No! Don't tell it on the mountain, puhleez!

[St. Louis Scot]

Ironically, here I am, telling it on the mountain.

I just finished a gig where the last three songs were Silent Night, The First Noel, and Go Tell It On The Mountain. Simple, right?

Go Tell It is just a I IV V pattern with alternating fifths and transition walks. Of course I forget to turn up my volume, and when I do its only half way at first. Then I'm up too high. By time I get it right we're half into the second verse and... and... Aaargh I can't remember my transitions in this key!!

Did I just ruin Christmas?!

 

[walterw]

yes, yes you did

 

[St. Louis Scot]

yes, yes you did

 

[blastoff99]

The choir I play with is doing Go Tell It in F. That's enough to ruin Christmas for me right there.

I know, I know. It's a matter of arm length and hand size, though. I can play it fine on the short scale....

 

[BassCliff]

Hi,

You can expect a lump of coal in your stocking.

Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff

 

[richntiff]

Santa is SO bypassing your house this year.

 

[Treadstone71]

You ALMOST ruined Christmas, until I watched A Charlie Brown Christmas, and remembered that Pigpen holds down the low-end in the everyone dancing scene.

Man, Pigpen OWNS.

 

[Slade N]

x-mas is ruined, puppies killed in the process

 

[oldcatfish]

The correct talkbass answer is....your bass is now a jinx for any future holiday songs. So you are going to have to buy a new bass, for those occasions. And it must be sunburst, with a tort pick guard, and have flatwound strings. Now, get shopping!

 

[Nashrakh]

If you fake the funk, you get coals for christmas.

 

[St. Louis Scot]

Ouch! Y'all are brutal.

 

[Medford Bassman]

Thanks for ruining Christmas. I took the kids presents back, I burned the tree and I drop kicked one of santa's elves.