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Originally Posted by hatamoto
Thanks for the quick visualization tip! You know how they say that the guitar is heavily based on patterns and shapes.... Do you find this is the same in DADGAD? Are chords, patterns, and scales movable as well and are they repeatable if played in a different key?
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Sure. There are always shapes in any tuning, and scale patterns you can memorize. And if they're barre chords, they're moveable. Of course, as Rick mentioned, part of the appeal of alternate tunings is to get open strings, so barre chords are generally (but not always) less common.
So, for example, you can play a D (no 3rd) like:
000200
Barre, and move that shape up two frets:
222422, and that's an E (no 3rd) and so on.
I definitely think in terms of shapes a lot of the time, but as a fingerstyle player, I'm rarely fingering big full 6-string chords. I'm thinking voices - melody, bass, some inner chord tones. So I'm more selecting notes from within a general shape that I'm visualizing. But I'd do the same in standard tuning as well.