My Creative Vision : When I think in music for the end of the year, I remember the songs I grew up with. I supose that eveyone has his/her own vision of what a christmas song must contain. This is what I chose:
Must be simple, “cantabile”, something we can sing along.
Percussion easy instruments, bells, tambourine…
Animous, happy and/or conforting feeling.
Vocals with the appropiate lyrics should be (I don’t have vocals this time )
Composition Overview : There is a emotive intro and outro, with some strings, but the main part has a rythmic folky sound. It has a 3/8 guitar carpet, and wind and percussion instruments playing the melodies.
Really wonderful piece Vicente! The mixing was very well done on this one; very clean and all the instruments fit together nicely. The sax + flute was an interesting choice for your main woodwinds, but I think they worked well. I could almost hear a female alto voice with the flute’s melodies (truth, I just listened to Beethoven’s 9th, so I hear lots of voices in my head right now ) I think that would’ve work well.
Great piece my friend. I’m going to have to up my game on mixing Happy Holidays!
Thank you for your words. I hope my new monitors helps me to mix and master in a cleaner way.
I think is a song “ready to sing”. Maybe in the future it will have some lyrics, and the instruments that hold the melody will become second voices. And the title also suggest a focus for the story to tell.
Vicente - I like your vision of what Christmas music should sound like. I love the positivity, chimes, guitar, and percussion. Nice ending slowdown. Looking to your vocal version as well.
This is really beautiful and a charming Christmas tune. The melody is enchanting and your choice of a flute and sax really changes up what might be a predictable “Christmas” sound. Good production and I love the shift in keys in the middle section. If anything I would build up the ending a bit more, you started to do that, even more would take it over the top and lead nicely to the sweet, uplifting ending.
Glad you like it Mike. I really imagined the song with a family group singing and playing around a table, in the afternoon of christmas eve. Except for the intro and outro with strings sections, I think that the rest can be played with instruments easily found at home, even by children. That was my idea.
I thank your words, Suzanne. I love that specially you find my wind melodies good.
You’re rigth. The outro is like the intro with a very little variation. I liked the way this strings prepare us for an emotive moment, but there is a big contrast with the main part that is much more folky, easygoing and homemade, so I decided not to give a heavier weight to strings.
Once I finished the song, I thought that maybe the strings part theme could be developed as an independent song. Too many ideas and life is so short…
I wish you enjoy this days.
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) I think that would’ve work well.
Happy Holidays!
Too many ideas and life is so short… 