Do many of you used GDAD for chording/strumming as well as playing melodies? If so, why? Do you also tune your octave mandolins the same way?
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Do many of you used GDAD for chording/strumming as well as playing melodies? If so, why? Do you also tune your octave mandolins the same way?
Thanks,
If I tuned my OM that way it would be a bouzouki I tried for a while but went back to GDAE because I was getting too confused switching between OM, mandolin and guitar in DADGAD. For some tunes it definitely added something, others just made them harder to play.
Interested to hear others with their experience. I have taken my 22 3/4" OM and tuned it GDAD. My tiny little brain had a tough time adjusting, but I could see how it might be another tool I should have in my toolbox. It isn't hard to tune down a full step. I guess I need to start watching the bouzouki players more.
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GDAD is for me, a great songwriting tool. As is GDGD.
I don't play trad tunes so... that's why. If you want an example, i'm pretty sure Steve Knightley tuned his tenor to GDAD (capo'd at fifth, or actually CGDG - the dola version) for Show Of Hands' cover of Boys of Summer, which should give a clue as to why i like it.
or the CGDG / CGCG if we tune to CGDA firstly.
I can find std tuning to be a bit "safe" sounding... that's not an accusation, just how my ears hear it... i prefer my chords to have unexpectedly nice intervals driven by open strings.
I am in std at the moment, but i usually wind up back in GDAD/GDGD after a while.
ADAD is also many people's favs.
Conversely, it's fun tuning a mandolin GDAD
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I use GDAD almost exclusively on CBOMs and tenor guitars. I've even made a little GDAD video series to try and help people get acquainted with the tuning.
https://www.tenorguitarlessons.com/l.../gdad-lessons/
Thanks,
Baron
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