Signup for Vi Wickam's Fiddle Tune a Day: www.vithefiddler.com Learn about the Gratitude Effect www.avaiya.com OK, before you start picking on me because Heart and Soul isn't really a fiddle tune, know this: Fiddle Tune a Day is my game and I get to make up the rules. :) And, for the purposes of this game, Heart and Soul counts. Moving on. I had a great time down at the Avaiya Studios in Boulder, CO working on a couple of soon to be released films, The Gratitude Effect, and Power of the Portrait. While I was there, I got to meet the lovely Jean Trebek, wife of Alex Trebek. As you probably know, I like to have other people join me on Fiddle Tune a Day from time to time, and when you get an opportunity to have Jean Trebek on Fiddle Tune a Day, you don't pass it up, and Heart and Soul was one of the only tunes she knows on piano. We had a great time goofing off. I think you will enjoy it too. Heart and Soul (1938 song) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Heart and Soul" is a! popular song, with music by Hoagy Carmichael and lyrics by Frank Loesser, published in 1938. The original 1938 version was performed by Larry Clinton & his Orchestra featuring Bea Wain. The song's A-section is often simplified as a repeating I-vi-IV-V progression and taught to beginning piano students as an easy two-hand duet ( example (help·info)). Much like the song "Chopsticks," this (somewhat inaccurate) version became widely-known, even to those who have never studied piano. The chord progression ...
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