In episode 113 of the guitar music theory podcast, I have another installment of how does this song work featuring Thunderstruck by ACDC. Oh, Greetings guitar engineers. Welcome to the guitar music theory

podcast. I am your host Desi Cerna and today we're going to analyze another song, Thunderstruck by ACDC.

You're going to get to know the key and the chords. You'll see the scales and modes used to play the main riff and the lead guitar soles. the to use a bit of harmonic minor and mixylidian mode proving that ACDC's music is more than just your typical three-core rock.

Most of the rhythm guitar parts played throughout Thunderstruck are quite simple, but there's a lot to learn about tone, technique, and timing.

Now I also made a video for this lesson and posted it to Facebook and YouTube and they both got blocked.

Well, YouTube got completely blocked because of a copyright claim and then Facebook just muted portions of the video while I was playing

clips of the song and so I ended up pulling the video down because it didn't make sense to watch it when so many portions of it were muted.

So I'm going to kind of teach a stripped down version of it here in the podcast.

I will not be playing the actual original recording so hopefully there's no copyright issues

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you can click on the link in the podcast show. Oh, yeah. All right, let's dive in. So the song we're taking a look at today is Thunderstruck by ACDC from the 1990 album, The Raiser's Edge.

Big hit for ACDC and this kind of came after they really had had their biggest

successes and wrote some of their most memorable songs and just when you thought

that maybe they didn't have any more hits in them this song came out and

So 1990 was you know a little later in a C. D. C.'s career, but I think about this, it's like, okay, well, 1990, that was like over 30 years ago,

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