 Hi everyone, in this lesson we are going to learn the popular Christmas carol v3 kings of orient r. So in my arrangement I'm basically keeping with the walls feeling of the whole song which is three by four. One two three, one two three, one two three. It's pretty much a walls arrangement but there are a few things which make it a bit more interesting, a bit more characteristic of the scale. I've tried to bring in a few ingredients and also to work on your independence, your harmony, your melodic embellishments and so on and so forth. Otherwise at the word go, the chords are quite easy. It's just E minor and B7. There the chords change a bit. So it's fairly easy chords, quite an easy melody. It's really nice a song to actually try out on the piano and especially during the Christmas season. So do stay along till the end of the video because I'm going to show you easy versions. I'm going to first start with the melody. I'm just going to take it step by step throughout. 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It just costs five dollars a month and you not only get this lesson, you'll pretty much get every single lesson we will ever do on our channel. So before we get started, it'll be awesome if you could hit the subscribe button if you haven't already and hit that bell button for notifications. Whenever we release a new one, let's get cracking. So let's first begin with the intro. The intro I'm just doing like a very interesting augmented chord which is that's your B augmented. So you to play this lick, you need the pedal and I'm starting from my left hand and what is a B augmented chord? B D sharp G not that would make it B major. B augmented. Now this chord works really well in the E harmonic minor scale. And augmented chords are inversions of each other. So you could even consider doing like E flat augmented or but for now, I think B is good because B is the dominant chord of E in this case E minor. So B will always resolve back. So it would either resolve to the E major like O darling by the Beatles or two. Okay. In this case, it resolves to E minor. So I'm still following eighth notes of three by four, which go one and two and three and one and two and three and four, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three. These are eighth notes, not triplets. One, two and three and let's get that one and two. Now, if you cannot go all the way up, you can just go one and two and three and one and two and three and you can just stick with the lower area or one and two and three and change one and need to cross and I'm doing a couple of dyads or thirds there. Two, three. Okay. And then when you do that, do the pickup going into the worst section. Let's do that augmented lick again. Now, before we start the melody, it's good to give a nice introduction to the rhythm and the rhythm pattern in the beginning is just the walls one, one, two, three. So you could either do this, which is more on the simpler side, which is nothing but E minor. Now if you want it really simple, you could just go E minor, E minor. You just do E minor pretty much. So next level was B, E down to B. So it's only the bass note which is dropping. The rest is G B. Okay. What I'm proposing you to do would be C sharp, D sharp, E sharp, D sharp and then then it goes to the main melody. So just to make it interesting for your information, the scale of my intro, I'm trying to keep it as the E melodic minor, which is a major scale with actually just a flat three. So melodic minor, you just flatten the third okay. So E, B, C sharp, D sharp, E, B, C sharp. That's your whole intro. Let's do the whole intro again with that augmented lick. There we go. That E minor and then only left hand, only left hand and now let's get into the main melody, which is so let's get the proper fingering of the melody going now. Start off with the ring finger that'll be helpful. Repeat. Remember it's three. One, two, three, one. Now one, two, three, one, two, three. One, two, three, one, two, three. Okay. I think you've got the first two lines which are carbon copies of each other. Can even start with the pinky. Now cross, do that D, G, D, B and then F sharp, E. Okay. Now let's look at the chord accompaniment with the tune. So line one, I'll do it line by line and then explain. You can even follow the notation. What did I do there? E minor, E minor again, B seventh, E minor. What happened there? E minor, E minor. How am I playing it? E upper, upper, E upper, upper meaning the remaining two notes of the E minor chord which is G B. So now B seventh, I'm playing in a rather clever way or rather easy way. I'm playing B F sharp A and it sounds also quite clean without that D sharp. So E minor, B seventh, repeat, B seventh and now it changes. So for the next part, that part I'm trying to use bigger voicings and going a bit away from the waltz routine where I go. So there are a lot of interesting harmonic ingredients there. Let me just break that down for you. So field and fountain. So that's E minor but played in a bigger spread voicing. That's one, five and then the ten or the third which would have been here but then I played here. Now fountain is D major over F sharp. I'm starting with F sharp so it's F sharp, D, A so G, D, G. That creates a nice alto or a choral harmony there. So it's field and and now harmony and you can cross your hand there. Let's do that whole line. Okay. Moving on following yonder star. So you go very interesting bass there. So I go first the right end. So I'm actually adding a tenor layer here, a harmony here. C with my tenor and my melody. That's the tune along with the tune. I go okay. C, B, B, F sharp with A in the tenor. Okay. End with E over G. So whole thing again. So what did the bass do now? So that's D, F sharp. That's minimum, crotchet or half, quarter, half, two, three. Okay. One more time. And I'm dropping the bass there. Let me just show you that at the word star. So if you don't want to do that star, you can just or star or star. I just thought it's cool to do star and then a nice climb at the end to an end there. If you're just ending it with the verse, there's another section as well, but maybe we'll do that in another lesson. That's your ending. Okay. Again, field and fountain onwards very slowly. Okay. So let me break that down for you. Let's revise the whole thing once and then conclude the lesson. It starts with that augmented intro, then the bass intro, very tango intro, melody with pretty much the same group, B seventh, E minor, straight old B seventh. And now the spread, more spread G with the tenor, drop the bass, harmony add. Okay. That's the whole thing. I will be playing it once more again at the end of the video very slowly so you can follow it along very as best as possible. A few things with regards to the articulation, especially when you're playing the left, you want to play a staccato at the second beat of the wall. So one, two, three, one, two, three. So it can be legato, staccato, whichever rhythm you're doing, whichever chord, like if you do B seventh, huge difference, right? Compared to it doesn't feel the right way. So it's the right way. Legato, staccato, staccato. You could also go, you could also hold on the pinky even more for the whole bar if you can. Or even that sounds good. Right, so let me now play the whole thing again very slowly without talking and that pretty much concludes the lesson. And before we start playing it slowly it'll be awesome if you can head over to Patreon, consider getting yourselves a copy of this notation as well as all the Christmas songs which I've ever done and will continue to do. 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