What's the "Christmas Chord?" (iv6)
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- čas přidán 28. 06. 2024
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There's a lot of music theory to learn from holiday chestnuts.
00:00 intro
01:08 christmas chord
02:13 White Christmas
04:46 carry over to pop progressions
05:33 All I want for Christmas is You
06:17 Santa Claus is coming to Town
08:51 Carol of the Bells
10:24 conclusions
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That jacket is a portal to a different world!
What, this old thing? Agnès B from 10 years ago.
Jazz of the Bells there at the end was so cool!
That chord has to be one of the most powerful ones in existence - almost too much. Thanks for the heads up on the Carol of the Bells. I'm going to check that out. Happy Holidays to you sir!
Thanks for listening
I completely agree.
Christmas is magical and miraculous. Music certainly demonstrates that
You definitely skinned the X-mas cat with this one!!! What a great way to add some color to your harmony for the holidays...I haven't checked to see if it has a iv⁶, but one of my favorites has always been "Have yourself a Merry little Christmas"...some great jazzy harmony in that one too!!!
P.S. Loved the jazz lounge Carol of the Bells
Happy holidays!
You inspired me to finally do my own version of the "Carol of the Bells." Thank you for this.
Cool examples! You read my mind!😂 I play white Xmas daily!!!
I love the minor 6 chord. I use it for nostalgia!
The iv6 first example I know of is “Lully, Lulla…”.
Excellent. That definitely precedes White Christmas, though it’s a minor key song right? Maybe we should give it an asterisk.
Awesome maestro
So many korean drama music use this chord to make you cry 😢
🎄 songs, hymns and nursery rhymes are the keys to it all 🤣
The winter solstice holiday has been around a lot longer than the Christian holiday that was created by the Roman Catholic church when they co-opted it. I was raised as a Roman Catholic but am an atheist now and still love the old Xmas songs, secular and religious. The "war on Christmas" bologna was invented by Fox News types to create artificial controversy and split people with an us-vs-them mentality instead of unite us under a fun holiday season that we can all enjoy. This old engineer knows a tiny but sufficient quantity of music theory to get your lesson here, which was very interesting to me. A couple of other Christmas songs for your consideration that I like are "Coventry Carol" and Prokofiev's "Troika" which is not necessarily a Christmas song but was used effectively by Greg Lake in "I believe in father Christmas." Also, a "troika" is a sled, so there is that connection as well. Cool colorful jacket and shirt combo.
yes and yes. thanks for bringing up Troika, too. that's a fairly deep cut that our younger colleagues probably won't have heard, but is just great.
That was very enjoyable. Happy holidays!
Same to you!
Seems you could work the IVmin6 into Little Town of Bethlehem just before the last cadence.
totally.
Not a Christian but love Christmas time, Yuletide, Jultid, Silvester, and Hogmanay.
My point exactly
Mariah Carey entered the chat ;) Kiddin'
Beautiful. Indeed, in American Xmas music, there is o much jazz, unlike in European Christmas music.
The presenter here has an uncanny resemblance to Boris Becker.
Ha! i get that from time to time. i'll take it.
Irving Berlin could ONLY play the piano in the key of C! Once he did well as a songwriter, he had a piano built with moveable hammers so he could play in other keys. While I believe that you already knew this, Chris, many of those in your audience may not.
I love this fact, the way I heard it, and this could be wrong, was he only played in F#, black keys, basically. It’s more likely it was C
, on reflection.
@@ImpliedMusic I remember telling my (former, adult) piano teacher that I own a copy of the music book for Stevie Wonder's "Songs in the Key of Life" and most of the songs are in difficult keys with all sharps or all flats. She said "oh that is because he is blind and plays mostly on the black keys." I was entirely embarrassed that I didn't realize that. My only excuse was that I bought the book for guitar chords and melodies and didn't start studying piano until I was in my 40s and went to the same teacher as our oldest child. However, my mom was a piano player and we did have a nice piano when I was a kid.
Steve Allen had that “only plays in C” thing going on, and used the movable hammer piano. I remember reading an interview with him in the seventies where he spoke at length about it. Hadn’t known that it predated him, or that Berlin had done a similar thing. Fun stuff!
@@thomashoffend4299 When I was in my late teens, I was invited to dinner with Stevie Wonder & his manager at Gio’s on Sunset in Hollywood. The next day he invited to his Black Bull studio and I listened to him jam while working on Songs in the key of Life.
@@danielleohallisey4218... I'm very aware of Steve Allen and even read a few of his books, but did NOT know that about him. I DO know that he was a prolific songwriter and from that it makes complete sense that he would have done something like that. Fun fact... thanks for sharing that as well!!!
This is really good, where can I get these exact transcriptions?
Oh thanks. You’ll have to transcribe these yourself, as I’m either playing from a lead sheet or memory/semi-improvised. Apologies for that.