Ep63 The Thrill is Gone | How Does This Song Work?

Guitar Music Theory

Desi Serna

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

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🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In this free guitar lesson, I have another installment of How Does This Song Work featuring “The Thrill is Gone” by B.B. King. You get to know this song’s key, chords, and chord progression, as well as the different ways you can approach the solo.

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0:00.0	In episode 63 of the Guitar Music Theory Podcast, I have another installment of How does this song work
0:06.9	featuring The Thrill is Gone by BB King. And I also answer a few email questions. Well, greetings, guitar engineers, welcome to the guitar music theory podcast. I am your host Desi Cerna. So today we're going to take a look at the song, The Thrill is gone by BB King. You're going to get to know the song's key chords, chord progression, its use of harmonic minor, and I'm
0:46.6	also going to talk about the different ways you can approach the solo.
0:50.7	But before I begin, I want to direct all of my podcast listeners over to my website
0:56.1	guitar music theory.com answer the questions I ask you about your playing and I'll send
1:01.4	you free custom video instruction calibrated to your
1:04.3	current level. I'll show you how to get your playing skills in order and understand
1:09.2	how music works regardless of whether you're a beginner or advanced player.
1:13.0	Go to guitar music theory.com to get enrolled in your free course.
1:17.0	You should be able to click on a link in the podcast show notes. All right, so we are going to dive right into the song lesson and I actually have made a YouTube
1:40.5	video for how does this song work, The is gone and I've actually pulled the audio out of the
1:46.7	YouTube video and I'm going to use it here in the podcast so if you'd like to view the YouTube video just go over to YouTube and search for Desi Cerna guitar.
1:56.0	But here's the audio from the video, and when this finishes, I'll be back and I'm going to answer some email questions.
2:03.2	Greetings guitar engineers I'm Desi Cerna and in this free guitar lesson I have another
2:19.2	installment of how does this song work featuring The Thrill is Gone by BB King.
2:25.2	You get to know this song's key chords and progression as well as the different ways you can
2:30.4	approach the solo.
2:31.9	Now before we begin, if some of this music
2:34.3	theory talk is over your head click the link in the video description to sign up for a
2:39.0	free music theory course on my website. All right, let's dive in.
2:44.0	The music centers on a B minor chord,
2:48.0	and it mostly uses chords out of the B minor scale.
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