Oom Pah Pah practice progressions
for the C family chords and D E A and B flat.
"The Wild Rover".
We'll do it first in the key of D.
In order to find the melody that you're going to be singing
you can set the key with the first chord.
♪ I've been a wild rover for many a year ♪
♪ And I spent all my money on whiskey and beer ♪
♪ And now I'm returning with gold in great store ♪
♪ And I never will play the wild rover no more ♪
♪ And it's no nay never ♪
♪ no nay never no more ♪
♪ Will I play the wild rover, ♪
♪ no never no more ♪
"The Wild Rover" - in F this time.
♪ I've been a wild rover for many a year ♪
♪ And I spent all my money on whiskey and beer ♪
♪ But now I'm returning with gold in great store ♪
♪ And I never will play the wild rover no more ♪
♪ And it's no nay never, ♪
♪ no nay never no more ♪
♪ Will I play the wild rover, ♪
♪ no never no more ♪
Lets have a closer look at how the fingering
works in the left hand in that progression,
because you may have to use different fingering,
you have to swap fingers over, so watch it carefully.
so you don't jump up to one, you jumped
up to two, because you can get ready for
that and swap over to it.
"Blow The Man Down", traditional sea shanty.
This progression is a good example to show
that when you play the same chord over several bars,
the left hand goes from the root to the fifth.
And then if you play one chord per bar,
it just plays the root note.
So watch it carefully.
♪ Come on ye young fellows that follow the sea ♪
♪ Way hey, blow the man down. ♪
♪ Now please pay attention and listen to me ♪
♪ O, give me some time to blow the man down ♪
So in the first line of the song
you're playing four C chords.
So that means the left hand is going to go
from the root to the fifth.
But the next line you're going to change chords every bar.
So
root,
root.
You had to change there to your thumb
because you knew you were going to play the root
down to the fifth again for the G
because there's two G chords coming
Let's play it again.
♪ Da da da da ♪
♪ Hey, hey, blow the man down ♪
♪ Please pay attention and listen to me ♪
♪ Give me some time to blow the man down ♪
"Lavender Blue Dilly Dilly".
This is a traditional song that was used
in the 2015 Cinderella film.
♪ Lavender's blue dilly dilly lavender's green ♪
♪ When I am king dilly dilly you shall be queen ♪
♪ Lavender's green dilly dilly lavender's blue ♪
♪ You must love me dilly dilly cause I love you. ♪
"When Irish Eyes Are Smiling".
♪ When Irish eyes are smiling ♪
♪ sure'n tis like a morn in spring ♪
♪ In the lilt of Irish laughter, you can ♪
♪ hear the angels sing. ♪
♪ When Irish hearts are happy ♪
♪ all the world seems bright and gay ♪
♪ And when Irish eyes are smiling ♪
♪ Sure they steal your heart away ♪
In the last chord, I just ran down a C chord.
"We Wish You A Merry Christmas", in the key of F.
There are a lot of chord changes in this progression.
So you won't be doing a lot of root to fifth.
Lets start with the pinky on F,
because were moving up to B flat quite quickly.
♪ We wish you were Merry Christmas ♪
♪ and a Happy New Year! ♪
♪ Good tiding we bring you and your kin ♪
♪ Good tidings for Christmas and a Happy New Year! ♪
So when you sing "Happy New Year" it's,
Happy - New - Year, sometimes you just have to
adjust the rhythm to suit the words.
And you'll work that out yourself because it
won't work,
♪ Happy New Year ♪
You have to accommodate.
You have to shorten everything,
♪ Happy New Year. ♪
You experiment with that,
you can work it out yourself.
"We wish you Merry Christmas".
This time in the Key of C.
♪ We wish you Merry Christmas ♪
♪ And a Happy New Year! ♪
♪ Good tidings we bring you and your kin ♪
♪ Good tidings for Christmas and a Happy New Year! ♪
"Meet me in Saint Louis Louis".
♪ Meet me in St. Louis, Louis ♪
♪ Meet me at the fair ♪
♪ Don't tell me the lights are shining ♪
♪ any place but there ♪
♪ We will dance the Hoochie Koochee ♪
♪ I will be your tootsie wootsie ♪
♪ Meet me in St. Louis, Louis ♪
♪ Meet me at the fair ♪
And again the ending was just running down an F chord
from the root,
there's an F chord.