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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Cruster,
On the "agony of recording" thread you mentioned that the Christmas Song has driven you right to the edge. Is that my arrangement you're playing, the one cuzin Tim distributed to some OFCers in a PDF file?
If so, what is it about the arrangement that's driving you nuts? Anyone else having problems with it? I usually play it at least a couple of times whenever I haul out my geetar, and I really enjoy it. |
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Location: Midland, MI | Oh, gosh no, it wasn't your arrangement. Which, I do have, thanks to Cousin Tim, BTW. :) I have yours, but never got around to printing it out. Instead, I've sort of taken some piano sheet music and done this whole chord melody jazz interpretation (read: I hit the wrong notes, wrong chords, wrong tempo so I call it jazz). It sounds fine (to my ear), but strumming a C(somthing or other, 6th? Augmented? I dunno, I throw an extra note or two into it) in the first position then getting up to the C note on the 8th fret of the high E string in time for it to not sound bad is...exciting. I tried playing the same sounding C chord up there on the high E, but then I have to get my fist unknotted and back down to that C, then down to the next chord (and don't ask me what that one is, either). It sounds fantastic, just ask my wife...she's sick of hearing it. It's just a stretch for me to play. Maybe I'll re-re-re-re-record it (I keep deleting the ones with mistakes...don't want any evidence laying around ) and put it up somewhere for y'all to laugh at. :)
Or maybe I should just print out your arrangement and call it quits on mine. :) My instructor played a version of the song, but it was all 'jazz chords' with no melody other than him humming. It looked way easier than what I'm trying to do. :)
And finally (whew), I need to get this song done and out of the way so that I can move on to 'Christmas Time Is Here.' I've started that, just for a change, but...uh, yeah. Vince was a genius on the keyboard, and I can play an arrangement of it on the piano, but the geetar is...challenging.
(Tnx for the arrangement, BTW!) |
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Wrong notes, wrong chords, wrong tempo, so it's jazz. I hear ya. When I take a bit longer than usual to move from one chord to another, I just claim I'm "altering" the phrasing to make it sound more jazzy. I don't think I've phrased The Christmas Song the same way twice - "artistic licence" - yeah, that's what it is. ;) |
Christmas Song Woes?
