How To DADGAD Blues On Guitar

DADGAD tuning is a beautiful, lush tuning for your guitar playing. In this video, I show you how to play blues licks in DADGAD tuning. You first learn the DADGAD blues scale which is quite possibly the easiest scale you will ever learn on guitar. From here, I show you a number of very tasty blues licks that come from this scale. Once we work through these, I show you how to apply these licks in your guitar playing. You will learn how to do this while at the same time provide the accompaniment. This means you will be playing your DADGAD blues and the backing behind them at the same time on one guitar! You can check it all out in the video below: DADGAD blues Licks Video Tutorial DADGAD Blues Scale Here is the DADGAD blues scale: DADGAD Guitar Blues Scale DADGAD Blues Licks The following are blues licks that come from the DADGAD blues scale. Blues Lick 1 This lick descends the blues scale using 1/4 step bends: DADGAD Guitar Blues Lick 1 Blues Lick 2 This lick features triplets for a cool sound: DADGAD Guitar Blues Lick 2 Blues Lick 3 More triplets. This time descending the DADGAD blues scale: DADGAD Guitar Blues Lick 3 Blues Lick 4 Rhythmic variation is provided in this lick with the triplet on beat 3: DADGAD Guitar Blues Lick 4 Blues Lick 5 This lick features double stop triplets. The slides are used to punctuate the beat: DADGAD Guitar Blues Lick 5 Droning DADGAD Blues Licks The following are variations of the licks above. Each lick is played against the drone of the low open D string: Blues Drone Lick 1 This lick is a combination of blues licks 1 and 2: DADGAD Guitar Blues Drone Lick 1 Blues Drone Lick 2 This lick is a variation of blues lick 2: DADGAD Guitar Blues Drone Lick 2 Blues Drone Lick 3 This lick is an idea that comes from blues lick 4: DADGAD Guitar Blues Drone Lick 3 Blues Drone Lick 4 This lick is an idea that comes from blues lick 2: DADGAD Guitar Blues Drone Lick 4 Blues Drone Lick 5 This lick is based off of blues lick 5, continuing with the double stop triplet idea: DADGAD Guitar Blues Drone Lick 5 DADGAD Blues Vamp The following are examples of applying DADGAD blues licks across a bluesy vamp: Example 1 This first example is based around Blues Drone Lick 1: DADGAD Guitar Blues Example 1 Example 2 This example is based around Blues Drone Lick 3: DADGAD Guitar Blues Example 2 Example 3 This last example runs through a number of licks from above to show you how to create a continuous loop applying your DADGAD blues licks as you go: 1. DADGAD Guitar Blues Example 3-1 2. DADGAD Guitar Blues Example 3-2 3. DADGAD Guitar Blues Example 3-3 Learn how to play guitar in DADGAD tuning