Re: DADGAD for Dummies?

Jack Campin - bogus address <bogus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have just been given a guitar. Never played one before beyond
picking out a few tunes (for which an ud is a lot easier, frets
and the guitar's illogical tunings get in the way). It's nothing
particularly special but it sounds okay. As I mostly play Scottish
traditional music (on melody instruments) I figured it would be
useful to know some basic accompaniment stuff. DADGAD seems to be
the way to go for that.

I have quite enough instruments in my life already. This is
just so I can fill in when an accompaniment is needed, for
tunes in the commonest Scottish keys (say, various modes with
2 sharps for starters). What would people here recommend as a
tutorial on very basic modal chord bashing for somebody who has
no intention of ever doing anything else with the instrument?

Jack,

I don't know anything about DADGAD but the following terms punched into
Google brought up a whole lot of references to tutuorial materials:

guitar tutorial dadgad tuning

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