Sunday Ukulele Dec 7: "Happy Holidays" скачать в хорошем качестве

Sunday Ukulele Dec 7: "Happy Holidays"

This week we worked on the song "Happy Holiday," by Irving Berlin (1888-1989). Some info about Irving Berlin: He was born in Russia, and came to the USA with his family at the age of 5. He wrote an estimated 1500 songs, many of them becoming part of the great American Songbook. His first international hit was "Alexander's Ragtime Band" (1911). For most of his career he could not read music, and played piano mostly in the key of F#. Eventually he bought a "transposing piano" (check it out, it's pretty neat!). He liked to write his lyrics in a simple, memorable style that the average person could relate to. I found it fascinating, reading about Irving's life; I encourage you to read about him....it's an interesting story. I placed "Happy Holiday" in the key of D for our ukuleles. Please remember that you can substitute chords if some of them are too unfamiliar under your fingers. For instance, F#m7 (2420) can be F#m (2120), and Em7 (0202) can be played as Em (0432). Play the melody, and get comfortable with that, then start to colour it in with gentle strums on the chords. You can treat it as a chord melody, a melody with some strums added in between, or play the melody and have someone else strum the chords. Please note that in line 2 of the song, there is a change in the harmonic rhythm of the song; I have written it out below. You will have the first chord of the measure for 3 beats, then one beat for the second chord of the measure: Em7 / A / | Em7 / / A | D / / B7 | Em / / A7 | Please note that the first measure has 2 strums per chord, and it is the following bars that have a change.