DADGAD Guitar Tuner
DADGAD Modal D - Guitar tuning, chords & scales
Description - Modal D
The DADGAD tuning was used extensively by Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin and The Yardbirds in the late 60s and 70s. While with The Yardbirds Page recorded an instrumental entitled White Summer itself inspired by the first recorded DADGAD tune Davey Graham\'s arrangement of the traditional Irish tune She Moved Through the Fair . On Led Zeppelin s eponymous first album Led Zeppelin he used this guitar tuning to perform Black Mountain Side though he detuned the entire guitar by one-half a step for the recording so it was really D?-A?-D?-G?-A?-D? \(where the ? denotes a flattened note\)--the piece which was strongly influenced by Bert Jansch s earlier arrangement of a traditional Irish song called Blackwater Side \(though Jansch actually used drop D tuning\). Page later revisited the DADGAD tuning for the song Kashmir which appeared on the band s sixth album Physical Graffiti.
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Capos for DADGAD
| Capo | Tuning | Name |
|---|---|---|
| -9 | FCFA#CF | Low Baritone DADGAD Equivalent |
| -7 | GDGCDG | G Celtic |
| -6 | G#D#G#C#D#G# | G# DADGAD |
| -5 | AEADEA | Baritone DADGAD |
| -4 | A#FA#D#FA# | DADGAD But In Bb/A# |
| -3 | BF#BEF#B | DADGAD (minor Third Down) |
| -2 | CGCFGC | F Sus2 |
| -1 | C#G#C#F#G#C# | DADGAD - One Half Step Down |
| 0 | DADGAD | Modal D |
| 1 | D#A#D#G#A#D# | D#/A#/D#/G#/A#/D# |
| 2 | EBEABE | Modal Esus4 |
| 3 | FCFA#CF | DADGAD Capo 3 |
| 4 | F#C#F#BC#F# | DADGAD Capo 4 |
| 5 | GDGCDG | DADGAD Guitalele |
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Songs tuned to DADGAD
| Artist | Song | Album | Tab |
|---|---|---|---|
| Led Zeppelin | Kashmir | 1977-05-21: The Dragon Snake: The Summit, Houston, TX, USA | View Tab |
| Jimmy Page | White Summer | Session Man, Volume 2 | View Tab |
| Bert Jansch | She Moved Through the Fair | Fresh as a Sweet Sunday Morning | View Tab |
| Led Zeppelin | Black Mountain Side | 1977-04-27: Destroyer: Richfield Coliseum, Richfield, OH, USA | View Tab |
| José González | Save Your Day | Veneer | View Tab |
| Andy McKee | Drifting | 6 String Theory | View Tab |
| Seer | Daylight Again | Live in L.A. | View Tab |
| Dan Patlansky | 20 Stones | 20 Stones | |
| A Day To Remember | If It Means A Lot To You | Live at The Audio Compound | |
| Disney Stars | send it on | ||
| Disney Stars | send it on |
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