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Post by andyhowell on Nov 22, 2019 12:35:31 GMT
Ultimately, though strumming is best reserved for the obvious keys - D, G and the capo derivatives. Irish strummers understand that but they really have little need to venture much further! You should watch Ed Boyd playing with Lunasa or Flook - no capo, lots of keys and all the way up to the dusty end of the fretboard I know. But he is dedicated to his craft. I am not ;-)
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Post by dangad on Nov 28, 2019 11:19:36 GMT
Oh deary me....You don't play Regular chords in DADGAD... you play swanky jazzass inverted-seven-fifth-diminished-suspended-dominant-blues-toboggon chords
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Post by andyhowell on Nov 29, 2019 16:48:41 GMT
Oh deary me....You don't play Regular chords in DADGAD... you play swanky jazzass inverted-seven-fifth-diminished-suspended-dominant-blues-toboggon chords You might but I don’t ... ... I don’t think!
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Post by martinrowe on Nov 29, 2019 21:33:24 GMT
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Post by dangad on Dec 2, 2019 8:59:21 GMT
Essential if you want to hear your playing go down hill fast....
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Post by Onechordtrick on Dec 2, 2019 10:30:52 GMT
Essential if you want to hear your playing go down hill fast.... As my playing can only improve I'm in dire need of some chairlift chords
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Post by Akquarius on Dec 2, 2019 17:59:35 GMT
I'm not sure if DADGAD is an ideal tuning for strumming. After all, the tuning in itself is perfect for a harp-like effects and long-ringing strings. And as far as I know, the majority of guitar players using DADGAD use it for fingerstyle to get exactly that harp-like effect. If it's used for chords, then I think the most common purpose is accompaniment of irish or scottish traditional music.
Of course, strummed DADGAD chords sound surprisingly different from comparable chords in other tunings. However, I think that if you are not an absolute expert player like Ed Boyd you get the best out of DADGAD if you let the strings ring - meaning fingerstyle.
Here's a pretty good beginners example of what I'm trying to say.
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Post by Akquarius on Dec 2, 2019 18:03:53 GMT
Plus, if you want to know a bit more about DADGAD, I recommend this DADGAD intro video edit: Youtube offers a lot of videos about "DADGAD chords". Maybe you check that out. Btw: playing chords in DADGAD which are made for EADGBE is like ordering something to eat in China using english. You will get something, but maybe not exactly what you were looking for
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Post by frankieabbott on Dec 7, 2019 16:39:40 GMT
Oh deary me....You don't play Regular chords in DADGAD... you play swanky jazzass inverted-seven-fifth-diminished-suspended-dominant-blues-toboggon chords Errrr......toboggon chords.....are those those pesky minor 7 flat 5 chords that I can't be bothered to learn, let alone play.
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Post by MartinS on Jan 24, 2020 16:06:02 GMT
I've actually been listening to Ed Boyd a lot recently, I'm sorry to say I hadn't twigged how good he is, maybe because a lot of his subtle stuff is buried in the layered sound of Lunasa. There are some great recordings of just him and Brian Finegan on Youtube which opened my eyes, so I've been working out some of his favoured voicings and trying to work some into my playing. He does use a capo quite a lot, e.g. when Brian plays in E (seems quite a favourite of his) and F#, but I'm quite sure if he lost his capo he'd still sound awesome :-D But we can't all be Pierre Bensusan, and if you want to use a capo, then fire on. I often do for Emaj, or accompanying highland pipes (!) in Bb , or playing in e.g. A at a higher voicing. Also I use a capo for flatpicking tunes for two reasons, firstly because the frets become closer together, so it's a lot easier, and flatpicking say with capo at 3 or 5 just cuts through a bit better acoustically. m. edit to add that I hadn't read all the posts on page 2 when I posted
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