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Peg Steely Dan Guitar Lesson + Tutorial | MOST ACCURATE LESSON ONLINE

peg steely dan Jan 08, 2023

Peg Steely Dan Guitar Lesson + Tutorial | MOST ACCURATE LESSON ONLINE

Hey friend Jon MacLennan here and in this video I want to share with you how I play Peg as recorded by Steely Dan. Now this is a brilliant song that has one of the most common Steely Dan chords in it. I'm gonna break it all down for you step-by-step.

There's four parts but keep this in mind that these are advanced chords and this is advanced harmony, it's almost like playing a jazz standard. The brilliant part for me with Steely Dan was they were able to take all this incredible music and amazing chord changes but then write a pop song that people could just sing along with and I think that there's very few artists that could actually pull this off. Perhaps people like Stevie Wonder would be another person who could do it but let's get straight into it.

We're going to start off with the intro progression now this just a pattern it starts on a Gmaj9 and I'm playing starting on the fifth string 10, 9, 11, 10. These...

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