Ep59 Play That Funky Music | How Does This Song Work?
Guitar Music Theory
Desi Serna
4.6 • 931 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In this free guitar lesson, I have another installment of How Does This Song Work featuring Play That Funky Music by Wild Cherry. Get to know the key, chords, and scales used in this song.
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| 0:00.0 | In episode 59 of the guitar music theory podcast, I have another installment of how does this song work featuring Play That Funky Music by Wild Cherry. 3. Greetings guitar engineers. Welcome to the guitar |
| 0:27.2 | music theory podcast. I am your host Desi Cerna, author of prepboard theory |
| 0:32.0 | guitar theory for dummies, Guitar Piggy Mechanics, and more. |
| 0:35.0 | Today we're going to take a look at the harmonic structure of this song, Play That Punky Music by Wild Cherry. I'm also going to answer some email questions. |
| 0:45.1 | We're going to get to the lesson first and I'll save the email questions for |
| 0:49.2 | afterward. Before we begin, let me direct all of my podcast listeners over to my website |
| 0:55.2 | guitar music theory dot com answer the questions I ask you about your playing and |
| 0:59.8 | you can get enrolled in a free video course that is calibrated to your current level. |
| 1:05.0 | Go to guitar music theory.com, you should be able to click on a link in the podcast show notes. |
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| 1:14.0 | podcast, just click on the donation link in the main menu. All right into today's lesson. |
| 1:23.0 | How does this song work? Play that |
| 1:36.0 | funky music. You might know it by the full lyrics and the chorus play that |
| 1:40.2 | funky music, white boy by Wild wild cherry I like to joke that the politically |
| 1:45.8 | correct title of this song is now perform that syncopated music |
| 1:50.5 | Caucasian person ha Ha ha ha. |
| 1:53.0 | Anyway, just to refresh your memory on what this song sounds like, |
| 1:57.0 | it opens up with this guitar riff. |
| 1:59.0 | And then you have this funky guitar part that comes in. |
| 2:06.0 | So let's talk about this. |
| 2:12.0 | So let's talk about this. And I'm mainly just going to focus on the harmonic |
| 2:16.0 | content of this song. I'm not going to get too much into the details of like |
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