Right, lets get started and firstly tune down to DADGAD. I often get asked, “how do I tune my guitar by ear“. So in this video, I explain how you can do this easily, and I have included a tuner to help visualize what’s going on. We’ll be going from standard tuning to open or
Mighty stuff! One other thing we should cover before moving on is making sure we all know how to read guitar chord charts. They will be included in most of the following videos, so being able to read them will come in handy. Next Lesson…
In this lesson, I show you how to use a fun octave trick on the guitar. First we tune to DADGAD, and if you haven’t done that yet Fender has a nice online tuner on their website that allows you can select DADGAD tuning from the dropdown menu, here’s the link – https://www.fender.com/online-guitar-tuner/acoustic-guitar-tuning Once tuned
In this lesson I compare some standard guitar chords to their DADGAD equivalent. It can be handy to know how to change from standard to modal tuning. It made things a lot easier for me when I was starting out. The four example chords I use in this video are E major, E minor, A
Moving on from the last lesson we can now learn the movable chord shapes in DADGAD in comparison to the movable barre shapes in standard tuning. The first two of the chord shapes are nice and handy and great for beginners. The second two chord shapes are pretty tricky and are intended for intermediate players… But
