In episode 149 of the guitar music theory podcast I explain guitar octaves and demonstrate songs that use them. Oh, Greetings guitar engineers. Welcome to the guitar music theory podcast. I am your host

Desi Cerna and today I'm going to talk about octave intervals.

Guitarists often use octave shapes to play rhythm guitar parts, riffs, and lead lines.

On the guitar fretboard, octaves follow certain spacings and shapes that you finger in a few different ways.

I'm going to explain these shapes, plus I'm going to demonstrate how

octaves are used in familiar songs. I'm going to play some parts from songs by Jimmy Hendricks, Led Led Zeppelin, Blink 182, Foo Fighters, West Montgomery, and more.

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