“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 ...

Chattanooga Times Free Press entertainment reporter Casey Phillips spoke Algerian-born French guitar guru Pierre Bensusan about how he discovered the DADGAD tuning, what drives his stylistic ...

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 ...