Video Valentine Basics
with “Love Me Tender” and “Those Were the Days My Friend”
Start with Harps Tuned in C
[HTL-60-210204 – HARP TIME LIVE #60 – Thu. Feb. 4, 2021
In which we learn the BASICS of creating a simple Video Valentine
Here’s how to take what you learn in this session much further:
Join “Hip Harp Academy” …
or check out the “Sing & Play Harp” immersion course – that’s where you’ll find more about playing the 3-Chord Patterns we used in this session.
Please add your own insights, revelations, and takeaways below in the comments, even if someone else already said the same thing! Just say it in your own way or say it again the way they did.
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16:32:00 From heatherflinn : LOVE the STROBO soft …the most accurate!
16:35:17 From Stefanie Bieber : Kirstin, your wish is already online!
16:36:07 From Deborah Fleisher : I’m hearing a lot of static
16:36:18 From Stefanie Bieber : My audiocorrect is creative in renaming people, sorry Kirsti!
16:36:22 From Vera Stern : there is white background noise….
16:37:49 From Melinda Ostrander-Aviles : I’m so sorry Deborah.
16:37:57 From kirsti Kaldro : I’m so sorry, Deborah!
16:37:59 From Stefanie Bieber : This is sooo sad!
16:38:05 From Tara : So sorry!
16:38:18 From Laurie Grant : So very sorry to hear, Deborah! Sending you virtual hugs…
16:38:30 From Joanne MacDonald : So sorry, Deborah
16:38:51 From Lynne Lapidus : sigh.. it’s so hard….
16:38:57 From Anne Horton : Very poignant Deborah … we hear you … and a BIG HUG to you too xoxo
16:38:59 From Sheila Jaffe : Thank you for sharing that. Sending you love and prayers
16:39:06 From Tara : Good reasons.
16:39:52 From Linda : Chin up, lass! By the way, Deborah, I have a pair of those very same glasses frames.
16:40:00 From Laurie Grant : The noise is minor here
16:40:03 From Tara : Sound is fine for me.
16:40:04 From Sally : Sound okay here
16:40:14 From heatherflinn : None here
16:40:15 From Stacie Link : ok here
16:40:19 From Anne Horton : I didn’t have the white background noise and I still don’t have it
16:40:22 From Vera Stern : sound is better now..
16:40:25 From cherie Mafey : So important to keep contact with people we love. So sorry for your loss.
16:41:27 From DHC : https://www.hipharp.com/academy/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/video-valentine-outline-v4dhc.pdf
16:41:51 From Laurie Grant : Worked!
16:42:09 From cherie Mafey : Can we do a jazzy style valentine? And maybe the chord shapes
16:42:51 From Joke Verdoold : I love to second the requests of Cherie
16:42:59 From Cherrie Mooney : Yes, I got it without being in the academy.
16:43:04 From Laurie Grant : My company is collecting pdf or video valentines for our troups! of course I thought of this! 🙂
16:43:37 From Evelyn : my 100 yr old aunts favorite song is “those were the days”
16:43:39 From Laurie Grant : I’ll find out if it’s open to people outside the company
16:43:41 From Linda : A jazzy, My Funny Valentine…
16:44:10 From DHC : https://www.hipharp.com/academy/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/video-valentine-outline-v4dhc.pdf
16:44:10 From Melinda Ostrander-Aviles : Someone to watch over me
16:44:31 From Sheila Jaffe : Love me Tender
16:44:45 From Stefanie Bieber : The Rose
16:45:15 From Evelyn : thank you so much. that was the song!
16:45:22 From kirsti Kaldro : Yes!
16:45:49 From Lynne Lapidus : Those were the days, my friend, we thought they’d never end. we’d sing and dance forever and day. we’d live the life we choose, we’d fight and never lose for we were young and sure to have our way
16:47:02 From Stefanie Bieber : Love me tender, love me sweet
Never let me go
You have made my life complete
And I love you so
Love me tender, love me true
All my dreams fulfill
For my darling, I love you
And I always will
Love me tender, love me long
Take me to your heart
For it’s there that I belong
And we’ll never part
Love me tender, love me true
All my dreams fulfill
For my darling, I love you
And I always will
Love me tender, love me, dear
Tell me you are mine
I’ll be yours through all the years
‘Til the end of time
Love me tender, love me true
All my dreams fulfill
For my darling, I love you
And I always will
16:53:16 From Rebecca Lambert : Thank you for all these options!! you are amazing.
16:57:34 From Anna Bosanquet : why do you say C- e C – e while you play c chord at the beginning? Sorry – lost!
16:58:57 From Laurie Grant : These chords are like a magic trick!! 🙂
16:59:44 From kirsti Kaldro : So the extended dominants you are showing are with third in the bass, so it’s a cookie cutter shape?
17:00:31 From debra Sawyer : 2nd part isn’t an F after the E
17:01:53 From Stefanie Bieber : C – D7 – G – C – C – C – D7- G – C
17:02:06 From Stefanie Bieber : C E7 Am7 – E7
17:02:16 From Stefanie Bieber : A7 D7 G7 C
17:02:21 From Rebecca Lambert : C, C, D,D, G, G, C C C D D G G C. glis C E E Amin E A7 and D7 G7 C
17:03:32 From Stefanie Bieber : Jake, it is in the melody, but she took other chords for the same melody
17:03:48 From Stefanie Bieber : OHHHH, JOKE, not Jake, grrr
17:03:53 From kirsti Kaldro : Reharmonization!
17:03:55 From mary robinson : 33097071476037
17:03:58 From Lynne Lapidus : internet has similar chords
17:04:02 From Stefanie Bieber : It doesn’t
17:05:47 From janeilmola : I’d do it :C dm G C: 2x then C E A C F F C , C (gm) A A7 D G C
17:05:51 From Gail : Your way is creatively more interesting musically. I love having the difference. That is what makes your style so marvelous!
17:06:09 From Hýldi’s iPad Pro : intro: G-C-B
17:07:56 From DHC : Love me tender, love me sweet
Never let me go
You have made my life complete
And I love you so
Love me tender, love me true
All my dreams fulfill
For my darling, I love you
And I always will
Love me tender, love me long
Take me to your heart
For it’s there that I belong
And we’ll never part
Love me tender, love me true
All my dreams fulfill
For my darling, I love you
And I always will
Love me tender, love me, dear
Tell me you are mine
I’ll be yours through all the years
‘Til the end of time
Love me tender, love me true
All my dreams fulfill
For my darling, I love you
And I always will
17:09:38 From DHC : C, C, D,D, G, G, C C C D D G G C. glis C E E Amin E A7 and D7 G7 C
17:09:40 From DHC : Love me tender, love me sweet
Never let me go
You have made my life complete
And I love you so
Love me tender, love me true
All my dreams fulfill
For my darling, I love you
And I always will
17:09:41 From Charlene : I used o
17:10:15 From Stefanie Bieber : Amazing, I just realized it is NOT the same melody in the end! Interesting what the brain makes out of things
17:12:02 From Hýldi’s iPad Pro : => intro: G-C-B-C-G
17:12:14 From janeilmola : after the repeated part in the second line you could use just a descending bass C B A G, then F-chord and C-chord. then again basses C B A G F E D, G-chord and C-chord.
17:12:32 From debra Sawyer : Elvis or Stephen Foster
17:12:57 From Veronica White : Do you mean we should press the record button?
17:13:43 From Charlene : this is the Elvis melody in my songbook. I used to be so afraid of lever changes and now I find myself wanting to see how I can add them!
17:14:04 From Evelyn : record button works better than play. but this is very helpful!
17:18:13 From Veronica White : did I miss the part where you say what platform we use to send the cards?
17:19:06 From Laurie Grant : That chord shape is such a gift…. my biggest take away!
17:19:06 From Sheila Jaffe : It’s a great idea. I’m going to put a medley of love songs for a video Valentine.
17:19:07 From cherie Mafey : Still sounds OK even if you avoid lever changes, can sound just as nice played simply.
17:19:21 From Sheila Jaffe : The cord shape is so helpful!
17:19:28 From Stacie Link : it sounds good in minor too
17:19:39 From Deborah Fleisher : my experience of sending lots of birthday videos is that people are loving them.
17:19:42 From Ruth Thomson : transioning from one gorgeous chord to another……. take away
17:19:48 From Stefanie Bieber : It is a great idea not only for Valentines Day! So nice to get connected
17:20:13 From Veronica White : I have a couple of questions in the queue in your ask questions section on your website
17:20:14 From Evelyn : i sent an unlisted link from a youtube link to my aunts nursing home and the recreation aide b4o7
17:20:22 From Veronica White : I like the intro
17:20:27 From Cherrie Mooney : I learned the easy way to do 7ths
17:20:29 From Stefanie Bieber : Is there something like Toni-Box in the US too?
17:20:48 From Evelyn : i sent an unlisted yiutu
17:20:55 From kirsti Kaldro : This one is very popular at the hospital…I have been timid about adding in the lever changes, so this helped to visual how to put them in…I think that was a cookie cutter shape for the extended dominants, right?
17:20:57 From Nancy C : You have taught to play by ear, have no space for Hap Live to play, play harmonics.
17:21:16 From Veronica White : On your website
17:21:24 From Stefanie Bieber : I sent all sorts of children songs Rondos to our grandchild on Toni Box today
17:21:35 From Stefanie Bieber : Thanks for the inspriation
17:22:38 From Hýldi’s iPad Pro : Thanks Stefanie…that sounds interesting!
17:23:41 From Stefanie Bieber : https://tonies.de/
17:23:58 From Lynne Lapidus : Those were the days, my friend, we thought they’d never end. we’d sing and dance forever and day. we’d live the life we choose, we’d fight and never lose for we were young and sure to have our way lai lai lai lai……..
17:24:09 From Melinda Ostrander-Aviles : https://tonies.com/en-gb/toniebox/
17:25:15 From Veronica White : veronica27white@gmail.com
17:25:15 From Tara : The tune is familiar enough that the ear can fill in the lever flips so I don’t have to do them! That makes it relaxing to play.
17:26:54 From Lynne Lapidus : verse – once upon a time there was a tavern where we used to raise a glass or two. remember how we laughed away the hours and dreamed of all the great things we would do….
17:27:00 From Hýldi’s iPad Pro : => set your harp to the key of G (sharp your F’s)
17:27:37 From Hýldi’s iPad Pro : => The Song: Those Were The Days (My Friend)
17:28:01 From Hýldi’s iPad Pro : => intro: G, G, F, B, gliss
17:28:42 From Vera Stern : song in e minor?
17:29:11 From Stefanie Bieber : Em- Am – D – G
17:29:24 From Hýldi’s iPad Pro : => chords: Em, Am, D, G….
17:29:59 From Hýldi’s iPad Pro : => use the finger trick on the D chord
17:30:09 From Linda : Thanks for my first harp time live session. I am off to get my cocoa now. Bye all.
17:30:52 From Stefanie Bieber : Am – Em – B – Em
17:33:50 From kirsti Kaldro : Is the B a minor 7 or Dom 7?
17:33:57 From Stefanie Bieber : First inversion
17:34:20 From Stefanie Bieber : G-B- E
17:35:25 From janeilmola : The B (7) is major but you can leave the 3rd out and just play B, F# (A)
17:38:07 From Joanne MacDonald : Gotta go – thanks! Loved it!
17:38:19 From Lynne Lapidus : Those were the days, my friend, we thought they’d never end. we’d sing and dance forever and day. we’d live the life we choose, we’d fight and never lose for we were young and sure to have our way
17:40:37 From Hýldi’s iPad Pro : sharp the D sometimes
17:40:58 From Hýldi’s iPad Pro : 2nd to last D
17:41:26 From debra Sawyer : or e/ eb /e Hyldi
17:43:08 From debra Sawyer : Its a progression
17:43:14 From mary robinson : forever and a g…for some reason, perfectly normal chord calling sounded hilarious and unexpected to me and I laughed all the way through!! awesome lyrics 🙂
17:43:16 From Carol Henley : learning the funky chords!
17:43:23 From Tara : I found open 5th oom-pahs eminently do-able.
17:43:38 From Lynne Lapidus : you don’t have to go out to buy paper cards or mail them in a pandemic!!!
17:43:48 From Susanne : I liked that shape to leave out the levers.
17:44:00 From Sheila Jaffe : It’s so immediate and personal
17:44:01 From Evelyn : connecting with camera while playing
17:44:10 From Laurie Grant : It’s such a fun way to brighten someone’s day 🙂
17:44:33 From Laurie Grant : Love the up-beat um pah of this song
17:44:38 From Anna Bosanquet : when does the class start?
17:44:47 From Laurie Grant : Yes, I’ll get back to you on that
17:44:50 From Carol Henley : Heck, this brightens my day!
17:45:10 From Sheila Jaffe : This song took me a long time to learn to sing and play on piano and this was so fast and it sounds so good! Thanks so much
17:45:15 From DHC : https://www.hipharp.com/video-greeting-cards
17:45:23 From Cherrie Mooney : Loved the oompahs and singing made it easier.
17:45:25 From Joke Verdoold : Lovely evening, sorry I have to go.
17:45:56 From Evelyn : leaving out the third to avoid lever change is priceless
17:46:00 From Laurie Grant : Thank you!!
17:46:09 From Tara : Thank you!
17:46:44 From Nancy C : Thank you Deborah!!
17:46:55 From cherie Mafey : Thank you that was fun
17:47:03 From DHC : https://www.hipharp.com/academy/htlwdhc-harp-time-with-dhc-live-main-page/
17:47:06 From DHC : https://www.hipharp.com/academy/htlwdhc-harp-time-with-dhc-live-main-page/
17:47:15 From DHC : https://www.hipharp.com/academy/htlwdhc-harp-time-with-dhc-live-main-page/
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