D Guitar Chord Guide: 8 Variations & How to Play - Guitar Lobby

Here's how to play a finger pattern that every guitarist should know. It's one of the 5 basic scale shapes. The D shape major scale pattern. As you can hear, it's not necessarily the scale of D major. The name comes from the fact that the common D chord shape is hidden within it. But the whole pattern can be moved up and down the fingerboard to play major scales in different keys. Put this in your practice routine to increase speed and finger independence. Put this in your practice routine to in

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