I’ve had a couple of requests from people wanting to know how to play a Blues scale in D. I purchased some new software today, (that’s right, a guitarist who purchases guitar software).
I’ve decided to change the fingering a little to help players get out of the normal patterns and allow a few open strings to ring out. Put it this way, if you want to do normal fingering, just stay in normal tuning; open tuning is about expanding as a guitar player.
Below is a gif image, if you want a better print copy, Download the PDF at the link dadgad blues scale for acoustic guitar in pdf
This is a Minor Blues scale (note the Flat 3 note, the F natural) , it also has a flattened 5th note which gives it that BLUE sound as well, yes it clashes sometimes with other notes, it’s about tension ……………..and………….release.
Use it against a standard blues pattern in D. As you may know the foundation chords would be D, G and A or A7th.
I thought very carefully about the fingering, I was going to write in the fingering but I thought, why not offer a challenge. My first fretted note would be with my 1st finger on the 3rd fret.
Good luck…plenty to follow on this topic.
2 Comments
October 17, 2007 at 12:01 am
Which software did you buy to do your tabs with? I just got Notion Progression which I’m still in the midst of learning but its pretty cool, I’ve posted a review up on Guitar Noize today.
October 17, 2007 at 6:11 am
Thanks for dropping by Jon. Your review on your site looks great and as i am aware of your experience I’d recommend that any visitors to my blog check it out. I have not used that software but will try it at some point. The link to the software I used is at one of my other blogs, it’s at http://www.the-guitarplayer.com. I chose the software because I sorted out how to use it after 5 minutes of playing around, export as PDF, and image format and various other formats.
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