Jwar wrote:Love it! The DADGAD really opened up my playing. I've found the chords from the previously songs I'd written and only one of them is slightly uncomfortable to play with this tuning but it's not horrible. The rest were easier. I found that I went from holding three strings to make a chord to 1. LOL. Sooo, that's awesome. Also, when I use a slight, I get chords for days with this tuning. LOVE that. I've been trying to incorporate different elements and playing styles and I found I really dig slides and ebows. I want one that does all the strings but like, my bridge on the D'Angelico seems like it would be a huge pain in the ass to set up a permanent one.
Anyway, I'm going to order that capo! Sounds good to me!!!Thanks for all the feedback!
Also, God. My hands are small but they are wide too. Trumps hands are like baby hands. I don't even know how he holds a fork or a hair piece or a conversation. hahaha.
Yeah, DADGAD, because it’s Modal kind of leaves it more up to you which tonality the song takes on.
I use it in both of my projects, DADGAD or standard for the lush, pretty thing that I play a lot of finger style electric into loops, and A#-F-A♯-D♯-F#-A# for the sludge/noise project which in I am for all intents and purposes trying to summon black holes.
In the latter the other guitarist is tuned to C standard, so if we harmonise stuff it can sometimes get nasty.
I’ve been using it for so long I don’t have an issue playing with folks who want standard chord songs. Just move the fretted notes on the high strings up two steps and boom. I have medium but very flexible hands for the years I spent trying to rip off Erik Mongrain.
Re: Sustained Chords, Fernandes makes a pickup that essentially turns the whole thing into an EBow. Not sure how the pickup sounds but I guess you could always use the middle position and try and make up the difference in tonality with whichever your preferred pickup is. I am a huge fan of D’Anglicos ever since I was a kid. Never picked one up though. Kurt Rosenwinkel makes his sing.
But yeah, the size of the hands shouldn’t matter, just get bendy? Also, Behndy rules and I miss him on here.
Trumps hands are up there with Prince Charles as the hands I’d least like to have, and I’ve met fire survivors.
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