UNDERSTANDING DADGAD

For Fingerstyle Guitar

Doug Young

Understanding DADGAD is a complete introduction to using the DADGAD tuning for fingerstyle acoustic guitar. The book systematically explores the tuning, starting with simple chords and scale patterns, ultimately showing how DADGAD can be used to play in nearly any key and in many different musical styles. Topics include moveable and open-string chords and scales, intervals, the harp-effect, common chord progressions in DADGAD and more, all in the context of either short musical examples or complete tunes.

Rather than just providing scales, chords, or tunes, this book guides the reader through the process of understanding the guitar from the perspective of DADGAD tuning. Topics are organized as a series of small self-contained sections ideal for a single study session or lesson. After exploring extremely easy ways to get started with DADGAD, involving as little as a single finger on the fretting hand, the book progresses to examples that will interest even more advanced players. 200 musical examples, including several full performance-quality pieces, demonstrate each concept. The companion recording features the author playing many of the examples.

Features:

---A complete introduction to DADGAD tuning for fingerstyle acoustic guitar.
---Begins with simple chords and scale patterns and progresses to more complex musical examples in many different keys.
---Topics include moveable and open-string chords and scales, the harp-effect, intervals, common chord progressions in DADGAD and more.

Beginning-Intermediate levels.

Contents

1. INTRODUCTION
2. Tuning In DADGAD
3. How To Use This Book
4. GETTING STARTED
5. Three Easy Chords
6. Playing Simple Melodies
7. Improvising With Third String Melodies
8. Improvising In Other Keys
9. Improvisation Examples
10. Learning More Chords
11. Simple Scale Patterns
12. Minor Scale Patterns
13. Putting It All Together
14. LEVERAGING STANDARD TUNING
15. Using Standard Tuning Chord Shapes In DADGAD
16. Creating Chords By Shifting Strings
17. Moveable Chord Forms
18. Converting Scales From Standard To DADGAD
19. Creating Blues Scales In DADGAD
20. The CAGED System
21. CAGED In DADGAD
22. Putting It All Together
23. INTERVALS AND HARMONY
24. Introducing Intervals
25. Harmonizing With Thirds
26. Harmonized Thirds On The Fourth And Fifth Strings
27. Harmonized Thirds On The Third And Fourth Strings
28. Harmonized Thirds On Second And Third Strings
29. More Harmonized Thirds
30. Harmonizing With Sixths
31. Applying Sixths
32. Harmonizing With Tenths
33. Tenths As Skeletal Chords
34. Using Tenths With Open Strings
35. Unisons
36. Octaves
37. Octave Examples
38. Putting It All Together
39. TRICKS AND TECHNIQUES
40. Cross-String Patterns
41. Slurs And Cross-String Patterns
42. More Cross-String Picking Patterns
43. Parallel Harmony
44. Cheater Chords
45. Harmonics
46. Harmonic Patterns
47. Hammer-Ons And Pull-Offs
48. Percussive Techniques
49. Ten Things You Cant Do In Standard Tuning
50. Putting It All Together
51. CHORD PROGRESSIONS
52. The Blues Progression
53. Blues Progression With Minimalist Chords
54. The II-V-I Progression
55. Moveable II-V-I Chord Patterns
56. Altered Chords
57. Rhythm Changes
58. Rhythm Changes Using Open String Chords
59. SCALES AND ARPEGGIOS
60. Movable Major Scales
61. Learning Scale Forms
62. Scale Patterns
63. Minor Scales
64. Movable Minor Scales
65. Minor Scale Patterns
66. Cross-String Scales
67. Minor Cross-String Scales
68. Cross-String Examples
69. Arpeggios
70. Cross-String Arpeggios
71. EXPLORING DIFFERENT KEYS
72. C Major
73. D Major
74. D Minor
75. F Major
76. G Major
77. G Minor
78. A Major
79. A Minor
80. B Flat Major

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Product Details: Paperback Book & CD Package, Guitar

144 Pages

Product Code: 21166BCD

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