Chords for Al Petteway Teaches "Wayfaring Stranger" in DADGAD Tuning

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_ _ _ So that's Wayfaring Stranger or sometimes you'll see it as I am a poor wayfaring stranger.
One of the most beautiful, beautiful tunes I've heard. _
_ _ _ And what's [N] neat in dadgad is that that particular kind of tune is ideal for dadgad tuning.
Mostly because when you start playing these little bluesy licks where you're stretching
strings _ you feel like you've got more room to move on the string because these two strings
are tuned down a whole step as is this one.
_ So when you do a [B] strut, _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N]
it feels like it's butter under your fingers instead of feeling
like it's fighting you.
Even with medium gait strings you can do this and not have to fight it.
And when I discovered that I could play all my favorite blues tunes and the country blues
like that one and the shape note things _ with dadgad it was just, for me it was opening
up a whole new world because now I could do the licks I did when I played rock and roll
guitar but on acoustic and it doesn't hurt.
_ _ So _ _ let's talk about how that tune was laid out.
Basically the melody is very simple.
It's [D] just _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [F] _ [D] _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ [D] _ basically the melody and what I'm doing is [F] adding in a little bit of that alternating
[D] thumb _ but _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ throwing in some, _ I guess you'd call them ornaments. _
_ Instead of just straight, _ _ _ _
_ [Am] I usually [G] hammer that on [D] _ and _ _ _ here I've added in other [G] strings.
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ So I'm alternating _ not only between the melody note and the bass but between the other two
open strings in the bass and using those kind of like a drone.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ And then I do a thing where I play the melody plus the open [G] first string _ and _ _ _ that _ kind of
is a nod to the shape note harmonies because they use a lot of open fifths and fourths
and it's very modal. _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ [A] _ [D] _ _ _
_ So that part of the melody is using _ this open string with [G] the third string _ [D]
[G] and _ then when
you do the rest of the melody I come down to the second [F] string.
[A] _ [D] _ _ _ _
So I'll play that in context. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ [D] _ _ _ _
Little fill note. _ _ _ _ _
Now here we're going to our G [G] chord _ but all we're needing now is, since the melody is
on the open G string, all I need is a bass note. _ _ _ _
_ Again trying to get that sort of modal flavor.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ [G] _ [D] _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ And this form of A is kind of nice in dadgad because it eliminates any third or seventh.
It's just A, E, A, A, E. _ _
_ _ _ Another really open modal kind of [D] sound. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
Now there's a little lick that I like to throw in.
[Dm] _ _
[G] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [F] _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ Playing a [Dm] minor style blues in dadgad is simplified by the fact that all the notes you need are
on the third fret _ _
[D] _ _ except for the third string.
It's on the [Ab] first fret [G] _ _ [Dm] and then third [Am] fret, third [F] fret.
[D] _ _ _ And you can even do octaves [Dm] _ _ [Am] _ _ [D] _
_ _ if you want. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _