Jingle Bells

Jingle Bells

$35

Jingle Bells is one of the most recognizable holiday classics of all time, so I felt an obligation to do something different with this arrangement. The first two bars are traditional and “classical” before unexpectedly launching into a double time swing feel featuring the 2nd trumpet and 4-feel bass lines. It then abruptly settles into a normal time straight feel, almost in a rock style, with the melody exactly where you expect it but underlying functional harmony built on top of a 12-tone chord progression. In other words, this one sounds cool.

INSTRUMENTATION

LEVEL

4

TEMPO

quarter note = 90

LENGTH

= 0:43

TRUMPET RANGE

C6

COMPOSER

James Lord Pierpont
1857

ARRANGER

2017

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