The D-A-F Roadmap, Fender Players Club
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THE D-A-F ROADMAP
WHY?
The "D-A-F" ROADMAP shows you how to play any major chord all over the fretboard, using three major chord formations.
It is especially handy when a tune stays on the same chord for a few bars, because it enables you to automatically "climb
the fretboard," playing rapidly ascending or descending licks and arpeggios. (Playing an arpeggio is picking the notes of a
chord in succession, going up or down the strings in a harp-like fashion:
WHAT?
The chords on the big fretboard diagram above are all D chords.
Here are the three major chord shapes used in this roadmap. Because they are played on the top three or four
strings, they are sometimes called "chord fragments." The root of each is circled:
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The "4" in the D formation (4th string/4th finger) is in parentheses because it is an optional note. The top three
strings alone comprise a major chord.
The A formation is a variation of the basic, first-position A major chord:
HOW?
Here's how to use the D-A-F Roadmap to play all the D chords:
• Play the first position D chord, as shown in the main diagram.
• Skip a fret (the 4th, shaded fret) and play the A chord form. You are still playing a D chord, but you are
fingering a different formation.
• Skip two frets (the shaded frets) and play the F form. This is the next, higher D chord.
• Skip one fret and play the D chord form again. It is a still higher D chord, an octave above your starting point.
• Continue the process (skip one fret and play the A chord form, skip two frets and play the F chord form) until
you run out of frets.
To memorize this roadmap
, remember:
D-SKIP 1, A-SKIP 2, F-SKIP 1.
Use the D-A-F Roadmap to play all the F chords:
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Notice that you can climb the fretboard starting with any chord formation. To play all the F chords above, you
started with an F shape, so the D-A-F roadmap became the F-D-A roadmap. It's a continuous repetition of the
three shapes, in this order: D-A-F-D-A-F-D-A-F, etc. You can enter the loop at any point. The "skips" are always
the same: one skip after D, two after A, one after F.
To emphasize that point, here are all the C chords, starting, starting with the A formation/C chord. Now the roadmap
is A-F-D.
DO IT!
Here are some practical applicatons of the D-A-F roadmap. To learn the diagram, say or think "D-skip 1, A-skip 2, F-skip
1" while playing the ascending chords. Name the formations as you play them.
Use any feel: rock, country, shuffle, swing. Try each exercise with several different feels and tempos.
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This lesson is from:
by Fred Sokolow.
Accomplished rock guitarists can ad lib hot solos and play backup in any key, all over
the fretboard. There are moveable patterns that make this easy to do.
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are harder to play in than others; your fretboard beyond the 5th fret is mysterious,
uncharted territory; you can't automatically play any familiar melody; you know a lot of
“bits and pieces” on the guitar, but you don't have a system that ties it all together.
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