Learning DADGAD guitar?
DADGADTabs.com
Tabs for trad irish fingerstyle guitar – from easy peasy to quite spicy
Whats it about?
Do you play fingerstyle guitar in standard tuning and want to learn traditional Irish tunes in DADGAD?
You've heard about DADGAD tuning
I’m not going to tell you how to operate your guitar or how to tune it to DADGAD.
You know irish tradtional music
I’m not telling you about jigs, reels and hornpipes. You know that already.
You've done some Fingerpicking
I’m not going to tell you about fingerstyle and chord-melody-playing
DADGADTabs.com is a retirement project
I’m learning DADGAD-Tuning as a retirement project. This site will grow slowly but consistantly, depending on the time I can invest.
All learning materials on this site are free of charge and free for personal use.
Tabs so far (since 02/2025)
- PDF-Sheet music with DADGAD-Tabs
- Mp3 files
- some Online-Playalongs for testing
About
My name is Silke, and I create educational materials.
I am a trained IT specialist with a master’s degree in Education and Psychology, and I have 40 years of teaching experience both online and offline.
During the pandemic, I started early retirement and began producing the musical learning materials that I personally felt were lacking.
After 40 years of trad german sessions (no dots here too!) I decided I wanted to build a trad Irish repertoire on the whistle as a retirement project. Being a fingerstyle guitarist I started playing around on the guitar with the tunes I learned on the whistle. Tuning my guitar to DADGAD suited the tunes so much better than standard tuning! I started creating some DADGAD Tabs to learn how to make the most of the new tuning. I’m sharing my tabs for free with other evolving ITM musicians. Enjoy!
Even though I’m not irish, I’m at least a redhead 😉
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