In episode 117 of the guitar music theory podcast, I have another installment of how does this song work featuring Blackbird by The Beatles. I'm going to Greetings guitar engineers. Welcome to the guitar music theory podcast. I am your host

Desi Cerna and today I have another installment of how does this song work featuring

Blackbird by The Beatles. this song was

was written, sung and played by Paul McCartney.

It features a combination of finger picking

and finger strumming, plus compound third intervals, chromatic voice leading, and a key change.

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you can click on the link in the podcast show notes. So, All right, let's dive in.

By the way, this has been a frustrating podcast to make because I got started with it and recorded the introduction and then all of a sudden everything just went wonky with the audio and strange things were happening and I had to

Start and stop and start over and

Reinstall logic and try different

USB sound interfaces and run through all these different tests

because I could not figure out where all the

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