How to play EASY & DREAMY Guitar Chords #3 | DADGAE Tuning | SHOEGAZE, DREAM POP, AMBIENT | Tutorial

[@floridacrackerguitartips6004]

Really cool. In early 1990's I used a tuning very close: EADAAE, using partial bar chords, which opened a lot of usual sound opportunities that Inspired several songs (inspired by RIDE and Swervedriver). I'm 60, retired, and now back into shoegaze and dreampop sound in my mini-studio. Thanks again!

[@jacob8949]

Not to wish my life away or anything but retired and playing shoegaze in your mini studio sounds like the you've got some things figured out mate 🤙🏻

[@Nihilatl]

I use dadaae love it

[@ppgang1694]

Dadgae

[@hainish2381]

It sounds great. I was tuning my guitar to DADGAD and accidentally tuned it to DADGAE. And it's just beautifull and dreamy. I searched for the tuning and this is how I found your video. Subscribed :)))

[@berlinshoegazer]

So good to hear this. Yeah, that tuning is actually my most favourite one. I could play for hours this way. Keep creating. All the best from Berlin.

[@miroman5803]

been into alt rock ie sonic youth, pixies, radiohead etc, for ages, and playing it on guitar. Just discovered shoegaze. it's the final piece of the puzzle! thank you so much for making everything so much easier, yr videos are really helpful, and, having lived in Berlin for a month, I probably shouldn't say this, but your accent brings back memories..

[@berlinshoegazer]

Haha. Thank you so much for the nice words. 👍

[@MrSkeletongelatin]

I really appreciate the level of interactivity from Kenneth in the comments here, that alone gets a subscription from me. ✌

[@hickorymccay2994]

>Plays C69 in DADGAE >Nice

[@Oceaneaterband]

Open tuning so are probably one of the greatest tools in any shoegazers arsenal My favorites are D A D G C E F A C G C E D G D G C E D A A A A D D A D A A D

[@berlinshoegazer]

Thank you for all these tunings!!!

[@muddrock]

DAAAAD

[@YuuGotSlamd]

I play in E A E A D F# on my jazzmaster baritone. It gives it a pretty unique sound with the ridiculously low tuning and it works pretty well for shoegaze. The band Loathe uses that tuning on 30” scale baritones and that’s how I found out

[@Oceaneaterband]

@@YuuGotSlamd I absolutely love loathe I let it in is an absolute beautiful record

[@nate7817]

mines is Eb Ab D G Bb Eb F A C G C D E A C G B E

[@giancarloortiz9236]

That F#Maj9 is just gorgeous. I could listen to that played along with that A#Maj9/#11 like all day.

[@8bitDude0]

The quality of this is absolutely amazing. Thank you for sharing

[@aidenr7569]

this channel is amazing. please make more videos, i cant get enough of these.

[@berlinshoegazer]

I do my best. thank you!

[@TheBoondoggler]

Great stuff. that reverb sounds majestic

[@souri191]

Glad to found this channel, now I have an idea how to make a dreamy sound, because I really like dreamy music

[@mooseyard]

I love these kind of partly-open chord progressions where you get a drone from the open strings... But I’ve never found these chords before, because I’ve never experimented with tunings on electric. I’ve used DADGAD on acoustic, but never heard of DADGAE! Thanks!

[@berlinshoegazer]

So good to read this. Thank you for your comment. I'm not sure if these are "official" chord patterns, it's just what I found out trying out different tunings to make it easier to create dreaminess. What's your favourite tuning? And do you have specific chords you like to play on it?

[@mooseyard]

​@@berlinshoegazer I haven't delved too far into tunings, as I'm still trying to improve my knowledge of the standard fretboard. But as a big fan of early Sonic Youth I will definitely go down that road. I have a crappy Strat I got for free that I may try the fabled "Ostrich tuning" on. I had independently discovered the chords you showed in video #1 of this series, and have a half-written song based on them. Currently I'm messing around with moving the standard "C" shape - I moved it up a fret and accidentally discovered the guitar part to the Psych Furs' "Sister Europe"!

[@dietc909]

This is pure gold man

[@berlinshoegazer]

Thank you, Mateo.

[@coheedandgeddy2900]

mateo burbano

[@dietc909]

Alex Miehl tell me

[@lifesoldier]

that intro riff reminds me of boards of canada

[@berlinshoegazer]

I love that band.

[@mj9663]

@@berlinshoegazer Exactly what I was thinking. Gorgeous chords.

[@pressureflipin1992]

I need to start a one man shoegaze band

[@Jacksmusicshack]

Do it!!!!!

[@pressureflipin1992]

@@Jacksmusicshack already on it! Just waiting for the next pay check so i can buy a squire jag.

[@UNBOUNDWR]

@@pressureflipin1992 How's it going?

[@berlinshoegazer]

Hey Chuck, how is it going so far? We want to know. :)

[@pressureflipin1992]

@@berlinshoegazer Welp after a year of delays, I never did get my jag but I have a les paul and now I finally have equipment and my own little space to practice and a better computer and a DAW so I can start cranking out some music. I'm still very passionate about it being a one man band.

[@michaelgibson4863]

Sounds supercool - I just got a zoom ms50g after watching your video with Andy and can't wait to try this!

[@thefeelcompany]

Fair play, this was totally unkown to us when Loveless came out at 13 1/2. We just couldn’t figure it. Glad you have and have your own voice. Keep keeping us dreamed!

[@berlinshoegazer]

My pleasure. Although I'm not sure if MBV ever used that tuning. But at least it makes your chords sounding a little more shoegazy.

[@bunnyorbs]

shoegaze is fucking awesome 😍😍😍

[@error404m]

This is *exactly* what I was looking for.

[@berlinshoegazer]

This makes me really happy. Hope you could already write music with some of these chords.

[@ytnommah3983]

Easiest to remember

[@ThaiTie94]

This tuning reminds me a lot of the Goo Goo Dolls when you really start strumming hard. I love it!

[@berlinshoegazer]

Thanks Tyler, what song of the Goo Goo Dolls do you have in mind?

[@youngroyalty7991]

Hey, here's another cool tuning, Eb Bb Bb Gb Bb D

[@emok1ttyk4t]

gonna try this, Bb is one of my favorite pitches so this should be fun

[@regolithia]

Mayonaise!

[@tmanmatt213]

When I can, I will

[@mafia4mafia]

Nice! Hope to see more vids! Thanks!

[@crzymary87]

Very nice man! awesome quality:) keep it up.

[@estelleb1587]

Oh my goodness. That cat. Classic. Thanks for the laugh. You're a legend with a cool accent. Digging your style too. Cheers man Xx

[@berlinshoegazer]

Haha. Hey Estelle, I just watched this video for myself and totally forgot about the cat. Sometimes my past me is making my present self laughing as well. Thank you for your kind words. And my accent sounded actually really weired in that video .. I think I was nervous. haha

[@TimJimBuam]

thank you so much

[@glockteau______twins]

thanks for these videos

[@komoran2972]

Nice channel dude, please keep making videos!

[@seldonlives19]

awesome man! thank you very much from the usa.

[@mathiashammerstrm4693]

omg the cat part killed me.. thanks for this video :-)

[@berlinshoegazer]

Hey Mathias, first I didn't know what you mean.. and then I was also laughing after not watching it in two years. :D

[@scratch5191]

love your channel dude. this smokes! keep em coming.

[@berlinshoegazer]

Thank you so much Eric!

[@myautobiographyafanfic1413]

I tuned my guitar to this after hearing MBVs' Sometimes. it's pretty much impossible to mess up.

[@maximstriganov]

I'm pretty sure Diablo 1 sound track musician employed these chords and tuning. Anyway, nice channel, dude!

[@Etereo-m9b]

You got it

[@berlinshoegazer]

Hope I could help.

[@ambientmothman]

I just uploaded a video jamming in this tuning! I got a DOD Carcosa Fuzz today and thought it would be perfect for this tuning and it definitely was

[@ambientmothman]

I also tuned to EADGAE and jammed out into my mixer with this fuzz and it sounds great, check it out soundcloud.com/tremglider/i-love-cvs-2

[@brwhyon]

Can't read notes ? WHAT ? Don't worry about it, one of the greatest song writers in the world couldn't read a note and has been referred to as a "hummer", Paul McCartney, so, you're in good company, keep at it, you're doing great !

[@berlinshoegazer]

Thanks, Bryon. :) And what about you? Can you read notes?

[@rubyredz5663]

My favorite part is when it went BIIIIIIING

[@berlinshoegazer]

That my favourite part too. ;)

[@Evan95.]

Thank you Kenneth, can't wait to try this.. Do you have a lot of music theory knowledge? Do you have advice for getting a better understanding of different chord tunings etc?

[@berlinshoegazer]

Actually I can't communicate it so well as I'm more intuitively playing. But I will make a video about alternative chords soon. :)

[@TomsGreenMind]

I think Adam Franklin from Swervedriver uses.a.similar tuning but without dropping the E to a D. Sounds cool, I'm going to have to give it a go :)

[@mcbrodz1663]

Tom that’s just standard tuning

[@gustv999]

I think he plays standard

[@gex581990]

LOL

[@Content_to_suffer]

MC Brodz not its not because the B string has still been to A

[@BadGirlEri]

Du bist echt so ein cooler dude! :)

[@ericsavelberg2635]

I love this tuning! I wrote my 2nd shoegaze song with these chords from this video. Thank you for the inspiration and making it easy to dive into the genre!

[@Jacksmusicshack]

I think i need to write a shoegaze EP. Also check ninth paradise.. they're amazing!

[@berlinshoegazer]

How is it going so far? Did you wrote some shoegazy music so far?

[@Jacksmusicshack]

@@berlinshoegazer couple of attempts! Check out my channel! Space girl incoming. It was inspired by this video actually!

[@Jacksmusicshack]

@@berlinshoegazer kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3nRXoqnf7J5h9U Here is the link!

[@jawshhedd7339]

Light Guage bass strings for 2 bottom strings. Half round. Other strings medium guage roundwound t-steel. Bottom 2 tuned down 2 notes. Top 2 strings are tuned exactly the same. Try it before you knock it

[@brettdonahue876]

Haha

[@berlinshoegazer]

Hey Jawsh, sounds interesting. Is there a video online where you or someone else demonstrates that?

[@5150show]

Absolutely brilliant thank you

[@ariesvictorygroup]

Once again a great lesson, thanks for doing this and for keeping it real! Keep on gazing at those shoes guys! Keep the dream alive! $$$ 10 Star Generals

[@berlinshoegazer]

Thank you, Jerry. I'm happy to do this for you guys and I give my best to keep it real and up to date. Keep on gazing and dreaming.

[@xRevolverMX]

more videos pls

[@berlinshoegazer]

will come.

[@JayEdom]

cehck out DADAAA its fuckin killersound like skeleton by helium or sunday by sonic youth

[@JayEdom]

everlong open chords

[@jacobturner7060]

Good stuff :^]

[@f1r3walkw1thm3]

рили найс!

[@berlinshoegazer]

Спасибо огромное!

[@rayramis22]

Question..Do have more open tuning variations we could try out? I found a lot of them over the years and their pretty hard to come by especially playing shoegaze. MBV uses this a lot in their songs with their own variations of other open tunings too... I wish there were more videos like this...

[@berlinshoegazer]

there will be more, promise. i'm working on it.

[@prolinea4]

Hi. The Downhill Willows link in the description box did not quite work - I had to remove the ""www" prefix. Otherwise the browser complained of some security concern.

[@berlinshoegazer]

Thank you very much for telling. I fixed it.

[@LeelooHere]

Hey! Great tips, thanks :). Have you found settings you like on your AC15? I have an AC30 and I've been having a hard time getting it to sound right, it's always either way to bright, or too thin, or too muddy and bassy. Also, you're running reverb before distortion huh? I've wanted to do that to get a more ambient sound. I have a TC electronics Hall of Fame, and it sounds really brittle prior to distortion, but I may check out this hardwire!

[@sooqaii]

thank you so much, this helped a lot !!!!

[@danadrian2752]

Sometimes my DAD is GAE too I’m mature

[@riika-san]

Finally, equal minded people.

[@rossmeyer7230]

I literally read it as “dadgay...”

[@fuzzyechoes]

I think you mean FAGDAD

[@berlinshoegazer]

Welcome to 2020.

[@SuburbanBehemoth]

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

[@jacklaslo982]

haha somebody doesn't know REM what a scrub

[@pixussb7524]

Part 4 please :( Or where can I find more of those dreamy chords?

[@berlinshoegazer]

Part 4 is coming soon. So sorry for the delay. There is so much stuff I work on simultaneously.. sometimes plans have to wait longer than expected.

[@pixussb7524]

SHOEGAZER Oh don’t worry it’s totally understandable. Thanks for the reply tho, I’ll be waiting for part 4!

[@FifthAssassin]

Cant get enough of your videos tbh.Curious, for a metal dude transitioning into playing meloncholy shoegazey type stuff, what guitar tuning would you say is Most Standard for this type of music n what guage strings for my jazzmaster? Also, would a mesa triple rectifier half stack on the Clean channel w all my ambient pedals before it be acceptable,or do i need to get a super clean Fender or RolandJC, VOX Combo amp? I dont feel like any shoegazey type bands use halfstacks

[@hickorymccay2994]

You can use pretty much any tuning. I think MBV use Marshall amps of some kind, so I think that's fine.

[@estelleb1587]

Yes. Release Yasaman Aryani (spelling?) ASAP. So inhumane !! (in reference to the ad before the video.)

[@berlinshoegazer]

Interesting what kind of ad's they show right before my videos. ...FREE HER!!

[@rdanendra]

can i play shoegaze with my ibanez jem?😂

[@aortaproject]

You play shoegaze with whatever the f you want. Rules are meant to be broken :)

[@dave2284]

radheya danendra I'm thinking about divebombing with lots of reverb... That would be cool

[@norlanderduwallis9074]

Steven Sheffield what about a guitar that has 3 p90s?

[@regicks]

Spiderman's ButtonUp games oh yea for sure

[@norlanderduwallis9074]

alex hell yeah dude

[@DEADHORSEONE]

I understand quite well the fact to want to sounding like MBV but it's easyest now.. Ringo Deathstarr can grab a folk guitar and kill it! They know how to write a good song, This is not the case of everyone..

[@berlinshoegazer]

Sure, and that's the reason why I make these videos. To help people who want to become better songwriters and inspire them with new chords. Ringo Deathstarr are great - but there are many other artists evenly talented.

[@bjmyork]

any other good shapes in this tuning?

[@christopherperezkuwahara1891]

Sounds a lot like the coda from Honey Power

[@berlinshoegazer]

I always skipped to the end of Honey Power because I wanted to have such a sound. Cool to read that! :)

[@DarkModeStudio]

I think you have a sniper aiming at you.

[@CorbenEdward]

his hand's are sweaty though, mom's trem bar, reverse reverb in his chain already!

[@berlinshoegazer]

A studio on the afternoon sun side - on super hot summer day. Friends went to the beach. I decided to follow the instructions of the guy who pointed a sniper at me, instead.. to record this video. I was more than chilled.

[@Farky80]

nice videos ! Can I ask what kind of bridge are you using on the jag ?

[@GrandDoiky]

staytrem bridge. it says in the description

[@5150show]

You are amazing

[@berlinshoegazer]

That is really nice of you, thank you. 🙏

[@LawlzToTheWawlz]

Open Asus4

[@carlocandelora547]

So you basically discovered 6/9 and 13 chords. Actually 9 is my favourite upper structure and 6/9s are quite common in blues since they sum up the pentatonic scale :D GG anyway I have my own dream pop/post rock band and we are soon going to record our first EP. Subscribed and liked hell up

[@UnknownReceiver]

Carlo Candelora do you mean upper structure or extension

[@carlocandelora547]

Angus Gray They're the same thing :/

[@UnknownReceiver]

Carlo Candelora no, extensions are the notes which occur in a chord when you keep building the chord in diatonic 3rds, upper structures are a voicing technique that pianists use where you essentially play one chord on top of another to create another more complex chord, eg you could voice C13#11 as E and Bb in the left hand and D major in the right, giving you 3, 7, 9, #11, 13. that D major chord is an upper structure built on the 9, but as a major chord

[@carlocandelora547]

Angus Gray I know a bit of theory since I teach jazz armony. Here in italy there's no difference in terminology. For us the two are exchangable words and yes, I know how to build chords. A C13 just sums up the Cmajor scale since it contains all the seven sounds of that scale. You can know istantly in which mode you're playing just by looking at the upperstructure in the sigle since every mode has unique alterations (there are many with common alterations and the writer of the score can pourposely be not specific in order to leave the interpratation to the reader though). Oh, and you do not add a chord upon another chord that's called polychord or slash chord depending on the quantity of the voices in the bass register.

[@UnknownReceiver]

firstly, C13 doesn't sum up C major, it's a dominant chord and has a flattened 7th, so it would sum up C mixolydian if anything, also most of the time you would omit the 11. You would have to specify C major 13 for it to sum up C major. and yes i understand polychords, you could say D major over C7 as a polychord, which would be the same as C7 with an upper structure major triad built on D, all of which are the same as C13#11. If upper structures mean something different for some reason in Italy then i'm sorry but as far as I'm aware upper structures are specifically a voicing technique, not another word for extensions.

[@Moonchild_lucretia]

May i ask what is your switches set to on the guitar. The top ones. I can see the bottom ones. Just want to see how you set the top ones.

[@berlinshoegazer]

I mostly use the thinnest setting I can get. But the three switches that you can not see are probably in a triangle setting. Those on the outside are up und the middle one down. Hope that helps.

[@Moonchild_lucretia]

SHOEGAZER Ah! Yes it does! Gonna try it here in a bit before work time. I also wanted to ask. If you tried the double decker delay pedal made by vox. I got a good deal for 74 bucks on it. Its on layway at the moment. I tried it out and it sounded okay just need to mess with it more. Only thing it has no reverse. Which sucks but you know something to start with for the mean time.

[@sentient8653]

Do you have any tips on voicing chords in ways that play well with distortion type effects? What are the best ways to get more complicated chords to shine through the fuzz? I know you generally use a fuzz with a mix knob but I’m trying to get interesting progressions on pretty strange gear so it’s not that easy for me.

[@Pretzels722]

the less close the notes are together, the better. look up spread triads, maybe drop 3 chords.

[@berlinshoegazer]

That is a very good question worth to make a video about. I'd recommend a loop-pedalwith a dry/wet blend knob. You can run in all the fuzzes you want and just slighly turn the blend knob in here your clean (or even slighly distorted) signal better.

[@LordCritish]

Love the white jaguar! Do you think there will ever be a lefty one of that?!

[@hendog5667]

just turn a right handed one upside down buddy

[@andrecosta9006]

song at the end? pls dont darude me

[@berlinshoegazer]

I wrote the end melody but never finished the song. So I used it as the theme for this channel. what means 'darude'?

[@Asillyhobo]

I think he thought you were gonna do something like Darude - "Sandstorm"

[@guidinglight6700]

What kind of reverse reverb effect are you using here?

[@berlinshoegazer]

It's the RV-7 by Digitech / Hardwire. One of the best .. maybe the best one.

[@guidinglight6700]

@@berlinshoegazer Do you prefer it to the Alesis Midiverb II?

[@berlinshoegazer]

@@guidinglight6700 Definitily! It has better setting possibilities.

[@9uidin9li9ht2]

@@berlinshoegazer Thanks for your replies! How about as compared to the Loomer tho?

[@berlinshoegazer]

I personally find the RV-7 Reverse Reverb much better then the one of the Loomer. The RV-7 can create a longer decay while the Loomer sounds much more like the Alesis Midiverb II (shorter decay) in a box.

[@aleksisvladislaws.1770]

2:22 Ghost Bath!*-*

[@SolaFideSolusChristus]

Alex Stockholm which song?

[@berlinshoegazer]

Yeah, which song?

[@lifesoldier]

which song?

[@LawlzToTheWawlz]

Almost dadgad, but is actually dadgae

[@TurtleGamers1]

ur dadgae

[@tallon3925]

@@TurtleGamers1 got em

[@berlinshoegazer]

Guitar teachers of youtube.. don't use this mnemonic in 2020, please.

[@Trennywenny]

what song played for the outro?

[@subcutie5479]

Joe

[@subcutie5479]

DADGAE

[@Jaxifyer]

Who’s joe

[@miguelbahena8541]

@@Jaxifyer Joe mama

[@berlinshoegazer]

It's an AI version of myself. It works like this: 1. Tip in "Joe" 2. Tip in any tuning that Joe should remind you on before you write you next song. It's just easy as that. :D

[@berlinshoegazer]

Joe: >>New tuning was saved. I will remind you when you're about to write you next song.

[@Jacksmusicshack]

I made two songs inspired by this tuning thanks to you dude! Its on my channel and its called space girl incoming and misery. Check em out whenever you can. Thanks and this is not a shameless promo of my channel.