In episode 135 of the guitar music theory podcast I welcome back Carrie Underwood guitarist Matt Revere to discuss the genius of Christmas music. Oh, Greetings guitar engineers. Welcome to the guitar music theory podcast. I am your host

Desi Cerna and today I welcome back Matt Revere. Matt Tours with Carrie

Underwood and he's a great guitar player. He's going to talk about some of his favorite

Christmas songs and how a lot of modern pop music pales in comparison to the

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Good to be here. That puts me in the Christmas spirit.

Yes, lots of Christmas spirit in that one. So we're going to talk about Christmas

music today. We had started this conversation I think a couple of weeks ago you have some strong opinions about

music composition in terms of where it's at today and where it once was in the past,

particularly the quality of some of the music compositions

with Christmas music.

So I'm gonna just turn it over to you

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