Finally…Breaking Down My Favorite Eagles Song

What's up everyone? Happy Sunday. Um, I'm actually doing something that I never done before. I'm going to uh talk about a song by the Eagles.

And this particular song was written by a friend of mine that I talked to yesterday, Jack Tempmpin. And it's off their uh came out in 1972. and Glenn Fry is the lead singer on it. Those of you that uh know the Eagles probably know what song I'm talking about, but it was a big hit.

Was on their first greatest hits record and um and I'm going to talk about the um talk about the chord progression about about dietonic songs like a perfect this is a perfect song. Perfect dietonic song. What does that mean dietonic? That means it's in one key.

And how do we uh analyze dietonic songs? We use Roman numerals or in Nashville they use Nashville number system, but they're basically the same things. So um um these things though I'm going to talk about are the exact things that I teach from the ground up in my courses that I have on sale. Uh, if you guys are trying to master this stuff, I'm bringing back my complete Biato method for 109 bucks for the week up through next Friday.

It's got everything in one place. My ear training course, my BAT book interactive, which is my theory course, the uh entire system um that's um that everybody can go to my homepage, rick.com, and find the stuff there. And um and we're going to talk about things that I get into right in the beginning of teaching music theory that I always taught when I was teaching at uh this place Buckhead Music when I first moved to Atlanta. This is a song that I would commonly teach and because um because it's a strumming song and these are the kind of things that I have in my beginning guitar course even, right?

And uh but there's a couple there's there's subtleties in this song that um that are uh that that are really interesting that happen right in the beginning of the song and I'll talk about it and everything. And there's a simplified way to play this. And I I'll play the beginning of the song, but if you listen carefully, [Music] hear that little B bender. Now, some of you may say, ...