Ep55 Runnin’ Down a Dream | How Does This Song Work?

Guitar Music Theory

Desi Serna

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

4.6 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this free guitar lesson I have another installment of How Does This Song Work featuring “Runnin’ Down a Dream” by Tom Petty. You get to know how this song makes use of the blues scale, added chord tones, and modal interchange. I also answer a few email questions.

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0:00.0	In episode 55 of the guitar music theory podcast, I have another installment of How does this song work
0:07.0	featuring Running Down a Dream by Tom Petty. The Greetings guitar engineers. Welcome to the guitar
0:28.8	music theory podcast. I am your host Desi Cerna. Today we're going to talk about the song Running Down and Dream by Tom Petty
0:36.6	and I'm also going to answer some email questions but before we get into it let me direct all my podcast listeners to my website
0:45.3	guitar music theory.com. Go to the website, answer the questions I ask you about
0:50.3	your playing, and I'll send you free custom video instruction calibrated to your
0:54.7	current level. I'll show you what you specifically need to do to fill gaps in your
1:00.6	playing so you can move forward as a guitarist and be proud of the music you make.
1:06.4	Go to guitar music theory.com. You should be able to click on the link and the podcast show notes. All right, so we're going to begin with some email questions and I've just got a few and I'll try to keep this short so the podcast isn't too long
1:35.3	Although I mentioned in previous podcast that I thought maybe I was going a little too long and I received several emails where people people said they enjoyed the long
1:44.3	podcast many of you listen to this while you're commuting and that sort of thing and so
1:48.8	you've got a lot of time to fill so I'll try not to make it too long or too short.
1:55.8	Okay, first question comes from Bob
1:57.7	and he says, which book do you recommend
2:00.9	to teach basic guitar theory.
2:03.3	I'm a beginner, I've just been playing three months.
2:07.2	So yeah, Bob, if you're a beginner,
2:10.4	you don't need guitar theory.
2:11.7	And this is true for anyone that's a beginner. I don't think it's necessary to start studying theory
2:17.6	until after you've actually learned how to play the instrument. So you know learn about the instrument. So, you know, learn about the instrument, what in the notes of the strings, how do you tune
2:27.5	a guitar, how do you set up a guitar so that it's as easy as possible to play because beginners have enough trouble as it is just
2:35.0	learning guitar.
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