| Do you play Christmas Songs on steel guitar? |
| Rarely if ever |
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27% |
[ 10 ] |
| Yes I like Christmas Music |
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33% |
[ 12 ] |
| I avoid Christmas songs I can't wait til New Year comes |
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16% |
[ 6 ] |
| I love Christmas, the music, the lights, and Jesus birth |
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22% |
[ 8 ] |
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Topic: Christmas Songs |
Dom Franco
From:
Beaverton, OR, 97007
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Posted 21 Nov 2018 10:02 am |
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How many of you play Christmas Songs on the Non-pedal steel?
I do a lot this coming season...
I love how the older Christmas classics lay out on any basic sixth tuning (A6th C6th etc.) Many of these songs were written in the 1940's and 1950's when the sound of big band swing was still popular. The pop music of that era featured a lot of 6th chords. Songs like White Christmas, Winter Wonderland, Holly Jolly Christmas, Frosty, Rudolph and many more almost play themselves when you strum up a C6th chord and quickly figure out what string to stop on!
Dom 
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Frank James Pracher
From:
Michigan, USA
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Posted 21 Nov 2018 10:28 am
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I really enjoy playing Christmas songs.. Most of the ones I play I learned from Doug Beaumier's books.. One I've always wanted to learn is "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas". I love the melody.
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Jack Hanson
From:
San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 21 Nov 2018 11:57 am
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Levi Gemmell
From:
New Zealand
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Posted 21 Nov 2018 12:41 pm
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Not a great lover of Christmas song - but JB's version of Winter Wonderland gets me every single time, to the point where I'd like to play it myself. 
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Nic Neufeld
From:
Kansas City, Missouri
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Posted 21 Nov 2018 4:03 pm
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Christmas music can cover a pretty wide variety. There are certain songs that have a unique ability to drive me to contemplate wanton acts of violence, but those are mostly constrained to the 70s and onward...something about modern pop music and Christmas that mixes like oil and vinegar.
But one thing I like about the mid-century "classic" Christmas music is how once a year, everyone, including the normal non-musician folks who wouldn't give jazz the time of day, all of a sudden start tuning in to music with major 9th chords, diminished chords, all kinds of harmonic complexity that usual popular music is sorely lacking in. Christmas is the sugary coating with which the jazz pill is administered to an otherwise uninterested public! 
I've only been playing steel for one...soon to be two Christmases, but yes absolutely, I like playing these tunes. My teacher has given me three arrangements so far, and last year (as a beginner) I worked out Mele Kalikimaka, which is one of those obvious ones for a steel guitarist .
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Bo Parker
From:
Alabama, USA
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Posted 22 Nov 2018 6:13 am
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| Nic Neufeld wrote: |
| Christmas is the sugary coating with which the jazz pill is administered to an otherwise uninterested public! |
So true. "Christmas Time Is Here" by Vince Guaraldi, a nice jazz pill packed with maj9 and 13#11 chords, lays out very nicely in B11. |
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Greg Booth
From:
Anchorage, AK, USA
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David Matzenik
From:
Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 23 Nov 2018 10:32 pm
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This is my favourite. Don't know who is on steel guitar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5_7oN-Z1B0
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Bill Groner
From:
QUAKERTOWN, PA
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Posted 24 Nov 2018 4:05 am Nice Playing
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Nice playing Greg. You are right, Christmas Time Is Here. I'm not in Alaska like you, but it got down to 11* Thanksgiving night. I got stuck on the highway for 4 hours on my commute home last week. (normally a 30 minute drive) Snow, accidents, 18 wheelers stuck all over the place. Listening to Christmas songs on Sirius helped A LOT! So yeah, I voted YES!
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David M Brown
From:
California, USA
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Nic Neufeld
From:
Kansas City, Missouri
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Scott Duckworth
From:
Etowah, TN Western Foothills of the Smokies
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Posted 26 Nov 2018 3:21 am
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White Christmas is good on steel. In almost any tuning... (C6, E7, G Dobro, etc.)
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Dom Franco
From:
Beaverton, OR, 97007
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Scott Duckworth
From:
Etowah, TN Western Foothills of the Smokies
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Posted 27 Nov 2018 5:55 am
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Very good Dom!
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Andy Henriksen
From:
Michigan, USA
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Posted 27 Nov 2018 6:28 am
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I learn (and then quickly forget!) one xmas song each year: https://www.reverbnation.com/thehenriksensingers/songs
Last year we didn't get around to it because our lives were interrupted with a new puppy in December, but we are back on track for a new one this year.
Probably 'Let it Snow' and 'Deck The Halls' have the best steel guitar on them (still not particularly good!). |
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