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DADGAD Fingestyle Blues TAB and Music Notation
I woke this morning and virtually everything I touched just didn’t happen, Â I set out to rework a blues variation in G as an educational piece and it went skewiff. Â So since I was in a Blues mentality, I decided to reposat a DADGAD fingerstyl...
Gypsy Rover DADGAD Arrangement TAB
A year or so ago I published a simple but very musical sounding DADGAD Arrangement of the old tune Gypsy Rover. Â I have decided to republish it because the previous web page no longer exists due to a weird turn of we events. Â A lot of the music I ...
Tommy Emmanuel Youtube - Acoustic Guitar
It’s pretty hard to have an acoustic guitar site or blog without mentioning Tommy Emmanuel at some point. Over the years I’ve seen him play many times in different settings, both acoustic and electric. Although I’ve never been f...
Pierre Bensusan youTube
Pierre Bensusan is was that good as a guitar player in the mid nineteen eighties that the great (late) Michael Hedges recorded a song in dedication to him on the Aerial Boundaries album, the song was called Bensusan. After Michael Hedges died, Pie...
Brilliant Acoustic Guitar - Andy Mckee youTube
Andy McKee is definitely one of the most interesting guitar players I’ve heard since Michael Hedges. There have been quite a few guitar players that have attempted to do the Hedges style of open tuning/ percussive /hammer-on pull off approac...
Open Tuning Guitar - Beautiful Guitar Recording
Although technology can sometimes get in our way and make some very simple things complex, example you make a phone call and end up speaking to a robot that doesn’t recognise your dialect when you answer a simple ‘yes/no’ question...
DADGAD Scale D Major
I’ve uploaded this free DADGAD guitar notation and tab scale for you to download. For anyone that’s new here DADGAD is another way of tuning the guitar. It’s been popular for a number of guitar players for about 30 years or so...
DADGAD Country Blues Scale
Download the free TAB and music notation of a simple country blues scale in DADGAD open tuning. This is what I refer to as a country blues scale.  It is basically a B minor Blues scale but is very useable over a common chord pattern pattern in D...
DADGAD Blues TAB Free
Here’s a nice simple Blues that I wrote this afternoon in DADGAD. If you download the pdf and like it please let me know. Click on the link DADGAD Blues free download TAB in pdf The Guitar TAB and Music Score software that I’m using is...
DADGAD D Blues scale - 3 octaves
Here’s a DADGAD D blues scale more of a rock style fingering NOTE: you’ll se that I have named this as Minor Blues, it is still usable over a normal blues D, G A seventh chords. Over the D and the G chords try using the F# note as wel...
DADGAD Gypsy Rover for Acoustic Guitar TAB and DOTS
DADGAD Acoustic fingerstyle arrangement for guitar in TAB and music notation. e.g. music dots I arranged this old folk song the Gypsy Rover in DADGAD tuning. It’s a free download in acrobat reader format .pf file. Click on the link DAGAD Gyps...
DADGAD Amazing Grace - Bluesy TAB -Notation
DADGAD arrangement of Amazing Grace. I decided to arrange this song with a bluesy feel to it in 4/4 time. To write the notation the exact way I play it would take far too much time to write and probably very hard to read, this is a rough estimate.Â...
DADGAD Jazz Blues for Acoustic Guitar
DADGAD Jazz Blues is a variation of the last Blues. I’ve still got the Blues so I thought I’d keep uploading these blues as a free download.  To download the pdf acrobat reader file click the link DADGAD Jazz Blues for Acoustic Guitar...
Fingerstyle DADGAD Blues TAB and Music notation
I still had the blues this evening. so I wrote another simple blues, play it slow. It’s got some great little twists at the end of bars 9 and 10. Enjoy it and build on it. Download the free pdf version of FINGERSTYLE DADGAD blues it’s...
DADGAD Blues Song in TAB and Music Notation
When I woke up this morning I had the blues, literally. So I thought the best thing to do is do something to change my mood. The best way I know of is to do something for other people. So I wrote a simple blues pattern in DADGAD. It’s...
DADGAD - Eastern Scale
DADGAD tuning. Eastern Mode Today I bought some software to help me create TAB and music dots and I’m pretty excited because I’ve been able to throw together a simple scale in TAB and music dots in about five minutes in both image and P...
