Bittersweet Silver Bells
By Devieus on December 23, 2018 2:40 pm
It's become kind of a thing of mine to do Carol of the Bells for Christmas (I did it in 2012 and 2014 (which I particularly like)), so naturally I did it again this year with the Gadget.
But that's not all I did, you see this song is set up in two parts (as music does with the little |: and 
things on the sheet), but rather than following the sheet verbatim, I changed it around the second time by doing some mode trickery. The first part, as normal, is in E minor (or Aeolian), but then the second part repeats sections first in Eb Ionian (sweet) and Eb Phrygian (bitter) for that real bittersweet sensation (the key change is a nice extra). I was thinking of using Locrian, but that got a little too dark to be bitter.
Korg Gadget doesn't have jingle bells, so I had to improvise with the tambourines in London. It's serviceable. The drums are quite nice though.
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