Ep43 Using Perfect 4th Intervals on IV Chords
Guitar Music Theory
Desi Serna
4.6 • 931 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
What do the songs "Brown Eyed Girl" by Van Morrison, "Hot Blooded" by Foreigner, and "Sweet Child O' Mine" by Guns N' Roses have in common?
They all make use of a perfect 4th interval over the IV chord.
Why do you need to know this? Because it's a common composition technique used in popular music and it helps you understand why songs often contain notes that are out of key.
I explain all the details and play through examples in today's podcast episode.
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| 0:00.0 | In episode 43 of the guitar music theory podcast you learn something that every musician needs to know about four chords and their use of perfect fourth intervals. |
| 0:13.0 | Greetings guitar |
| 0:23.6 | guitar engineers. Welcome to the guitar music theory podcast. I am your host Desi Cerna |
| 0:28.4 | author of fretboard theory guitar picking mechanics and more. |
| 0:33.0 | What do the songs Brown-Eyed Girl by Van Morrison, hot-blooded by foreigner, and Sweet Child |
| 0:38.3 | of Mind by Guns and Roses have in common? |
| 0:41.3 | Well, like many songs, they make use of a perfect fourth interval over the forecord. |
| 0:47.1 | Why does that matter and why do you need to know it? |
| 0:49.4 | I'm going to explain and demonstrate in today's lesson. |
| 0:52.8 | But before we get started, head over to my website, guitar music theory.com. |
| 0:57.6 | Answer the questions I ask you about your playing and I'll send you free custom video |
| 1:02.1 | instruction calibrated to your current level. |
| 1:05.0 | I'll show you how to progressively play and sound better today in as little as 33 minutes, |
| 1:10.0 | head over to guitar music theory.com. You can click on the link in the show notes All right, before we get started and dive into today's topic, I wanted to share a couple |
| 1:35.5 | email messages. |
| 1:37.2 | This first one is from Fabio, and he owned the Freppward Theory books, and then he purchased |
| 1:42.0 | the video, and he said that initially |
| 1:44.4 | he thought the video was just going to be a repetition of the book but as it turns |
| 1:48.0 | out the videos go much deeper and he says I'm finding I'm finding stuff that I didn't pick up by reading the book and you know I get a lot of questions where people ask me |
| 1:58.1 | I own the front-port theory books what's the point of getting the videos or how are the videos different? |
| 2:03.4 | Well, the videos are different because they're videos so you can see and hear |
| 2:07.6 | everything in action and that gives me an opportunity to demonstrate things that I just |
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