Chords for Step 1: Building A Blues Scale In Open D Tuning | Slide Guitar Master Open Tunings | GuitarZoom.com

_ So tuning wise, [Ab] open D tuning.
So basically what we're doing here is we're taking
[Em] the six string [Ebm] setup of a guitar, [Fm] E, A, D, G, B, E,
[Ab] and then we're tuning that, most cases down,
[C] so that it's [D] basically an open D chord.
So when you strum it, _ _ _ it's just D.
All the notes that are in that are in a D triad.
So [E] how it sets up on a guitar for what we call
the vestibular open D tuning,
[D] you're taking [Ab] this _ _ _ top string,
you're going from the normal,
so if you're tuned straight [C] to E,
like it's just normal guitar tuning,
you're taking that E and going down one whole step to D.
So I'm already in [E] open D right [D] now.
So you just tune down, and here's your D. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ So we're pretty much right on the money here.
So just down one whole step to D.
All right, second one is [A] A, your fifth string.
That's just like normal. _
_ _ A, 440. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ All right, next [D] one, _ D.
_ Again, it's just like normal, E, A, D, G, B, E.
Yeah, we're going D, A, D. _
_ Dadding it. _ _ _ _
Now _ _ [F] this one, [Gb] _ this is F sharp.
So we're going from G normally,
[Bm] down one half step to F sharp.
Why are we going F sharp?
It's the third [Gb] in the D triad, D, F sharp, A. _
_ Taking this third string, tuning it to F sharp. _
_ So it's a major third in a D triad for the D chord,
which the open D tuning is tuned to, right?
_ _ [A] Second string, _ _ normally is B.
We're tuning that down one whole step to A.
So that way, _ _ _ _ this A and this A, _ _ _
you're five _ in the key of D. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] And then the sixth string, or the first string, is just D.
_ _ _ _ So [A] if we're taking this D, _ [Ab] open D [E] tuning,
and we're going to play some blues
and some minor pentatonic stuff on it,
we're going to use this [D] scale.
_ D, [F] _ _
_ F sharp, [G] _ _ _ G, [A] _ _ _ _ A, [C] _ _
C, [D] _ D.
D, D, [F] _ [G] _
[Am] D.
[D] _ _ _ _ [F] _ [G] _
[A] _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [C] _
[D] _ [F] _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ [G] _ [A] [Cm] Okay?
_ [D] _ _ _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ [F] _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ So when you're talking about minor pentatonics,
you've got one, [F] _
a minor [Bb] three with F,
[G] _ _
perfect four [A] with G, _ perfect four with [C] A,
_ _ minor seven [Gb] with [D] C, _ and then your one with D.
One, [F] three, [G]
[A] five, _ [D] excuse me,
one, [F] three, [G] [A] four, [Cm] five, [D] seven, one.
_ Okay?
So that's helpful.
When you start to go, okay, let's focus on this,
I've got dots on the side of mine, [F] not on the front of this,
but yours might have dots.
So you figure, okay, from the dots,
we got [D] _ open one, three, five,
_ one, four, five, seven, one.
Okay?
So, _ _ start _ moving that across the neck a little bit.
D, [F] _ _ F, _ [G] _ _
G, [A] _ _ A, [C] _ _
C, _ [D] _ D,
[F] _ [G] _ [Am] _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
[Am] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [F] [G] three, [A] four, [C] five, [D] seven, one.
[G] _ [D] _
_ [C] _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ [D] _
[C] _ _ [Dm] _ _ So that's where you can start hearing
some of that blues, the rock,
that's where a lot of those pentatonic scales are used
and probably familiar to your ear,
even if you don't know the term.
So, now let's start moving across the neck
even a little bit further.
So if we're gonna keep going, [G] _ [C] _ _ [D] _
_ [F] _ [G] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ [D] _ _
[Am] _ _ [Dm] _ [C] _ _ [F] _ [D] okay,
so we'll go [F] D, [G] F, G, [A] _ [C] A, C,
[D] _ D, [F] _ _ _ F, [G] _ G, [A] _ [Am] A, _ [D] C.
_ [Am] _
_ [Dm] _ [Am] _ _ [F] _ [D] _ _
[Dm] So _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ [Am] _
that gets a little goofy over there.
Let's break that down real quick, like, all right?
So when you're going, doing the minor pentatonic thing,
_ [D] _ _ [F] D, [G] F, _ [A] G, [C] A, C, [D] _
_ _ D.
So there's one octave, second octave,
_ [F] D, [G] F, G, [A] A, _ [C] _ _ C, so you're [A] going parallel,
[C] A, [D] C, _ [C] _ [G] _ _
_ [Am] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [Am] _
[D] _ _ _ [F] _ _ [G] _ [Am] _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _ [G] _
[Am] okay?
So there's a, _ when you're doing this,
the parallel moving from one parallel note to another,
one thing that one of my _ guitar professors in [E] college
showed me that's really helpful
is being able to rock your fingers back and forth
and move the pressure from one side of the pad
of your finger to the other side.
So you can kind of use the curve of your finger
to your advantage.
[A] So when I fret this A, which is here on the third fret
on your, the third string, _ _ fretting it _ [Dm] straight on _ _
[Am] and then rolling my finger, [D] _ [A] see that? _
Going from the _ [Am] A to the C.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ [Dm] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
[G] _ [F] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
[Dm] _ [D] _ And that is [Ab] super helpful to be able to do
because if you try to [Am] reset, _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ [Am] _
it [D] gets kind of choppy
when you're trying to play through a scale.
_ [Am] _ [Dm] _ _ _ [Am] _ [D] _ _
[Am] _ [Dm] _ [D] Whereas [E] if you just kind of roll your finger
side to [C] side, it smooths it out.
And that's kind of what we're looking for.
[Ab] And it just kind of develops good habits and everything, [Dm] so. _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ Okay.
Okay.
So now you can kind of, okay, you can move around from here.
_ [Am] _ _ _
[F] _ [D] _ Oh, you can get a little slick there too.
So for starting at this D, [Am] _ _
[F] _ [D] _ _ you can [Db] move [Dm] _ _
_ [Am] _ [D] _ _ that way
or you can go [F] _
[D] and _ use the open strings.
[Dm] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ [F] _ [D] _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
[A] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _