In this lesson, I show you how to use a fun octave trick on the guitar.
First we tune to DADGAD, and if you haven’t done that yet Fender has a nice online tuner on their website that allows you can select DADGAD tuning from the dropdown menu, here’s the link – https://www.fender.com/online-guitar-tuner/acoustic-guitar-tuning
Once tuned down we run through the scale of D Major on all three of the D strings in DADGAD to get our fingers used to the positions.
Then I introduce the low movable octave shape, then the high movable octave shape before combining then with some rhythm.
It’s a fun trick that I find really helps to get to grips with the DADGAD fretboard fast.
Let me know how you get on with it, and if you have any questions just leave me a comment and I’ll get back to you.
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I am working with a guitar teacher about once a week. He is familiar with trad Irish rhythm guitar playing so I can’t wait to try this out with him on my Epiphone!
Excellent Peter! Let me know how you get on