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Home/Library/Beginners & Foundations/Christmas Tunes — December 10, 2024
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Christmas Tunes — December 10, 2024

The Short Version

Some Christmas tunes fit the pipe scale beautifully and some fall apart. Rudolph needs a C natural, O Christmas Tree runs off the bottom of the scale, and Adeste Fideles fits perfectly with almost no work at all. Knowing which is which before you commit is half the job.
When you put a non-piping tune on the pipes, keep the grace noting light. The versions floating around the internet are usually stuffed with movements that clutter up a melody everybody already knows. A doubling or a D throw where it feels natural is plenty.
The Twelve Days of Christmas is built from a handful of repeating blocks. The same intro, the same ending, and one middle bar that gets added to and looped. I wrote it out and color coded the phrases so you can see the whole twelve verses on a couple of lines.
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Christmas Tunes — December 10, 2024
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02:10tunes fit the do and some pipes some Why not🔒
02:56Keep to the a grace noting minimum🔒
05:05natural the and Rudolph problem C🔒
05:58chanter pipe natural the to finger C a How on🔒
07:49Jingle Bells: fits a that scale the plain setting🔒
10:51Christmas Tree middle wrong and the O in what goes🔒
14:35place Two the of high As don't have note in we🔒
17:03part by Building the part Days Twelve🔒
18:53oCrluo hte eetaepdr ssrahpe dgcnoi🔒
21:33verse 3/4 switches that to The🔒
23:55notes Five can't and rings play the gold we🔒
27:26on Highland a chanter pipe a G Getting sharp🔒
32:10twelve finish start days all to Playing🔒
40:50All Fideles, the Deck the Through Halls, Night Adeste🔒

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