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 ...

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ACOUSTIC EXPO 2014: If you consider yourself a true acoustic buff then you surely must be familiar with that staple altered tuning known as DADGAD. If the tuning is new to you then take a look at the ...

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', ...

Chattanooga Times Free Press entertainment reporter Casey Phillips spoke Algerian-born French guitar guru Pierre Bensusan about how he discovered the DADGAD tuning, what drives his stylistic ...

His tour schedule includes stops in San Diego, Santa Monica, Calif., Santa Barbara, Calif., Eugene and Portland in Oregon as well as Seattle. But Pierre Bensusan’s upcoming concert and guitar ...

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 ...