Im on a vacation to Ireland next week and I thought I'd might brush up and learn some Irish music. I tuned in to a couple tutorials was fun but you two game me so much information I think I understand now. I'm going to learn a few DADGAD songs and then tell my wife I have to buy another guitar. Good job guys

A couple of days ago I watched a short video by Matt Heaton where he demonstrates various chord shapes based on standard tuning. Half a minute in he does a full G chord and quickly adds he’d never use it, because it “crowds the tune”. I felt he somehow expressed essentially why I’m such a fan of DADGAD myself, for trad Irish backing. Anyway, I greatly enjoyed your discussion, and you’ve got a new subscriber. Great to see such devotion for Irish music - sånn fra én Nordmann til en annen ;-)

Really good analysis and insightful comments. As a committed DADGAD player, I'd suggest finding alternative voicings for your chords, if your capo playing is sounding too samey 😊 but DADGAD is far and away my favourite tuning for Irish Traditional music, so if you haven't already - try it! ☘️

DADGAD seem to be brighter and richer than common tuning. I´m a big fan of this tuning.

yeah yeah of course

Well seen! I am a guitarist from Brittany in France. I play in standard and DADGAD. I prefer the DADGAD for modal music because of the drones and harmonic resonances and plays as standard for music like bossa-nova, jazz, rock...

Matt Heaton plays mainly in standard with great effect. He plays every Saturday with his lovely flute player wife and acolyte on a Live guided session on YT, Shannon Heaton

Great video. I am over 70, and feel I've so much still to learn. I really wish I'd been able to study a folk course in the North East, but these courses just weren't available then. Given that most of us don't use our degrees in any relevant way in any case, learning a life skill like music at university is a no brainer whether you use it directly 😀or not. I studied classics and ended up being an accountant! I play in both DADGAD and standard, but I find that in sessions I favour standard because I don't like to change capo. Actually, in sessions I tend to back myself both ways, since I use a repurposed baritone guitar with a 740mm scale tuned down two semitones (DGCFAD) with a Kyser K-lever drop D (green) capo at the second fret (equivalent to a 660mm scale at the second fret). This gives me a low D in the bass (which can be fretted to E with the K lever), and leaves me free to move between keys without changing capo position. I also use a Kyser K-lever (blue) DADGAD capo at the second fret (fretting only the 3rd, 4th and 5th strings), which again enables me to fret the bottom string to E with the lever while leaving the top two strings open (to ring A and D), and maintaining the facility to access standard tuning too. Sadly, these Kyser K-lever capos are no longer made, which is often the way with good ideas. I've also experimented with Scruggs-Keith tuners (on strings 6, 2 and 1), Tronical tuners and Roadie tuners over the years with Scruggs-Keith tuners being the quickest, Roadie tuners the more accurate and Tronical not great. If I had a decent ear, I'd be able to switch tunings quickly and without tuners, but in sessions and live this process can take a while, although if your fiddle or box player tells a good story (and they usually do) that helps! Thanks you again for your excellent video.😃

Thanks for great informative KZfaq’s, you two guys are a great pair of competent chaps :-)

Great catch at 5:03. My heart skipped a beat

Thank you! That was immensely helpful - Cheers!

I loved your video and brief examples between Dadgad & Standard tunings. I play mostly in drop D now for many years but do enjoy Dadgad. Thanks for your insights and taking the time to share your passion of Irish music and guitar.

Absolutely amazing video, thank you guys. You are very talented. I hope this video will encourage my friend to study this incredible style.

Great insight into standard v dadgad. Thanks a lot.

Thank you for the presentation, and the thoughtfully intelligent discussion and demonstrations, hitting on the points and nuances of the standard and DADGAD tuning choices. I like the concept expressed as "movement between the chords." While I love DADGAD, especially on 12-string guitar for its massive sound in solo playing, it is a challenge to not immerse every Irish song in a Dsus4 tsunami of drone strings that approximates a bagpipe regiment, even in fingerstyle.🤗 One only needs to hear players such as Pierre Bensusan and Tony McManus to appreciate the possibility of subtleties within that alternative tuning. Drop D and DADGAD certainly lend themselves to Celtic music, but James shows the more accessible versatility of standard. It all depends what a song needs, really.

Great discussion, must try and do more in dadgad

It also depends what mode is the tune in and what instruments you back.

Whoa....D-35 nearly went for a burton! excellent job guys.

Great video, guys and GREAT playing! Will share with my viewers.

THANKS, FOR THIS GREAT DEMO, AND EXPLANATION!!![ANDERS:.FYI: ...YOUR CLOCK HAS STOPPED!....]

Great discussion guys! Learned a lot! Thanks!

Great informative video

This video is great, I am just getting into playing folk/celtic music and.. I was wondering if it would be possible for you could to send me a tab of the chords you normally play in the different keys of a Standard Tuned guitar. I would really appreciate it!

this topic. this talent. these accents. these faces i am happy

Very informative and inspiring.

where can i learn some guitar from James?? Great sounding player.... does he have his own lessons or page?

Good man Anders!

Subbed my man. Loving the channel 🙌

Fantastici

Personnaly I prefer Drop-D. Only when you play tunes in E dorion you gota put the capo and fine tune the strings again. Donough Henessy plays in Double Drop-D :) I must try the sitar-tuning

Love this video! What's the name of the lovely tune you're playing in the beginning?

Siete dei grandi

Hi! Dia dhaoibh! Anyone tried the sitar-tuning for Celtic trad? I would say it depends if you play alone or in bigger bands(where you can stop the backing and allow yerself to move the capo arround. For flatpicking definitely standard! because it suits key change without the capo better. ps: excellent video! Diolch! Trugarez! Grma!

nice d18 and 35

I play both accordion and guitar - it is impossible to play either when your hands are freezing.

Anyone knows in which tuning Julia Toaspern, Tia Files and Jenn Butterworth play? 3 skilled ladies on the guitar ❤️

Thanks for sharing ! Can you advise me some good irish guitar players to listen ? I know O'Domnhail, Paul Brady.. looking for more inspiration.

Nah, Saya mencari yang menggunakan tuning standart. Karena jika DAD bla bla... 🤣😀😀

Go raibh maith agat!

Please stop the music when you're speaking.