Arranging "Silent Night," Regular and Bluesy

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Want your night to be a little less silent? Try this sweet tip! Pianist, entertainer, composer, arranger, and sweater-wearer extraordinaire Jeremy Siskind shares two arrangements of "Silent Night" using bluesy second-inversion triad voicings. You can make your silent night a gospel fiesta with the second half of this exercise.

[@brw4807]

I love how this works, especially the blues element-seems like an All Blues or Ray Charles-ish vibe. Hallelujah, I have seen the light!

[@JeremySiskind]

Exactly! I'm glad you dig it!

[@jonathancohen8735]

Very cool bluesy way to play songs! Thanks for the great lesson as always, and the light beam is cool too!

[@trott]

The beautiful beam of light doesn't want to be rudely pedantic and therefore won't mention that a tritone is an augmented fourth and not a diminished fourth. (Don't let the pedantry mislead you. Enjoyed the video tremendously!)

[@donm3986]

Thanks for the tutorial on arranging both a regular and bluesy "Silent Night". No need to fix the beam of light; it's there to represent the star of Bethlehem. (And the audio cuts out around the 2:30 and 11:45 marks, maybe to represent the silent in Silent Night.)

[@ChapinJazz]

FYI: One of your “scenes” lacked audio. Thanks. As always, your presos are beams of light for all of us. Happy holidays to you and your family (loved the photos in your newsletter).

[@barbchristensonpiano3050]

I have absolutely no extra time in my schedule today 🤪…..and yet here I am, at the piano, watching and working through this awesome video! 😂 Thank you! It was very enlightening 😉

[@martynramsden]

Same Barb! 😂

[@DrunkenBoatCaptain]

I figured out this 2nd inversion patterns this year - just a complete game changer for putting soul into my playing. Would love to see more tutorials on this topic!

[@markyachnin1901]

@Jeremy. You are the beam of light! Thank you.

[@dankruvand4937]

Your beam of light has illuminated the gospel path for me today, thanks!

[@markandrew7232]

Amazing and super simplistic explanation

[@justin81706]

Wow! 🤯

[@francescomanfredi]

Great lesson Jeremy! Merry Christmas 🎄

[@matthewfairman9865]

Sound dropped out at 11.38...
Light beam!... Really like your videos, they are great... nb I have been learning your arrangement of "Embraceable you" from your new book...

[@sheilamacdougal4874]

I do a kind of Blue Monk version of You better watch out, you better not cry, with dominant 7ths and every blues cliché I can throw in. But somehow Silent Night seems too beautiful to bluesify without sounding a bit kitschy. But that's just a matter of taste. Thank you as always.

[@tomaspa]

Beam us up Jeremy. Great video as usual and an alternative to good old Barry Harris’ block chords. Cheers

[@matthewfairman9865]

Interesting video... occasionally the sound was dropping out...

[@humblemai2211]

😅😅 love you more 😂info

[@humblemai2211]

😅😅 jazz and bebop of silent night... please 😅😅😅

[@KBMars]

Thank you for your insightful lessons and entertainment value. It's really great to watch you share your knowledge with us. I applied some of your principles to a new orchestral arrangement of Silent Night for strings, harp and woodwinds in the repetition of the theme, with an independent bassline for cello and bassoon to make the sections come alive. The IVm maj7 really makes it special. The coda also has a hint of it. th-cam.com/video/4Z71Xlhzbwg/w-d-xo.html

[@justin81706]

How old were you when you started playing? Are you ever too old to start? I am 43 and just now getting started.

[@ili626]

sounds like All Blues.. i prefer more traditional arrangements.. it’s meant to a evoke calm serene feeling, not a rhythmic bluesy thing imo