“I use open and alternate tunings to get music out of the guitar,” says fingerstyle master Martin Simpson. “Do you want to move people? You can’t be struggling with holding down the damn strings.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

30-day guitar challenge: It's day 3, and time to broaden your horizons - DADGAD tuning often goes hand in hand with acoustic guitar in folk circles, but it's equally at home on the electric. The folk ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "I use open and alternate tunings to get music out of the guitar," says fingerstyle master Martin Simpson. "Do you want to move ...