Rose in the Heather, Part 1

from: 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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Rose in the Heather

Rose in the Heather, Part 1

Rose in the Heather, Part 2

Rose in the Heather, Part 3: Play-Along Track

Rose in the Heather, Part 1

Doug uses the Irish jig “Rose in the Heather” to illustrate another approach to playing scales in DADGAD tuning. In DADGAD, if you play the second and fourth frets (as well as the open string) you will only get notes of the D major scale. In this video, Doug walks you through the melody of the A part of “Rose in the Heather” and then shows you how he adds bass notes to the melody.

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