The Christmas Song - Chestnuts Roasting 2022

Dale Rottacker · Post by **Dale Rottacker** » 6 Dec 2022 2:23 pm

Merry Christmas to this wonderful Forum

https://youtu.be/Gxy5l9StsRU

Marty Broussard · Post by **Marty Broussard** » 6 Dec 2022 2:49 pm

Really nice Dale!

Dale Rottacker · Post by **Dale Rottacker** » 7 Dec 2022 6:00 pm

Marty Broussard wrote:Really nice Dale!

Thanks Marty

Larry Dering · Post by **Larry Dering** » 8 Dec 2022 4:14 pm

Great job Dale. Hearing these old tunes on pedal steel breathes new life into them. I still listen to the Emmons and the Franklin Christmas CDs. Good music this time of year.

Dale Rottacker · Post by **Dale Rottacker** » 9 Dec 2022 5:54 am

Larry Dering wrote:Great job Dale. Hearing these old tunes on pedal steel breathes new life into them. I still listen to the Emmons and the Franklin Christmas CDs. Good music this time of year.

Thank you Larry... I find Christmas difficult and fun at the same time.

Larry Dering · Post by **Larry Dering** » 16 Dec 2022 8:31 pm

My lady doesn't care for Christmas music. I have to escape to the basement for that. Playing the tunes on C6 would add a bit of a challenge, especially for me.

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 17 Dec 2022 12:20 pm

Nice job, Dale! Nice, clean execution. That's my key for that song, too.

You seem to play the Ritt more than the Jolly Rancher, or is that just a matter of which guitar is near the camera?

This is the time of year, of course, that Buddy's timeless Seasonal album gets rotation in my car; after hearing his flawless delivery, I'm almost reluctant to try the same tunes!! Eventually I get over it, though. I still can't believe his right-hand on 'Sleigh Ride'!

Paul King · Post by **Paul King** » 17 Dec 2022 4:55 pm

Great job Dale.

Dale Rottacker · Post by **Dale Rottacker** » 18 Dec 2022 7:40 am

Larry Dering wrote:My lady doesn't care for Christmas music. I have to escape to the basement for that. Playing the tunes on C6 would add a bit of a challenge, especially for me.

Andrea LOVES Christmas music and has had it going for a couple months already in her office while she's working... Kids today LOL

Roger Rettig wrote:Nice job, Dale! Nice, clean execution. That's my key for that song, too.

You seem to play the Ritt more than the Jolly Rancher, or is that just a matter of which guitar is near the camera?

This is the time of year, of course, that Buddy's timeless Seasonal album gets rotation in my car; after hearing his flawless delivery, I'm almost reluctant to try the same tunes!! Eventually I get over it, though. I still can't believe his right-hand on 'Sleigh Ride'!

Thanks Roger... Think I did this a year or two ago on E9th without a track but in the same key (D) as well. I couldn't find a track I really liked, but found this one on YouTube and then enhanced as best I could in my DAW. I think they did it at 60 bpm which I stuck with after trying it faster.

Yeah I don't think there's any competing with Buddy's Christmas Album, that whole CD is magnificent.

I have been playing The Concord a bit more, but I jump around and am on Jolly Rancher again now. (actually wrote a track on iReal that I wrote for my Mom maybe 45-50 years ago on piano, but no piano anymore so trying to do it on Steel, hopefully before Christmas) I did Silent Night on Jolly Rancher last week and believe Christmas Time Is Here is coming out on Tuesday is back on the Ritt. I'd recorded somethings a few weeks ago I haven't put up yet and don't know what I was playing them on without going and looking LOL

Paul King wrote:Great job Dale.

Thank you my friend