Understanding DADGAD for Fingerstyle Guitar

Contents:

• INTRODUCTION
• Tuning In DADGAD
• How To Use This Book
• GETTING STARTED
• Three Easy Chords
• Playing Simple Melodies
• Improvising With Third String Melodies
• Improvising In Other Keys
• Improvisation Examples
• Learning More Chords
• Simple Scale Patterns
• Minor Scale Patterns
• Putting It All Together
• LEVERAGING STANDARD TUNING
• Using Standard Tuning Chord Shapes In DADGAD
• Creating Chords By Shifting Strings
• Moveable Chord Forms
• Converting Scales From Standard To DADGAD
• Creating Blues Scales In DADGAD
• The CAGED System
• CAGED In DADGAD
• Putting It All Together
• INTERVALS AND HARMONY
• Introducing Intervals
• Harmonizing With Thirds
• Harmonized Thirds On The Fourth And Fifth Strings
• Harmonized Thirds On The Third And Fourth Strings
• Harmonized Thirds On Second And Third Strings
• More Harmonized Thirds
• Harmonizing With Sixths
• Applying Sixths
• Harmonizing With Tenths
• Tenths As Skeletal Chords
• Using Tenths With Open Strings
• Unisons
• Octaves
• Octave Examples
• Putting It All Together
• TRICKS AND TECHNIQUES
• Cross-String Patterns
• Slurs And Cross-String Patterns
• More Cross-String Picking Patterns
• Parallel Harmony
• Cheater Chords
• Harmonics
• Harmonic Patterns
• Hammer-Ons And Pull-Offs
• Percussive Techniques
• Ten Things You Can Do In Standard Tuning
• Putting It All Together
• CHORD PROGRESSIONS
• The Blues Progression
• Blues Progression With Minimalist Chords
• The II-V-I Progression
• Moveable II-V-I Chord Patterns
• Altered Chords
• Rhythm Changes
• Rhythm Changes Using Open String Chords
• SCALES AND ARPEGGIOS
• Movable Major Scales
• Learning Scale Forms
• Scale Patterns
• Minor Scales
• Movable Minor Scales
• Minor Scale Patterns
• Cross-String Scales
• Minor Cross-String Scales
• Cross-String Examples
• Arpeggios
• Cross-String Arpeggios
• EXPLORING DIFFERENT KEYS
• C Major
• D Major
• D Minor
• F Major
• G Major
• G Minor
• A Major
• A Minor
• B Flat Major