Putting It All Together: Guns n’ Rose’s “Paradise City” Breakdown

The big problem with theory is that lots of discussions fail to put it into practice. So I thought, why not show you how some of the concepts we’ve been talking about work in one of my favorite songs?

Some concepts I reference in the video include:

• the G mixolydian scale
• the g major arpeggios
• the g major pentatonic scale
• the g minor pentatonic scale
• the G – C – F – G progression
• perfect 4ths in the verse/main riff