The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #15450   Message #2327386
Posted By: Bryn Pugh
28-Apr-08 - 04:59 AM
Thread Name: sick of DADGAD
Subject: RE: sick of DADGAD
I have posted previously that I have never been able to get DADGAD together, and not from want of trying. Pierre BenSusan, Dick Gaughan play in nowt else.

I am comfortable in open C, open G and open D, as well as Concert tuning (EADGBE).

So, I'm glad it isn't just me. Didn't I read somewhere on the 'Cat that Martin Carthy had given DADGAD the go-by, had KBd it ?

Good for him, sez I. Oh, and while I'm about it, would it not be more accurate to say that Davy Graham discovered DADGAD, rather than 'invented' it ?

For 'Celtic' music, locally, read 'diddly-diddly'- I have yet to hear any recognisable Brythonic, as opposed to Goidelic, Muzak.

Far from being sick of DADGAD, I never mastered it in the first place to become sick of it.