 Hi everyone, this is Jason here from Nathaniel, compliments from the season of Christmas wishing you your family a Merry Christmas and also a Happy New Year which will follow. In this lesson we are basically going to look at We Wish You a Merry Christmas which you can play along for your friends, family or broadcast it over the internet or share it on your Instagram feed or whatever and I'm going to give you a lot of versions of this song. We are going to start very simple so if you've just about started playing the piano there is going to be a version for you which you're going to learn and it's going to get really crazy at the end. I'm going to combine as you heard in the intro video right there were many variations which I tried to put together a nice choral version very sort of anthemic and very trumpet and celebration like then we went into a very kind of mellow verse you know that's your verse and then we really belted it in a kind of a bluegrass or americana way in one more verse and that became on a four four so we're going to try and learn that as well and then we ended with a very mellow loungy version so that's a lot of versions in one notation or in one assignment which you could learn or should learn over the holidays or over the Christmas season at least before December 25th or at least on December 25th so we'll start with the easy version with chords and single roots and the melody of course which I'm going to teach you and then we'll move forward from there we're going to take the key of F major which has your one flat B flat and then we'll build from there with the chords lot of interesting chords not only diatonic to F there are also some chords which are outside the key of F which is so that's these are what we call as secondary dominant chords and then some chords change very quickly very chorally following a very soprano alto tenor bass choral kind of arrangement so we'll try and bring in all of those things we also need to bring in some grooves since we are piano players let's get cracking on all these things the notation for the simple version and the advanced version or the crazy version if you will is waiting for you on our patreon page that will help support the channel as well for about five dollars a month you're going to get access to every single element of everything which we do on youtube all the supplementary material required for you to learn each of my lessons as you know the lessons are quite long it's about at the minimum I think I do 18 to 20 minutes per lesson so you need my notes I've handwritten them there's also notation which we've professionally done in different versions there are also midi files available there are backing tracks whenever relevant mp3s and whatnot so head over to patreon I think it's a very good value you're not just paying five dollars to just support the channel I feel you're getting a lot in for your purchase and we do quite a few youtube lessons in a month so every single one of them the notes are on patreon so head over there if possible and once you have the notation in front of you if you read which will be helpful get your pianos on plugged in ready you're going to play with me and right after this lesson you're going to be able to perform it for your friends and family like a like a super pro piano player let's get cracking melody first that's the first line we wish you a merry christmas then we wish you a merry christmas it's almost the same tune but you kind of shift your whole hand higher we wish you a merry christmas we try to keep your thumb there we wish you a merry christmas we and now stretch your hand first two lines again and then we wish you a merry christmas we wish you a merry christmas a little bit of crossing there we wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year very easy there and a happy new year we wish you a merry christmas we wish you a merry christmas you could even play your five fingers ready there we wish you a merry christmas and then cross your thumb we wish you a merry cross miss we wish you a merry christmas a little bit of crossing and a happy new year so that's the melody but don't get very happy we are not going to play the melody only with one hand otherwise it's not going to sound like a proper piano player left hand is coming up shortly hang on so we wish you a merry christmas we slowly and a happy new year okay great so now let's bring in our left hand there's also another verse part let's learn that one more time so you stretch your hand and then okay let's now do some simple left hand accompaniment I'm going to do some simple bass notes single notes there and then we're going to add some chords if you no chords that will embellish this and then if you're an intermediate learner of you or if you'd like to challenge yourself a bit more hang on till the end or just a little bit more longer and we are going to take this really really crazy so let's first get acquainted with the bass notes remember it's on a three so you're counting three all the time one two three one two three one two three one two three so that's for we wish merry is a re christ b flat G B C one more time now you could also do a passing note if you want we wish you a merry you don't have to but you know a a and f are linked via the g in between so you could even play the g that's B C and then whole thing again two lines we press and now the wish you a merry goes higher so that's so here I'm coloring highlighting the chord which is a major wish you okay Christmas and uh so the chords are a major D minor which I play the root and uh and uh which is f so wish you Christmas and uh that's B flat okay you could even do happy new year I'm seeing the bass happy new year or happy new year there's so many options you could do wish you a merry Christmas we wish you a merry Christmas we wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year you could do that happy new year or keep it simple happy new year or even more simple happy new year okay let's do the whole story the whole chorus so coming to the verse tidings we bring to you and your kin so that part the left hand can be quite simple tidings we bring so that's f fifth I'm not doing I think it sounds muddy and then it'll be annoying to jump here so good tidings we bring let's do that to you and your kin that part two and your kin what did I do there you and your kin you and your kin so whole whole sentence good tidings we bring to you and your kin you're almost the same melody just the bass and then it kind of continues you can go you can do an extra G as I mentioned so in the notation in the first chorus I've made it super easy for beginners then I've done the verse part which you should learn the way I've notated it and at the very end I've done a little bit more fancy stuff okay but now it's going to get really crazy at the end of the video we are going to have four versions which I'm going to briefly communicate with you as you can see via the notation there's a nice anthemic almost orchestral version at the beginning on the piano where very powerful and then we take it really down during the verse tidings we bring with arpeggios as always which is needed to chill it down and then we do a very bluegrass section which or americana very groovy a folk folk like and the time signature then changes to four four then we do a lounge version slow it down okay let me just quickly break down each section for you to learn this at an intermediate level I think it's recommended to either learn reading if you know reading already you can figure this out however you can also if you have never read music before but can play the piano and have some kind of coordination download the midi files which are at the patreon which will really help you address all these things at a note per note level okay so let me just show you the anthemic part okay so f g a over f because my right hand's also playing stuff check this out so while the left hand's going the right hand's going Christmas we you're dropping the b flat to a Christmas we got that Christmas we and then it goes to wish you must we drop the b flat okay a lot of harmony in this version okay so far the first line goes we wish and now moving on coming to the next line wish wish you a merry and then Christmas and Christmas and okay so that a there in the right hand so i'm doing that happy and happy all together at year okay that's the anthemic version let's do the whole anthemic version once more little slow it's the anthemic part maybe the anthemic section a little slower okay coming to that verse where we chill out with arpeggios we just take the whole melody higher to give it a more mellow vibe okay let's do that so that's a c seventh with an e bass and what am i doing there b flat in an inversion starting with f end on f major and you and your kin there we do it in in diads or third one more time one more time f major f major again just doing fifths there for happy new year that's b flat fifth g fifth c fifth f fifth that's happy new year and the right hands having that supporting alto one more time okay coming to the blue grass section now which is on four four it goes as you can see it's now one and two and three and four and earlier we had only three beats but i just thought it's a nice way to play it you know it sounds good on three and i've heard people even playing it on four so i figured let's just put it all together in this version same chords pretty much we wish you a merry so it takes a little longer we just do this nice descending b flat a seven nice descend there and a very anthemic again bringing back that power and one more time with the blue grass version c major pretty much play the chords with the top note as the melody and uh full on f major again and uh have to wait there new year now may not sound very blue grass at the moment because you don't get that that gallop which makes it very i like that banjo technique so for that additional 16th note if you can i've not notated it but if you can you so if you get this phrasing or this this movement it's like a common thing you can use it for a lot of material so if you can bring that in it's very banjo like uh very uh all the uhs are highlighted oney just that spice same arpeggio happens in the bass that ghosting of the thumb is what gives you that effect if you can do it great don't forget that b flat lounge version at the very end is almost like the anthemic part of the beginning we go come back to three but just simple harmony now you can ignore the lower voice and just play or you could add that in okay you could even refer to the easy version the easy version is always there and by easy it's not it's not by no means easy it's just simple for me to explain that's why i called it easy you still have to work on that so the choral outro that's an interesting climb c sharp pretty much the same as the simpler version which we did in the beginning of the chapter so okay guys so i hope you found the lesson useful and i hope you're gonna learn this well in time for christmas whichever version be it just the melody melody with simple bass melody with some simple chord movement if you'd like you can just do block chords as well the chords are also written down for you you can check it out and see if you if that style works for you and then we looked at like a fun version which maybe people have not really heard you know choral going to bluegrass or rather choral anthemic choral going to like a very mellow arpeggiated verse going to a heavy bluegrass thing on 4 4 which adds to that chaos and then we end with a very chilled out choral or loungy outro right guys so that's my arrangement and that's the tutorial of we wish you a merry christmas again we wish you a merry christmas from the nathaniel school of music and i really wish you and your family well and hope that we get through these trying conditions together and continue to go strong and hopefully music will give you that enjoyment which you need and also to break out of whatever you're doing currently in life which i'm sure is very busy and there are a lot of challenges i'm sure during times like this the piano and music in general is always there for you if you think about it right so always give the piano some time and it'll always give you that strength which you need for your head to kind of rewire itself so to speak so also feel free to share the video with your friends and family and again stay tuned to all of our lessons from nathaniel do consider getting yourself a copy of the notation of this lesson or and all the other lessons past present future and i will see you in the next one or rather you would see me in the next one cheers