Name: The Christmas Song (take zero)
Duration: 3 min 43 s
Channel: Robert Wells, Mel Torme
Description: "The Christmas Song (take zero)" is a song by Numi Who Creative Covers. Tentative cover of the Nat King Cole signature song (where only the bass player knows it). This is the best seasonal-spirited speed to play it at (and given all of the jazzy quarter-note chord changes popular with the standards writers of the time).

The Christmas Song (take zero)

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Tentative cover of the Nat King Cole signature song (where only the bass player knows it). This is the best seasonal-spirited speed to play it at (and given all of the jazzy quarter-note chord changes popular with the standards writers of the time).

instrumental christmas cover songs holiday seasonal

Numi Who Creative Covers

Here, I create cover songs while I wait for humanity to adopt the Philosophy of Broader Survival.

Play it LOUD and through a good audio device (anything but cell phone speakers, which I did not mix to). Cover Songs on Soundclick: https://www.soundclick.com/numiwhocreativecovers Writing: https://allpoetry.com/Mr._Numi_Who- Books: Numi Who? on Amazon (books) Art: http://wbiro.deviantart.com Early Art: http://www.flickr.com/photos/38154648@N00 Music Videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/wbiro Self-made Music Catalog (to 2016): http://numi-imagination-creations.me/01-art-catalog/wbiro_artistic_catalog_1967-2016_update_34.html Original Music on Soundcloud (more complete list there): https://soundcloud.com/wbiro Cover Songs on Soundcloud (more complete list there): https://soundcloud.com/user-288568536

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Genre

Jazz • Jazz General

Charts

Peak #1

Peak in subgenre #1

Author

Robert Wells, Mel Torme

Rights

2014 this version by wbiro

Uploaded

November 25, 2014

Track Files

MP3

MP3 5.1 MB • 192 kbps • 3:43

Story behind the song

Why does the bass player have a lot of patience? Because he knows that, when you first learn a song, your sensitivity to it is at its height, which, needless to say (though I am compelled to say it), comes through in the music. Optimally it would be like this: "OK, play it for the ten-thousandth time, but like you just learned it." In this case it was, "OK, we are going to record you playing it as you first hear it."

Do people in my day know this? No - they are wholly focused on technical correctness, and then on superficially. It is a sad era for music.
Now consider this: Let's say I did not illuminate what I've just illuminated, and this piece became popular and made me a lot of money - what would happen then is a lot of clueless copycats coming along (you may find a few here on Soundclick) pushing "take zero's" onto the airwaves, which would be a horrible movement within an already sad era in music history. Imagine - a lot of "take zero's" that fail to see what is important about a piece (heightened sensitivity to all the nuances). A few would succeed in a humorous vein, but that's about it, the rest would be absolute torture, and music would take yet another downturn.

OK. Glad I got that off my chest. You can call them "Perspective Tools" - useful ways of looking at things. The issue with this particular song is that the writers spent too much time on it - creating far too many quarter-note chord changes (which was expected back then, circa 1940's), and since it was written so slowly, it should be played very slowly - at about the tempo that I played it here.

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