In episode 25 of the guitar music theory podcast, I talk about the importance of learning songs.

I explain how playing songs is how you get every aspect of your playing in order,

whether you're just getting started or you've been playing for years. Well, greetings guitar engineers, welcome back to the guitar music theory podcast.

I'm Desi Cerna.

And this is podcast episode 25, I think.

The last podcast episode, I called it episode 23, but I think I was wrong I'm a little confused

to how these should be numbered because I had made some changes and had removed

some old podcast episodes. Anyway, just got started, restarted with this podcast in the last episode after taking

a pretty lengthy break, so I guess I'm still figuring out how I'm going to move

forward here. At any rate we have lots to talk about today but before we get to

that let me ask you something what do you specifically need to do in order to

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All right, so one of the things people overlooked the most when learning how to play guitar is playing songs.

Simply put, playing songs is like one of the best things that you can do.

I mean of course you have to learn other things before you dive into songs, you got to learn

how to you know, well you might if you're starting from the very beginning you got to learn basics how to hold a guitar how to tune it how to fret notes and

You know learn basic chord shapes

scale patterns how to pick strings, all that sort of thing.

But once you, you know, once you get past the basics,

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