The Incredible Sound Of DADGAD Blues For Guitar

The blues is a great sound for your guitar playing. One way to play the blues on your guitar is in DADGAD tuning.

DADGAD is a beautiful, lush sounding tuning for the guitar and a great companion to the blues.

In this video, I show you how to play tasty blues licks in DADGAD tuning. 

You first learn the DADGAD blues scale, which is about the simplest scale you will probably ever learn on guitar.

From this scale, I will show you a number of licks and how to apply these to your guitar playing.

I’ll show to how to do this and back the licks you play with chords at the same time on one guitar!

Watch the video below to learn more:

DADGAD Blues Licks Video Tutorial

DADGAD Blues Scale

Here is the DADGAD blues scale:

DADGAD Guitar Blues Scale

DADGAD Blues Licks

The following are blues licks that come from the DADGAD blues scale.

Blues Lick 1

This lick descends the blues scale using 1/4 step bends:

DADGAD Guitar Blues Lick 1

Blues Lick 2

This lick features triplets for a cool sound:

DADGAD Guitar Blues Lick 2

Blues Lick 3

More triplets. This time descending the DADGAD blues scale:

DADGAD Guitar Blues Lick 3

Blues Lick 4

Rhythmic variation is provided in this lick with the triplet on beat 3:

DADGAD Guitar Blues Lick 4

Blues Lick 5

This lick features double stop triplets. The slides are used to punctuate the beat:

DADGAD Guitar Blues Lick 5

Droning DADGAD Blues Licks

The following are variations of the licks above. Each lick is played against the drone of the low open D string:

Blues Drone Lick 1

This lick is a combination of blues licks 1 and 2:

DADGAD Guitar Blues Drone Lick 1

Blues Drone Lick 2

This lick is a variation of blues lick 2:

DADGAD Guitar Blues Drone Lick 2

Blues Drone Lick 3

This lick is an idea that comes from blues lick 4:

DADGAD Guitar Blues Drone Lick 3

Blues Drone Lick 4

This lick is an idea that comes from blues lick 2:

DADGAD Guitar Blues Drone Lick 4

Blues Drone Lick 5

This lick is based off of blues lick 5, continuing with the double stop triplet idea: 

DADGAD Guitar Blues Drone Lick 5

DADGAD Blues Vamp

The following are examples of applying DADGAD blues licks across a bluesy vamp:

Example 1

This first example is based around Blues Drone Lick 1:

DADGAD Guitar Blues Example 1

Example 2

This example is based around Blues Drone Lick 3:

DADGAD Guitar Blues Example 2

Example 3

This last example runs through a number of licks from above to show you how to create a continuous loop applying your DADGAD blues licks as you go:

1.

DADGAD Guitar Blues Example 3-1 

2.

DADGAD Guitar Blues Example 3-2

3.

DADGAD Guitar Blues Example 3-3

Learn more awesome ways to use DADGAD tuning in your guitar playing

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