My band take a very irreverent view of Christmas and try to make as many carols as we can into marches/polkas to be played for dances, or even into trad jazz numbers to be played in the session, just for something different.
We rearranged them into time signatures and numbers of bars and found all the multiples of 32 in 4/4 and 6/8 were suitable to dance to.
They can all be played down the page as sets - so here goes
What's "Xmas Eve"? Don't know that one.
What could be better than massacring Xmas standards?
There was a very cool album put out a few years ago as a fundraiser for AIDS research or some such thing. It was called "Christmas Guitars" and featured several different players, doing Christmas standards in their individual styles. Emily Remmler, Taj Mahal, John Renbourne, Mark Knopfler, Adrien Belew...I can't remember all of them. Electric guitar, classical guitar, blues, ragtime, etc. Wonderful stuff. Not really a massacre, but it's interesting how far you can go with Christmas music (remember the "barking jingle bells", performed by dogs?)
Christams eve? cracking good 3 part reel (posted here). Jingle bells works on the first part. You might think it wouldn't, but you'll split your sides when you hear it. I know I did
Christmas Eve is in fact Ed Coen's Reel, but as it was first broadcast on RTE on Christmas Eve, it became known, quite logically in my view, as the Christmas Eve Reel.
Coen, incidentally, is also an Irish surname (as well as Jewish), from the Cork/Kerry area, I believe.
Christmas Carve Up
Christmas Carve Up
My band take a very irreverent view of Christmas and try to make as many carols as we can into marches/polkas to be played for dances, or even into trad jazz numbers to be played in the session, just for something different.
We rearranged them into time signatures and numbers of bars and found all the multiples of 32 in 4/4 and 6/8 were suitable to dance to.
They can all be played down the page as sets - so here goes
BRACKEN RIGGS
# Posted on November 24th 2002 by geoffwright
Re: Christmas Carve Up
Silent night makes a daft jig
And, believe it or not, Jingle bells makes a decent harmony if you play it over the top of Xmas eve
# Posted on November 24th 2002 by ...
Re: Christmas Carve Up
What's "Xmas Eve"? Don't know that one.
What could be better than massacring Xmas standards?
There was a very cool album put out a few years ago as a fundraiser for AIDS research or some such thing. It was called "Christmas Guitars" and featured several different players, doing Christmas standards in their individual styles. Emily Remmler, Taj Mahal, John Renbourne, Mark Knopfler, Adrien Belew...I can't remember all of them. Electric guitar, classical guitar, blues, ragtime, etc. Wonderful stuff. Not really a massacre, but it's interesting how far you can go with Christmas music (remember the "barking jingle bells", performed by dogs?)
# Posted on November 25th 2002 by cuchulain54
Re: Christmas Carve Up
Christams eve? cracking good 3 part reel (posted here). Jingle bells works on the first part. You might think it wouldn't, but you'll split your sides when you hear it. I know I did
# Posted on November 25th 2002 by ...
Re: Christmas Carve Up
Got it....now to try it against Jingle Bells....!
# Posted on November 25th 2002 by cuchulain54
Re: Christmas Carve Up
Christmas Eve is in fact Ed Coen's Reel, but as it was first broadcast on RTE on Christmas Eve, it became known, quite logically in my view, as the Christmas Eve Reel.
Coen, incidentally, is also an Irish surname (as well as Jewish), from the Cork/Kerry area, I believe.
# Posted on November 25th 2002 by Rudall the time