Reharmonization Kit No. 6
When A Child Is Born
The original melody of “When A Child Is Born” was Soleado, a wordless song composed by Ciro Dammicco. Later, the melody has been adapted to a popular Christmas standard sung by Johnny Mathis in 1976. For those of you who wish to learn the skill to turn a simple traditional song to playing a dreamy standard love ballad, this Reharmonization Kit will give you lots of ideas to play with. The UNIQUE feature of “When A Child Is Born″ is to learn how to use RH Octave Handshapes to play beautiful sounding color chords by making use of these Piano Techniques: Polychords & Runs & Fills Techniques. You will learn a variety of ways to fill in EMPTY measures to make your playing FULL and RICH that will captivate the attention of your audience:
- Polychord Runs
- Polychord Dancing Arp
- 3 Dip 2 Dip – 4TO Fixed Handshape
- Chromatic Triad Descending Run
- Double Fillers in a Measure
- Rolling Wave Going Up
- Chromatic Tones Running Up
- Melody Echo with 4TO
- Polychord cascading waterfall run
- Whole Tone Scale for G+
- Tritone Half Step Slide Repeat
- C6/9 Quartal Ethereal Run
Understanding Chord Progressions:
You will learn how to play by ear using the following chord progressions. The following are some chord progressions you will learn in this song:
- Em7 Dm7 G7 C
- C Dm7 G7 Dm7 G7 C
- C Em7 Am7 Dm7 G7
- Em7 Am7 Dm7 F G9
- Em Am Em Dm7 G7 C
- Em Dm7 G7b9 C
- C D7 G7 C
- C Em7 A7 D7 G7
- Em7 A7 Am7 G7 C6/9
- D7 G7b9 C6/9
- F C7b9 F
- A7 A7b9 D7 G7b9
- A7b9 Am7 G7 D7 G7b9 C6/9
- A7 C#dim7 D7 G7b9
- Em Ebdim7 Dm7 G7b9
- D7 G+ CM9
- Em7 A7 D+ G7 G+
- CM7 D7 F/G G7 CM9
- Csus C Em7 A7
- Em7 A7sus A7 D7 G7
- A7sus A7 D7sus D7 G7
- C Dm7 G7 Db7 C
- Dm7 Db7 C
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Wishing you a happy Christmas,
Rosa