Ep49 Lean On Me Bill Withers Guitar Chords

Guitar Music Theory

Desi Serna

Musictheoryforguitar, Guitar, Guitarscales, Performing Arts, Guitarmusictheory, Music, Guitarlessons, Arts, Guitarchords, Guitartheory

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🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

In this free guitar lesson, I show you how to play the chords to “Lean On Me” by Bill Withers. I focus on the song’s introduction. You play the same chord voicings played by the pianos on the recording. This requires a bit of fancy finger work that is best suited for guitar players who are beyond the beginning stage.

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0:00.0	In episode 49 of the guitar music theory podcast, I answer some email questions and we take a look at the song
0:06.5	Lean on Me by Bill Withers. Greetings guitar engineers. Welcome to the guitar music theory podcast.
0:24.0	I am your host Desi Cerna.
0:26.0	Today we're going to talk about the song Lean on Me by the now late great Bill Withers.
0:32.0	There's some interesting things happening in that
0:34.0	song with the chord voicings as well as the way the music moves up and down the
0:40.3	harmonized major scale. I'm also going to answer some email questions. the songwriting and the setup I use to record music. But before we begin let me remind you
0:57.2	that you can go to my website guitar music theory.com answer the questions I ask you
1:02.2	about your playing and I'll send you free
1:04.4	custom video instruction calibrated to your current levels. I'll identify I will
1:10.2	identify gaps in your playing and show you how to fill them so you can make better music
1:15.8	more easily. Go to guitar music theory.com. You can click on the link in the podcast show
1:21.8	notes. All right, so before we get started with the questions, I wanted to send a special shout out to a podcast listener named Stephen who surprised me
1:48.6	this week by becoming the first person to make a donation on my website. You see a couple weeks ago I had
1:56.8	made some updates to the website and I put a link up there where you could donate,
2:02.0	make a donation through PayPal to support the
2:05.3	podcast and the YouTube videos that I create. You know I create a lot of
2:10.6	content I get tons of feedback from people that subscribe and listen regularly and really enjoy it.
2:17.3	And I just needed another way to kind of support it since the podcast and the YouTube videos
2:21.8	are completely free, so I thought, let me see, let me put a
2:26.0	donation button on the website and I'm not going to mention it to anyone and let's see if someone
2:31.6	happens to notice it and make a donation.
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