Understanding DADGAD

Fiddle Tunes in DADGAD shows how fingerstyle guitarists can use DADGAD tuning to play traditional tunes including twenty-four complete arrangements of common American Irish and Scottish ballads airs jigs and reels. The bookexplores techniques and patterns for playing melodies across the strings producing a harp-like effect that adds a distinctive and beautiful character to traditional melodies. In addition to building repertoire the materialdemonstrates ways to arrange your own melodies or even write your own tunes based on the techniques provided. This is a perfect follow-up for guitarists who have studied Understanding DADGAD for Fingerstyle Guitar and arelooking for tunes to learn or for those who want to go deeper into harp-style playing. It is also an excellent introduction for those who prefer to just dive head-first into DADGAD by learning some classic tunes.

Laurence Juber takes DADGAD guitar tuning to a whole new level with his use of beautiful cascading notes rich chord shapes and complex harmonies. This lesson will give you a complete understanding of how it works and how to use it in a variety of keys.Laurence familiarises you with the intricacies of this tuning by teaching some if his newest compositions including the lyrical ballad Still Warm Silhouette and Fountain Jumping.This challenging and fascinating video lesson will allow you to look at the guitar in a whole new way. As Laurence puts it learning DADGAD 'gives us a different angle on the guitar - a different standardtuning.'

A thorough guide to the most widely used tunings! Tunes and exercises that illustrate each technique are written in tab and standard notation and played on the CD featuring fifty demo tracks.These essential fretboard patterns are roadmaps that all guitarists need to know and use to play in alternate tunings. Learn to: solo and play backup in Drop D Open G Open D DADGAD Open A and Open E tunings; play a variety of lead Guitar styles and songs (acoustic and electric) in open tunings; play chords and progressions anywhere on the fretboard in all keys in many tunins and more.Each chapter presents a fretboard pattern and shows how to use it along withplaying tips and Guitar insights.An absolute beginner can follow the diagrams and instruction from the beginning. Intermediate and advanced players can use the chapters non-sequentially to increase their understanding of the Guitar.