Ace Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 [align=center]Does anyone have any good Christmas song recommendations for syncing your lights to?[/align] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Don Gillespie Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 YES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimswinder Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 a good song is any song that you like...A LOT!!!!Since you will be hearing it a couple hundred times over the next year... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Rise Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 I THINK THAT I MIGHT HAVE SOME GOOD ONES AS WELL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstorms Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Wizards of WinterAmazing Grace (Party Version) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Don Gillespie Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 jstorms wrote: Wizards of WinterAmazing Grace (Party Version)or jingle bells Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Roberson Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Don Gillespie wrote: jstorms wrote: Wizards of WinterAmazing Grace (Party Version)or jingle bells Rockin Around the Christmas Tree:cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted January 10, 2012 Author Share Posted January 10, 2012 With artists, please. Specific Versions of songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Ace,As Jim said, the best song is one you like. You will listen to it over and over (and over) will programming it.Here is a link to the Amazing Grace (Party Version) mentioned in this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Let's try again, shall we?http://www.amazon.com/Amazing-Grace-Party-Version/dp/B001L2I78S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Roberson Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 http://www.amazon.com/Rockin-Around-The-Christmas-Tree/dp/B001NCHCOQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1326241313&sr=8-1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Don Gillespie Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Ace wrote: With artists, please. Specific Versions of songs.Welcome aboard Ace two things you can do first and formost scroll down the forum and look for sequences there are a lot to be offered, there is also a search bar that will help you get to where you want to go, secondly maybe you could tell us a little bit about yourself and and your christmas display. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett H. Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 RIGHT ON RIGHT ON RIGHT ON. :cool: We love to get to know people. Where your from, what was it that got your addiction started, etc, etc, etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett H. Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Huge fan of MariahAll i want for christmas is you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Hans Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 My suggestion is to get onto Vimeo and youtube. Watch as many videos of light displays as you can. This will serve two purposes..1. You will hear a song that cries out to you to sequence it. Make a list of the songs that you like. A lot of the videos list the song and artist at the beginning. A lot of the songs I do I would never have thought of sequencing until I heard and saw a video of it.2. More importantly it will give you a lot of good ideas on how to sequence. It will help you learn to "see" your lights while you listen to a song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rednosetbird Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 jimswinder wrote:a good song is any song that you like...A LOT!!!!Since you will be hearing it a couple hundred times over the next year...Sure got that right!!I have done a lot of t.s.o but like Jim said you will need to like it a lot!!! I have found that slow beats to music are very hadr to do...keep it up beat,will be easir to do.. look on youtube at what others have done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Priest Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 "Boogie-Woogie Santa Claus" by Brian Setzer Orchestra--it rocks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim6918 Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Although some users occasionally make fun of TSO songs, Wizards in Winter, in particular. I think they make a great place to start for the newbie. The songs are generally very upbeat, dramatic, and there are so many shared (free) sequences out there that the newbie doesn't have to reinvent the wheel. Out of the 20 songs I have in my show, I bet about 2/3 are based in part on somebody else's sequence. Sometimes it's as little as the beat track, or the arches, or some other aspect. In addition, I think the TSO songs, as well as Mannheim have great audience appeal.A big second or third (?) for the techno songs out there. If done right they are very powerful in a display.Even though I am going on my fourth year, I still scour the video sites for new stuff as well as ideas about revamping stuff I have already done.Finally, I always run each song past the wife before I waste any time sequencing. She seems to have a great sense of what kind of tempo is going to work well in the show. If she says a song is too slow, it generally is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgordon Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Sorry - finger slipped. "Mr. Santa" by Amy Grant that's funny with a fantastic beat. You won't get tired of hearing it again and again. It's available on Amazon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mwhite7097 Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Christmas songs are like women...they are all good...some are just better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Champion Sound Entertainment Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 I try to vary it up with songs that I like with christmas songs - but for Xmas songs I like:Jingle bell rock : any artist except Billy idolLittle saint nick : beach boysSanta Claus is ska-ing to town : the Granville Williams orchestra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TitusCarnathan Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 I have tons and tons of songs that could be usedyou could use viturally any song you wantpick a song that you would not mind listening to over and over again while sequencing itSongs that I have used in the past (At least as much I can remember)All I want for christmas is youGod Bless us EveryoneBlue ChristmasThe house on christmas streetDo they know its christmas timeDeck the halls Manheim SteamrollerSleigh RideChristmas Eve SarajevoWizards of winterand there were others but I cant remembersome songs I wanted to doReflections of EarthKung Pao Buckaroo HolidayJoy to the Worldand the list goes on I was even thinking of using Pennsylvania Polka (I had ideas for that song in my display) I may be 19 but I dont listen to most music from my generation I like Christan, and music from the 60s and the 70s and country. Oh and of course Christmas from just about and generationspeaking of PA Polka incase you never heard of it and maby next year that might be in my display Here is some video from youtube that has the song Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TitusCarnathan Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Forgot to put in the artistSleigh Ride by Debbie GibsonDo they know its Christmas Time by Band AidBlue Christmas ElvisAll I want for Christmas is you by Mariah Careyas I said the list can go onuse what ever you think will go great with your display especially if you have something in your display that looks like something that is mentioned in the songeg. on Blue Christmas if you have green lights in your trees and candy canes in your tree plus blue lights you could do blue christmas when he mentions Blue Christmas only blue lights turn on when he says decorations of red on a green christmas tree go from red and switch over to greenI have the base of that sequence availabe if anyone wants it its no where near to being done but it has the colors marked in it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amcdonald307 Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 T110431 wrote:you could use viturally any song you want...You're not married, are you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TitusCarnathan Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 no Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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