band, and we're doing "all kinds" if stuff I never played before. Up until recently I played Jazz, Blues, and years ago, Classical. And I was only one time, a decade ago, in a "Classic Rock" band for a short time. One of the songs we decided to do (partially because of the HUGE range our lead vocalist has) is Kashmir. So I tuned up (OK, down! LOL) to DADGAD and worked on the song. Love playing it. And wanted to have a couple more rockers in DADGAD, partially to justify lugging a guitar to gigs that I only use on one song. I still haven't found any. BUT . . . that being said . . . Why I think this particular video is awesome . . . it's your playing! As I said, I've heard you play for hours and hours. Always great stuff. But dude, you have GOT to focus on entertaining in DADGAD more! You are an outstanding DADGAD player! NOTE: I just watched the video again just to listen to you play.

[@mrh862]

DADGAD is my Standard tuning. It's what I learned to play when I started at 12 or so. We won't talk about how long ago that was ;-). Love your stuff, Bill. Keep up the great work!

[@anuvette]

This year

[@OldMike1958]

The guitar for me is an experiment and I never got into DADGAD. I play in Open G with slide and I just discovered a new horizon with your video. Thank you so much. Greetings from Argentina. I would like to know your set of pedals because the attack is very soft and strange. Thank you

[@Emily_M81]

The other night I restrung and tuned my 8-String 27" scale Ibanez to the very similar FADADFAD and now this shows up on for me lol... it's really fun and inspired a lot of new things.

[@davebraxton]

I play Celtic music and am very familiar with it. I play mostly in Drop D but do a few tunes in DADGAD. I’ve been following your channel for quite a while so was really glad to see this video. I play acoustic only but recently got a delay and volume pedal so I can dive into this ambient world you’ve gotten me interested in. Thanks, Bill.

[@Raku777]

Thanks for sharing this. I have been playing a Tanpura tuned to DAdd and have been exploring using an ambient guitar to support its harmonics. This video helps a lot for this.

[@Micky-yo3ng]

Id love to hear that

[@johannsoncrusoe5589]

Love that Tuning even down to drop C! All strings just one full tone more down tuned. It is great for a band with just one guitar to get some doomy low tunes while adding some octaved highs and licks (here called hybrid picking, did not know there is a word for that :) ). I had a band with a guitarist with that tuning and had to hear the tuning out of rehearsal recordings. Now I am recording it after the bands breakup some years ago to bring the songs back to life again. Very interesting and sometimes hard to get the notes out of those recordings, but it is making more and more sense now to me. You can get very interesting chord progressions with this tuning! Try it with your punk or hardcorebands to get some deep weight to your songs! CGCFGC go! :D

[@ProjectCreativityGuy96]

Such a beautiful guitar sound!!!!!

[@TheLostHarmony]

DADGAD probably one of my favorite alternate tunings!

[@JeffPenaify]

I prefer open D, just take the G down to an Fsharp

[@samseitz9937]

I stared experimenting with alternate tunings because of David Wilcox. I can’t believe how little recognition he gets for his playing. Also that’s a great crunch tone you have going Bill!

[@allglorytoGodalone144]

I like the way you simplify the ambient technique. Sometimes I play standard leads over DADGAD, and Vice Versa. It is Great for Worship Music! Keep Looking Up!⬆ Thank you for your instruction.

[@JeffHendricks]

I've been really interested in trying open C tuning, in no small part to Devin Townsend. Seems like different tunings give plenty of options for arpeggios and chords. Hardest thing for me is having to learn all new chord shapes!

[@morbidangel989]

I pretty much only play in open C at this point, and yes, I am a huge Devin Townsend fan lol. I would actually feel lost trying to play in standard at this point.

[@keepitshortnsweet]

If seen a few things on this channel that remind me of DT. I would be willing to bet the DT an BV would hit it off.

[@AnthonyClegg-d2v]

That was excellent, thank you.❤🎸🇬🇧.

[@alastair6356]

Thanks for the ideas, keep them coming. 🤩👍

[@maelofit]

Thanks for demonstratic some techniques and sharing some nice melodies.

[@BozowolfnHD]

I need to buy a few new guitars, thanks for giving me a reason to do so. I love my old Washburn KC40V but the Floyd Rose tremolo makes it nearly impossible to do things like this with any ease, time for a tune-o-matic!

[@sahamal_savu]

I have my acoustic tuned to DADGAD as I play a lot of Irish traditional music. Never tried tuning an electric like that, sounds great for ambient stuff!

[@timrober75]

Thanks Mr Vencil... you keeping opening up worlds of possibility. Thanks for all you do :)

[@DG-mv6zw]

I'm sold! 👍 Great tutorial, really well explained and presented, although one small but useful suggestion: More close ups would improve the experience. Anyway, I'm ashamed to say I've managed to avoid DADGAD for 40 years. Time to change that, I think. Being Scottish and playing some Scottish folk, this tuning would definitely enhance my playing. Thanks again. 👍

[@GaryBook]

Excellent lesson. Beautiful guitar. Led Zeppelin used an array of open tunings. On Going to California they used D A D G B D, close to your tuning. Blood on the Tracks by Dylan uses Open E, but I tune to Open D and Capo on Second Fret. D A D F# A D. Of Course Joni Mitchell used Open E and many different tunings. I would assume Nick Drake at some point used this tuning because he had so many tunings.

[@BadassBrutusGuitar]

You just set me on the new track for my ambient improv. I normally tune all my guitars in standard tuning, but will tune my Dot Studio in DADGAD to do a couple of experiments.... Thnx Bill 😎

[@andreaharrington9705]

Just wow!🥳

[@Finnvbot]

Some of my alternative favourites (from low to high): Open Csus2: C G C G C D 3 Be or Not 3 Be ("Threebe" is a word now): B E B E B E Open C maj6 add4: C G C F A E Weird Open C (works best on a baritone): C E G C G C Open G7 sus4: D G D G C F Open D: D A D F# A D (notable example: "Vancouver" by Jeff Buckley, absolutely killer!) Open D minor add9: D A D F A E (used quite a bit on the "Ghost Reveries" album by Opeth, gorgeous!)

[@kirklandish]

I just got a baritone guitar and have been playing it in the equivalent (AEADEA). My favorite “trick” so far is playing a unison shape between the second and third string, which sounds particularly nice using the high A as a drone string. For example, unison would be the fifth fret on the second string and the seventh fret on the third string, which sounds awesome with the high A too. Also try muting the low E string for a super thick A.

[@chordsoforion]

Great tip! Thanks for sharing it!

[@mohdaizinasri8372]

I tune down to CGCFGC. Just love it.

[@bernieboi8943]

I always expect something insane but come back relaxed. the power of ambient :D haha

[@denniswolf96]

Awesome video. Learnt somethin' cool.

[@tarkenton3895]

You should definitely try out DADFae tuning. Instant idea generator

[@samuelfreeman5483]

Great video as usual! I'd love to see you use more alternate tunings, maybe even Fripp's New Standard?

[@chordsoforion]

I am happy to do more with alternate tunings, but I have to say that I am not particularly fond of NST. The minor 3rd interval between the 1st and 2nd strings is very annoying.

[@samuelfreeman5483]

@@chordsoforion thanks for the reply!

[@TheGreenKingdom]

Was recording some acoustic ambient in DADGAD this morning!

[@DanieleIppolito]

suuper awesome!😍

[@davelanciani-dimaensionx]

I use DADGAD a lot, along with DADFAD (open D minor). Love open chords. Great for ambient, but they also work for rock and metal.

[@abheceshabemuskk3531]

The 1st time i hear someone using dadfad..you can fly only with a few open harmonics.

[@sydneypanda]

Abheces Habemuskk dadfad is very common used if you are a Japanese fingerstyle guitarist, lol

[@davelanciani-dimaensionx]

@@abheceshabemuskk3531 I think Opeth recorded their entire Ghosts of Perdition in DADFAD.

[@sorrowscape]

Love this sound

[@nicosbomba]

I play in DAD on my six string bouzouki, similar

[@asherbeal8357]

I use ADAADA on my Baritone. The middle A’s are in unison.

[@gwEmbassy]

that’s interesting, do you use different gauge strings to normal? quite a difference from standard on that 3rd string

[@asherbeal8357]

@@gwEmbassy 11-72

[@Micky-yo3ng]

I have a 12 string that I keep in DADGAD and the sympathetic resonance I get on it makes the thing feel alive. Suspended chords just leap out of it.

[@chordsoforion]

Yes! 12-strings in DADGAD are glorious.

[@MikkelGrumBovin]

okay - no way around it - i tried to hold my enthusiasm, but ... youre a damn fine player ,-

[@chordsoforion]

Thanks very much!!

[@geoffthechef76]

4:23 / Grails - Space Prophet Dogon

[@robertlittle7314]

My two alternate tunings are C G C G C E = open C C G D G B E = "half craft" because C G D A E G = Robert Fripp's "Guitar Craft" tuning I do want to try DADGAD, but I also want to try David Crosby's EBDGAD, which seems related

[@rikvartigyan2667]

Thank you

[@brandoningersoll5034]

Great more vids of guitar theory and technique plz!

[@dariadiachkova]

Thank you sir Davos

[@rudicolombi2994]

Are you peeking my google search history? I was researching this argument up to a few hours ago xD Thank you for the video!

[@065kunal]

Beautiful.. kindly let us know the delay settings...?

[@chordsoforion]

I did not write the settings. It's just a tapped in dotted eighth style delay on the Strymon DIG.

[@JD-gf7ur]

wow that was awesome

[@dougmann66]

Beautiful 💜🧡💚💙🌞⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@jsmmsj2520]

Suggest this album Fahey Kottke and Lang esp this song , In Christ There Is No East or West . Also the album Apollo Atmospheres by Brian Eno . And the album Bluebell Knoll by Cocteau Twins Cocteau Twins , very left field , a whole new realm of sounds.

[@GabrielKerr]

Anyone ever try DADADE? It's a lot of fun. You do have to bring the natural G and B up to and A and D, which can be a scary move for those attached to their strings staying intact. But I doubt a baritone would have any struggle.

[@CharlesPDog]

I have been playing DADGAD exclusively for the last six months. By trial and error I have figured out some two and three finger open chords up and down the neck, although these are essentially d drones. I am trying to incorporate 6th and 9th chords in em d g a, there is very little info out there about extended chords. Play in DADGAD Creates a whole other sound due to the sympathetic vibration of the strings. Any other shortcut tips for speeding up the learning curve for progressions and chords?

[@Micky-yo3ng]

I'd love to hear that

[@Micky-yo3ng]

What I meant to say is that I just use my ears with DADGAD and I stumble on chords I couldn't or wouldn't be able to play in standard and that way it brings out the unique sound of the tuning, rather than try to make it sound like my regular playing with different fingers

[@oscarwalton1188]

Cashmere by led zeppelin is actually done dadgad but the sheet music is in standard tune i wonder how many people got frustrated trying to learn certain songs because the people printing the sheet music didn't really bother to get it right

[@Alejandro-ny6ki]

Huge inspiration

[@matteochavez]

Woah, I love your channel.

[@rogerweafer2179]

Here's my method to get to DADGAD using Harmonics : natural (Harm.) on 7th fret 3rd string (G) TUNE down 12th fret (Harm.) 1st string (E) to match then, (Harm.)on 7th fret 4th string (D) tune down 12th fret (Harm.) 2nd string (B) to match then,4th string (Harm.) 12th fret, tune down 6th string (E) . It's a very fast way to tune because you don't have to hold anything down while you tune. I've never heard of anyone else using this method and I've read a ton of Guitar Mags on DADGAD from the late 60's to the 90's and a few current. HAVE FUN !

[@chordsoforion]

Great tip! Thanks for sharing it with us!

[@ArtinRu]

Mark Freuder Knopfler гитара то же dadgad?

[@krasimirparvanov8139]

No

[@jeff0566jsm]

You can play some beautiful Stephen Stills licks in that tuning...

[@primeweeds]

Oohh sounds sick

[@aaronholland9989]

This was lit 🔥

[@robertodinizjr1]

DADGAD 🧡

[@gary_stavropoulos]

In this video your distortion sounds good I think the tone people don’t like sounds over compressed.

[@keepitshortnsweet]

Is there anything in your long form pieces that use DADGAD?

[@ThatBaritoneGuitarGuy]

if you REALLY want to have fun, let's transpose DADGAD down to A. One of my songs is in AEADEA, and that weird DADGAD format is quite fun.

[@brianjerlow681]

If you don’t know him already, Steve Tibbetts is a DADGAD master. Search his covers of Black Mountain Side and Villanova Junction. Acoustic ambient. Actually, not even classifiable

[@chordsoforion]

Agreed. His albums are great (especially Yr), and I featured him last year on a "top 10 guitarists" video.

[@yvanlenyvan]

Cool video comparing to the other resources. « Yeah, sounds irish »

[@tangobayus]

I don't worry about keys. I just play everything in D, from pop to classical. You just need to find where the melody starts.

[@LittleZdy]

beautiful masterful

[@mcdowell356]

I,m wondering if DADGAD tuning doesn't predate concert tuning . I think Baroque instruments were Diatonically tuned .

[@mcdowell356]

Ironically I learned to tune my guitar to DADGAD before I could tune to standard . Being an ear player I just discovered open tunings by trial and error . Needless to say not without a lot of broken strings . I finally figured out to always tune down ... never tune up ...especially the G string .

[@rickrobinson672]

Does Carvin still manufacture guitars?

[@SuperOhdannyboy]

Yes under the Kissel brand. I’m saving up to get one of the headless models.

[@exohead1]

Do you have any thoughts on All Fourths tuning?

[@chordsoforion]

I have never tried it, however, it seems like it would be great for lead work, but more difficult for chords.

[@exohead1]

Chords Of Orion I was recently exposed to it while falling down an alternate tuning rabbit hole and got curious. If you end up trying it I’d love to hear what you come up with. I’ve been doing a lot of “back to basics” acoustic learning and am taking a music theory class online, so I’ve mostly stuck with standard tuning

[@Skeebins]

Whats are some of your favorite ambient records/ambient guitar records?

[@chordsoforion]

Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, old Genesis with Steve Hackett, Terje Rypdal, Ralph Towner, Hammock ot name a few, and of course Chords of Orion.

[@jankowalski6397]

profesor davos space maker, great

[@DarkSideofSynth]

Super cool. Long live delay ;)

[@guitaristssuck8979]

Missed the opportunity to play the power chord with all 6 strings: D 000200 D# 111311 E 222422 F 333533 and so on...

[@mk1st]

10:45 Oh yeah, Rock n Roll baby! Some Soundgarden / QOTSA stuff there.

[@ProjectCreativityGuy96]

Hey, GAD! WHERE'S MY DAD!!!???

[@redflipper992]

this guy sounds like he's about to tell me either something's problematic, or that my outfit is so last season.

[@grega1207]

Ambient Appalachian music, now there's an interesting idea?!

[@aerwyna9710]

All I play is in DADGAD. Every time I tune to standard or Drop D/C, I come running back to DADGAD.

[@kimseniorb]

You’re cool

[@DearBanshee]

You gotta bust out cinnamon girl by Neil young

[@guitawrizt]

*_Norwegian Wood is made for DADGAD._*

[@almightybeatz432hzofficial3]

Just one thing bill , the word is Gaelic not, Celtic, Celtic is a roman word , I am Irish and I'm proud of my ancestors, I'm only saying it to let you know, otherwise good video, keep posting I'll be watching,

[@mos6507]

A DADGAD video and no mention of Led Zeppelin?

[@chordsoforion]

Correct if I am wrong, but I don't believe I mentioned ANY players.

[@SuperOhdannyboy]

Ok boomer.

[@jimmyanderson442]

Ok bommer

[@breakfastwithtrees9524]

Jesus Loves You

[@genepozniak]

That guitar body looks like you made it from a large mans liver. Gross, dude! lol

[@chordsoforion]

Guess you have never heard of the Carvin Allan Holdsworth signature model?

[@MikkelGrumBovin]

@@chordsoforion He doesent have a clue,-🕵️‍♀️ He lives in "The Sphere of Innocence"😘

[@genepozniak]

@@chordsoforion No, but I assume he was a large, hard-drinking man? LOL Thank God you didn't get the "headless" model. :p

[@LauraSquirrel]

Meh. DADGAD doesn't excite me as much as other alternate tunings. Open C and Open G rock my world.

[@LauraSquirrel]

Aaaaaand.....I'm a frickin' liar. LOL, You know what? You were right about that in this context. On acoustic, it wasn't doing anything for me. But, once I got my V3 of the EQD Afterneath, I gave it a shot and it was awesome! So, yeah. I was wrong.