DADGAD Tuning - fingering for 24 chords of the Circle of Fifths To get started, most of the chords can be made with two simple finger positions, with small variations for using minor chords. Example: A - xx2242 and Am xx2232 or A - xx7677 and Am xx7577 You might see performers using this tuning and applying the middle finger to the top bass strings on some chords where I have it as xx (looks like they're giving the bird) There are other ways to make these chords, but these are the simplest. After learning these you will be able to play Pachelbel's Canon, or Hotel California with ease. Fingerstyle picking is fun too! D - xx0200 or xx7797 G - 55oo2o (big stretch needed) or xx5455 C - x32032 or xx5575 F - xx3233 or xx10101210 Bb - xx3353 or xx8788 Eb - xx1011 or xx99119 Ab - xx1131 or xx6566 Fm - xx3133 or xx10101110 Cm - x32o31 or xx5565 Gm - xx5535 or xx12121112 Dm - ooo201 or oo7787 Am - xx2232 or xx7757 Em - xx2022 or xx99109 Bm - xx4454 or xx9799 F#m - xx4244 or xx11111211 C#m - xx6676 or xx1191111 G#m - xx6466 or xx13131413 Ebm - xx8898 Bbm - xx3343 or xx8688 Db or C# - xx6686 Gb or F# - xx4344 or xx11111311 Cb or B - xx4464 or xx9899 E - xx2122 or xx99119 A - xx2242 or xx7677 Scales are a bit different in DADGAD, but that is for another lesson. Cheers! and Your Welcome!
Saw so many videos on TH-cam about DADGAD where the main focus was just to show some regular chords played with strumming and not giving a proper explanation about the tuning and its possibilities. This video made me understand the real beauty and the possibilities playing wise. I appreciate the theory aspect and the harp example etc. Was very nice to see the fretboard and how the melodies are build moving around it. Thank you!
I'm ashamed to say that I've been a guitar player for over 40 years, & never heard of this amazing player until today! Hey.... better late than never. I'm on board! Incredible tutorial, as well as ideas. Thank you.
Excellent. I’ve been messing around with DADGAD for years but still found this very informative. Thanks very much. Beautiful playing on a lovely sounding guitar.
Tonight Tony played for three hours at a house concert in Santa Rosa, California. Superb, understated and thrilling. Tomorrow night he is in Reno Nevada.
I have watched this video several times now and ask myself the same question; why have I ignored this tuning for so long? Tony in his understated way (thank you Steve D) makes such a strong case for it. I love his presentation here, he is simply a master of the instrument with a keen understanding of the fretboard and wry sense of humor.
The DADGAD is such a beautiful tuning. I started screwing around in Strawberry Fields, Central Park while busking there & I was always complimented on my work. Ty.
I am not sure what bought me here, and I am not familiar with the artist, but I am a guitar player and I enjoyed this very much! A very talented musician speaking plainly and sincerely about something he is very passionate and knowledgeble about is always a pleasure! I'll check in for more!
It's Saturday night, and I find myselft sitting in the sofa, eating candy and watch this man talking about cons and pros of dadgad tuning... and somehow I actually find it very amusing. Thank you
Bravo! Great introduction to open D Tony. Beautiful guitar and tone as well. I truly enjoyed watching, listening & learning. You are a great player & teacher sir. Thank you & keep enjoying music, life and all the wonderful thing that both offer,
And this is why theory in music is GOLD. You need this knowledge it opens everything up, you'll get it. Theory is the key and you have been standing on the door step for long enough now. Thank you Tony for a great and inspiring video :))
I don't know why so many people get freaked out about playing alternate tunings. Ok, they're different, but I think they're actually much easier. without fretting a string, you've got a nice sounding chord. doesn't take much to pick up a few key fingerings, and modifying them is easy. With a nice chord structure in the tuning, you can play leads just fingering one string at a time while the tuning keeps you in a chord.His playing slide with out a slide - the tuning is doing the work. He's just barring the open chord. Same thing I did when I got a lap steel. I've got the action too low on my acoustics because I'm a figerstylist for playing slide, so picked up and refurbished an old Silvertone (yes, Sears!), that along the way of finding a nice hard case for it ran into a guy who knew lap steels. After seeing the pics I sent him of the PAPER pickup, I fond out it was made by Valco - a very good maker. But my point being, sitting in your lap, open tuning, playing slide that just seemed so much more logical - very much like playing keyboards.
Wow! I have played a little in DADGAD and this has really opened my eyes to playing this timing more... great lesson. Thank you! Your PRS really sparkles and sounds great!
Really good explanation about Dadgad tuning specialy about the scales sounding like a harp because the two notes closed sounding together. It's really the spirit of Dadgad. Thanks for lihgting m'y mind.😉
Devin Townsend plays in Open C or Open B tunings, and Emma Ruth Rundle plays a baritone in either DADGAD or a variation of it depending on the song. Both of them, perhaps coincidentally or perhaps not, utilize a lot of reverb and distortion to create big walls of sound.
Well, I 've been playing standard for 50+ yrs but cold winter on Long Island NY is coming so I'll start on that D scale tomorrow. I already tuned one of the acoustics down. My Dad ( Galway) was a great box player so my seasoned ear might pick it up pretty quick. Thanks Tony.
Thankyou for a great introduction to celtic music. It sounded great but I am finding it a little dificult to do after spending fifty years of standard blues and rock guitar. Ah well back to the drawing board. Will let you know how I get on. Many thanks .😁
Bravo! My first time seeing you. Loved the Intro to DADGAD (or double-drop D). Something I haven't used, but will explore. I have used DADGAE quite a bit with a couple of artists that use that a lot.
Met Davy graham before he passed. He played beautifully and went between talking and playing, He was in his own world and it was beautiful to see! Great you mentioned him ❤️
The best thing that happened to our house this year is an app called Radio Garden. Celtic and world wide music for us since. It is so refreshing escaping U.S. drivel. Thank You for your videos.
YES! The only other time I tried double drop D was slide guitar. Not very impressed. But now, years later, forming new chords that just ring out is wonderful. And the chords are fairly simple. So many drones to play with. Already composed my first song in the last hour! At the 7th to 5th fret. Thanks!
Saw mr. McManus in concert around 2005... one of the best concert I went to. He's awesome on the guitar. If you're into guitar music, go see him, you won't be disappointed.
I have only one song I do int DADGAD. I seem to be at a creative wall on that but I think I will spend some time with this video. I love those chord voicings.
I spent a whole night trying to figure stan rogers' tuning on witch of westmereland in the 80s. And now i find it was a standard! Lol it was fun though
The runs at around 6.0 sound like peals of bells --- aided by the superb sound of the guitar, but mostly down to the skill of the player. As ever ... it's all in the fingers.
I have seriously come to believe DADGAD tuning rose more out of ancient modal music, not modern Dmajor interpretation. The earliest reference is Apollon's Lyre-> EABE/ DGAD. It is crucial not only to Celtic music but the whole European up to Near and Middle Eastern and African music. The Ancient Celts is said to derive from Caucasus and travel westwards throughout Europe. No coincidence this tuning is most evident among nations they met in their way. No political, racist discussion here! I just wanted to mention that based on my long time research there seems to be the most common among the two nations that is still used to the day- Irish & Greeks (or we could better say Celtic and Balkan populations). I love you Tony, my regards and God bless you! Any objections welcome!
Very interesting lesson (guitar+ english for me, héhé). And your explanation gives up answer about this DADGAD tuning, thank you. Your guitar sounds just wonderful. Thumbs up
I can't understand any of this but have a listen to Dick Gaughan playing Rabbie Burn's "Westlin Winds" on the Handful of Earth album. Think it might be this tuning and boy is it marvellous in his hands, with a great voice delivering one of the most poetic and observant descriptions of Autumn I have ever heard.
It is indeed in DADGAD. Gaughan was my introduction to DADGAD tuning and after seeing him for the first time- Irvine Magnum Centre 35 years ago- I ran home and retuned and ....the first thing I played was Westlin Winds. I spent a day with Dick in the studio working on what was to be my first album and we talked about that guitar part- he plays it slightly differently to me, but he WROTE IT!
Thanks! I've experimented with several alternative tunings in my decades of playing, including a few I've never seen anyone else use; yet somehow I just never could wrap my head/fingers around DADGAD. I actually have used that open-D-chord (DADF#AD) tuning on a song or two that the original artist (Stan Rogers) does in DADGAD. I just need to study everything you're doing here to get a leg up on it. In addition, I knew that Joni used a lot of alt. tunings, especially the open G-chord (DGDGBD), but I never realized the bit about DADF#AD tuning. I'll have to go back and listen some more for that now. Fred
DADGAD Tuning - fingering for 24 chords of the Circle of Fifths
To get started, most of the chords can be made with two simple finger positions, with small variations for using minor chords.
Example: A - xx2242 and Am xx2232 or A - xx7677 and Am xx7577
You might see performers using this tuning and applying the middle finger to the top bass strings on some chords where I have it as xx (looks like they're giving the bird) There are other ways to make these chords, but these are the simplest. After learning these you will be able to play Pachelbel's Canon, or Hotel California with ease. Fingerstyle picking is fun too!
D - xx0200 or xx7797
G - 55oo2o (big stretch needed) or xx5455
C - x32032 or xx5575
F - xx3233 or xx10101210
Bb - xx3353 or xx8788
Eb - xx1011 or xx99119
Ab - xx1131 or xx6566
Fm - xx3133 or xx10101110
Cm - x32o31 or xx5565
Gm - xx5535 or xx12121112
Dm - ooo201 or oo7787
Am - xx2232 or xx7757
Em - xx2022 or xx99109
Bm - xx4454 or xx9799
F#m - xx4244 or xx11111211
C#m - xx6676 or xx1191111
G#m - xx6466 or xx13131413
Ebm - xx8898
Bbm - xx3343 or xx8688
Db or C# - xx6686
Gb or F# - xx4344 or xx11111311
Cb or B - xx4464 or xx9899
E - xx2122 or xx99119
A - xx2242 or xx7677
Scales are a bit different in DADGAD, but that is for another lesson. Cheers! and Your Welcome!
Wow thanks!!!
🙏
Thx dude!
Saw so many videos on TH-cam about DADGAD where the main focus was just to show some regular chords played with strumming and not giving a proper explanation about the tuning and its possibilities. This video made me understand the real beauty and the possibilities playing wise. I appreciate the theory aspect and the harp example etc. Was very nice to see the fretboard and how the melodies are build moving around it.
Thank you!
I'm ashamed to say that I've been a guitar player for over 40 years, & never heard of this amazing player until today!
Hey.... better late than never. I'm on board! Incredible tutorial, as well as ideas.
Thank you.
Afurthyclays
Sometimes after listening to guys like Tony I just want to pitch the old guitar onto the bonfire.
You there rye try
I'm sitting here holding my guitar, feeling like a fast food worker getting a master class by Gorden Ramsey
DarkNightDreamer agreed
Lol same
Lmfao
I'm thinking about burning all my guitars. 😢
@@Givingitashot Sell them instead.
Really good context; I had no clue about DADGAD besides the fact that Kashmir uses that tuning. Thank You.
Love this guy.... Humble, skilled and a great teacher
II’ve used DADGAD for about 50 years. This is a great video. What a nice man
your guitar has a beautiful voice and presence.
Saw Tony at an event a couple of years ago. He played a few tunes. My God what a player. Flawless, totally in control of the instrument.
What a great guitar instructor, very clear and pleasant approach
Excellent. I’ve been messing around with DADGAD for years but still found this very informative. Thanks very much. Beautiful playing on a lovely sounding guitar.
Great player, great teacher. Should have thousands of views in my humble opinion!
When you change your tuning, you open a whole new world of playing. That is why the guitar is so amazing. :)
Tonight Tony played for three hours at a house concert in Santa Rosa, California. Superb, understated and thrilling. Tomorrow night he is in Reno Nevada.
Whose house? That would narrow it down some. I missed it!
I have watched this video several times now and ask myself the same question; why have I ignored this tuning for so long? Tony in his understated way (thank you Steve D) makes such a strong case for it. I love his presentation here, he is simply a master of the instrument with a keen understanding of the fretboard and wry sense of humor.
The DADGAD is such a beautiful tuning. I started screwing around in Strawberry Fields, Central Park while busking there & I was always complimented on my work. Ty.
That guitar sounds absolutely amazing. Great video and explanation of this tuning.
Couldn't focus on what the good man was saying, too enchanted with the guitar sound.
Agreed. On both points!
It's a Paul Reed Smith acoustic, and you're right it sounds amazing!
joshua rogers PRS are amazing instruments
prs they're all that good I own 5
I am not sure what bought me here, and I am not familiar with the artist, but I am a guitar player and I enjoyed this very much! A very talented musician speaking plainly and sincerely about something he is very passionate and knowledgeble about is always a pleasure! I'll check in for more!
This guy has a particular set of skills...
You're such a great teacher Tony!
Thanks for everything you give!
😊
That was the best explanation on how tuning affects the playing I've heard.
It's Saturday night, and I find myselft sitting in the sofa, eating candy and watch this man talking about cons and pros of dadgad tuning... and somehow I actually find it very amusing. Thank you
Bravo! Great introduction to open D Tony. Beautiful guitar and tone as well. I truly enjoyed watching, listening & learning. You are a great player & teacher sir. Thank you & keep enjoying music, life and all the wonderful thing that both offer,
And this is why theory in music is GOLD. You need this knowledge it opens everything up, you'll get it. Theory is the key and you have been standing on the door step for long enough now. Thank you Tony for a great and inspiring video :))
You're a good teacher. Thanks for this video.
great way to arpeggiate with all those open harp-like sounds...thanks!
Great player.Great teacher.Great man.
When he did that scale - brilliant.
"I can't play slide guitar to save my life" then proceeds to play perfectly even without a slide.
Modesty is alive. I like this guy
I don't know why so many people get freaked out about playing alternate tunings. Ok, they're different, but I think they're actually much easier. without fretting a string, you've got a nice sounding chord. doesn't take much to pick up a few key fingerings, and modifying them is easy. With a nice chord structure in the tuning, you can play leads just fingering one string at a time while the tuning keeps you in a chord.His playing slide with out a slide - the tuning is doing the work. He's just barring the open chord. Same thing I did when I got a lap steel. I've got the action too low on my acoustics because I'm a figerstylist for playing slide, so picked up and refurbished an old Silvertone (yes, Sears!), that along the way of finding a nice hard case for it ran into a guy who knew lap steels. After seeing the pics I sent him of the PAPER pickup, I fond out it was made by Valco - a very good maker. But my point being, sitting in your lap, open tuning, playing slide that just seemed so much more logical - very much like playing keyboards.
La modestia de los inmodestos"
Yep! 😂
@@guzmanperez1109 It's everywhere on TH-cam mate.. Well said.
wonderful commentary .....thank you !
What a great teacher! Totally absorbed in everything he says!
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Phi j
What a beautiful sounding guitar
Wow! I have played a little in DADGAD and this has really opened my eyes to playing this timing more... great lesson. Thank you!
Your PRS really sparkles and sounds great!
Great instruction Tony. Thanks
I don't know what I liked more, your eloquence or the actual guitar playing, great video!
I've been playing guitar since 2007 and I'm just finding out about this tuning.
Nice change.
What a great bunch of guys !!! And who said you can't play guitar with short, plump fingers?
Wonderful !!!
Great video Tony. Came here from Joni both sides now.
Really covered a lot for me.
Thanks man :)
Thanks for this video! The way you explain it is so peaceful :)
Really good explanation about Dadgad tuning specialy about the scales sounding like a harp because the two notes closed sounding together. It's really the spirit of Dadgad. Thanks for lihgting m'y mind.😉
Thank you for a marvellous explanation. Fine touch , beautiful playing
I use this tuning for metal. Never thought of looking up other uses for it until now. Great video
Now I wanna hear this used for metal. It seems like a weird a tuning for metal but I'm no metal head so how would I know?
why? drop d is the more commonly used metal tuning
Devin Townsend plays in Open C or Open B tunings, and Emma Ruth Rundle plays a baritone in either DADGAD or a variation of it depending on the song. Both of them, perhaps coincidentally or perhaps not, utilize a lot of reverb and distortion to create big walls of sound.
As clearly as it can be stated. Thank you Tony.
The sound of that guitar is amazing
A very fine video. The explanation, demonstration, insight and historical context are excellent. Many thanks.
Always have loved DADGAD. But this lesson really has helped me develop my DADGAD playing even more! Great information. Thanks.
Seen the master of Celtic Figerstyle Tony ,, amazing one of a kind ,mindblowing guitar player ,, in a league of his own , truly a master
What a bloody brilliant lesson, so much packed into such a short time!!
The tone of his guitar is stunning. I am mesmerized.
This gives me insight into Gaughan's genious.
Well, I 've been playing standard for 50+ yrs but cold winter on Long Island NY is coming so I'll start on that D scale tomorrow. I already tuned one of the acoustics down. My Dad ( Galway) was a great box player so my seasoned ear might pick it up pretty quick. Thanks Tony.
Brilliant - this is really helpful. I've been putting off my exploration of DADGAD for years. Thanks Mr. McManus!
Very informative
Thank you
More study & exploration in future ✌🏼
Yeah, I caught the Joni immediately. Love it. This is really informative. Thanks!
Thankyou for a great introduction to celtic music. It sounded great but I am finding it a little dificult to do after spending fifty years of standard blues and rock guitar. Ah well back to the drawing board. Will let you know how I get on. Many thanks .😁
So glad I found this guy. He’s really really good.
This guitar sounds incredible!
Fantastic, thank you.
Love this little intro and the guitar sounds great btw.
Gorgeous! Thank you. I must learn this.
Great to hear you’re also a huge Joni Mitchell fan, that’s how the algorithms brought me to this video I think. Many thanks! from Brazil ☘️
Bravo! My first time seeing you. Loved the Intro to DADGAD (or double-drop D). Something I haven't used, but will explore.
I have used DADGAE quite a bit with a couple of artists that use that a lot.
This is a brilliant tuning by a brilliant guitarist of Irish music a master class..period. .
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Met Davy graham before he passed. He played beautifully and went between talking and playing, He was in his own world and it was beautiful to see! Great you mentioned him ❤️
Great demonstrations ✌🏿👍🏾🎸
As a non-muso I did not have a clue what you were talking about. But your playing and relaxed teaching style made this all rather entertaining.
Just wow!. That was an amazing lesson.
beautiful playing style
Very cool. I love it! Thanks for sharing.
The best thing that happened to our house this year is an app called Radio Garden. Celtic and world wide music for us since. It is so refreshing escaping U.S. drivel. Thank You for your videos.
master class introduction
Jimmy page made good use of this tuning in a rock context, in the song kashmir. Among others. Great sound love this video!
I noticed it sounded like Led Zep 3.
Many thanks Tony, fascinating stuff.
Thank you for this explanation! It sounds absolutely beautiful. I will have to try this tuning.
Tony, your Awesome. Thanks bro
Reminds me of Jimmy page w these tunings!!
in the movie "this might get loud" jimmy page shows edge and jack white kashmir with this tuning
YES! The only other time I tried double drop D was slide guitar. Not very impressed. But now, years later, forming new chords that just ring out is wonderful. And the chords are fairly simple. So many drones to play with. Already composed my first song in the last hour! At the 7th to 5th fret. Thanks!
Thank you Tony Mcanus
Saw mr. McManus in concert around 2005... one of the best concert I went to. He's awesome on the guitar. If you're into guitar music, go see him, you won't be disappointed.
Great to watch, thanks Tony
I play in this tuning frequently and I’m always looking for new insights into it
When Tony McManus plays, even scales sound heavenly.
I have only one song I do int DADGAD. I seem to be at a creative wall on that but I think I will spend some time with this video. I love those chord voicings.
Thanks - this was a really insightful look into DADGAD. Really appreciate it. Very nicely and fluidly done.
sweet. re-tuning, and will wear this video out...
Tony, I really like this
07:25 I was like "Ryan Sheridan - Home yaaay" right away lol. Beautiful sounding guitar.
Nicely explained- Tony really gets that "singing" quality out of his strings...thanks for sharing👍😁
I spent a whole night trying to figure stan rogers' tuning on witch of westmereland in the 80s. And now i find it was a standard! Lol it was fun though
Wonderful, Tony!
The runs at around 6.0 sound like peals of bells --- aided by the superb sound of the guitar, but mostly down to the skill of the player. As ever ... it's all in the fingers.
I have seriously come to believe DADGAD tuning rose more out of ancient modal music, not modern Dmajor interpretation. The earliest reference is Apollon's Lyre-> EABE/ DGAD. It is crucial not only to Celtic music but the whole European up to Near and Middle Eastern and African music. The Ancient Celts is said to derive from Caucasus and travel westwards throughout Europe. No coincidence this tuning is most evident among nations they met in their way. No political, racist discussion here! I just wanted to mention that based on my long time research there seems to be the most common among the two nations that is still used to the day- Irish & Greeks (or we could better say Celtic and Balkan populations). I love you Tony, my regards and God bless you! Any objections welcome!
Thank you for the lesson, have subbed. I like this ancient sound. You remind me of Val Doonican.
That simple scale is just amazing
Your quite the virtuoso! Awesome playing!
Very interesting lesson (guitar+ english for me, héhé). And your explanation gives up answer about this DADGAD tuning, thank you.
Your guitar sounds just wonderful. Thumbs up
I can't understand any of this but have a listen to Dick Gaughan playing Rabbie Burn's "Westlin Winds" on the Handful of Earth album. Think it might be this tuning and boy is it marvellous in his hands, with a great voice delivering one of the most poetic and observant descriptions of Autumn I have ever heard.
It is indeed in DADGAD. Gaughan was my introduction to DADGAD tuning and after seeing him for the first time- Irvine Magnum Centre 35 years ago- I ran home and retuned and ....the first thing I played was Westlin Winds.
I spent a day with Dick in the studio working on what was to be my first album and we talked about that guitar part- he plays it slightly differently to me, but he WROTE IT!
I never thought of this tuning in this way. Thank you for opening my ears and mind with your wonderful sound!
Thanks! I've experimented with several alternative tunings in my decades of playing, including a few I've never seen anyone else use; yet somehow I just never could wrap my head/fingers around DADGAD.
I actually have used that open-D-chord (DADF#AD) tuning on a song or two that the original artist (Stan Rogers) does in DADGAD.
I just need to study everything you're doing here to get a leg up on it.
In addition, I knew that Joni used a lot of alt. tunings, especially the open G-chord (DGDGBD), but I never realized the bit about DADF#AD tuning.
I'll have to go back and listen some more for that now.
Fred
Beautiful lesson, love the soft spoken approach, re-tuning now!
Thanks for the teaching lesson and also the history lesson.
My God THAT Guitar ! - Yes, we all know Mr McManus borders on genius, but THAT Guitar sound!!! Un-Believable.
Paul Reed Smith guitars for you. They go for about 10k
Borders on?