To celebrate this Halloween season, here's a mini-medley of some of the most iconic nursery rhymes around with a spooky twist. Let me know if you recognize them all.
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0:00 Mary Had a Little Lamb
0:26 Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
0:50 Row Row Row Your Boat
1:06 Jingle Bells
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One probably could just play these all in minor and call it a day but that's no fun. So here's a brief breakdown of what I did to each tune.
Mary Had a Little Lamb: I kept the melody in C major and displaced the root down a third to the relative minor. Then I shift it up a half step to create that unsettling dissonance. Put both hands in the extreme registers of the piano, slather it in pedal and you're done.
Twinkle Twinkle: The melody is intact here again, but I added an augmented chord accompaniment that sweeps across the piano as a backdrop to the ringing 'bell' like melody notes plucked out by the left hand. Easily the trickiest technique-wise of the bunch. Fun Fact: this shares the same melody as the "Alphabet Song" and "Baa Baa Black Sheep"
Row Row Row: This one is just straight up in minor (I allowed myself one!). I changed some of the harmonies around and ham it up a bit for the final cadence.
Jingle Bells: This one revolves around the C Minor-Major Chord. Kind of making the melody start out in G major-ish and then transition to C minor for the close. It almost has a weird bi-tonal thing going on but never really commits to it. Very fun to play.
I had a lot of fun coming up with different ways to spookify these classic tunes. I hope you enjoy!
Your Pianist,
Erik C.
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