Holiday

[Lyle]

I appreciate all the work the Moderators do, and all the community contributions. But...

It seems like every Christmas when I pull iRealPro out and try to play along with a Piano player and singers, I always get complaints about the non-traditional changes.
While it's fun to jazz-it-up on some of these tunes, a lot of people just want the comfort of the old, traditional carols, the way they've heard them since childhood.

I see some of the songs in "Holiday 100" marked "(Jazz)" or "(Alt)", so those are to be avoided in the situation I'm talking about. But when someone starts singing a song, and the Piano player gets going (because he's played 40 years and can play it in any key), I'm still flipping through 6 or more versions I've collected from the forum, trying to figure out which I should transpose and try.

I've given up on solving it for this Christmas, but would be happy to take part in a community effort to make a "vanilla changes" playlist for Christmas 2017.

Thanks...Lyle

[Bobsax]

I agree with you completely Lyle . I went through a stage of reharmonizing everything . It's a fun game to play but often not very musical and arguably can creatively hamstring the player. but I digress , you are talking about the play-along usage. I am constantly going through tunes here and "devolving" them back to there 1,4,5, roots. . I'll post a few Devolved Xmas tunes for you here later.
btw
Mods I still am having issues with deleting songs from playlists . I must be missing something?

I appreciate all the work the Moderators do, and all the community contributions. But...

It seems like every Christmas when I pull iRealPro out and try to play along with a Piano player and singers, I always get complaints about the non-traditional changes.
While it's fun to jazz-it-up on some of these tunes, a lot of people just want the comfort of the old, traditional carols, the way they've heard them since childhood.

I see some of the songs in "Holiday 100" marked "(Jazz)" or "(Alt)", so those are to be avoided in the situation I'm talking about. But when someone starts singing a song, and the Piano player gets going (because he's played 40 years and can play it in any key), I'm still flipping through 6 or more versions I've collected from the forum, trying to figure out which I should transpose and try.

I've given up on solving it for this Christmas, but would be happy to take part in a community effort to make a "vanilla changes" playlist for Christmas 2017.

Thanks...Lyle

[Bobsax]

Well this is sort of passive aggressive ..sorry
Since I can't seem to figure out how do remove songs from a playlist only I'm posting the whole playlist with bad versions.
the good versions are on the bottom of the list.
also since I don't use these with play along you may need to go through and remove all the major 7 chords #11 b9 etc. This will make your music much more traditional sounding .
Christmas Liz (12)

Individual songs:
Hark the Herald Angels Sing (Tom's) - Traditional
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 1 - Traditional
Frosty The Snowman - Rollins-Nelson
Feliz Navidad 1 - José Feliciano
Feliz Navidad (Alt.) 1 - José Feliciano
Let It Snow! - Cahn-Styne
Angels We Have Heard On High (Jazz) - Unknown
Angels We Have Heard On High- Liz - Unknown
Winter Wonderland liz - Felix Bernard
We Wish You A Merry Christmas 1 - Traditional
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen -liz - Traditional
Hark the Herald Angels Sing -liz - Traditional