03 Mashu Mashu

11 Jennah

12 Paganini Caprice #15

This is a rock tune in Ab.  Lots of horns and strings involved with this.  The end goes back and forth between 4/4 and 7/4 time.  Les Paul guitar for the solos.  Straight up rock guitar soloing.

Ledge

Rock guitar instrumental.  I used a Carvin Legacy Drive VLD1 pedal for a lot of the leads.  The middle part with the drum machine has five distortion boxes on it, as does the guitar on that part.

Slipping Past Mercury

This is an instrumental solo, acoustic guitar version of "The Christmas Song" From my album, "Pieces Of Christmas:  A Pause For The Clause".

The Christmas Song

"Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" from my album, "Pieces Of Christmas:  A Pause For The Clause".

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

This is "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" from my album, "Pieces Of Christmas:  A Pause For The Clause".  It is played on solo acoustic guitar.

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas Acoustic Solo 12 - 12 - 20

"White Christmas" from my album, "Pieces Of Christmas:  A Pause For The Clause".

White Christmas

This is "Santa Clause Is Coming To Town" from my album, "Pieces Of Christmas:  A Pause For The Clause".

Santa Clause Is Coming To Town

This is "It Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas" from my album "Pieces Of Christmas:  A Pause For The Clause".  Tons o' fun!

It Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

This is "The Christmas Song" from my album, "Pieces Of Christmas:  A Pause For The Clause".  It contains a "new" first verse that Mel Torme wrote about 15 or 20 years after the tune was first written by him and Bob Wells on a very hot July day in NYC.  It's a little different version that you might be used to.

This is "Nutty Swingin' March" from my album "Pieces Of Christmas:  A Pause For The Clause".  It is my version with variation of by March of the Toy Soldiers by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a: No. 2a.  I had just gotten a Strat and improvised all over this thing.  I decided to keep it.

Nutty Swingin' March

This is "Rockin;' Around The Christmas Tree" from my album, "Pieces Of Christmas:  A Pause For The Clause".  Short but sweet with a very challenging guitar solo.

Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree

This Is "Jingle Bell Rock" from my album "Pieces Of Christmas:  A Pause For The Clause".  It was first recorded by Bobby Helms in 1957.  It is credited as written by Joseph Carleton Beal (1900–1967) and James Ross Boothe (1917–1976).  Helms, as well as session guitarist on the song Hank Garland, both claimed until their deaths, that it was they, not Beal and Boothe, who wrote the song. They claimed that the original song by Beal and Boothe was called Jingle Bell Hop, and that it was given to Helms by a Decca executive to record. This song, according to Helms and Garland, had little to no resemblance to the current song. Helms did not like it, and as a result, they both proceeded to work on it, changing the music, lyrics, and tempo, and also giving it a previously-missing bridge. This new song, they claimed, was the one that is known today. However, neither of them received writing credit or subsequent writing royalties.
"'I really didn't want to cut it because it was such a bad song. So me and one of the musicians [, Hank Garland], worked on it for about an hour putting a melody to it and we put a bridge to it." 
"'I let it hop back to where it came from,' Garland recalled. 'It wasn't any good. [Bobby and I] came up with the "Jingle Bell Rock" America hears every holiday season,' he [Garland] said [in a 2001 interview]."[12]
Billy Garland, brother of Hank Garland, maintains his deceased brother's story, and has long been involved with and vocal about the issueHank Garland played guitar on the original, and he wrote it.  He was one of the greatest guitarists to ever walk on earth.

Jingle Bell Rock

From my album, "Pieces Of Christmas:  A Pause For The Clause".  The end has lots of fast dueling guitars.

We Wish You A Merry Christmas - Auld Lang Syne

This is "White Christmas" from my album, "Pieces Of Christmas:  A Pause For The Clause".  Fun Les and Chet guitar interplay.  And who doesn't like a little Wizard Of Oz with their Christmas tunes?

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