DADGAD Guitar Tuning Book & Companion CD

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DADGAD is rapidly gaining acceptance as the "other standard tuning". Tune your guitar to it and find out why! This book is intended for guitarists who want to explore the D-A-D-G-A-D tuning, but feel a need for more guidance than their ears alone can provide. The majority of these selections are traditional Irish dance tunes, airs and songs. Accessible to musicians with at least an intermediate knowledge of guitar technique. In tablature and notation.

Overall Difficulty: Beginning-Intermediate

Contents Song Title:

Bill Sullivan's Polka / Jessica's Polka / Kiss The Girls And Make Them Cry / My Darling Asleep / O, The Britches Full Of Stitches / Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore / Si Beag, Si Nor / Six-Penny Money / Tall Man Of The Wood / The Coquelicot Waltz / The Faries' Hornpipe / The Granemore Hare / The Stack Of Barley /

Reviews:

"I recently discovered your 'DADGAD' book and it came as something of arevelation to me. After many years of playing various styles in varioustunings I had become somewhat disenchanted with the guitar. However, yourbook has inspired me to play again and moreover to enjoy what I amplaying.I felt that I had to write to say thank you for the wonderfulmusic that you have made available in your book..."David Ford

"This is partly passionate propaganda for the guitar tuning of the title and partly a performance CD with tablature of Julie Henigan's arrangements. Either way it makes a fairly convincing case. The tablature is fairly easy to understand and use; an intermediate guitar player can follow it just fine. The chord charts in the back should also help inspire some further exploring on the part of the reader. As for the CD, it's enjoyable on its own, with light arrangements and a few songs sung in a voice that's not quite up to the level of her guitar playing, which is smooth and lilting. One trying to understand this tuning from the inside, especially with an interest in Irish tunes, can easily do so here, and it's presented in an entertaining way..." Dave Soyars, "Books." Dirty Linen, #89 (August/September 2000) pg. 92