A Different Kind of Tune

I've been playing around a bit with open tunings for guitar. This is when the guitar is tuned so that when all the strings are played together, it's a chord. A very deep, thick chord... :D Makes me happeh. So as I was messing around with the DADGAD tuning (Low E tuned to D, A, A, G, B string tuned to A, high E tuned to D) today, a thought popped into my head about who might have started this. So I consulted the supreme powers of GOOGLE! A man named Davy Graham invented the DADGAD tuning, and he became a big inspiration to players like Jimmy Page, Bert Jansch, and Paul Simon. At age 19, he wrote his most well known piece, called Anji. It's been covered many times over and is truly a beautiful song. Davy traveled the world and each place he stopped he learned different styles of playing, especially enjoying Indian melodies and fusing them into his folkish music. A very creative man and a true artist. I'm writing a song now that I'm calling 'Trouble'. I posted the lyrics for it a few posts back and I had music for it, but I'm trying a new idea I got in the car tonight. Instead of doing a guitar backing for vocals, I'm going to do a vocal backing with some slide guitar touches. I recorded the scratch idea for it tonight and I'll get to work on doing a proper recording tomorrow. Also taught my little cousins tonight. They're improving nicely! Finally been practicing. I'm teaching my cousin Kyle, the guitar student, a John Mayer song now...'Not Myself'. And I'm teaching his brother, the piano student, 'Bliss' by Muse. They both got inspired by seeing my classic rock band play, which is a pretty cool feeling :D I'm off to bed though, was up way to late last night. Need to rejuvenate.