Loved by the likes of Davey Graham, Roy Harper and Jimmy Page, DADGAD remains a great place ... the open strings are a big, bold Dsus4 chord. It’s a de facto standard alternative to traditional ...

Leave everything else in standard, giving us (from low to high): DADGAD. It may sound as though we’re jumping in the deep end, but this is actually a two-finger chord, based around a D7 but ...

But it also means you’ll be surprised, and hopefully inspired, by what you play, and DADGAD is surely unrivalled for its sheer user-friendliness. The chords shown here should be enough to get you ...