This song is part of a Christmas album that I made for... well, Christmas, titled "God Rest Yee Merry Gentlemen". Unlike the majority of my previous videos, what you hear here are all real instruments played by me and recorded via GarageBand, with the exception of the trumpet in God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, which is played by my good friend Philip Watson.
This song opens up the album with a light-hearted, cheerful note, and is an overall solid and pleasant track. It has the added bonus of appealing to almost everybody, while the later tracks may not. Therefore, I placed it as the opener track on the album.
Sleigh Ride was written by Leroy Anderson, and I claim no credit to the song. The arrangement is the same as the original as well. The only part I have in this is transcribing and playing; so it is my own instrumentation and performance, but I have no rights to the song itself. This particular song file, however, is still wholly mine.
Copyright Thomas Yee 2009
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I'm sorry for all the apparent silence I've given here. I haven't gone on complete hiatus, although it might seem that way. What happened is this: I've actually been very busy music-wise, but now composing for real life rather than fun little ditties to put on YouTube. Some of the things I've done since my last upload are: the soundtrack for a play, a drum line cadence, a piece for concert band, a composition for the NFAA YoungArts competition, and a Christmas album. The first two I will not be uploading; the first because it is hard to understand without the context of the play and the vocal part, and the cadence because in my opinion it is nothing of note.
The latter three, however, I will be posting. The band piece has been performed in concert already, so its job is essentially over. The YoungArts piece did not get chosen as a winner for the competition, so I can put it here now. And as for my Christmas album, I needed some way to get it to people who couldn't physically receive a copy. For all of these, I'm not overly worried about plagiarism because I am no longer showing the scores and such complex pieces would be extremely difficult to transcribe.
One thing you may notice is that I have changed the way I do my videos, using iMovie to export a movie file with the music in it rather than recording my screen with a camcorder. This is for two reasons. First, my camcorder's sound quality sucked, and any recording of the sound will have less quality than the direct sound file itself, so this way it sounds better. Second, this way people also can't see the score, and while you may think I'm over-paranoid about plagiarism, it's always possible, and the ones I'm posting now are more serious than previous ones, so I don't want to risk any chances.
Sorry for this wall of text, but I felt that some explanation was due after my long period of silence.
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Sleigh Ride m Percussion Ensembleby juniormarimba772 views
relaxing.
johnny1iron 2 years ago