Danny Grady: So now we will continue our DADGAD tuning tutorial by looking at these chord fingerings in a little bit more detail. You can hear how on each of these chords, it has a very open sound. So DADGAD tuning really transforms the sound of the song and that you just have these droning notes that you can add. It also adds a lot of tensions to chords which then give it a real fresh sound.
So, for the D major type of chord, well, we were adding 11 to it. We are going to just take any finger you want really and add it to the 4th fret of the 4th string, when just hit all the strings on that. For an E minor I would like to use the third and fourth fingers for this. You can put the third finger on the 2nd fret of the 6th string and the fourth finger on the 2nd fret of the fourth string and I am muting the fifth string and then I am still strumming everything. So it could just an E minor type of sound.
Then to do an F-Sharp Minor I can just take these two fingers, slide them up two frets till 4th fret and add the first finger on the 2nd fret of the 3rd string, still muting the 5th string. Now this shape right here is my minor shape that I can slide around to get other minor chords, so keep in mind.
To get the G chord I am going to take the same shape with my third and fourth finger, put it on the fifth fret and add the second finger to the fourth fret on the third string and this incidentally is D major chord fingering.
So to get the five chord which is A which is also a major chord, I can just slide that up two frets, to at these two fingers on the 7th fret and my second finger is on the 6th fret, 3rd string. For B Minor, we are going to go up to the 9th fret with my third and fourth finger and add that first finger on the 7th fret. Remember this is the minor shape.
And for the C-sharp diminished chord this is sort of the chord that nobody likes, but it's actually -- you can just use the minor shape in this case because this voicing doesn't have a 5th in it, and 5th is one of the things that makes up the diminished chord. So you can just use the minor shape to do the seventh chord in this case. So, there is our chords in the key of D in DADGAD tuning.
Pierre Bensusan: Hello, my name is Pierre Bensusan. I would like to play for you, the composition of mine which I wrote several years ago. It's called Silent Passenger. The next movement is going to be the A which is a first theme. So with one little dither here, those two notes are played by the thumb.
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