DADGAD

DADGAD is an open tuning of the acoustic guitar, which was developed in the 60s by the British folk guitarist Davey Graham. The high and the low E string and the high side be tuned down a whole tone each as in standard tuning. This results in the pattern, DAdga -d ', which has given the name of humor and can be interpreted as approximately Dsus4 Gsus2 or chord.

The result is that important basic chords can already access with a finger, about a modal D- chord by the G string is gripped in the second fret. A characteristic feature is the "open" and voluminous sound, caused by the fact that strings that are not used often resonate as a drone. Unlike other common open tunings such as open G or open D, DADGAD tuning does not contain the third of the basic chord and thus makes the scale type major or minor open, since neither the tone f ( minor third for D minor) still the sound fis ( major third for D major ) is included. Thus can be in DADGAD both tunes in D minor and D major play well, because the scale type can be determined by the fretted minor or major third.

Dissemination

Widespread is the DADGAD tuning, particularly in the Celtic, so the Irish, Scottish and Breton folk music. There she has been the traditional EADGBE tuning ' displaced as a quasi- standard, both in solo area as well as the use of the guitar as an accompanying instrument. Due to their popularity, there is now a rich repertoire alone for the DADGAD tuning.

Famous guitarists who play mainly in DADGAD is Pierre Bensusan (France), Tony McManus (Scotland ), Dick Gaughan (Scotland ), Bert Jansch (England ), Richard Thompson (England), Soig Sibéril (Brittany ), Jens Kommnick ( Germany ) Jürgen Treyz ( Germany ) and Jørgen Lang ( Germany ). In rock music has worked temporarily with this mood Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin to hear, among other things in Kashmir.

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