"White Christmas" is an Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting, released in 1942. The version sung by Bing Crosby is the world's best-selling single with estimated sales in excess of 50 million copies worldwide. When the figures for other versions of the song are added to Crosby's, sales of the song exceed 100 million.
Accounts vary as to when and where Berlin wrote the song. One story is that he wrote it in 1940, in warm La Quinta, California, while staying at the La Quinta Hotel, a frequent Hollywood retreat also favored by writer-director-producer Frank Capra, although the Arizona Biltmore also claims the song was written there. He often stayed up all night writing. One day he told his secretary, "I want you to take down a song I wrote over the weekend. Not only is it the best song I ever wrote, it's the best song anybody ever wrote."
Special huge thanks to Gene Ferriter who made the higher video quality of this recording and future recordings possible. Thanks, GenO! You're my Maine man!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnD5PrK4RGk
Before we were speaking about Horizontal Harmony through the Greek Modes--that is, how chords connect with each other is as in the Chord Family Template. Now we are talking about Vertical Harmony, or how chords are built beyond a triad.
Some notes:
You can find the corresponding pages of my book for this particular lecture here:
http://vincognito.com/book/FirstLevelHarmony.pdf
As I looked back on the video I found some errors which I'd like to address:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0clD2IB93w
song. Many thanks to James Corbett and Broc West (video editing.)
A side note: This morning I was listening more closely to the Ab chord that shows up in the Coda of the song. There was something about the quality of that Ab the kept bothering me. On close listening, yes, it was an Ab chord but with a raised 5th making it yet another augmented chord to show up in this song--precisely Ab augmented. This morning's discovery put a smile on my face.
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From Me To You, performed by Paul Moody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVlew2k5qpE&t=0s
Want more colors in your blues soloing? want to go far beyond the same tired old pentatonic scale? Watch and learn. Hope you enjoy this!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6zxN7ejpdE