DADGAD Acoustic Guitar Fingerstyle Lick #2

Our second DADGAD acoustic guitar lick again utilizes the open string possibilites this tuning prvoides. This is a basic fingerstyle lick that uses some double stops and hammer on and slides.

DADGAD Acoustic Guitar Fingerstyle Lick #1

It's DADGAD tuning acoustic fingerstyle guitar licks for this week. Our first guitar lick is a triplet based pattern that takes advantage of the open strings this tuning allows. DADGAD tuning is a popular acoustic guitar tuning where the high and low E strings are down tuned to a D and the second string is dropped from a B to and A note.

DADGAD Acoustic Guitar Lick

Next week were are going to look at acoustic guitar licks using DADGAD tuning.DADGAD tuning is a popular acoustic guitar tuning where the high and low E strings are down tuned to a D and the second string is dropped from a B to and A note. I came up with an interesting cross picking guitar lick that  I thought sounded cool. When you are playing this note that the fretting hand index finger is reserved to play the F# on the high D string. The licks for next week are all played fingerstyle in contrast to this one that is played with a pick.

Tremolo Picking Guitar Lick

Today's guitar lick uses tremolo picking. We are still using the E minor scale and the backing track we have been looking at all week. Tremolo picking involves rapidly picking the same note. The best  example I can think of to demonstrate true mastery of this guitar technique is Eddie Van Halen's tremolo picking run in "Eruption" from Van Halen's first album.



If you are interested here is a guitar improv I did using some of the licks we have looked at this week over the backing track:

Have a great weekend!

E Minor Scale Guitar Lick#3

Another guitar lick based around the E Minor scale played over the same backing track we've been looking at all week. Drums courtesy of Sonoma Wireworks Riffworks Instant Drummer.

E Minor Scale Guitar Lick#2

Today's guitar lick is again based around the E Minor scale. It is played over the same backing track we have been looking at this week which is a repeating bassline using E Minor. The drums are courtesy of Sonoma Wireworks Riffworks Instant Drummer. I based this lick around a 16th note pattern but notice in the video I alter the speed a little bit so it floats over the beat near the end of the lick.

E Minor Pentatonic Scale Guitar Lick

Today's guitar lick is played over the same backing track as yesterday which is a repeating bass pattern using the E Minor Scale. Drums are courtesy of Sonoma Woreworks Riffworks Instant Drummer. A pretty basic guitar lick using the main pattern of the Minor Pentatonic scale and adding notes from the minor scale esp the F#.