Christmas Tunes Vol. II & The Beatles

Sid Jacobs continues his Christmas tunes series with this relaxed 1-hour-37-minute masterclass, working through more holiday songs and then applying the same chord-melody concepts to well-known Beatles tunes. Sid teaches less academically and more by demonstrating with music — advanced lessons that anybody can understand, delivered with his trademark humor.

What's covered

• Christmas tunes including Silent Night, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, The Christmas Song, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Frosty the Snowman, and We Wish You a Merry Christmas
• Beatles songs: Blackbird, Eleanor Rigby, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, and Yesterday
• Voice leading and guide tones — hearing harmony that points somewhere, not static chord grips
• Melody and counter melody as the source of progressions and voicings
• Contrary and oblique motion, chromatic counter lines, and ringing open-string orchestration
• A 4ths exercise for building quartal sounds across the fingerboard

If you want to expand your holiday repertoire while picking up real harmony and voice-leading instruction along the way, this session is time well spent with a master guitarist whose love of music is infectious.

"...It's one of those things where you can say...it's incredibly simple, but it's not easy!...Your fingers are like mules, they resist when you are telling them to do something that they haven't done before." ~Sid Jacobs