Confession time I was playing around with a guitar tuned in DADGAD and blow me if I didn’t have a Pink Floyd moment (Shine on You Crazy Diamond). I started to experiment, playing a D major seven cord arpeggio over different strings. I liked the result. That and a bit more tagged on, and I was left with a melody I could work with. The next step was to find variations. It’s a shame I never used them, but that is beside the point.
So there I was with something I liked that to me sounded as if it was rising. That’s when it got interesting because all I could think of, is Father Christmas taking off on Christmas Eve. I even put a Ho Ho Ho in it. The variations got forgotten about, as I decided to change key through every iteration to enhance the feeling of lifting.
The middle bit is meant to be Santa coming down the chimney and sneaking through the house to leave his presents. Then job done, returning back up the chimney to his slay. I have him doing this twice, slightly different arrangements. I also tried to show the bad weather outside. There was an abandoned idea of him making a noise, then worrying that he has woken up the whole household.
The third part is returning home happy the job is done, tired but triumphant. I could have added a welcome home from Mother Claus and the Elves but I felt the whole thing was long enough. Besides thats enough sugar for one day.
I like the arrangement, the challenge has been finding the best way of playing it. In my opinion this one with Musecore 3 supplying the MIDI and Spitfire the Orchestra gave the best results.
he Number one lesson from this is I need an idea. What am I trying to say. Even though this is not very adventurous, It makes the whole thing work better as it has an aim, a direction to travel in. I can only hope that if you listen to this you can hear what I tried to put over.
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