{"id":174,"date":"2020-12-23T20:15:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T04:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martinecker.com\/musicblog\/?p=174"},"modified":"2021-01-07T08:51:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T16:51:37","slug":"christmas-medley-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martinecker.com\/musicblog\/christmas-medley\/christmas-medley-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Medley 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinecker.com\/music\/Martin%20Ecker%20-%20Christmas%20Medley%202020.mp3\"><strong>Download<\/strong><\/a><br><em>Length:<\/em>&nbsp;<strong>05:53<\/strong>,&nbsp;<em>Size:<\/em>&nbsp;<strong>13.4 MB<\/strong><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-174-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martinecker.com\/music\/Martin%20Ecker%20-%20Christmas%20Medley%202020.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinecker.com\/music\/Martin%20Ecker%20-%20Christmas%20Medley%202020.mp3\">http:\/\/www.martinecker.com\/music\/Martin%20Ecker%20-%20Christmas%20Medley%202020.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s 2020 and this is the 20th xmas medley I recorded. What a crazy year 2020 has been. Hope this little medley provides a tiny bit of joy in trying times. Clocking in at just under 6 minutes this is also the longest medley I&#8217;ve ever recorded. My two boys, Kai (6 years old) and Kieran (2 years old), also have a little chat with their comments about their papa&#8217;s medley at the end if you stick around long enough \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year&#8217;s medley features &#8220;O Little Town of Bethlehem&#8221; followed by &#8220;We Three Kings&#8221;. In honor of tapping master Eddie Van Halen&#8217;s passing just a few weeks ago, the &#8216;widdly widdly&#8217; guitar solo in &#8220;We Three Kings&#8221; has 8 bars of tapping-only frenzy at around the 4:51 mark in the song. I only occasionally use tapping, and rarely ever for a longer section of a solo like this. So this is dedicated to Eddie&#8217;s impact on electric rock guitar, both on the gear and the way we play today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also new this year is my extended e-drum kit. I added two toms, upgraded the snare from 10&#8243; to 12&#8243;, upgraded the base drum to a proper mesh-head pad, got a nice Roland VH-10 hi-hat, and added several cymbals. I also swapped out the brains of the operation, the drum trigger module, for the Audiofront eDRUMin10 (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audiofront.net\/eDRUMin.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.audiofront.net\/eDRUMin.php<\/a>), which is quite excellent and has an easy-to-use but very powerful control software that allows for configuring the trigger response extremely well.<br>It was a lot of fun coming up with and recording the drum parts this year. Here&#8217;s a picture of the new setup:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martinecker.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_5392-1024x851.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-175\" width=\"320\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.martinecker.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_5392-1024x851.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.martinecker.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_5392-300x249.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.martinecker.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_5392-768x639.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.martinecker.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_5392-1536x1277.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.martinecker.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_5392-2048x1703.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>My e-drum kit at the end of 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DownloadLength:&nbsp;05:53,&nbsp;Size:&nbsp;13.4 MB It&#8217;s 2020 and this is the 20th xmas medley I recorded. What a crazy year 2020 has been. Hope this little medley provides a tiny bit of joy in trying times. Clocking in at just under 6 minutes this is also the longest medley I&#8217;ve ever recorded. My two boys, Kai (6 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[13,12,11],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-medley","category-instrumental","tag-christmas","tag-instrumental","tag-medley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martinecker.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martinecker.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martinecker.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martinecker.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martinecker.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.martinecker.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"http:\/\/www.martinecker.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martinecker.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martinecker.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martinecker.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}