AGF Showcase of Talent, December 2014: Songs about winter and the holidays

[vts]

Originally Posted by themissal

Song For A Winter's Night - recorded raw on my iphone.

Originally Posted by BoneDigger

Okay, here's my version of Song for a Winter's Night. Finger style is rare for me so forgive all the mistakes...

https://soundcloud.com/mcmakin-1/son...inters-night-1

Todd

Some nice playing in both versions!

Originally Posted by DariaS

Another submission of mine, "Have Yourself a Merry Litttle Christmas":

A very beautiful arrangement.

Originally Posted by Psalad

My submission: Steve Miller's "In The Winter Time."

I was going to do more work on it but... ahh what the heck, let it go.

My Taylor 710 fingerpicked, with e-bow, and a little bowed bass sample.

Wow, beautifully done, enjoyed it a lot.

Originally Posted by D. Shelton

The one I named Snow Sprites . That's Wintry, since I tend to avoid Christmas music as much as possible . It's about a week old.

All sounds come from a Lowden S-32 with EBow .

The spectrum of music on this particular SOT just got a little weirder

Interesting post-rock/ambient stuff.

Great entries everyone.

[JimC1702]

"O Little Town of Bethlehem" cover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Saf82kLVfnc

Jim

[vts]

My entry #1 (#2 is on the way)-a tune in B minor that I wrote recently with kind of a winter mood in mind.



https://soundcloud.com/viable-to-str...r-sketch-in-bm

[Dru Edwards]

Originally Posted by Psalad

My submission: Steve Miller's "In The Winter Time."

I was going to do more work on it but... ahh what the heck, let it go.

My Taylor 710 fingerpicked, with e-bow, and a little bowed bass sample.

Mark, that was fantastic! Did you record the backwards guitar or is that an effect? (was that the e-bow?)

[Psalad]

Originally Posted by Dru Edwards

Mark, that was fantastic! Did you record the backwards guitar or is that an effect? (was that the e-bow?)

Thanks for the very kind words... That was the ebow. Fun, but takes some work on an acoustic to get it to sing. Much easier on an electric.

[SteveHung]

Here's my holiday medley "Noel / Silent Night" which is an original fingerstyle arrangement of First Noel and Silent Night combined together. There's also some light fiddle accompaniment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhEiXB3Loos

and incase you want the TABS for it:

http://stevehungmusic.blogspot.com/2...ent-night.html

[SalFromChatham]

Originally Posted by vts

My entry #1 (#2 is on the way)-a tune in B minor that I wrote recently with kind of a winter mood in mind.



https://soundcloud.com/viable-to-str...r-sketch-in-bm

This is beautiful and quite trance-inducing.

[BoneDigger]

I have been going through thee and I'm quite impressed everyone! Awesome songs this month!

Thanks for the kind words on my song. I hope to have another one before the end of the month.

Todd

[barley]

Originally Posted by deepnback

Hi friends, I'd like to throw in our version of Silent Night, it features my wife Elke on vocals and my dog Buddy playing in the snow with his friend Osxca and some winter-impressions. It was kind of improvisation and our rendition became a bit jazzy or so. Enjoy!

http://youtu.be/6M1vSNV6_DI

Just wonderful! The two of you really found a unique and exotic vibe.

[Woodstock School Of Music]

Here's a version of What child is this I recorded yesterday

[Geedub]

For the last several years when the Christmas season rolled around and with the telling of the Christmas story, I found myself wondering must it have felt like to be Joseph. This is my take. Please pardon a couple of rough spots but I wanted my son to be on this video and recording with me but we only had time for one quick take before he had to be back on the road.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQEWw9ePC5o

[Psalad]

This is fun, lots of very cool things. One more submission, this is a rough recording of an original I've had sitting around for a while. It has a couple winterish references... close enough.

[vts]

Originally Posted by Psalad

This is fun, lots of very cool things. One more submission, this is a rough recording of an original I've had sitting around for a while. It has a couple winterish references... close enough.

Very nice. Like the guitar tone and the vocal harmonies.

[DariaS]

The last entry of mine - "Happy New Year" by ABBA.



Christmas is not as widely celebrated in my country as in western countries, but New Year is huge and most important holiday in Russia and this song is very popular (despite being old). But also it's just a nice song, I like the lyrics and melody, so please enjoy!

[vts]

J. S. Bach - Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring. Not terribly original here