Autocorrect Christmas
By Paisleyfrog on December 22, 2024 6:05 pm
A 90º turn from last week - time for a loungey torch song.
Like so many projects, this came about from texting with my wife. I mentioned that I needed to do a Christmas song this week. She says "Death Metal Santa". Which made me think about making a typo and sending the wish list to Satan...which lead to all sorts of typo Christmas Carols (the beginning of the chorus jumped out right then). Landed on doing it as a torch song pretty quickly. I was texting to ask if she would sing almost simultaneously as she was offering to sing - "You write it, I'll sing it!".
One of the thoughts was to try and blend together as many snippets of Christmas carols together as possible. The idea survived a little bit in the second solo. Just some goofy fun 
The track is once again mostly session musicians...I can define the chords, but certainly can't play piano like this. Made it very easy to change to a key my wife was happy with. It still allows for some nice opportunity to blend things, though: I played the solo and the tinkly outro part, and turned off one hand in the session player to make it sound reasonably believable. I like how it turned out. I spent most of my time getting back into trumpet for the week (first time since week 20)...and figuring out my trumpet key relative to the song. Transposing instruments always takes me a bit to wrap my head around.
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