Vince Guaraldi EXPLAINED

You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians

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🗓️ 15 December 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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It's Speakpipe Wednesday! Peter and Adam respond to a listener's question about what Vince Guaraldi does at the beginning of "What Child is This?"

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0:00.0	Hey, Peter.
0:01.8	Hey.
0:02.1	It's that time of year.
0:03.0	You know what time it is?
0:03.9	What time is it?
0:08.2	Yeah.
0:09.2	It's time to pull that out for your aunts and uncles.
0:12.0	That's not a Christmas song, though.
0:13.5	True. I'm Adam Manus
0:30.4	And you're listening to the You'll Hear a podcast.
0:32.7	Music, advice, inspiration, listening, and familial advice. Season, familial advice coming at you. So advice that's specific to a season and for your family? Is that what you're saying? I mean, you know, if we can nail these Christmas songs, we can get a lot of love from the family, right? Would that be something you might be interested in? Yes. That would be something they might be interested in. So, yeah, so you know, this is where we're hinting here. We have a speak pipe. If you'd like to
0:57.4	leave it like that, speak pipe, it just kind of rolls off. It's very chirpy of you. It's very chirpy.
1:01.9	You can go to you'll hear.com. You can leave us a message just like Eric did here about this.
1:09.8	So hello, this is Eric in Washington, D.C.
1:14.1	Love the podcast.
1:16.3	I had a question for you inspired by the holiday season.
1:21.7	On the song, What Child Is This by the Vince Giroldi trio?
1:27.4	Vince does something at the beginning of the tune and in between each of the verses.
1:31.3	I don't know if it's arpeggios or the way he's playing the chords,
1:34.3	but I would love to hear a breakdown of what he's doing and why it works so well.
1:39.3	It's some of my favorite music, not just on that recording, but in general, it's very beautiful.
1:46.2	Anyway, hope you guys are doing well and looking forward to a great holiday season. Take care.
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