Jingle Bells on My Taylor GS Mini
Jingle Bells!
While I’m a 99.999% electric guitar player, every now and then I like to strum a few on my little Taylor GS Mini acoustic guitar. A few years ago these little arrangements of a couple of Christmas songs popped instantly into my head. I didn’t have to work them out, or rehearse them. They just came to me, so I turned on the camera and recorded them. The first one is obviously Jingle Bells, done in a kind of Boogie Woogie style, in Open-G tuning for you guitar nerds.
The second one below is White Christmas, which is less successful since I attempt to play slide, or bottleneck, guitar. I really don’t know how to do this style, but since I had the arrangement living in my head, I just went ahead and gave it a go. For any real musicians watching this, I know my intonation is terrible on slide.
But take it in the spirit of the season, it’s the thought that counts.
(I’m Dreaming of a) White Christmas
Fall in small town Ontario was always my favourite time of year. Here are a couple of shots of the house that served as Taylor HQ for decades. Great old Victorian on the shore of Lake Ontario. (Built in 1873 by the illegitimate brother of Queen Victoria. A “Remittance Man” who was supposed to haunt the place, but none of the six Taylor kids ever saw him.) The second shot was taken on Christmas Day 2007, my last ever White Christmas. (See second song above.)
My last White Christmas (See second song above) at Taylor HQ in Picton, Ontario. December 25, 2007
101 Bridge Street, Picton Ontario. Now the site of a condo development.
