Folky Fridays #14 - Drop D tuning and how to use it (Celtic / Scottish / Irish guitar tutorial)

Folky Fridays #14 – Drop D tuning and how to use it (Celtic / Scottish / Irish guitar tutorial)

This week’s Folky Fridays free Celtic guitar lesson from Folk Friend will be covering some of the most useful shapes for use in drop D tuning. I’ll be showing how you can use this very versatile tuning to add bass-depth and richness to your backing in all the common folk keys!

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