In episode 29 of the guitar music theory podcast, we take a listen to the song

comfortably numb by Pink Floyd. I explain the key, how the chords fit together, and

which scales are in use during the guitar music theory podcast. I am your host, Desi Cerna. Today we're

going to talk Pink Floyd and Music Theory.

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progress and reach all of your playing goals. Head on over to guitar music theory dot com and figure out which course is right for you right now. Hey, in my last podcast episode, episode 28, I talked about the type of gear I recommend that you have you know how to pick out the

right guitar the right amp to make sure that you have the right pieces of gear so

that you your practice can be most effective and you can take advantage of all the times you have to

practice and play at home. I got lots of great feedback on that. If you haven't

listened to it, go back and check it out. And one thing I forgot to mention because it kind of goes without saying is that you

should have a digital tuner. I'm always tuned to a digital tuner. All the pros always tuned to a digital tuner. I know there's ways

that you can tune by ear. However, when you tune with a digital tuner, you know that you are

going to match, you know, all of the other instrumentation that you play along with and

you want to train your ear to hear everything in tune and you want to make sure that you're

always playing in tune with the other instrumentation. So I would say

don't rely on your ear alone especially if you're an inexperienced player.

Okay we are going to move on to today's topic, which is the song Comfortable Numb, one of the most popular Pink Floyd songs, and it features a couple of solos in it, which are some of David Gilmour's most famous guitar solos. I made a post about this a long

long time ago, a blog post or someone said, hey can you explain the chord change is

and comfortably numb, I don't understand it. They don't all fit in one key,

what's happening. And so I was just responding to an email and then I

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