How DADGAD Tuning Makes EVERYONE A Better Guitarist!

If you're looking to level up your Alt/shoegaze guitar playing , then DADGAD tuning needs exploring! It allows you to play with open strings giving you that sound you've been searching for.
In todays video, we're going to be discussing the importance of DADGAD tuning and how it can help you level up your playing and create that indie/shoegaze guitar sound.We'll explore how to find the major and minor thirds, how to get around the fretboard and how to begin writing awesome chord progressions in DADGAD!
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[@eeeewalk]

I pretty much exlusively play in open tunings. As you talk about towards the end, it's the happy accidents you get by putting your fingers somewhere and seeing what comes out. If I start to get too comfortable with chord fingerings in a particular tuning, then it's time to try something else!

[@thesethingsmakenoises]

Yeah 100%! It opens up loads of new possibilities that would just sound tired in more ‘regular’ tunings.

[@PhilipMurrayDesign]

Brilliant tutorial Dan - very helpful - thanks - love the droning string tones using DADGAD

[@thesethingsmakenoises]

Thanks mate! It’s a really nice tuning to mess about in.

[@letronix6243]

Awesome. Time to try that right now.

[@boriscat1999]

I think alternative tunings force you to understand chords because you can more easily experiment and improvise. DADDAD is another interesting one, which has lots of D's across the octave as a power chord. and picking a base of D and D on two octaves while doing almost anything you want on the three treble strings, but it is very simple to walk through major and minor chords such as Em, F#m, G, A, Dm, C#dim with only three shapes on those 3 strings. and maybe you won't use the diminished chord at all.

[@ronmounts8075]

Doooooo What????

[@mainsblanches8793]

Nice ti see alternate tunings are so popular, I've been using them for composing for close to 50 years now!...and it's been quite a journey!...

[@22leaves]

man your channel is a gem!!

[@thesethingsmakenoises]

Thanks so much!

[@nedim_guitar]

This is great, really inspiring! I've been dabbling in DADGAD and other tunings for quite.some time. A couple of weeks ago I wrote s complete song with lyrics and all on my acoustic guitar. Right now I'm recording an electric guitar version. However, I mistakenly had the guitar tuned to DADGAE 😄

[@thesethingsmakenoises]

Ahh no way, that’s awesome!

[@stuartchapman5171]

Im not a guitarist but I go make noise. Ive always tuned my old Teisco to DADGAD, I love the sojnd with a slide, stacked dirt and a sprinkle of classic sounding room or spring verb. A twist on a vintage sound on a modern fx chain. I struggle to play anything that sounds bad!.I always assumed that this was drop D in my lack of any musical knowledge. Great vid.

[@thesethingsmakenoises]

Thanks mate! Yeah it just sounds awesome kinda no matter what you do haha!

[@DannyPoet]

i think u just converted me from Drop D lol ;) Love ur blue Fender by the way

[@glaurung666]

I prefer open tunings too. DAFDAD for example which is open minor D, or open C for my 8-string guitar. I think a lot of guitarists underestimate the beauty and comfort of open tuning and for some reason play only in standard tuning, maybe dropped sometimes.

[@ceciliaeyes]

Very cool video ! We are using this tuning (one half step down) on our single Parenthesis, that way (one step down) make it even more dramatic :-) Cool Music October Drift !

[@thesethingsmakenoises]

Ahh awesome. Will take a listen! Thanks so much!

[@ceciliaeyes]

@@thesethingsmakenoises thanks so much Dan, hope you'll like it ! Are you playing in Belgium in the coming weeks, months, let me know ;-)

[@statespace]

mate honestly i love your channel! so simply explained and the topic is just right for me. I'd love to listen to your band somewhere online, what is it called? Can't find any links :(

[@non_brewed_condiment]

glad I found this channel

[@thesethingsmakenoises]

Thanks mate!

[@chinabears]

wicked jam Dan, maybe we should give DADGAD a try 🤪🤪🤪

[@thesethingsmakenoises]

Get on it legends!

[@abvk4875]

my favorite song ive written was in dadgad but another half step down, truely beautiful tuning

[@MrJmawiseman]

Started learning again recently after a long break. Im into Shoegaze but cant get enough of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club lately. Gonna tune my guitar to DADGAD later and try and sound like Peter Hayes...😅

[@arbuzifiedMusician]

yeah, i have also did smth like that with the d a d f# a c# tuning, its also very nice

[@ricardog.s2505]

I discovered this tuning through the band Sevendust, it is probably their most used tuning (but in Drop B, instead of D) and it easily became my favourite tuning of all time because it sounds beautiful when you want to, but also very dissonant, noisy and heavy if you put effort in it

[@thesethingsmakenoises]

That sounds awesome!!

[@GabeHelma]

7dust are awesome dude's. I partied with them after a show way back in 1999. Super cool and humble guys. No asshole rockstar bullshit with them guys.

[@Duderino_jr]

Learning snail mails static fuzz in open D changed my opinion on alternate tuning and is now all i feel like playing. KZbin has a tutorial of course lol

[@thesethingsmakenoises]

What a great band! Hope you found this useful! 🙌

[@killianmaduro3664]

I know I am a bit late but man I would really recommend you try DADGAE and leave that high E. It adds a completely different sound altogether and sounds much more dreamy/shoegazey than celtic.

[@thesethingsmakenoises]

Ohhh I’m gonna try this, thank you!!

[@lukehenderson436]

Have you tried DACEAD or DADACE tunings (the latter might be easier on the strings if you do it as CGCGA#D)? Open D7sus2 I believe.

[@killianmaduro3664]

@@lukehenderson436 This looks interesting :)) I am gonna try these on my acoustic thanks for sharing! Try DADF#BE for a really cool voicing. It’s the same tuning King Krule used to write Out Getting Ribs.

[@lukehenderson436]

@@killianmaduro3664 cool, thanks. Any tricks/ tips for that? I got onto DACEAD/ DADACE initially as a simple way to barre and then use a finger for maj 7th (or just root again) and another for the 3rd or 4th. Plus you get two lots of DA strings for drones and can play around with notes on adjacent CE strings.

[@killianmaduro3664]

@@lukehenderson436 Uhm here’s some chords I have found on that tuning but mess around with adding extra notes onto those open strings I tabbed out. D 0 0 0 5 7 9 12 A 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 F# 3 0 3 5 7 8 12 B 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 E 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

[@davelanciani-dimaensionx]

Yes, Led Zeppelin's song, "Kashmir." That's probably the most famous DADGAD song ever. I also recommend checking out some of Devin Townsend's music - he isn't in this tuning, but he tunes to CGCGCE, which is just Open C Major, another great sounding open tuning influenced by Celtic music.

[@thesethingsmakenoises]

Awesome I’ll check it out! Thanks. 😊

[@geradoclarke33]

Same tuning soundgarden use in pretty noose .you get that siren wail from it .

[@clemmcguinness1087]

Rocky Mountain High ....

[@_william5112]

I always wanted to try open tunings, but they are kinda scary for me as i played in standart all the time 😅 gonna try this right now

[@thesethingsmakenoises]

Have a go, it really is super forgiving!

[@octoberdrift]

🤘🤘🤘

[@jameslong9921]

Maybe you could get your channel viewer's to submit/collaborate on a song with you, or maybe song ideas, riffs that you could then edit on all that cool gear you've got? Just an unformed idea really, anyone else think of how that could work or if it's even an idea worth pursuing?

[@thesethingsmakenoises]

Yeah that’s a cool idea, I was thinking of maybe starting something where people can send clips of songs or tones and stuff in advance and then we could discuss them on live streams etc. think that could really work. Especially if people are having issues with dialling in tone or something that I might be able to help with

[@dariagodina]

7:44 agreed!

[@thesethingsmakenoises]

Thanks Daria!

[@BellsCuriosityShop]

A cousin showed me some folkie things in DADGAD. When I used it, I just sounded like bad Sonic Youth.

[@thesethingsmakenoises]

Haha there’s no such thing! Bet it sounded awesome 🤘have a go with those major and minor shapes they’re so fun to just go up and down the scale

[@daveredfern8258]

and whats the ideal string gauges for this tuning?????

[@arbuznazarov9326]

probably the same gauge you would need for d standard for example

[@thesethingsmakenoises]

I was going to make a video on this, but I play slightly heavier strings (11-48)

[@svenjansen2134]

Not too thin. At least 010.

[@jameslong9921]

There is no "ideal" in regards the tuning, there would be an ideal string gauge for your particular guitar but even that can be messed with. As I'm sure your well aware 😁

[@andsoistopped]

Never used alt tunings. My youngest almost writes each song with a different tuning. We ended up buying them another guitar to make open mics easier.

[@thesethingsmakenoises]

Haha no way! You should give it a go though mate. It can give you heaps of new ideas!

[@andsoistopped]

@@thesethingsmakenoises maybe for the next album. I am about to finish this year’s and I’m ready to hide in a dark cupboard for six months once 1st September arrives!!!

[@thesethingsmakenoises]

Awesome!! 🤘

[@holyfug7159]

i can literally only play in open tunings cuz i'm a pianist/keyboardist of over 20 years and standard makes absolutely no goddamn sense to me at all LOL

[@thesethingsmakenoises]

Haha yeah i bet thats weird!

[@MozzyMasters]

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[@MozzyMasters]

pretty similar vid

[@StarcleBlaze]

Gonna try to make noise rock in this tuning

[@thesethingsmakenoises]

Let me know how you get on!

[@donwalsh4445]

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