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I mentioned the other day I hadn’t experimented with alternate tunings for playing Irish guitar, Well, all that has now changed, and I am sold on DADGAD tuning. Yes, you can pretty much only play things in the key of D, but then again, who cares when it sounds so lucious. And as you barely need to use any fingers to play a chord you can free your hands up to do some nice intricate twanging jangly stuff.

Below is the result of me playing around for a bit, trying to emulate to some degree the wonderful picking of Steve Baughman. That’s the other great thing about the tuning – it really is easy to play something passable.

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