Ep112 Please Come Home for Christmas | How Does This Song Work?

Guitar Music Theory

Desi Serna

Musictheoryforguitar, Guitar, Guitarscales, Performing Arts, Guitarmusictheory, Music, Guitarlessons, Arts, Guitarchords, Guitartheory

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🗓️ 18 December 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

“Please Come Home for Christmas” by The Eagles includes some interesting twists and turns that leave your average guitarist wondering how the seemingly unrelated chords sound so good together. In this free guitar lesson, I explain how the song makes use of composition techniques such as chromatic voice leading and secondary dominants to create a soulful, rhythm and blues, Christmas classic. I explain everything from counting the 12/8 time signature to using the major pentatonic scale featured during the guitar solo. Instead of showing the specific guitar parts played in the song, I give you a general overview of the music by explaining the basic chords, song structure, and music theory. I position the chords in my version a little differently from the recording in order to make it easier for you to see the musical movement on the guitar fretboard.

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0:00.0	In episode 112 of the Guitar Music Theory Podcast, I have another installment of How does this song work,
0:08.0	featuring Please Come Home for Christmas by the Eagles. Oh, Greetings guitar engineers. Welcome to the guitar music theory podcast. I am your
0:48.0	host Desi Cerna and today we're going to take a look at the song Please Come Home for Christmas by The Eagles.
0:56.0	Now this is a cover. The song was originally released by Charles Brown in 1960.
1:02.0	And it's a 50-60s period kind of rhythm and blues
1:07.1	Motown soul type song that actually reminds me a lot of the Jackson Fiveives, Who's Love in You, and the Beatles Oh, Darlin.
1:16.0	It's got a 12-8-time signature. I'll be talking about that. And it has some really
1:21.5	interesting chord changes including some
1:23.6	secondary dominance and some chromatic voice leading. Now I'm not going to be
1:28.6	talking about what the guitars play specifically in the track. I just want to give you kind of a general
1:34.5	overview of the basic chord changes and structure of the song so you understand the
1:39.7	music theory and the composition techniques used. So it's going to be a great discussion and
1:46.4	you're also going to hear from today's sponsor Fox Tracks music but before we
1:51.0	dive in and get started let me direct all of my podcast listeners over to my website
1:56.2	Guitar Music Theory.com answer the questions I ask you about your playing and I'll send you free custom video instruction calibrated to your
2:04.4	current level. I'll show you what you should specifically be working on right
2:08.7	now in order to get your guitar skills together so you can move forward and reach your music goals.
2:14.9	Go to guitar music theory.com to enroll in your free video course now.
2:19.2	You can click on the link in the podcast show notes. Oh, And then. All right, we are ready to dive in. And the first thing I want to say is that the track that you just heard there that instrumental
3:04.3	track I purchased and downloaded from the website karaoke hyphen version
3:10.3	dot com and they are not a sponsor but they are a great resource and I use them frequently
3:16.6	when I want to find a good quality backing track for a song and in this case I
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