Is DADGAD your primary tuning or one of many?

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Permalink Reply by Michael Robertson on January 24, 2012 at 4:36pm

Greetings Phil. I have three guitars with the idea that each has a different tuning, but they all end up in dadgad. So I have to say dadgad is my main tuning.

Permalink Reply by Tim Quarry on January 24, 2012 at 9:31pm

My alternate tunings started  in Open D, then Open G, then discovered DADGAD and spent most of my time in that -  so much so that when I tuned back to standard it felt fresh and unusual. But somewhere along the line it faded as I ended up playing the same bunch of tunes and now I've gone back to Open G, D (and standard). I only have one regular 6 string acoustic so I've gotten pretty fast at retuning. I'll still tune to DADGAD once in a while, and occasionally even DAAEAE. I have an old acoustic tuned to CGCGCE (or Eb) with a nut extender for lapsteel noodling - I still haven't settled on a preferred tuning for my tenor guitar. So many tunings and only one life.....

Permalink Reply by John Wilson on April 9, 2012 at 9:16am

I played a 12-string in DADGAD exclusively for almost 13 years.  I actually tuned a step or so lower to CGCFGC or sometimes BF#BEF#B.  I did everything from Celtic to playing in my church's worship band in that tuning. 

I recently made the decision to move back to standard tuning and I'm playing mostly a nylon-string guitar now, but I still have my old Taylor 555.