Ep37 Jingle Bell Rock | How Does This Song Work?
Guitar Music Theory
Desi Serna
4.6 • 931 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In this free guitar lesson, I show you how to play the guitar chords to "Jingle Bell Rock" by Bobby Helms.
You see how the song makes use of jazzy composition techniques such as voice leading, secondary dominants, and diminished passing chords.
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| 0:00.0 | In episode 37 of the guitar music theory podcast, we have another edition of How does this song work? |
| 0:07.1 | Featuring the song Jingle Bell Rock by Bobby Helms. Greetings guitar engineers, welcome to the guitar music theory podcast I am your host |
| 0:25.5 | Desi Cerna today we have a special Christmas episode we're gonna continue with my series, How does this song work? I'm going to discuss the song Jingle Bell Rock by Bobby Helms. |
| 0:40.0 | This song has a lot of really cool composition techniques in it, including voice leading, |
| 0:46.0 | secondary dominance, and the use of diminished chords. |
| 0:50.7 | This is stuff that I teach in my fretboard theory books and videos volume 2. |
| 0:56.2 | I'm going to be talking a lot about music theory in this podcast episode. |
| 1:00.8 | If that's something that's new to you you can head over to my website |
| 1:03.9 | guitar music theory.com and you can enroll in my free introductory music theory course |
| 1:09.8 | and if you enjoy that and you want to get into more depth, you can take a look at |
| 1:16.1 | my much more comprehensive fretboard theory video series. Just head over to |
| 1:21.8 | guitar music theory. com. Now today's lesson is actually pulled |
| 1:26.7 | from a YouTube video that I made and I have posted today as well you can go over to my YouTube channel, Desi Cerna Guitar, and you can watch this same lesson on video, |
| 1:39.7 | which might be a little more helpful because you can watch me play this. But anyway, I pulled the audio right out of it and I'm going to use it right here in the |
| 1:45.6 | podcast. I did miss speak a few times during the lesson. I said the wrong chord when I was playing something else I corrected |
| 1:55.1 | that in the video by adding some text to the screen and you're not going to see that here |
| 1:58.7 | in the podcast but I still think you can understand what I'm talking about and you can follow the lesson fine but you can |
| 2:03.7 | head over and watch the YouTube video as well if you would if you would like to. |
| 2:09.5 | And by the way, are you receiving emails from me? |
| 2:12.0 | Do you get emails when I upload a new |
| 2:14.2 | podcast or a video or a blog post or when I have news or a new course or something like |
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