Experimenting with alternate tuning is always a great way to find new chords and melodic alternatives.

Today, I am going to show you a beautiful musical idea played with an awesome alternate tuning. The tuning I am about to show you is the DADF#AE.

We all know the most common alternate tuning such as the Drop D tuning (DADGBE) and the Celtic tuning DADGAD, but the DADF#AE was a pretty much new tuning for me, and it took a while to master.

One of the things I do when I start experimenting with a new tuning is to figure which chord the tuning generates with the open strings. The DADF#AE is an what I call and open Dadd9 tuning.

The open strings have all the notes we need to build a D major chord plus the major 9th that adds a wonderful add9 flavor. The root note D (6th and 4th string), the major 3rd, F#(3rd string), and the perfect 5th, the A (5th and 2nd string). We also have the major 9th, E (1st string)

In this guitar lesson, I am going to show you a simple musical idea played in DADF#AE tuning. You can learn the chord shapes, and they use it to write your chord progressions and melodies.

Good luck!