Ep129 The Power of Love - How Does This Song Work?
Guitar Music Theory
Desi Serna
4.6 • 931 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
In my latest installment of How Does This Song Work, Matt Reviere (Carrie Underwood guitarist) and I give you a music theory breakdown of "The Power of Love" by Huey Lewis and the News. We take a look at some of the key parts played by guitarist Chris Hayes and explain the key, chords, progressions, and scales used for the guitar solo. This song uses a mixture of major and minor, a bit of the Dorian and Mixolydian modes, and the minor pentatonic blues scale. The bridge features some beautiful extended chords with 9ths, 11ths, and 13ths.
I have also created a separate video with guitar tablature and posted it on YouTube.
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| 0:00.0 | In episode 129 of the guitar music theory podcast I have another installment of how does this song work |
| 0:07.4 | featuring the power of love by Huey Lewis and the news. Greetings guitar engineers. |
| 0:14.0 | Greetings guitar engineers. Welcome to the guitar music theory podcast. I am your |
| 0:27.0 | host Desi Cerna and today I have another installment of how does this song work featuring the power of love by |
| 0:34.9 | Huey Lewis and the news and this is a special installment because I'm joined by |
| 0:39.7 | guitarist Matt Revere. Matt's a pro player who tours with Carrie Underwood, so it'll be extra interesting to hear his take on the song. |
| 0:48.0 | I made a separate video where I demonstrate some of the parts from Power of Love and include Tablature. |
| 0:53.1 | So if you want to get a closer look at what I play, |
| 0:55.2 | go to either YouTube or Facebook |
| 0:57.3 | and search Desi Cerna Power of Love |
| 0:59.8 | and you should find the video. |
| 1:01.7 | And as always, before we get started, I want to invite all of my |
| 1:05.0 | podcast listeners to enroll in a free course on my website guitar music theory.com. |
| 1:10.7 | Whether you're a beginner needing to learn the basics or you're a more experienced player that wants to get better at soloing, finger picking, music theory, and more, I have a free course for you. |
| 1:21.0 | Just go to guitar music theory.com answer the question I ask you about |
| 1:25.1 | your playing and I'll send you a free video course calibrated to your current needs |
| 1:29.4 | enroll in your free course now at guitar music theory. |
| 1:32.8 | You can click on the link in the podcast show notes. |
| 1:37.0 | Oh, and one more thing. |
| 1:38.2 | Today's podcast episode is sponsored by Hosa cables. |
| 1:41.8 | And coming up later, I'll tell you how you can save 20% on your order at hosatech.com. |
| 1:47.0 | We're just doing it. All right, we're recording. |
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