Much to my chagrin, I'm going to have to redo my introductory video and possibly my second video on Key Blending. It's all explained here.
Thanks for your patience!
...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dtgIgvmDlA
This is a lesson on what I call 'artificial pentatonic scales.' These are pentatonics, within which one or two of the notes get tweaked outside of the natural pentatonic formulas. The effect of these sound like no other scales and in fact, perform more like the Indian Raga than they do Western scales. This is great because you can get a somewhat exotic sound by way of this tweakery.
...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AitFcoDtpoI
The exciting out-of-the-gate Beatles single, Please Please Me. This song surprised me. I didn't think there would have been much to speak of in this song but when you take a deeper dive into it, you find some gems.
Bonus: I had a recent epiphany on how to use the Circle of Fifths to determine Secondary Dominant Chords and Tritone Substitution chords. Luckily, the discovery was applicable to some of the chord movement in the song. So this is a fresh, new idea hot off the presses!
Also discussed is how to analyze two-part harmony including parallel motion, contrary motion and oblique motion. This is more classical style analysis and is often applied to analyzing the music of composers like J.S. Bach.
Alas, there was some digital drift in this one. Skype didn't give us a solid signal. If I may say so myself, it still didn't take away from the content. But nonetheless, apologies for that. It was out of hour hands.
The Parallel/Relative Switch:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b-IZPtjhCS05qGxYtFuqbjJqpJrUtK25/view?usp=sharing
Secondary Dominants and Tritone Substitutions:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bTLJZt07xFYSUfzkbeat6Tigc3HOr_Kq/view?usp=sharing
Paul Moody's cover version displaying all the instrumental parts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY3atJ3S1Po
Matt Williamson's 'Pop Goes The Sixties' channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvo1Jlu5WD67tgDaaUVLlgg
James Corbett's website:
https://www.corbettreport.com/
James Corbett's Odysee channel:
https://odysee.com/@corbettreport:0
Broc West, Video Editor:
https://odysee.com/@brocwest:d
Thanks for all your hard work, Broc!
ᵃ ˢᵖˡᵉⁿᵈᶦᵈ ᵗᶦᵐᵉ ᶦˢ ᵍᵘᵃʳᵃⁿᵗᵉᵉᵈ ᶠᵒʳ ᵃˡˡ
...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZdSPmstI5E
The majority of chord changes for this one were from a piece I was working on for solo performance. I decided to give it to the band. Cav gave it the lyric and vocal melody. As usual, we band members put our heads together to work out the actual arrangement and wrote in some extra stuff, such as the bass breakdown section. This song has the potential for epic quality once we get down to it in the studio. I'm looking forward to recording it.
I went through quite the process of trying to figure out how to solo through the chromatic chord changes, Bb9 -- Ami7 -- Ab9 -- Gmi7 -- Gb9 -- F6/9 -- Ab9 -- C11. It's a crazy progression. Funnily enough, I realized it's easy enough to solo through using basic Blues principles.
...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0ui5g6W0dc
Featuring the always brilliant Matt Demerritt. [ http://www.mattdemerritt.com/ ]
"Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" was written by J. Fred Coots and Haven Gillespie. The earliest known recorded version of the song was by banjoist Harry Reser and his band on October 24, 1934 featuring Tom Stacks on vocal, the version shown in the Variety charts of December 1934. The song was a sheet music hit, reaching number 1. The song was also recorded for Victor Records on September 26, 1935 by Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra with vocals by Cliff Weston and Edythe Wright.
The song is a traditional Christmas standard and has been covered by numerous recording artists. Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters reached the Billboard charts briefly in 1947 with it.