In episode 131 of the guitar music theory podcast. I am your host

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

We're going to break down the song Stay I missed you by Lisa Loeb.

There are a few things that make the song interesting to me.

I like the way it uses a capo, some unconventional chord shapes, and some distinct chord voicings.

I'm going to show you how these things combine to make this great 90s hit.

I've put a video on YouTube which will work better for actually learning this song

so I'm going to approach things a little bit differently here in this podcast

or I'm going to talk about some music theory and music composition and we could also use this as kind of a bit of ear training as well as I talk about the way that

this song is musically moving through. It's key.

I've got some insights on playing songs like this

where you capo up high on the neck

and you're accessing some of those higher frets

and things you can do to make that easier.

So it's going to be a great discussion here,

but if you want to actually see me play these parts

or if you actually want to learn some of these parts yourself,

check out the video I made. It's on

YouTube and Facebook. Just go to either platform and search Desi Cerna

stay or Desi Cerna Lisa Lope. All right, maybe today's lesson is just the sort of thing you need to be working on now,

or maybe you're playing needs help in other ways.

If you need help determining what you should specifically be working on right now,

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