Ep52 Blues is Not 145

Guitar Music Theory

Desi Serna

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

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🗓️ 20 May 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this free guitar lesson, I explain why a blues chord progression is not 1-4-5, technically. Blues is actually 5-5-5 and makes use of dominant 7th chords, Mixolydian mode, and dominant scales.

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0:00.0	In episode 52 of the guitar music theory podcast I explained that blues is not one four or five and if that's the way you've been playing it you're playing it
0:10.9	it wrong. Well, greetings, guitar engineers, welcome to the guitar music theory podcast. I am your
0:32.3	host Desi Cernum. Today we're going to talk
0:34.7	about the blues and how you might know some things about it but there might be some
0:39.7	really important aspects of it that you're missing. So if you want to truly
0:44.3	understand how blues music is composed and how blues guitarist get creative with
0:49.5	their lead lines, stick around for the lesson. I'm also going to answer some email questions as well. But
0:55.9	before we get started, I want to remind all podcast listeners that don't just listen to the
1:01.4	podcast. Make sure you're on my email list and you are enrolled
1:05.0	in a free course as well.
1:07.4	Go to my website guitar music theory.com, answer the questions I ask you about your playing and I'll send you free
1:13.8	custom video instruction calibrated to your current level. I'm going to talk about a lot
1:18.6	of music theory today. If it's over your head then you can head to the website and get some free instruction that's going to help you understand this stuff.
1:27.0	Or maybe what I'm talking about today is too far ahead of where you're at.
1:32.0	Maybe you need to back up and fill in some gaps in your
1:34.2	playing so that you can get up to this point. I have some free instruction for you as
1:38.0	well. So go to guitar music theory.com. You should be able to click on the link in to some email questions. You can email me Desi at guitar music theory.com
2:05.2	Desi d e s I at guitar music theory dot com I answer all of the emails that I receive
2:10.9	with an email reply and then sometimes I might discuss it here on the
2:15.6	podcast.
2:16.8	So this first question comes from William and he says, I wondered if you have any experience with Slide guitar
2:24.7	that you could share.
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