Yes, there are a few songs I've done a gazillion times and this is one of them. It's clearly a favorite of mine.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_73ajs2LqCk
Here's another I love playing. You can get jazzy and bluesy with this one. It's a lot of fun. Matt Demerrit, as usual, is killing it!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVwQcz0q0zo
"Winter Wonderland" is a song written in 1934 by Felix Bernard and lyricist Richard Bernhard Smith. Due to its seasonal theme, it is often regarded as a Christmas song in the Northern Hemisphere. Since its original recording by Richard Himber, it has been covered by over 200 different artists.
The song's lyrics were about a couple's romance during the winter season. A later version of "Winter Wonderland" included a "new children's lyric" that transformed it "from a romantic winter interlude to a seasonal song about playing in the snow." The snowman mentioned in the song's bridge was changed from a minister to a circus clown, and the promises the couple made in the final verse were replaced with lyrics about frolicking. Singers like Johnny Mathis connected both versions of the song, giving "Winter Wonderland" an additional verse and an additional chorus.
Special Guest on harmonica, Stan Behrens. Thanks, man!
Stan's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/bluesbaron
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7MEUkBk4SY
Well, some massive publishing company has been deleting or muting any videos uploaded to YouTube by the band once called Long John and the Silver Beetles (can't say their name either.) So hopefully their bots won't scan this and do the same.
As to the performance, the Elegant Strangers have never once ever practiced. We also never tried to play this song before this moment. It just happened and we played it! I think it's kinda sweet.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL26pQT1OO8
Here we have an interesting discussion that goes beyond music theory, sometimes into the philosophical. Really, when it comes to music theory, most of the fuss is about harmonic movement. At least, as regards the European tradition of music. Prior to the temperament of the scale, accomplished in the time of J.S. Bach, the music of the world mostly consisted of drones, with little or no harmonic movement whatsoever. In fact, Indians think of Western music as boring because we use fixed scales without microtonality and Westerners find Indian music boring because there is no harmonic movement. Harmonic movement itself can be considered a wholly European invention. Here, we cannot talk about music theory in the European sense, so we need to look at the Indian 'scales' (ragas) and the way the rhythm moves. That's all we have to work with so, discussing this music was a challenge for me...but a fun one!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-ZCU-oMqdE