Right ladies and gents , we have the video Jam worked out :D
Theres gonna be 6 slots which consist of classic xmas songs , which have been scaled down to fit into each other for a video jam :)
Avalon kindly made the backer for us and we thought this would be a excellent idea , so this how the songs follows :)

Amazing Grace - Start - 1:37 (Avalon)
Silent Night - 1:38 - 2:35 (Bahamut)
Away In A Manger - 2:36 - 3:20
Lord Is My Sheperd - 3:21 - 4:41
Walking In The Air - 4:42 - 5:50 (Pod God)
White Christmas - 5:51 - End (KCAR)

OKAY EVERYONE THIS IS NOW A NORMAL JAM , NOT A VIDEO JAM , SO RECORD YOUR PARTS AS NORMAL AND SEND THEM TO ME VIA PM :)

I have slot 2 but if theres enough interest i will drop out for someone else :)

WTF! Stop being a giver, :lol: You are in because I demand it! (j/k) Ok, Christmas tunes, I´m downloading them, hey, maybe Scrooge (me) can stick in a slot.
EDIT: I just downloaded a midi for that "Away in a Manger". Man I think I never heard that one before, no kidding! LMAO! Sooo, I´d love to play over that slot if possible please, :)

Well i booked Slot 1 as i was making it lol, and i've been working all day on rebuilding my Av-1 guitar especially for the vid, so im looking forward to starting on this :)
Great to have you onboard too Tony :thumb:

You got it Tony lol , will definetly put you down for there m8 thank you :rock: :rock:

Come on ppl, sign on the dotted line :thumb:

what are the rules as far as sticking to the original tune goes

what are the rules as far as sticking to the original tune goes

Well you don't have to stick right to the originals Linoman, just as long as ppl can make out what time slot your playing to, resembles slightly to the original :woot: :rock:

3 Slots still available ppl, don't make me hunt you all down :lol:

Come on everyone , your telling me theres a forum full of guitarists and its only us 3 who can be arsed doing a vid with simplistic songs which are about 40secs each? :mad1:

I'll do it! I don't even really care what slot I have. Just put me in one. :D

Come on everyone , your telling me theres a forum full of guitarists and its only us 3 who can be arsed doing a vid with simplistic songs which are about 40secs each? :mad1:

Ok why not.. lol. I'll take White Christmas since it's the only one I know:notme:

After some thought and reviewing the backer, I would like to claim the "Silent Night" slot (#2). This is a very good sounding backer and I really think you've done a great job of only giving us a modest amount of backing instruments to work with, just enough for us to be able to follow along and to subtley fill in the space around our guitar parts. I am looking forward to this. I have have a few ideas about how I want to do my video portion! :notme:



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I have have a few ideas about how I want to do my video portion! :notme:



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Just remember Jeff, this is a Christmas jam so you'll have to keep your clothes on:thumb: :D

Wet Blanket. :upset:


Actually, my idea involves putting clothes ON! :toothless:

Oh shit...I just now realized that Bahamut had selected slot 2. Mart, if you want it, by all means you should have it. I would be just as happy with White Christmas (slot 6). Lemme know. :thumb:

After some thought and reviewing the backer, I would like to claim the "Silent Night" slot (#2). This is a very good sounding backer and I really think you've done a great job of only giving us a modest amount of backing instruments to work with, just enough for us to be able to follow along and to subtley fill in the space around our guitar parts. I am looking forward to this. I have have a few ideas about how I want to do my video portion! :notme:

Thanks mate, that was kinda what i was going for with it, i wanted something that was as simple to play or as difficult as the player wanted it really, with enough backing to play along to without detracting from what the guitarist will be doing.
Thanks for the feedback, and great to have yourself and Charles onboard for it :)

Thanks Jeff and Charles , lmao Jeff i can't remember how White Christmas goes so i will stick to Silent Night lol :lol:

Both yourself Jeff and Charles will have to decide who wants to do White Christmas and whichone of you's want to do something else lol :thumb:

Damn you KC! I've never even heard the other 2:headscratch: Guess I'll do some googling.

Damn you KC! I've never even heard the other 2:headscratch: Guess I'll do some googling.

Well i worked of some old recordings for the others mate, if u want me to send over the relivent parts, just let me know (they r not exactly like i made the bt, but the melody is the same etc).

Well i worked of some old recordings for the others mate, if u want me to send over the relivent parts, just let me know (they r not exactly like i made the bt, but the melody is the same etc).

Yeah, if you could send me the parts of Walking in the Air and Away In The Manger that you worked from, that would be great:thumb:

Gawd, i am such an idiot!!! :tard: Not only did I not see that Bahamut had Silent Night, but i also failed to see that White Christmas was PodGod's choice! :toothless:

Since you claimed it first, Charles, it is all yours amigo! I guess I've got some Googling to do, eh? :D

No worries Jeff, I already googled myself and I think I wanna do Walking in the Air, which has a shorter slot:woot: So you can have White Christmas:D

No worries Jeff, I already googled myself and I think I wanna do Walking in the Air, which has a shorter slot:woot: So you can have White Christmas:DWell, only if you are 100% ok with it. I certainly was not trying to steal it from you...I just didn't read the whole thread before chiming in! :tard: But I would understand if you wanted the shorter slot since you will have most of the work ahead of you in editing it all together. I will definitely need to ask you a few questions about that before I get started. I also had an idea of putting a Santa hat on the "G" of the "GuitarBlast" logo for the watermark of this video. What you think about that idea?

Well, only if you are 100% ok with it. I certainly was not trying to steal it from you...I just didn't read the whole thread before chiming in! :tard: But I would understand if you wanted the shorter slot since you will have most of the work ahead of you in editing it all together. I will definitely need to ask you a few questions about that before I get started. I also had an idea of putting a Santa hat on the "G" of the "GuitarBlast" logo for the watermark of this video. What you think about that idea?

Na, I'm fine with Walking in the Air. Already started arranging it :) Actually, the editing part isn't all that bad now that I have one jam under my belt and know what to do, lol. A Santa hat would look awesome on the watermark. Great idea:rock: When you're ready to record your part, let me know and I'll help ya with the format and settings:)

Either way, get started as soon as you can cause Christmas is creeping up on us and I'd like to get this out by then.

Either way, get started as soon as you can cause Christmas is creeping up on us and I'd like to get this out by then.I'll prolly crank it out this weekend. Is there a thread that describes this process? What is the recommended process for recording the audio and marrying it with the video? And how do we manage to splice it together so we each do not end up with different EQ settings for each section of the backer?

Yeah, if you could send me the parts of Walking in the Air and Away In The Manger that you worked from, that would be great:thumb:

Right mate, here is the Snowman (Walking In The Air) By The Shadows (Instrumental) , and Away In A Manger By Max Bigraves, which is a vocal version of the song, but the vocal melody is there to work off for guitar.
Just remember i loosely worked off these, so the arrangement and key might not be the same, i used these as reference for rather then direct a copy, but as i said the melody is there, so hopefully its of some use :)

If u want a similiar sample Jeff for your slot, just say the word mate :thumb:

If u want a similiar sample Jeff for your slot, just say the word mate :thumb:Thanks for the offer Jamie, but I was able to find a MIDI file that has a few jazzy little licks in it in addition to the main melody, which I may try to incorporate as well. So, can we go multi-track with our section (harmonies and such), so long as the main melody is playable live on the actual video?

Thanks for the offer Jamie, but I was able to find a MIDI file that has a few jazzy little licks in it in addition to the main melody, which I may try to incorporate as well. So, can we go multi-track with our section (harmonies and such), so long as the main melody is playable live on the actual video?


I don't see why not yeah, aslong as everyone enjoys themselves, thats the important thing :)

Good to see more guys are in, :thumb:. As I see, we only need one more, cmmon, I´m sure there has to be more guitarrists around here with a lil web cam ;)!
Been messing with the melody tonight, but man, if I stick to the one I have on the midi I downloaded I just can´t fit it in (transposed to e as yours that is) your track, it´s the timing changes I still don´t get like I do over the lil midi one. Lemme check out this last file you put up, downloading it as typing. I will eventually get it done, most likely not this weekend, but on the next one when I´ll have 4 days off work.
EDIT: Listening to it now. WAY different from the midi I have. Ok, I´ll check it out and see.

Well i can play a little test run on the backer for u if u want Tony, so u have a rough idea of what i was working on, just let me know if that would help and i'll sort it out :)

Well i can play a little test run on the backer for u if u want Tony, so u have a rough idea of what i was working on, just let me know if that would help and i'll sort it out :)
Thanks Jamie, it´s ok, now that I listened to that file you put up it all makes sense. The midi I downloaded was a completely different arrangement with more or less the same melody. I see this vox version sits perfect now, I´m messing a bit with it atm (sorry for the sloppyness, lol, but I´ll get there)

Yeah i will try and get round to my part very soon fellas , just working my way through alot of things atm :)

Thanks Jamie, it´s ok, now that I listened to that file you put up it all makes sense. The midi I downloaded was a completely different arrangement with more or less the same melody. I see this vox version sits perfect now, I´m messing a bit with it atm (sorry for the sloppyness, lol, but I´ll get there)

Yeah thats sounding very cool Tony :thumb:
I finished my part the other day, im wearing my santa hat :lol: , really looking forward to hearing and seeing everyone on this, just need that last elusive member for the final slot :)

Yeah thats sounding very cool Tony :thumb:
I finished my part the other day, im wearing my santa hat :lol: , really looking forward to hearing and seeing everyone on this, just need that last elusive member for the final slot :)
umm,....I reckon I haven´t done my homework lately,...I hope I can do this before the weekend´s done. Any preference as for ties? LMFAO!

Yeah, I've received Jamie's parts(excellent!) so far and that's it. I'm guilty too. Got the audio down but have yet to do the vid. We still have one more spot to fill. Xmas is coming guys, I hope we don't have to release this in March, lol.

Well if push comes to shove i'll take the other part mate, so it will be done either way, but hopefully we can get another guitarist on it, come on peeps, sign up :)
As for the ties Tony, i was hoping as i went dressed as Santa, we could get u dressed as an Elf, maybe Mart as a Raindear and so on :toothless: , if i have to do a second slot im going to go buy some Marks Brothers Glasses and Mustash to wear for that one :lol:

Mother on the phone today: Hey how are you doing?......(left ear all redish after a few minutes)....Well I´m messing with a christmas carol on the guitar. Which one? Something called Manger or such. (she instantly started to sing the tune, exactly with the same vibe as that one you posted, I swear to whatever I never listened to it before) Boy I´m stupid, LMAO!! Gotta love moms, :)

I have zero time at the moment, Wendy has had a minor op and it has knocked her for six, she is more or less bedbound and I have to manage the kids, house, work etc, mot'ing the car, buying a new car, too much going on. I have not even had time to get the kids together to do the Slade jam yet ... coming soon once I am off nights tho.
Anyway, I can do the last slot, but it will probably take a few days. No probs if this is too long, Jamie would do a better job than me anyway :lol:.

I have zero time at the moment, Wendy has had a minor op and it has knocked her for six, she is more or less bedbound and I have to manage the kids, house, work etc, mot'ing the car, buying a new car, too much going on. I have not even had time to get the kids together to do the Slade jam yet ... coming soon once I am off nights tho.
Anyway, I can do the last slot, but it will probably take a few days. No probs if this is too long, Jamie would do a better job than me anyway :lol:.

Well a few days is fine mate, i think the 15th was the closing date, i'll be on standby incase things stay to hectic for you and the familly, my best wishes to your wife Wendy too, i hope she gets well soon :)

I have zero time at the moment, Wendy has had a minor op and it has knocked her for six, she is more or less bedbound and I have to manage the kids, house, work etc, mot'ing the car, buying a new car, too much going on. I have not even had time to get the kids together to do the Slade jam yet ... coming soon once I am off nights tho.
Anyway, I can do the last slot, but it will probably take a few days. No probs if this is too long, Jamie would do a better job than me anyway :lol:.
First of all, you gonna give one big hug from this unknown dude to Wendy 5 minutes at the most after reading this, secondly, go ahead an do it. Time is priceless, so is fun. A bit of hedonism for us all at the PC shouldn´t be a bad one.

umm,....I reckon I haven´t done my homework lately,...I hope I can do this before the weekend´s done. Any preference as for ties? LMFAO!
Guys I´m afraid I´m bailing out of this one. I can´t build up enough a Christmas vibe to do it, so it would be a bit of hypocrisy on my side to go ahead with it, you guys don´t deserve that. Sorry gents.

Guys I´m afraid I´m bailing out of this one. I can´t build up enough a Christmas vibe to do it, so it would be a bit of hypocrisy on my side to go ahead with it, you guys don´t deserve that. Sorry gents.

Sorry to hear that Tony , hmmm this is gonna be hard to keep this going at this rate , thanks for letting us know tho m8 :)

Okay guys well with what we have it isn't enough for the vid jam, so im afraid im gonna pull the plug on it, its a shame but theres just not the interest sadly :(
I will however convert this into a normal jam, so if you fellas want to keep onboard and just record your parts normally, i will sort out the mixing and we can have this as part of the Gb xmas cd lineup :)
I shall see if we can get some interest for the remaining slots :thumb: