The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #15450   Message #2327490
Posted By: Mooh
28-Apr-08 - 08:09 AM
Thread Name: sick of DADGAD
Subject: RE: sick of DADGAD
Can't say I'm sick of dadgad, though I use it less frequently than I once did. Open G, dgdgbd, is of more use at the moment, and sometimes open D minor, dadfad.

I wish there was more time to tinker with it (and restring for it), but Robert Fripp's "new standard", cgdaeg, has real possibilities for all styles.

The anti-dadgad sentiment is born out of the overuse of a few common "moves" in the tuning. They're fun and user friendly, but boring bordering on annoying when overused. Same can be said of the same old three or four "cowboy" chords played with a capo for every tune, in my opinion.

Not to state the obvious, but all this user friendliness is what has made the guitar so universal and accepted in the first place...the people's instrument.

Peace, Mooh.