Chords for PHIL HARE IS THE BAD DAD OF DADGAD

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[E] The [Gm] wonderful DADGAD [Am] tuning. _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ You'll have all sorts of ideas of where it came from, who
started it, how it developed.
The truth of the matter [N] is, although it's used in many
ways, by far and away the most effective way is coming out of the notion of standard tuning,
and having to finger every string, and allowing strings to run free, which automatically encourages
single note playing rather than chordal stuff.
So, you're first [Eb] messing around with DADGAD,
you just do things very simply, [D] and just _
_ _ [G] _ _ [D] find the scale. _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
And then once you've got [D] there
with that, if your technique is good in other areas, _ _ you can find yourself [G] just _ _ rooting
yourself, _ [Gb] _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ and just playing around with this.
[G] _
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And then you start to hear all the possibilities
coming through.
And essentially, the first position, _ [D] instances of getting through all
that, [A] tend to revolve around these sort of shapes here.
And you can get [D] these kind of
runs.
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It's really quite sweet.
And of course, once you do that, you're hearing all sorts
of different [Eb] possibilities.
_ You're hearing melodies that can be played in [D] the lower end,
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_ [A] _ that [Ab] sort of thing, or [Gm] melodies that are just all [D] top-end.
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[Eb] [G] And you're hearing that sort
of stuff.
And it opens up a whole world of possibilities.
So, I would just [A] like to say,
I suppose, that _ start _ to look at it like that.
[Em] _
Think laterally about it.
_ [D] _ _ _ [G]
You can move in
between major [D] and minor freely, [E] but don't try and think in block chords.
[D] Just try and
think nice and [A] loose, nice and neat, nice and open.
[D] _ _ _ _ You can even get a bit of blues
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[A] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ _
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_ [E] _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ [Eb] Don't strum it. _
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_ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ Oh, is there a break there? _ _ _
Hmm.
_ _ _ [G] Oh, in that case, I'm [Bm] terribly sorry about that.
[D] _ _ _ _ [Am] _
I sometimes
my photo [G] upsets are like this.
I don't even know where to [Am] start.
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[G] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ So yeah, [G] Dadgad.
Just
mess around in [D] Dadgad.
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_ [F] _ _ [D] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [D] _
What's this, I wonder?
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[C] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _
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[Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
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Messing _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ about in Dadgad.
Messing about