Happy Birthday! Even if it’s not today…
Welcome to the second blog for this month! Before I begin today’s story, remember to click the links to my shop and YouTube videos, including the video that this blog is about. It’s a great video to share with your friends when you want to wish them Happy Birthday in a fun way!
The man on screen playing on the Accordion is Dr. Roger Hale, the Choir Teacher I had in college. I’ve mentioned him in these blogs a couple times before, like how he has his own YouTube channel and helped me as I started my channel. There are also some things that I haven’t mentioned yet. He plays the Kazoo, plays the Nose Flute, taught me that the minor major seventh chord is Perry the Platypus’ theme song, and, you guessed it, he plays the Accordion. He likes to keep his Accordion in his office so that whenever it’s someone’s birthday, he can play Happy Birthday to them.
One day in 2020(if you can’t tell by the mask he’s wearing in the video), he brought out his Accordion again and played to one of the Tennors. It turns out that he has the same birthday as my mom. So after class had ended, I asked Dr. Hale if he could get his Accordion out again so I could record the song and text it to my mom. Thankfully, he agreed to do so.
Fast forward to now, I was having technical difficulties with recording music and editing videos. It’s similar to the backstory I mentioned but didn’t talk about in yesterday’s blog, and I presently see no need to bore you with the specifics of this struggle as well. I’m just glad that I found this video in my phone and was able to edit it with ease. Once I got permission from Dr. Hale, I uploaded it and scheduled it to come out at the end of March. Three months down, nine to go!
I hope that you find this simple video to be entertaining. At least once a year on your birthday! Remember to click on the links previously mentioned, especially Dr. Hale’s channel! Have a great day and see you next month.
Thanks for reading this all the way to the end.
P.S. Seriously though, whenever I watch Phineas and Ferb these days and hear the chords at the end of Perry’s theme song(A-gent P!), I think about that moment in the Fall of 2020 when I finally understood what a minor major chord is and how to hear it. I just think of Perry. Thank you Perry the Platypus! Thank you Dr. Hale!
