In episode 75 of the guitar music theory podcast. I am your host

Desi Cernup. Today I'm going to take a look at the song Gravity by John Mayer.

I'm going to give you an overview of the song including

its chords, progression, composition techniques, and the scales used for solos.

I'm also going to take a look at a special section that's featured in one of the live versions of the song.

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You can click on the link in the podcast show notes. All right, let's dive in.

If you're not familiar with the song or maybe just to refresh your memory,

let me play a little bit of gravity by John Mayer.

I'm gonna pull up a backing track here.

And. And this is what it sounds like. Are you ready? Oh, All right, so that's a little bit of gravity by John Mayer. Great song, cool vibe, lovely guitar tones in it, and some really, really tasty playing.

We'll get into those details here in a minute.

So let's, how about we start with my guitar tone? Let's do how about we start with my guitar tone.

Let's do that.

I am playing my epiphone dot semi-hollow guitar.

It's basically the foreign-made version of a 335.

It's a very inexpensive guitar.

You may have seen my YouTube video

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