Playing By Ear Christmas Edition

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• Playing By Ear Christmas Edition

Course Lessons

• Easier Songs
• Minor Songs
• Harder Songs

This is a supplemental course to the Playing by Ear course. Go through and learn the techniques of that course first. A lot of the skills you acquire there you can apply here.

Like the other course, I play these tunes in the simplest way possible in C major or C minor. It is then up to you to transpose them into different keys. Start by taking them into the keys of F and G, then go onto D and Bb. Once you can do that take them into all 12 keys.

Course Objectives #

You will learn:

• 10+ common Christmas tunes
• how to play in multiple keys
• how to harmonize tunes
• develop your ear

Tunes covered in this course #

• Up On The Housetop
• Deck The Halls
• Good King Wenceslas
• Jingle Bells
• Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
• Silent Night (easier and harder version)

Minor Keys #

• We 3 Kings
• What Child Is This

Lots of secondary dominants #

• We Wish You A Merry Christmas
• Frosty The Snowman

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