Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Carol of the Bells, played by your blogger




























Yes, our tree is up and shining (above). I took this shot with the "night" flash, and then I removed the flash reflection from the window. I love the glowing effect. We bought this tree not too far from our house; Bev picked it and I sawed it down. So far, the cats aren't messing with it too much. Some of our previous herds would have had the ornaments on the floor already.

So... this is me on my Casio WK-3800's very convincing "Vibes" patch, playing Carol of the Bells (also known as "Da-da-da-dun...") from the SATB arrangement, as in, straight off the carol book page. If that sounds easy, you haven't tried it! After working this up to a decent tempo, I'm wishing I'd found a special arrangement of it instead. Sometimes as-written is the hard way to go.

I added some MAGIX Acoustical Simulation, getting a big sound as a result.

To the file: Carol of the Bells, played by Lee



Lee

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Lee
Thanks for all the sparkling Christmas sounds....
I'll copy this for our kirk organisit....who last year said "hmmmm..." ha, ha...meaning he was full of envy at your ivory tinklings....
All the best in all you do
and God Bless to you always and to all those close and dear to you
Cy at Pck

Lee Hartsfeld said...

Same to you, Cy! Have a wonderful holiday, and thanks for all your kind words.