In episode 50 of the guitar music theory podcast I have another installment of how does this song work

featuring Rambling man by the Almond Brothers band Well, greetings, guitar engineers, welcome to the guitar music theory

podcast. I am your host Desi Cerna. Today we're going to talk about the

song Rambling Man. You're going to talk about the song Rambling Man.

You're going to get to know important details about the song's composition, including the key,

scales, modes, chords, and progression.

I'm also going to answer some email questions, but before we get

started, if you would like to learn more about music theory for guitar and how it relates to

popular songs, visit my website guitar music theory.

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Get to know how rambling Man and similar songs work so you can play better

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Go to guitar music theory.com, you can click on the link in the podcast episode show notes. All right, before we dive into today's song, I want to answer some email questions, and this first one is in regard to the song

Sweet Home Alabama. I had posted a little analysis of that and talked about

it's key and kind of the controversy surrounding its key.

You can find that video on my YouTube channel.

So someone sent me an email and they were talking about the different scale options that I gave in the video that would fit over the

progression and they said, well, I think this sounds crazy, but I hear the F major pentatonic scale as fitting over the progression, which wasn't one of the scales that I mentioned.

I talked about using G major pentatonic patterns and g major scale patterns and how they could also be thought of as

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