18 Intermediate Christmas Favorites

By African American Spiritual

Item Number: CF.BF61

ISBN 9780825882654. 9 x 12 inches. CD Arrangements by Rae Moses.

Looking for some fun new material to playing during the Christmasseason? This exciting new collection contains 18 popular holidayfavorites in a variety of different styles from classical to jazz torock to Latin. Each play-along track uses background instrumentsthat will make you feel like you are in the band or part of theorchestra.As an added bonus the included data CD contains printable PDFfiles of piano accompaniments for all of the tunes so that you canprint them out and play along with a pianist for a performance orat church, giving you even more performance options.Veteran arrangers Carl Strommen and Larry Clark have teamedup to create this exceptional offering for instrumentalists of allages looking to play some holiday music just for the fun of it!.
First of all, this book is intended to be fun! We hope that these unique arrangementsof popular Christmas songs will bring joy to you and to all who hear them. This playalongcollection will give instrumentalists the opportunity to “jam” in a variety of styleswith some great sounding background tracks.We have intentionally provided a mixed bag of styles with these arrangements, withstyles ranging from classical to jazz, and from rock to Latin. Certain arrangements,such as the more jazz-oriented ones, are designed to provide players with theopportunity to experiment with improvisation.We hope you enjoy these arrangements as much as we did writing them for you.Have fun!