Intro to Fingerstyle, Part 2: Playing Melodies

from: Alternate Tunings Fingerstyle Guitar with Doug Young

This lesson is part of the course Alternate Tunings Fingerstyle Guitar with Doug Young.

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Alternate tunings can create beautiful guitar sounds that are impossible in standard tuning, and make some things easier to play. You’ll learn to play fingerstyle melodies in a variety of popular alternate tunings, including favorites like dropped D, DADGAD, and open G, as well as more unusual tunings.

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Blind Mary

The second part of “Blind Mary” includes a Bm7 chord and a Gmaj7/B chord. Doug walks you through the B part of “Blind Mary” phrase by phrase in this video.

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Intro to Fingerstyle Guitar

Intro to Fingerstyle, Part 1: Fingerstyle Basics

Intro to Fingerstyle, Part 2: Playing Melodies

Once you’ve got some basic fingerpicking patterns down, you can start to add melodies, which is the focus of this course. Doug shows you how to add alternating bass and other patterns to a simple melody.

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Intro to Fingerstyle, Part 2: Playing Melodies

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