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!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZdSPmstI5E
This podcast is history making for the reason that it's actually under an hour! This is a pretty simple pop song that doesn't have a lot to speak of when it comes to the chord progression.
Paul Moody's cover of Thank You, Girl:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S75Vo8imvJk
(I was wrong about Mike Pacelli doing a guitar breakdown of the song. What was I thinking???)
James Corbett's Website:
https://www.corbettreport.com/
James Corbett's Odysee Channel:
https://odysee.com/@corbettreport:0
Broc West's Odysee Channel:
https://odysee.com/@brocwest:d
Many thanks to James Corbett for joining me and to Broc West for his awesome work editing these videos.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsG4j6njpi0
"Sleigh Ride" is a light orchestra standard composed by Leroy Anderson. The composer had the original idea for the piece during a heat wave in July 1946 and finished the work in February 1948. According to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) review of Christmas music, "Sleigh Ride" consistently ranks as one of the top 10 most-performed songs written by ASCAP members. ASCAP named "Sleigh Ride" the most popular piece of Christmas music in the U.S. in 2009–2012, based on performance data from over 2,500 radio stations.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fc9OPPmWPc
A basic discussion on how, in the Blues, the revolutionary act of using a Dominant 7th chord as the Root in a progression (along with other factors) changed everything.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJrUQEoaF38