Ep82 Down Under | 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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🗓️ 5 February 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this free guitar lesson, I have another installment of How Does This Song Work? featuring “Down Under” by Men at Work. This reggae-inspired song features great rhythm guitar tracks that make use of CAGED system chord shapes, sixteenth note strumming, and hybrid picking technique. Instead of using guitar tablature, I just show you the main chords and parts of the song and explain the music theory.

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0:00.0	In episode 82 of the guitar music theory podcast I have another installment of how does this song work
0:07.2	featuring down under by men at work Greetings guitar engineers. Welcome to the guitar music theory
0:26.8	podcast. I am your host Desi Cerna and today we're going to talk about the
0:31.5	song Down Under by Men at Work.
0:35.2	This reggae inspired song features some great rhythm guitar tracks that make use of cage system
0:40.8	chord shapes, 16th note strumming, and hybrid picking technique.
0:46.2	But before we get started, let me direct all of my podcast listeners over to my website
0:51.6	Guitar Music theory.com
0:53.8	answer the questions I ask you about your playing
0:56.5	and I'll send you free custom video instruction calibrated to your current level.
1:01.2	I'll help you determine what you should specifically be working on right
1:04.8	now in order to improve your playing and move forward. Go to guitar music theory.com to enroll
1:10.5	in your free video course now. You can click on the link in the podcast show notes. All right, before we officially get started, I'll point out that I did make a
1:37.0	YouTube lesson for this as well. So if you'd like to actually watch me play these
1:41.0	parts, and if you want to hear me play along with the original
1:43.6	recording go over to my YouTube channel Desi Cerna guitar or you could just Google
1:48.8	search Desi Cerna down under and the video should come up.
1:54.0	All right, so I'm going to actually play along with a free backing track
1:57.7	that I found on YouTube, and hopefully this will help me
2:00.6	avoid any copyright issues here in the podcast.
2:03.1	So there's no singing in the track.
2:04.6	But here it is, here's the music from the top
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