Chords for How to play the DADGAD Blues

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_ _ _ _ Hi, this is Terry Gold and a little over a year ago
I recorded a song posted it to YouTube
The only reason I did it was it was too big to email and I wanted to share it with my son Christopher
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well here we are now and
The videos had almost 10,000 views and I'm getting a lot of [G] email from people saying they'd like to see a lesson on it
Well, I'm not a teacher or even that great of a guitarist and that was just something I was playing around with _ _
So but I'm happy to help and I'll show you the elements of it
And then you should put it together in a way that sounds good to you
Because frankly I couldn't play it again exactly [G#] the way it is in the video if I tried
_ [N] _ But I'll show you some of the pieces of it and then you can go play with it.
I am finger [D] picking _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and
I'm tuned in dadgad _ [G] and
_ _ _ _ D a D G a D.
There's plenty of YouTube videos out there help you get tuned [D] up
_ It's a very pretty tuning and make something simpler
_ For instance, that's a D _
Really nice sound
Well, I was just playing around one day
_ And _ _ I wanted to make it sound a little bluesy _
So I use my third finger here to do this
[Dm] I'm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Am] almost pulling that string [Dm] down
_ If I [F#] get carried away, I can get some fret [E] buzz and a little bit of [Dm] twang
_ Because _ I'm actually pulling it down and letting it go
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_ _ _ _ _ Gives [G] it that kind of [D] bluesy sound _ _ so that the tune went something like this
_ Now _ _
_ [G] _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
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_ [G#] I'm not actually getting [D] that very well.
I have to play with it a little bit
_ basic form is
_ That's my first chord and then I move [C] up to [D] here
So _ I've got my first finger on the third string [A] second fret _ _
my [Bm] second finger on the fifth [C] string third fret _ and
[G] My third finger on the second string third fret and I get [C] this _ [D] Okay _ _ _
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_ And if I'm playing right I can get my little finger in there to still do the bluesy pull-off thing
[Dm] _ just _ _ _
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_ [D] _ _ _ take some [C] practice and
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then [E] the third chord that I use a lot is I just move [G] to the second fret and
lift up my index finger, [Bm] so
_ [G] _ second _ _ [Em] finger
_ fifth string second fret third finger
_ second [B] string second fret
[G] _ and again, I'll use my little finger on [Dm] that first string [G] third fret _ and _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] maybe the second string [B] third fret [G] _
_ and _ _ _ _
Then back to the [Dm] beginning and _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [A] you can do some things with the [E] bass too [D] like this
All _ _ _
[C] _ [D] _ _ I'm doing there is catching with my thumb the fourth string fourth fret first open
_ _ And I just do a bit of a roll _ and
_ then fourth fret fourth string
_ _ Notice the pull-off there and _ _ _ _ _ then fifth fret fifth [A] string _
Whoops [Fm] fourth fret how [D] about that? _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Yeah, [C] fourth fret [A] _
[D] back _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
[D] _ _ [G] _ [C] to my course _ _
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_ _ and you know don't be afraid to
_ move out of the finger picking and give it a strum occasionally _ [F] and
_ [Am] Sometimes I was even reaching down here to the fifth fret
[Dm] _ _
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I think I was trying [G#] to practice my little finger dexterity as [Gm] much as [Dm] anything
_ Okay, _ _
_ [G] _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
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so [F#] hopefully that gives you enough of the pieces to put it together [C#] and maybe come up with something different
certainly come [E] up with something better _ [D] and
Post your own video
_ [G] Thanks for all the views and