Ep76 Walk Away James Gang | How Does This Song Work?
Guitar Music Theory
Desi Serna
4.6 • 931 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In this free guitar lesson, I analyze the song “Walk Away” by Joe Walsh as recorded by his former band, James Gang. You get to know the key, chords, and progression as well as the scales used for the guitar solo.
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| 0:00.0 | In episode 76 of the guitar music theory podcast I have another installment of how does this song work featuring a walk away by James Gang Greetings guitar engineers. Welcome to the guitar music theory podcast. I am your |
| 0:27.4 | host Desi Cerna. Today we're going to take a look at the song Walk Away as |
| 0:32.3 | made famous by Joe Walsh while he was a member of the band James Gang. |
| 0:37.0 | We're going to take a look at the chords and the progression and the key and the scales used for the solo. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm also going to talk about guitar tone. |
| 0:44.1 | Now I'm a big Joel Walsh fan. I love his work with the James Gang. I love this song |
| 0:48.3 | in particular so this is going to be a fun podcast episode. |
| 0:53.0 | But before we get started, let me direct all of my podcast |
| 0:56.4 | listeners over to my website, guitar music theory. |
| 1:00.9 | Come, answer the questions I ask you about your playing and I will recommend a free video course to you. |
| 1:07.0 | I'll show you specifically what you should be working on right now in order to fill gaps in your playing and move forward. |
| 1:14.0 | Enroll in your free course now at guitar music theory.com |
| 1:18.0 | you can click on a link in the podcast show notes. All right, let's dive in. |
| 1:29.0 | All right, let's dive in. |
| 1:31.0 | To refresh your memory, what the song sounds like like I'm going to play a little bit of it for you |
| 1:35.6 | I'm actually going to play along with a karaoke track instead of the real song I don't want there to be any |
| 1:40.8 | copyright issues hopefully this helps me avoid. So let me just take a minute and play along with this track for a bit. Here it is from the top. I'm going to do. |
| 1:53.0 | I'm going to be. |
| 1:55.0 | We. |
| 1:57.0 | I'm going to be here. |
| 2:00.0 | I'm down. |
| 2:02.0 | I don't know. I don't know. |
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