"Dusk in D" is one original tune in D major, and this week you'll play it three ways: as a single-note line, as a strummed chord part, and as triads up the neck. Same key, three roles — the scale, the open chords, and the triads are all the same warm, golden-hour D major, seen from three angles.
It all sits on one harmonic spine: D – G – Em – A (I – IV – ii – V), colored with a few sus and add voicings and a walking D/F♯ bass. Each Thread takes that spine somewhere different. Work straight through all three, or start with whichever fits your week.
Thread 1 — Arpeggio Up, 3rds Down: The C-Shape CAGED Box in D. The gentle entry, and the slowest part (♩ = 80) — a single-note D-major line in the C-shape position: the arpeggio climbing up out of the box, then the scale falling back down in melodic 3rds and resolving home to D.
Thread 2 — Embellish, Don't Replace: The Dusk in D Chord Progression. The harmonic anchor, and the most playable part (♩ = 120) — those same changes strummed as embellished open chords, with inner-voice wiggles, a sus color on the A, and that walking D/F♯ bass adding motion to shapes you already know.
Thread 3 — The Same Chords, Up the Neck: Embellished D-Major Triads. The up-the-neck closer, and the most demanding part (♩ = 120, eight bars) — the same chords reduced to movable three-note triads on the middle strings, broken up the neck and decorated with hammer-on and pull-off scale tones.
Play the notes, play the chords, play the triads — and hear that they're all one D major.
