In episode 141 of the guitar music theory podcast I answer questions about chord recognition

chord fills sharps in a circle of fifths learning songs and more. Greetings guitar engineers welcome to the guitar music theory podcast I am your host

Desi Cerna and today I'll be answering more listener questions I've got questions

about chord recognition, chord fills, the song halfway gone by Lifehouse,

online versus in-person lessons, purchasing a looper pedal, sharps in the circle of fifths, playing faster on an Ibenez guitar,

flat seventh, learning songs, and more.

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Enroll now at guitar music theory.com, you can click on the link in the podcast show notes. So, All right, so we are ready to dive in to our first question. It comes from from Pete and he says I was wondering if you had

any suggestions for ways to work on chord recognition within a key for the

different scale degrees I feel like this should be easy for me at this point

but I've never really gotten good at it and whatever apps I've used to help with it

seems to make it worse somehow. He goes on any suggestions for how to improve on it with regular practice?

Ideally, I'd like to be able to listen to something and know if it's going to the four or

five, which I am still confused about often.

Or whether I'm going to the relative minor

versus the two or three chord, or even better,

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