Ep84 Jungle Boogie | 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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🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In this free guitar lesson, I have another installment of How Does This Song Work? featuring “Jungle Boogie” by Kool and The Gang. This song features a scratchy funk guitar, chords from Dorian mode, and a bass riff that makes use of chromatic passing tones and 3 over 2 polyrhythms.

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0:00.0	In episode 84 of the guitar music theory podcast I have another installment of how does this song work
0:07.4	featuring Jungle Boogie by Coolin the Gang gang. Greetings guitar engineers. Welcome to the guitar music theory podcast. I am your host
0:28.9	Desi Cerna and today we're going to take a look at the song Jungle Boogie by Cool and the Gang.
0:35.0	This song features a scratchy funky guitar, chords from Dorian Mode, and a bass riff that makes use of chromatic passing tones and a 3 over 2 polyrhythm.
0:47.0	But before we get started, I want to direct all of my podcast listeners over to my website guitar music theory dot top what should
0:55.4	you specifically be working on right now in order to improve your guitar
0:59.6	playing and move forward I can help you figure it out. Answer the questions I ask you at my
1:04.4	website and I'll send you free custom video instruction calibrated to your current
1:09.6	level. I'll show you exactly what you should be working on right now in order to improve your
1:15.0	guitar skills and move forward. Enroll in your free video course now at guitar music theory
1:20.8	dot com you can click on the link in the podcast, but I Let's dive in. So I'm going to be talking about Jungle Boogie here in this
1:43.5	podcast, but I've also created a lesson and posted it to my YouTube channel so you
1:48.7	can just go over to YouTube and just search Desi Cerna, my name, plus Jungle Boogie, and you'll see my recent post and it's on my YouTube channel there.
1:58.0	Then you can watch me play the parts that I'm going to talk about.
2:01.0	And I also actually tabbed some of these parts because I felt like they really needed to be
2:05.4	tabbed and you can see them in the video as well.
2:09.0	But while you're on the go and when you don't have access to the video let's talk about what's
2:13.6	happening in the song particularly with the chords and the scales and some of
2:17.9	the other intervals here and this will be good training for your ear and help you
2:22.0	understand just the harmony and the basic structure of the song.
2:25.0	So I'm going to play along with the, I'm actually play along with a free backing track that I found on YouTube.
2:31.0	I don't want to play along with the actual song here in the
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