To get the benefits of DADGAD, most of the time you’ll want to keep open strings ringing as much as possible. The main technical challenge will be to arch your fingers enough to keep the top strings ...

Monuments guitarist John Browne hasn’t played in standard tuning for 20 years, ever since Tesseract’s Acle Kahney turned him onto the openness of DADGAD. It’s helped him forge massive soundscapes with ...

Without a shadow of a doubt, Pierre Bensusan is a 24-carat gold master on the world fingerstyle scene. Pierre is now so adept at DADGAD tuning that he has adopted it as an 'alternate standard tuning', ...

Popularised by Davey Graham, John Renbourn, Jimmy Page, Pierre Bensusan and, in more recent years, Newton Faulkner and Ed Sheeran, DADGAD is a great tuning for acoustic guitar. These chords should ...

For many players, if they’ve seen one capo they’ve seen ‘em all. But they likely haven’t seen anything like Kyser’s Quick-Change Short-Cut and Quick-Change Drop D capos. As Guitar World Tech Editor ...

Not just the open tuning that’s most fun to say, DADGAD is also one of the most versatile guitar tunings. When you strum the open strings it produces a Dsus4 chord which, being neither major nor minor ...