DVD-Essential DADGAD For Beginners #2&3

Starring:Artie Traum
Studio: Homespun Tapes
Product Type: DVD

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Description
DADGAD is the kind of tuning that sparks the imagination. Put your fingers down on the fingerboard and suddenly a new musical world opens up. More and more guitarists are discovering the powerful harmonies and rich chord formations that become magically available in DADGAD, and this video is your logical next step in understanding and mastering this popular guitar tuning.

Artie Traum helps bring your guitar to life by showing you DADGAD applications in traditional mountain ballads, fingerstyle blues and contemporary songs. He starts out at a basic level, with the well-known Appalachian song East Virginia Blues. DADGAD tuning gives it that mysterious "modal" sound - neither major nor minor - that characterizes so many wonderful songs in this genre.

Description

Here is an easy introduction to DADGAD for those who are new to alternate tunings and want to explore its unique sounds on the guitar. It brings beautiful progressions, unique chords, ringing open strings and rich tones to your playing.

In his "guided tour," guitarist Artie Traum shows you how to retune your guitar quickly and easily, form the important chords in the key of D (some using only one finger), improvise instrumentals, write songs, and get funky with country blues ideas. Using the folk classic "The Water Is Wide" as an example, Artie reveals how a song can be harmonized using basic chord positions in this tuning.

DADGAD will transform the way you play your guitar. It will help you improvise beautiful fingerstyle pieces with its unique tonality, and inspire you to go on to more advanced studies in alternate tunings.

What's DADGAD? A simple tool that many players utilize to bring new texture and color to the guitar's sound. It's widely used by songwriters, blues guitarists and contemporary fingerstyle players. Three of the strings are retuned to get into DADGAD: The two E strings (6th and 1st) are dropped a whole tone to D, and the B (2nd string) is dropped to A. The remaining strings, A (5th), D (4th) and G (3rd) are not retuned. Thus:

E becomes D; A remains A; D remains D; G remains G; B becomes A; E becomes D

Because there is no 3rd note of the scale, the resulting sound is neither major nor minor, giving it a ringing, open sound that fits a variety of styles, tonalities and genres.

Customer Reviews:

A Great Start To DADGAD.......2006-03-14

I've been playing celtic music for about 6 or 7 years now and, up until this point, it's mostly been whistle, bodhran and octave mandolin. When I decided I finally wanted to learn how to mangle playing a guitar as well I figured, since I mostly do celtic, I'll skip standard tuning and just try to learn DADGAD.

Aside from being a gorgeous tuning in which to play, this video gave a great introduction to chords in the key of D along with great moving bass line chord progressions. The first 35 minutes or so focuses on this while the last 20 minutes moves on to blues chords. If you have any experience playing a string instrument, you should be able to pick up the concepts in this video within a solid day of playing. If this is your first experience with gutiar, it's an excellent choice for celtic, singer/songwriter and blues style playing. I currently have his #2 & 3 DVD's on order, though I'm hoping I'll find them usefull as it seems they, too, will focus more on blues.

All in all, after a week, I feel comfortable taking my guitar to session and doing a bit of flatpicking and light fingerstyle to the songs we do in D.

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DVD-Essential DADGAD For Beginners #2&3
Starring: Artie Traum
Manufacturer: Homespun Tapes
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Release Date: 2003-09-01

Description

DADGAD is the kind of tuning that sparks the imagination. Put your fingers down on the fingerboard and suddenly a new musical world opens up. More and more guitarists are discovering the powerful harmonies and rich chord formations that become magically available in DADGAD, and this video is your logical next step in understanding and mastering this popular guitar tuning.

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