in episode 57 of the guitar music theory podcast

I answer some email questions and I talk about playing the star spangled banner. Greetings guitar engineers. Welcome to the guitar music theory

podcast. I am your host Desi Cerna and as we approach Independence Day here in

the United States I thought it'd be a good time to talk a little bit

about playing the National Anthem, the Star Spangled Banner, made famous by Jimmy Hendricks, of course,

at Woodstock. I'm just going to talk about the very basics of the melody.

There's a couple of interesting things I'd like to point out about it and it's also a good

song for practicing some ear training and getting to know the prep

board so I'll be talking about that later and answering some email questions as

well but before we get started let me direct all of my podcast listeners over to

my website guitar music theory dot com answer the questions I ask about your

playing and I will send you free custom video instruction calibrated to your current level.

If you need to fill gaps in your playing or you're wondering what you need to do to take your playing to the next level,

I can help you for free.

Go to guitar music theory.com.

You should be able to click on the link

in the podcast show notes. All right, so we're going to start with some email questions and we'll get to the

Star Spangled Banner afterwards. So this first question, I'm going to kind of

of paraphrase, so this person wrote to me and said that they've been playing for years.

They were really interested in enhancing their skills and being more creative and writing

music and so they said that they were they thought maybe they should learn how to read

music like standard notation or maybe they should learn music theory and they were

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