in episode 47 of the guitar music theory podcast

I have another installment of

how does this song work

featuring the song Still Got the Blues by Gary Moore. Greetings, guitar engineers, Welcome to the guitar music theory podcast. I am your

host Desi Cerna and today we have another installment of how does this song work

featuring the song still got the blues

for you by Gary Moore. I'm going to take a look at the general chord progression

and key as well as the scales used for the solos and how that main lead line connects to the

courts. Now if you're a student of my fretboard theory program and you've advanced

to the second level you're going to hear many of the concepts I teach in the

course in this song. But before we dive in, let me remind you to go to my website

guitar music theory. com answer the questions I ask you about

your playing and I will recommend a free course to you so if you'd like to make more progress

on your guitar and have more fun playing, go to

guitar music theory.com and get enrolled in a free course. You can click on the link in the

podcast show notes. All right, before we actually get into the song, I do have some questions that I wanted to answer here.

So the first one is in regard to where you place your thumb on your fretting hand.

So someone wrote to me and said that in the books that they read, everyone seems to say

that the thumb should be placed behind the neck in the middle of the neck and that it shouldn't be visible from the front of the front board.

So you often hear that and if you you know take classical guitar

lessons you know that particular hand position is taught very strictly if your

thumb comes up around the neck someone would probably whack it with

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