Strummed all at once, the open strings are a big, bold Dsus4 chord. It’s a de facto standard alternative to traditional E standard (EADGBE) tuning amongst fingerpickers and percussive players alike.

DADGAD is fairly easy tuning to understand because, unlike drop D or open G, its name tells you the notes you’ll be tuning to - which is pretty handy! You’ll be changing your standard tuned guitar’s ...

Although best known as a folk tuning, DADGAD has a world of applications. It crops up in All Time Low’s 2008 pop-punk classic Dear Maria, Count Me In, and ’80s rockers Tesla used it for the ...

The legacy of DADGAD continues to permeate the rock world for decades, with Pearl Jam later using the tuning for the song ‘Given to Fly’. Although most guitarists may be comfortable working with the ...

Monuments guitarist John Browne hasn’t played in standard tuning for 20 years, ever since Tesseract’s Acle Kahney turned him onto the openness of DADGAD. It’s helped him forge massive ...

He is known as Mister DADGAD (an alternative guitar tuning, also known as Celtic tuning) for his mastery of the unique guitar tuning style. Winner of the Independent Music Award for his triple live ...