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ORIGINAL: James Ashley Mayer

Also, it seems to fall out of sync (the audio and video) sometimes. It's not consistent, but when it happens, it's obvious about halfway through when the golpe's don't match up. Is that happening for you?

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Is that happening for you?

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Better?

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I don't like rumba. But I always appreciate original ideas and own compositions. Why did you end up composing it in DADGAD tuning? Talking about DADGAD I used to like this tune of Pierre Bensusan. Sounds still good after all these years.

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Bro, did you crop off the top third of the video because you want to hide your face?

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ORIGINAL: James Ashley Mayer

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I don't like rumba. But I always appreciate original ideas and own compositions. Why did you end up composing it in DADGAD tuning? Talking about DADGAD I used to like this tune of Pierre Bensusan. Sounds still good after all these years.

Before I even knew what flamenco was, I was experimenting with a steel-string acoustic guitar, trying to get a "middle eastern" sound. I was trying to imitate sounds that I would hear on various soundtracks or world music compilations. The sound was an oud, though I didn't know what that was, at the time. I eventually landed on DADGAD and thought it was my own tuning until the internet came along and I found out that I stumbled on something that has been frequently recorded.

Why did I choose it? Tune your guitar to DADGAD and tap on the face of the guitar. That sympathetic resonance just doesn't happen in standard tuning. In this rumba piece, I'm using a heavy golpe like a kick drum and I wanted it to ring like an oud's drone string. Also, in the first passage of my clip, the last note I hit before starting into the the rumba rhythm resonates like crazy in DADGAD. You may not be able to hear it well on my recording, but it sounds like a built-in oud reverb.

I've mostly made DADGAD my primary tuning. Guitars just come alive with it. It's not as consistently flexible as standard tuning but when it works it sounds very right. You can adapt it to more keys than it's typically used for if you commit to it for a while. I now think of standard tuning as an easy way to hit all the needed notes from one position at the sacrifice of great acoustic sound. Sure, we can make standard tuning sound amazing with the notes we play on it, but at the sacrifice of the guitar itself sounding merely good, not great. The only reason I play in "standard" guitar tuning is because of the repertoire that exists for it. If I want to play a PDL falseta, it's going to be easier in standard than trying to adapt it to DADGAD. But if I want to compose something, it's almost always DADGAD.

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Ok I'm sold. Gonna commit to DADGAD for a while and see what happens to my "jams". :)

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Yes. My face has been horribly disfigured during a shark attack. No one needs to see that.


:)

But seriously, I wanted to concentrate on the hands and not whatever weird expressions I make when I play. Most of the best amateur guitar vids out there do it this way and I think that's probably intentional.

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I was experimenting with a steel-string acoustic guitar, trying to get a "middle eastern" sound. I was trying to imitate sounds that I would hear on various soundtracks or world music compilations. The sound was an oud, though I didn't know what that was, at the time. I eventually landed on DADGAD and thought it was my own tuning until the internet came along and I found out that I stumbled on something that has been frequently recorded.

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Davey Graham came up with DADGAD tuning in the early sixties: While travelling in Morocco, he developed the tuning so he could better play along with and translate the traditional oud music he heard to guitar.

Cool that you came up with it yourself!

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Not sure what's going on here, but I can post a photo of my face if you find all of this somehow suspicious. Just let me know how I can fix this for you. :)

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I used to do the same thing

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Yes. My face has been horribly disfigured during a shark attack. No one needs to see that.

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I used to do the same thing if you look at my old videos, then I got a bunch of people say they wanted to see my face. I posted videos with my face showing (and I don't do much by way of expressions), so everybody said "why is your face so bland and lacking animation?" at which point I was like, "To hell with all of you".

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didn't you also get a posture app a while back? How did you get on with that?

thought maybe that would help keep your face out of the shot if its focused on the guitar...?

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I had also experimenting with "Open D Minor" (DADFAD) but didn't like the way it came out. I think it was the F string was too slack and I was too much of a noob to know I could probably fix that with a heavier gauge string.

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ORIGINAL: Ricardo

Quintessential dadgad for me was hearing a classmate in high school doing this tune.