The Maestro Online Music Lessons Advent Calendar
A Music Lessons Advent Calendar full of Christmas Songs
Open your door! A series of free Christmas singing, piano & organ lessons.
Which will be improvised on or taught today?
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Dec 1st Away in a Manger
In 4/4 instead of 3/4, reharmonisation using ii-V-I
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Dec 2nd Winter Wonderland
Jazzy Improv!
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Dec 3rd Silent Night Greek Style!
Greek Bazouki Restylisation
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Dec 4th Let it Snow, Walking Bass
Walking Bass Improv
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Dec 5th Jingle Bells
Re-stylising, textures, Improv
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Dec 6th White Christmas
Vocal Back Phrasing, Scales, Improv
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Dec 7th Go Tell it On the Mountain
Inner Ear, Musicianship, Canons/Rounds, Improv
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Dec 8th Merry Christmas Everyone
Solfege, Cowboy, Blues
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Dec 9th Santa Clause is Coming to Town
Solfege, Inner Ear, Scales, 2 chords, Improv
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Dec 10th Last Christmas You Gave Me Your Heart
Online Vocal Coach, appoggiaturas, neighbour notes
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Dec 11th Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen from Shrek
Beginner Piano Lesson, Organ, Vocal Runs, Scales with fun.
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Dec 12th Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Piano Lessons for Adults: triads & the circle of fifths.
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Dec 13th Joy to the World
Solfege, Piano Xmas Scales, Pop Vocal Runs Exercises, Organ Reharmonisation
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Dec 14th Santa Tell Me A. Grande
Piano Improv Lesson exploring tempo change and repeated chord progressions.
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Dec 15th Fairy Tale of New York
Solfege, appoggiaturas for pop vocal lesson embellishments, piano improv
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Dec 16th Joy to the World Organ
Time to practise scales in fun ways, and have an improv lesson that develops counterpoint.
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Dec 17th Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire
Melodic embellishments including neighbour tones, appoggiaturas, trills, pentatonic runs.
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Dec 18th Merry Christmas Baby – Soul Vocal Cover
A soul vocal coach re-sytlisation of an Otis Redding song using runs, blues notes and pitch bends.
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Dec 19th All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth
An advanced Keyboard Harmony Lesson exploring the Circle of Fifths and Passing 6/4s.
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Dec 20th I’ll Be Home for Christmas – Slow Piano Improv
Keyboard Harmony Lesson 2 – using arpeggios, additional ii-V-Is, and chords in different registers
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Dec 21st Birjina Gaztetto Bat Zegoen – The Angel Gabriel
This famous Carol is originally a Basque song. Here I add Monteverdi style early Baroque ornaments. Check out Sting too!
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Dec 22nd Come on Home for Christmas by George Ezra
The pentatonic scale is the perfect starting point for piano improv lessons and beginner pianists as well as singers developing tuning.
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Dec 23rd We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Here we learn about secondary dominant chords as a method to reharmonise and add fresh colour to a famous Christmas carol.
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Dec 24th It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
What can you spot? Beginners: Chromatic scale, Intermediate: Major and minor 6ths, Advanced: Circle of 5ths.
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Christmas Day: Jingle Bells by Alex, Aged 6
Today isn’t about me, it’s about young pupil beginning their musical journey. There’s a special gift on this page, so do open the door!
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