Ah wow, thank you so much for the comment, that really means a lot! Glad you enjoyed it my friend and I’m so sorry for your loss. 🙏🏻 Wishing you a very merry Christmas and a Happy new year! 🎄🧡🍻
Thanks Alex, a merry Christmas to you too (all the way from Australia). I discovered Ted only this year - love his voicings - and you have brought this one new life. What a gift!
I learned this last year after seeing your old video where you played it on a 335. I immediately fell in love with the arrangement, and while I still can't play it nearly as well as you, it lit a flame in me to learn more chord melodies. Thank you for inspiring me to step outside of my comfort zone.
Hey Alex, this one just popped up on my feed ... wow! beautiful arrangement! This is timely too, I was just contacted about a holiday gig :) .... also: nice guitar!!
"A gift from Alex Farran" - Thank you! Alex, your playing, your teaching, your whole attitude and style are much appreciated! Your music moved me to tears today, and my wife quietly shedding a tear too. Bach does that for me, Ted Greene does that, bring on the tears. It's so beautiful. Thank you! 🙏 I watched every chord voicing, so clearly explained, and my guitar fingers will learn from it, as I replay the video later today. Strangely, i bought a Tele after discovering Ted Greene (Tele's seem to pop up among my favourite guitar mentors, like Tim Lerch, and yourself)! I will become a Patreon subscriber. ❤
Wow Joe, thank you so much for the heart warming, lovely comment. Your words really do mean a lot to me and I'm so glad you enjoy what I do on this channel! Music is such a powerful, emotional force and if I can even slightly communicate that, I'll be happy! And thanks for becoming a Patreon, your support really helps me continue on with this channel. I hope you and your wife have a fantastic Christmas my friend. 🙏🏻🧡
@@AlexFarranGuitar Alex, I appreciate that. It means a lot to me. Wonderful you responded so warmly, and immediately. You are inspiring. My wife said to me this morning, 'when he played the song it didn't just bring me to tears it brought back my feeling of how important Christmas is'. In the words of the song, Alex, "Have yourself a merry little Christmas"! ❤
@@AlexFarranGuitar And thank you for the direct response! Very surprising. I'm a blues guy from midwest America, near Chicago. So lots of flatpick. But lately I've been toying with fingerstyle. I love how much more variation I get in sound, and lesser unneeded volume. You just taught me a lot in just one clip. I'll follow more of your stuff, for sure. Your touch is right there. Beautiful. And your explanation is so informed. It really helps. Thanks again. Cheers.
This was unbelievably lovely, Alex, and beautifully played!! You have such a deft, sublte, light touch and your *just ever so slightly* behind the beat rhythm swings in a most Christmas-y sort of way!! That Dmin spread triad @12:49 is so achingly heartbreaking I nearly shed a tear!!! And the Bach/Greene counterpoint section is so incredibly wonderful, too!! It is now my mission to learn this arrangement before Christmas!! I have my work cut out for me! 🥺 I'm assuming you learned this by ear? Final takeaway: 1. I NEED to listen to more Ted Greene!! 2. Alex Farran is one of the best guitar players in the world!! And I couldn't think of a better guitar to play this song on than that Telecaster....what absolute PERFECTION...you've basically transformed it into a 'lap piano'!!! Thank you so very much for this!!! I hope that you and Louis do indeed have yourselves a Merry Little Christmas!!!! 🎉⛄🎄😺
Ah thank you Floyd my friend, I’m so glad you enjoyed it so much! I’m with you.. the spread triads in this are pure magic 👌🏻 Ted Greene’s chord melody’s are always sublime, I definitely recommend checking them out. I did a video of his “Hark The Herald Angels Sing” last year, it’s equally beautiful in my opinion. I’m sure you can get this down by Christmas dude!.. let me know! Merry Christmas to you and yours too buddy.. it’s been a pleasure getting to know you through the comments section over the past year 🙏🏻🧡🍻
Well spoken. I am so emotionality moved by Alex's playing and his teaching, his love of Ted Greene, that I am reading and👍-ing every friggin comment! This brought me to tears today. Appreciate all you lovers of guitar, of Alex, Ted, Tim, and Telecasters out there!! BTW, is there a transcription available? Did Ted Greene himself do one? ❤
Thanks for the comment buddy, glad you enjoyed the piece! You can learn to play this without truly understanding it.. the theory only really becomes essential if and when you decide that you want to compose/improvise this type of stuff yourself. :)
Lovely. It reminds me why I first picked up guitar. Just love a nice chord or two. A great tune as well. On a separate note could you do your version of Corrine Bailey- Rae song Lucky Star or any of hers. Check out her acoustic version. She can sing of course, but for those who don't it is crying out for a nice chord melody version. If not familiar her songs are full of lovely jazz chords. Ta!
Wow, what a wonderful video. Very happy to subscribe. Ted was a wonderful player but many videos going over his stuff get the pacing wrong for me personally (sometimes too basic, often just blasting through a play example without much discussion) but this was just right.
I took several lessons from Ted in the early 80’s (1980’s…). I had been working on my own version of this same song (Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas), so I took it into Ted not knowing if he had played it before. Anyway I played him my version of it and as always he just seemed to start playing a much better version of it with some extra more interesting chords I hadn’t thought of. He was just an amazingly musically creative player. Anyway it was very nice to open up UA-cam and hear you play this. Sounds great. Out of curiosity, is that an old tele or a reissue? What pickups are in it? And are you plugged straight into a twin or deluxe reverb? Beautiful tone, very balanced, very much like Ted’s tone.
Thanks for commenting buddy!.. that’s amazing!.. I wish I could’ve studied with Ted in person, must’ve been so inspiring. Glad you enjoyed the video and the tone. This tele is essentially a vintage partscaster of sorts, but with modern pickups. The neck pickup is a Fender “nocaster” model. The amp is a modern clone of a black panel Deluxe reverb. Merry Christmas! 🙏🏻
Your guitar playing is wonderful, and merry Christmas! By the way, could I ask you about the model of your black guard telecaster? Is it a vintage guitar or a master builder? Thank you!
Thanks buddy! Really glad you enjoy the videos and dig my playing! Merry Christmas to you my friend! 🙏🏻🍻 It’s a Fender masterbuilt 52’ tele and over the years I’ve tried different pickups in it but have ended up back with the original handwound nocaster neck pickup 👍🏻
@@AlexFarranGuitar Thank you for your kind reply!! It’s really an amazing guitar and sounds pretty good^_^ Nacho’s 52 black guard is good too, and I am wondering which one should I buy for a long time…but just as you say, my friend, the original may always be the best!
Beautiful... is it possible to sound almost this good using a pick (with some string muting and picking over strings)? I have a right hand injury that makes finger picking difficult. At best I can fingerpick with thumb, index and marginal use of index finger.
Wow. Glad to hear that. You know I had stopped following all guitarists on IG except you as I intended to quit playing guitar for good. Long after that, I could not fight my temptation to play your music and steal your licks. 😂 Then I had to purchase all recording equipments and rebuild my tele with my dad again to record mine. I am a big fan of country music and beginner of Jazz. So I really like your channel. Seriously, you are the best!
Hi mate, thanks for the question! No it’s definitely E7.. (there’s a low E in the bass too).. I’d recommend watching the lesson so you can see the context/logic/thinking behind it 👌🏻
Okay. You've got me on this. I look at the notes (D, F#, A, and E) Come to think of it, it looks like D add 9. But I will look at it further to find the E7. All the best.@@AlexFarranGuitar
@@tonymccormick21 definitely watch the lesson as I do explain it in detail! But a quick summary.. the progression is I,vi,ii,V in A.. at that moment we’re on the V.. you have to judge a group of notes by its function, not just as a contextless isolated device. Low E string provides the root, the D = b7, the F# = 9th and the A = 11. Those are simply the upper extensions of an E7.. using the triad built off the b7 of a dominant chord is a very common trick, especially in country music too as well as jazz 👍🏻
Just about a perfect Christmas song
I agree buddy
For the last couple of years I've been trying to learn this piece. Ted Greene is still an enormous inspiration.
An inspiration for sure. Left a big mark on me as a player. Keep working hard and you’ll get it 👍🏻
"A gift from Ted Greene" is a touching hommage to the man who touched so many souls with his music. At least, mine❤.
Thanks Roger, mine too. Glad you liked the video 🙏🏻 Merry Christmas my friend 🧡
A masterpiece!!
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Beautifully executed. Beautifully explained. Beautiful hommage to Ted. He would be proud! Very touching.
Thank you so much! From one Faz to another 🍻😉
Hey I’m doing this arrangement for a Christmas program! My music teacher bought the sheet music from you, so thank you for making this so much easier.
That’s so good to hear!.. thanks for the comment and enjoy working on it! 🙏🏻
Xmas arrangements on a telecaster...now that's xmas to me. Thanks, happy xmas
Thanks mate, I feel the same way! Merry Christmas! 🙏🏻🍻
TONE TONE TONE! Stunning.
Thank you so much! Glad you liked it 🙏🏻
Absolutely beautiful. Made me feel like it was being played for my mom and dad in heaven.
Ah wow, thank you so much for the comment, that really means a lot! Glad you enjoyed it my friend and I’m so sorry for your loss. 🙏🏻 Wishing you a very merry Christmas and a Happy new year! 🎄🧡🍻
Alex does Ted … and beautifully. Thank you
Thank you Nick, that's very kind! Merry Christmas 🙏🏻
Thanks Alex, a merry Christmas to you too (all the way from Australia). I discovered Ted only this year - love his voicings - and you have brought this one new life. What a gift!
Absolutely gorgeous Alex. All those wonderful comments totally justified.
Thank you Martin my friend, I’m really glad you enjoyed it! Have a great Christmas and I’ll see you in the New Year! 🧡🍻
Please more Ted Greene! Would love to see you do Danny Boy or Both Sides Now ❤️
Thanks mate, definitely much more Ted Greene to feature on my channel!
Ted was very inspirational! Glad to see his name still lives on! nice playing.
Absolutely agreed my friend. Thanks for the comment 🙏🏻
A beautiful arrangement skilfully explained and played with stunning musicality. Thank you very much.
Ah thank you my friend! 🙏🏻
I learned this last year after seeing your old video where you played it on a 335. I immediately fell in love with the arrangement, and while I still can't play it nearly as well as you, it lit a flame in me to learn more chord melodies. Thank you for inspiring me to step outside of my comfort zone.
Oh man, that’s so good to hear! Thanks for taking the time to comment my friend! Have a great Christmas! 🙏🏻🍻
@@AlexFarranGuitar you too!
Love Ted Greene. Great Job
Thanks James, I do too. 🙏🏻
Thanks, Alex! I need to buy a fedora!
Stetson is the way 😉👌🏻
Absolutely stunning work I feel Christmassy now
Ah thanks Tim, I appreciate that my friend 🙏🏻🍻
I forget that I'm trying to learn this! And I just listen😂. Excellent!! Merry Christmas!! Thanks so much
Haha thanks Phillip, I'm so glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for commenting my friend, and Merry Christmas! 🙏🏻
Thanks. That really helps a lot!
Glad it helped buddy 🙏🏻
Beautifully done
Thanks so much! 🙏🏻
Waited all day to be able to absorb this undistractedly. This is subtly sublime.
Thanks for the comment buddy, really glad you enjoyed it 🙏🏻
Nailed it man!!! Do some more ted Greene arrangements
thanks buddy! Oh I will do more for sure .. maybe a blues one up next 👍🏻
Thank you man! Jusst thank you so much! ❤
Thank you too buddy, I really appreciate the comment. Merry Christmas 🙏🏻🧡🍻
What a wonderful gift for all. Thank you and Merry Christmas!
My pleasure! Merry Christmas to you too my friend! 🙏🏻
Hey Alex, this one just popped up on my feed ... wow! beautiful arrangement! This is timely too, I was just contacted about a holiday gig :) .... also: nice guitar!!
Oh cool!.. this would certainly go down well!
brilliant breakdown!
Thanks so much! 🙏🏻
Seriously man. You are the best. ❤ Beautiful arrangement, but stunningly played.
Thanks for your work, man.
Ah thank you so much! Really glad you enjoyed it my friend. Have a great Christmas! 🙏🏻🍻
Lovely. Thank you for the outstanding rendition of a beautiful song and a very soulful arrangement.
Thanks for listening and for commenting! Have a great Christmas buddy 🙏🏻🎄🍻
Gorgeous. Thank you
My pleasure!.. thanks for commenting 🙏🏻
❤❤❤❤❤
Beautifully done mate
Thank you buddy 🙏🏻
Lovely brother. 🙏
Thanks Jeremy, Merry Christmas buddy 🙏🏻🍻
u too!
Simply wonderful!
Yhank you Alex!
Thank you, really glad you enjoyed it! 🙏🏻
It's just impossibile not get in love with it and with your way of teaching. Congratulations!
Excellent! Beautifully executed tune.
Thank you so much! 🙏🏻
Beautiful!
Thank you buddy! 🙏🏻
Excellent playing!
Thank you! 🙏🏻
Thank you, that was amazing and beautiful
I'm so glad you enjoyed it!.. thanks so much for the kind words. 🙏🏻 Merry Christmas! 🎅🏻
Alex,your playing is so beautiful and inspiring, as a guitar teacher myself I take great inspiration and ideas from your playing and teaching
Ah thanks so much Neil, I really appreciate that comment 🙏🏻 Glad you’re enjoying the videos my friend. Have a great Christmas 🧡
Thanks for this Christmas present Alex...learning this for after Christmas Lunch for a bit of family cheer! Have a good one.
I love to hear that buddy! Thanks for the comment and Merry Christmas! 🙏🏻🧡
Amazing!
Thank you so much! 🙏🏻
Wonderful playing. Thanks for introducing me to this arrangement and all your other inspiring videos.
My pleasure buddy!.. thanks for the lovely comment 🙏🏻
Just lovely
Thank you Larry 🙏🏻
Really Great Job Man ❤
Thanks buddy! 🙏🏻
Loving your channel, and your guitar tone is wonderful.
Ah that’s very kind, thank you so much! 🙏🏻
"A gift from Alex Farran" - Thank you!
Alex, your playing, your teaching, your whole attitude and style are much appreciated! Your music moved me to tears today, and my wife quietly shedding a tear too. Bach does that for me, Ted Greene does that, bring on the tears. It's so beautiful. Thank you! 🙏
I watched every chord voicing, so clearly explained, and my guitar fingers will learn from it, as I replay the video later today. Strangely, i bought a Tele after discovering Ted Greene (Tele's seem to pop up among my favourite guitar mentors, like Tim Lerch, and yourself)! I will become a Patreon subscriber. ❤
Wow Joe, thank you so much for the heart warming, lovely comment. Your words really do mean a lot to me and I'm so glad you enjoy what I do on this channel! Music is such a powerful, emotional force and if I can even slightly communicate that, I'll be happy!
And thanks for becoming a Patreon, your support really helps me continue on with this channel. I hope you and your wife have a fantastic Christmas my friend. 🙏🏻🧡
@@AlexFarranGuitar Alex, I appreciate that. It means a lot to me. Wonderful you responded so warmly, and immediately. You are inspiring. My wife said to me this morning, 'when he played the song it didn't just bring me to tears it brought back my feeling of how important Christmas is'. In the words of the song, Alex, "Have yourself a merry little Christmas"! ❤
You and your wife are both so right!.. and music really does bring that magic to the surface. Merry Christmas buddy 🙏🏻🧡
@@AlexFarranGuitar 😄 🎄 ❤
Beautiful thank you and Merry Christmas
Thank you so much! Merry Christmas to you too buddy 🙏🏻🍻
Excellent,well played
Thank you buddy!
love this, thanks Alex.
My pleasure Scotty, thanks for the comment 🙏🏻
What a awesome video have a good weekend ❤😊
Thanks buddy, you too! 🙏🏻
This channel is wonderful. "A gift from Alex Farran". Thanks for share it, Alex!
My pleasure buddy, so glad you enjoy the videos. Thanks for commenting 🙏🏻🧡
Beautiful rendition. Ty.
My pleasure, thanks for listening 🙏🏻
Lovely playing and great presentation Alex. Wishing you the best - John
Thank you John, I really appreciate that. Merry Christmas mate 🙏🏻🍻
loving your channel man!! Sick tele!
Thanks mate, glad you dig it! 🙏🏻
Thank you sir for this Nice teaching music lesson 👍🏾👌🏾👏🏾🤘🏾🎼🎶🎵🎶
My pleasure! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Very nice. Beautiful tone. And explained so well relative to chord structures. I got some work to do.
Thanks mate, really glad you found it useful! Let me know how you get along with it! 👍🏻
@@AlexFarranGuitar And thank you for the direct response! Very surprising. I'm a blues guy from midwest America, near Chicago. So lots of flatpick. But lately I've been toying with fingerstyle. I love how much more variation I get in sound, and lesser unneeded volume. You just taught me a lot in just one clip. I'll follow more of your stuff, for sure. Your touch is right there. Beautiful. And your explanation is so informed. It really helps. Thanks again. Cheers.
Beautifully played Alex!
Ah thanks Tim, that's very kind 🙏🏻 Hope you're well my friend!
Thanks for this splendid gift, Alex. Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year to you.
My pleasure Eric, thanks for the comment! Merry Christmas my friend :)
Well done! So beautiful!!!
Thank you so much!! 🙏🏻
This was unbelievably lovely, Alex, and beautifully played!! You have such a deft, sublte, light touch and your *just ever so slightly* behind the beat rhythm swings in a most Christmas-y sort of way!! That Dmin spread triad @12:49 is so achingly heartbreaking I nearly shed a tear!!! And the Bach/Greene counterpoint section is so incredibly wonderful, too!! It is now my mission to learn this arrangement before Christmas!! I have my work cut out for me! 🥺 I'm assuming you learned this by ear? Final takeaway: 1. I NEED to listen to more Ted Greene!! 2. Alex Farran is one of the best guitar players in the world!! And I couldn't think of a better guitar to play this song on than that Telecaster....what absolute PERFECTION...you've basically transformed it into a 'lap piano'!!! Thank you so very much for this!!! I hope that you and Louis do indeed have yourselves a Merry Little Christmas!!!! 🎉⛄🎄😺
Ah thank you Floyd my friend, I’m so glad you enjoyed it so much! I’m with you.. the spread triads in this are pure magic 👌🏻
Ted Greene’s chord melody’s are always sublime, I definitely recommend checking them out. I did a video of his “Hark The Herald Angels Sing” last year, it’s equally beautiful in my opinion.
I’m sure you can get this down by Christmas dude!.. let me know!
Merry Christmas to you and yours too buddy.. it’s been a pleasure getting to know you through the comments section over the past year 🙏🏻🧡🍻
Well spoken. I am so emotionality moved by Alex's playing and his teaching, his love of Ted Greene, that I am reading and👍-ing every friggin comment! This brought me to tears today. Appreciate all you lovers of guitar, of Alex, Ted, Tim, and Telecasters out there!!
BTW, is there a transcription available? Did Ted Greene himself do one? ❤
Oh man I wish i understood what you were saying to follow along 🤣Im a bit of a beginner but I've always loved jazz etc
Thanks for the comment buddy, glad you enjoyed the piece! You can learn to play this without truly understanding it.. the theory only really becomes essential if and when you decide that you want to compose/improvise this type of stuff yourself. :)
Always such tasteful playing. Merry Xmas Alex!
Ah thanks mate, Merry Christmas to you too 🙏🏻
7:40 Thanks for addressing counterpoint.
No problem buddy. I will do a proper video about it soon too.
Pure class👋🏼😡
Thank you buddy! 🙏🏻
Lovely. It reminds me why I first picked up guitar. Just love a nice chord or two. A great tune as well. On a separate note could you do your version of Corrine Bailey- Rae song Lucky Star or any of hers. Check out her acoustic version. She can sing of course, but for those who don't it is crying out for a nice chord melody version. If not familiar her songs are full of lovely jazz chords. Ta!
great, clear, demonstration of counterpoint too.
Thanks buddy, I appreciate the comment! Will check that tune out 👍🏻
Wow, what a wonderful video. Very happy to subscribe. Ted was a wonderful player but many videos going over his stuff get the pacing wrong for me personally (sometimes too basic, often just blasting through a play example without much discussion) but this was just right.
Thanks for taking the time to comment, I really appreciate the kind words and I’m so glad you found the video helpful. 🙏🏻
I took several lessons from Ted in the early 80’s (1980’s…). I had been working on my own version of this same song (Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas), so I took it into Ted not knowing if he had played it before. Anyway I played him my version of it and as always he just seemed to start playing a much better version of it with some extra more interesting chords I hadn’t thought of. He was just an amazingly musically creative player. Anyway it was very nice to open up UA-cam and hear you play this. Sounds great. Out of curiosity, is that an old tele or a reissue? What pickups are in it? And are you plugged straight into a twin or deluxe reverb? Beautiful tone, very balanced, very much like Ted’s tone.
Thanks for commenting buddy!.. that’s amazing!.. I wish I could’ve studied with Ted in person, must’ve been so inspiring.
Glad you enjoyed the video and the tone. This tele is essentially a vintage partscaster of sorts, but with modern pickups. The neck pickup is a Fender “nocaster” model. The amp is a modern clone of a black panel Deluxe reverb.
Merry Christmas! 🙏🏻
Your guitar playing is wonderful, and merry Christmas! By the way, could I ask you about the model of your black guard telecaster? Is it a vintage guitar or a master builder? Thank you!
Thanks buddy! Really glad you enjoy the videos and dig my playing! Merry Christmas to you my friend! 🙏🏻🍻
It’s a Fender masterbuilt 52’ tele and over the years I’ve tried different pickups in it but have ended up back with the original handwound nocaster neck pickup 👍🏻
@@AlexFarranGuitar Thank you for your kind reply!! It’s really an amazing guitar and sounds pretty good^_^ Nacho’s 52 black guard is good too, and I am wondering which one should I buy for a long time…but just as you say, my friend, the original may always be the best!
Beautiful... is it possible to sound almost this good using a pick (with some string muting and picking over strings)? I have a right hand injury that makes finger picking difficult. At best I can fingerpick with thumb, index and marginal use of index finger.
Oh yes for sure, this could definitely be played with a pick. Would make for a good left hand damping workout too! 👍🏻
great work, what kind of pickup and telecaster is this?
Fender Masterbuilt 52’ tele with original handwound nocaster neck pickup 👍🏻
Another great work, Alex.
Wonder why only 12k subscribers! 😂
Haha thanks buddy, we're building it up gradually! Got another 4k in the past month so we're on the right path finally! ;)
Wow. Glad to hear that. You know I had stopped following all guitarists on IG except you as I intended to quit playing guitar for good. Long after that, I could not fight my temptation to play your music and steal your licks. 😂 Then I had to purchase all recording equipments and rebuild my tele with my dad again to record mine. I am a big fan of country music and beginner of Jazz. So I really like your channel. Seriously, you are the best!
Wow thank you so much my friend, that really means a lot! 🙏🏻🧡
This is really lovely playing - is the transcription available? (I couldn’t see it in the store) 🙂
Thank you Stuart, I appreciate that. Yes indeed, there’s a link in the description to take you to the transcription page 👍🏻
P.S; just to save you a couple of clicks; smogfalls.gumroad.com/l/dzsvas
@@AlexFarranGuitar Thankyou so much - purchased! Should have enough time to nail it before December! 😉
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Thank you 🙏🏻
4:59
Paper would be nice here. Is there a lead sheet for that?
Yes there is.. just check the links in the description 👍🏻
@@AlexFarranGuitar 👍
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Gorgeous, but too quick for me to follow! Obvs aimed at better players than me!
That’s what the tabs are for David! Don’t do yourself down! Give it a go! 🤷🏻♂️💪🏼
The fourth chord is shown as E7 but I think it is D7. What do you think?
Hi mate, thanks for the question! No it’s definitely E7.. (there’s a low E in the bass too).. I’d recommend watching the lesson so you can see the context/logic/thinking behind it 👌🏻
Okay. You've got me on this. I look at the notes (D, F#, A, and E) Come to think of it, it looks like D add 9. But I will look at it further to find the E7. All the best.@@AlexFarranGuitar
@@tonymccormick21 definitely watch the lesson as I do explain it in detail! But a quick summary.. the progression is I,vi,ii,V in A.. at that moment we’re on the V.. you have to judge a group of notes by its function, not just as a contextless isolated device.
Low E string provides the root, the D = b7, the F# = 9th and the A = 11. Those are simply the upper extensions of an E7.. using the triad built off the b7 of a dominant chord is a very common trick, especially in country music too as well as jazz 👍🏻
Wonderful playing!
Thank you Paul 🙏🏻