Chords for DADGAD chords and D scale

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_ _ _ _ _ Simple one finger chords.
The chord D.
_ Second [C] fret, first string.
[D] You can strike all the strings. _
_ _ Nice sounding D.
It's not a major, it's not a minor, so you can do it in place of both.
The G chord.
Second fret _ of the second string.
And if you [G] strike the top three, you have G major.
I usually do a G [A#] over [Am] D and strike from [G] the fourth. _
_ _ _ G major. _
The chord A.
_ _ [E] _ Second fret of the fourth string.
_ _ But you only need to strike the top five strings, not the bottom D. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Again, that's neither major or minor, so it does it in place of both.
[F] But it does have the G, which is the seventh, which makes it a good fifth chord _ in the key of D.
[A] Playing those chords together, you get a nice [D] sounding_
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ The chord of D major _ _ is _ second finger [C#] on the third fret and the fourth _ fret of the fourth string _ [D] together.
Or the string. _ _ _
_ _ Now that's D major, you've got the F sharp in it.
[N] _ G _ major.
_ _ I usually go for the second fret on the second string and stretch my little finger over to the fifth string, to the sixth string rather, _ and mute the fifth [G] and play this.
_ _ _ _ _ However, if you find that stretch awkward, what you can do is _ _ take the sixth string in the same [N]
place, but this time place the fourth fret on the third string. _
And I'll try and mute the second string if you can, but no worries if you can't, and [G] play this. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] Nice rich sounding G.
[A] For the chord A, again it's neither major or minor, _ I usually add the second fret on the first string to play this. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Putting them [D] together again, I get this.
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ [A] Or if you ravel with the other G, _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ play this across the strings as follows.
D, _ E, F sharp, G, A, [Bm] B, [C#] C sharp, [D] D, [E]
E, [Bm] F sharp, [G] G, [A] A, _ [B] B, [C#] C [D] sharp, D.
[G] Notice how I use the two open strings.
_ _ G, A, B, C [Gm] sharp, D.
And that does come in [G#] handy _ in some songs where you can go through the strings very quickly and let them ring out.
_ One of the other ways of doing _ scales is to do them along the string, and this is very, very useful.
_ _ So on the D string, _ I [D] go D, [E] _ E, [F#] F sharp, [G] G, [D] A, [C] B, C sharp, D.
_ _ I can also do that on the fourth string which is also D. _
D, [E] E, [Bm] F [G] sharp, G, _ _ [F#m] A, B, C [D] sharp, D.
And finally, as you've probably guessed, on the top string, D, [Em] E, [G] F sharp, G, [F#] A, B, [F#m] C [G] sharp, D.
[N] Now this is very handy because if you have a phrase on one D string, you can repeat the phrase to create an echo on one of the other strings. _