Ep133 Q&A Using a Pick - Modal Mixture - Chord Tone Soloing - Bass Arpeggios - Harmonic Minor - Guitar Overdrive
Guitar Music Theory
Desi Serna
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🗓️ 25 October 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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In my latest podcast episode, I answer listener questions about using a pick, modal mixture, chord tone soloing, bass arpeggios, harmonic minor, guitar overdrive, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | In episode 133 of the guitar music theory podcast I answer listener questions about using a pick |
| 0:07.0 | modal mixture, chord tone soloing, harmonic minor, guitar overdrive, and more. Greetings guitar engineers. Welcome to the guitar music theory podcast. I am your |
| 0:37.2 | host Desi Cerna. So today I'm going to be answering listener questions. I've got questions from people who are struggling |
| 0:44.7 | to use and hang on to a pick. I got some questions about songs that have chords that |
| 0:50.0 | appear to be out of key and I'm going to talk about how there is a composition technique |
| 0:54.4 | called modal mixture in use. I got questions about chord tone soloing and how your lead lines can |
| 1:02.2 | be more closely connected to the chord changes you play over by putting |
| 1:07.2 | emphasis on the notes from those chords. |
| 1:10.0 | I got a question about harmonic minor. |
| 1:12.4 | It's in regards to a song that seems to have a chord that's out of place, |
| 1:15.6 | but if you understand harmonic minor, you'll realize that it's not out of place at all. |
| 1:20.3 | And I have a couple of questions about setting up different guitar sounds to play songs, |
| 1:25.0 | switching in between different guitar sounds, and how to set up different types of guitar overdrive. |
| 1:31.0 | So it's going to be a great discussion but before we get started let |
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| 1:45.7 | calibrated to your current level. |
| 1:48.2 | Whether you're a beginner still needing to learn the basics or you need help with using bar chords or finger picking or playing guitar solos or you want to delve deeply to music theory |
| 1:58.0 | I have a free course for you I'll help put you on a plan so you can fill gaps in your playing and fill gaps in your knowledge, |
| 2:05.0 | move forward and reach your music goals. |
| 2:08.0 | Go to guitar music theory.com now to enroll in your free video course, |
| 2:12.0 | you can click on the link in the podcast showmates. Oh, All right, so we are ready to dive in. Our first question comes from Riley he says I recently started listening to a |
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