Emergency Holiday Lesson (5 of's, diminished triads) (Patreon)

The popular "wish you a Merry Christmas" is the perfect song to study basic "5 of" movements, as there are two of them built into the progression. Not only are those chords happening, the melody is also playing color notes that spell out the sounds as well.

And considering we now know that we can throw in diminished triads over any dominant chord (especially when used as transitions), we can do a little bit of that here as well!

I'm playing a very basic version of the tune, key of G:

G - C - A7 - D -
B7 - Em - Am - D G

Or

1 - 4 - (5 of 5) - 5
(5 of 6) - 6 - 2 - 5 1

Hope this is useful!