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Transition from acoustic to trad guitar

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  • 20-03-2009 11:11pm
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    kraggy
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    Howye,

    Was just wondering how difficult is learning trad guitar? I play acoustic reasonably well (no hendrix or anything but alright).

    Would learning trad guitar be a struggle? Is the Dadgad tuning thing a lot to get used to?

    Thanks for any advice.

    K.


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    Strings.ie
    Registered Users Posts: 253 ✭✭Strings.ie


    kraggy wrote: »
    Howye,

    Was just wondering how difficult is learning trad guitar? I play acoustic reasonably well (no hendrix or anything but alright).

    Would learning trad guitar be a struggle? Is the Dadgad tuning thing a lot to get used to?

    Thanks for any advice.

    K.

    Dadgad is great but I prefer standard as I find dadgad a bit samey after a while.
    Backing tunes just takes experience to know what chords to place where. There is no science, just have a go ;)


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    kraggy
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    Strings.ie wrote: »
    Dadgad is great but I prefer standard as I find dadgad a bit samey after a while.
    Backing tunes just takes experience to know what chords to place where. There is no science, just have a go ;)

    Thanks for that strings.

    Just thought that most guitar playing in trad didn't sound like regular chords. Hence enquiring about DADGAD.

    Thanks, will give it a go.


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    Daithinski
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    kraggy wrote: »
    Thanks for that strings.

    Just thought that most guitar playing in trad didn't sound like regular chords. Hence enquiring about DADGAD.

    Thanks, will give it a go.


    Trad guitar can be played on standard tuning (I agree with Strings) but they wouldn't necessarily be standard chords.

    Maybe some of the trad guitar players could post up a few of their favourite trad guitar chords shapes.

    I basically get a set of chords for the song key. And if I'm playing a song in a different key I use a capo (and use the same chord shapes)

    In this format: i.e. 022100 would be the standard E chords.

    I'll get the ball rolling. Not sure of the exact names. I'm no expert on trad guitar by any means.

    If you fiddle about with these chord shapes a bit, you'll get a bit if a trad sound going on.

    079900 - E
    054000 - D
    032000 - C
    x02200 / x02000 A sus(ish)

    022000 - Em
    044200 - F#m
    055400 - G
    077400 - A


    x02210 - Am
    x04430 - Bm
    x05530 - C
    x07750 - D


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