Fav crimbo tune to play....

[diskwave]

Well someone had to say it....Anyway mines a pint and ..Slades Merry Christmas, and Eltons Step Into Christmas...Couple of stomping party tunes if ever with some tasty bass work...having said that Ive also done that Mariah Carey thing and it's fun too... specially with a chorus of drunken females sharing the lead. Now that was.. a party to remember, ha

[ricksterphil]

Run Run Rudolph

 

Fast, fun, fabulous 

[kusee pee]

Shakin' Stevens - it grooves!

 

Wizzard - cos it's a little tricky having not played it for 12 months 😛

[Old Man Riva]

This has a fabulous Tracy Wormworth bass line, which I always think is dead cool when I hear it. Really fun to play, too …

 

 

[Franticsmurf]

I learnt (just about) the bassline to Christmas Wrapping but we never got around to playing it. My favourite song to play is Slade 'Merry Christmas' - great bass line and a great song that always works at gigs.

[toneknob]

Have a search on basschat and there should be the tab for Christmas Wrapping around somewhere (you're welcome)

if not let me know and I'll dig out the scans.

[upside downer]

This always went down well when we did it. Not hard, just fun.

 

 

[tauzero]

I finally got round to learning Slade properly this year. Then the singist said he needed to take it down a semitone, which was mostly no problem. Then at an open mic last week, I played it for a uke player in the original key. Last night, played at our one and only Christmas gig, a semitone down. Life doesn't get much more exciting.

 

What I did enjoy last night was playing "Last Christmas" rather more rockily and with a lot more going on on the bass than the original.

[toneknob]

22 hours ago, toneknob said:

Have a search on basschat and there should be the tab for Christmas Wrapping around somewhere (you're welcome)

if not let me know and I'll dig out the scans.

Or even 

https://www.notreble.com/buzz/2019/12/17/bass-transcription-tracy-wormworths-bass-line-on-christmas-wrapping-by-the-waitresses/

[YeastieB]

We played I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday on Friday night which went down well even without a brass section. Pretty straight root shuffle bassline but post chorus transitions are interesting.

[Lozz196]

23 hours ago, upside downer said:

This always went down well when we did it. Not hard, just fun.

 

 

My choice too, tho am yet to find a band willing to play it.

[Graham]

I really like playing the Mariah Carey, it's a really fun song to play

[gt4ever]

17 hours ago, Lozz196 said:

My choice too, tho am yet to find a band willing to play it.

We always play this one as its easy fun and punters enjoy it at the end of the night.

[Reggaebass]

Can’t say I really like most Christmas songs but I did enjoy getting this one together, it’s fairly busy but good fun 

 

[casapete]

7 hours ago, Graham said:

I really like playing the Mariah Carey, it's a really fun song to play

I always wonder if the keys player could keep that opening figure going all the way

through the song….😆

[bassbiscuits]

I ended up playing Chris de Burgh’s “A Spaceman Came Travelling” with my eldest lad for his guitar concert last night (I wasn’t the only parent to get up and play with their child luckily). 
 

It worked surprisingly well and lent itself to some nice harmonies in the chorus. 
 

Shakin’ Steven’s “merry Christmas everyone” and Wizard’s “I wish it could be Christmas every day” also made appearances via the other performers - both top tunes. 

[SteveXFR]

South of heaven by Sleigher

 

There has never been a good Christmas song.

[StingRayBoy42]

On 16/12/2023 at 14:30, Old Man Riva said:

This has a fabulous Tracy Wormworth bass line, which I always think is dead cool when I hear it. Really fun to play, too …

 

 

This is one of my favourite Bass lines ever... I've even been known to listen to it in August.
Never been asked to play it in a band yet.

[StingRayBoy42]

Have we all heard Dylan's christmas song?
 

You're welcome.
 

[casapete]

4 hours ago, StingRayBoy42 said:

Have we all heard Dylan's christmas song?
 

You're welcome.
 

I actually played this on a gig last year! Was my mate in our duo who suggested doing it,

I wasn’t sure but it went down really well in the pub.  Alcohol is a mysterious thing…..

[Old Man Riva]

… a bit more on the Christmas Wrapping track and bass part.

 

 

[franzbassist]

On 17/12/2023 at 12:33, tauzero said:

I finally got round to learning Slade properly this year.

 

Me too.  A lovely, melodic, weaving bassline to play.

[BigRedX]

One of my bands do this:

 

 

It's mostly D with the occasional A and C, so dead easy to play. I just have to remember to count the bars of 2/4 to come in in the right place.

 

My other band has just released our own composition Christmas song called "December Snow":

 

 

We don't have any gigs coming up so we won't be playing it live. Maybe in December 2024? However we massively changed the structure of the song once the lyrics had been written, so I'd have to relearn the bass part from scratch as what's on the final mix only has a passing resemblance to what I originally recorded.

[Supernaut]

18 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

There has never been a good Christmas song.

Wrong. 
 

[NancyJohnson]

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