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Thread #15450   Message #139906
Posted By: guitaristin40sembraceddadgadplaysbanishmisfortune
23-Nov-99 - 09:19 AM
Thread Name: sick of DADGAD
Subject: RE: BS: sick of DADGAD
I don't really play Ban Mis much...but DADGAD is great for its ease of fitting in a nice flowing bass part to a fingerpicking arrangement. I agree its worthwhile working out different tunes, since some are overdone and most overlooked...its hard work though and who likes that?

The drawback to the sound that I find after awhile, is that its just too damn pretty. I like a little dissonance somewhere since I am not sitting on a cloud strumming a harp...However if you're like me and never practice, dissonance is not hard to come by...and you can get some interesting effects by trying to play in a key other than D without capoing--you get chords that sound sort of right but kind of weird and unsettling due to odd inversions I guess.

Did Davey Graham really invent it? I didn't know that.

Bill C.