Flowers of Edinburgh, Part 2

from: Alternate Tunings Fingerstyle Guitar with Doug Young

This lesson is part of the course Alternate Tunings Fingerstyle Guitar with Doug Young.

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Alternate tunings can create beautiful guitar sounds that are impossible in standard tuning, and make some things easier to play. You’ll learn to play fingerstyle melodies in a variety of popular alternate tunings, including favorites like dropped D, DADGAD, and open G, as well as more unusual tunings.

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The second part of “Blind Mary” includes a Bm7 chord and a Gmaj7/B chord. Doug walks you through the B part of “Blind Mary” phrase by phrase in this video.

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Flowers of Edinburgh, Part 1

Flowers of Edinburgh, Part 2

Flowers of Edinburgh, Part 3: Play-Along Track

Flowers of Edinburgh, Part 2

Doug shows you the B part of his arrangement of “Flowers of Edinburgh” in this video. He also shows you how to play the melody of the A part in a higher octave.

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