Silent Night - is it too early for this?

Yep ! ;

Hi Terry, that's quite a production, that last section is very majestic and dramatic, very nice. Don't quite know what to make of that toy banjo in the second section ; ), guess that's a sampled nylon string ? Electric lead guitar could be a tad louder, is a bit buried in the mix.
Love the piano parts, personally would have put the section where you play the tune proper at the beginning before you start the variations.

Enjoyed listening to this.

Rik

Well I like Christmas music even if I don't buy all that christ bs. Great melodies.

Well done! Thanks for the journey. From start to finish, you kept it very interesting.

Nice arrangement Terry, I thouroughly enjoyed it.  I'm one of the people who does like Xmas music.  (Although I hate xmas shopping)

Hi,

Thanks to all who have listened so far!

@paulo - humbug! ;-)

@Guitarhacker - thanks for listening. I know, it's a lot of Silent Night, but I did try to keep it interesting ;-)

@Rik - I did record a real classical guitar but I'm really not set up for it and it really did sound like a real toy banjo so I pulled out the East West Gypsy Classical guitar samples... I'll try to tweak it to sound a bit more realistic before release.

@Ben - I'm not really a Christmas head, I had to really be persuaded to do this - the things we do for love, eh? I generally don't like doing 'cover versions' because everyone already has an idea in their head about what it should sound like and you'll never satisfy everyone that the new version is better!

@Guitarpima - My aim was to ensure that nobody was snoring peacefully by the end, so I'm glad you found it interesting throughout :-)

@Rus - thanks for listening - I listened to your Christmas track a few days ago and meant to go back and comment later but stuff got in the way (as always). I liked the idea of your take but wasn't sure the slowish melody shone through enough with all the busy stuff underneath.

@Mike - Thanks for listening, glad you liked the arrangement. There are only so many ways to arrange such a simple tune!

Thanks again to everyone for listening.

Cheers,
Terry.

I like this for a Christmas song, it's different in the way it changes at least although I think it might be a tad long, but that depends on where it's going to be listened too of course.

Only thing I would change if possible is the guitar part in the second phase. Some of the part needs to be more legato in places. Don't know if that's an easy thing to change with samples but a few hammer-ons and pull-offs in the right places will help with the realism sound.

Sounds good though, roll on Christmas..

I could listen to YOU play this in the middle of July.  And as much as I love Christmas music and the season (and the reason for it), I get real tired of it by Christmas.  If we had more cool arrangements like this, I could probably handle it more.  :)

Anyway, your song.   LOVE the big orchestrated parts.  Brilliant!  Love the change-ups.  Love the piano parts, of course.  The beat at in the first part threw me off, but that's not a bad thing...keeps us guessing.  :)

But seriously?  You're starting a Christmas CD NOW?  My hat's off to you!  And good luck.  :)  

Not too early. Nice to hear it actually at this time, very calming. I didn't really like synth melody tone on what sounds like a picked guitar in the beginning. The overall production needs to be balanced volume wise from beginning to end. Starts out really soft then its really loud.