In episode 54 of the guitar music theory podcast, I have another installment of

How does this song work featuring Hard to Handle by the Black Crows? And the Greetings guitar engineers. Welcome to the guitar music

theory podcast. I am your host Desi Cerna. Today we're going to

talk about hard to handle by the Black Crows. Of course the

Black Crows did not originally write and record the song, but their version is perhaps the most

famous one, so that's what I'm going to focus on here today you're going to get

to know how the song uses a blues influence composition technique that

involves mixing major and minor tonalities.

And you're going to see how the core progression

is actually based on the interval structure

of the minor pentatonic scale.

Hmm.

Have you ever seen that sort of thing before? Well, we're going to talk about it today. But before we begin, let me remind all my podcast listeners to head to my website, guitar music theory.com com answer the questions I ask you about your

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So go to guitar music theory.com, you should be able to click on the link and the podcast show notes. All right to it. So we are going to get right to it. In case you're not

familiar with hard to handle or maybe just to refresh your memory on the song,

let me play a little bit of it from the beginning.

It sounds like this. I'm going to All right, sound familiar, and then you know it's got that vocal break that comes in the chorus where they say you

know pretty little thing let me light your candle because mama I'm sure hard to handle

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