Rock instrumental - All I Want For Christmas
Added 2024-12-21 19:13:47 +0000 UTCFor this year's addition to the Christmas tab playlist, I decided to create a rock instrumental version of "All I want for Christmas is You"! My goal was to reimagine the vocals melodies on lead guitar, and just add a rock twist to the whole song overall.
LEADS
I did my best to capture the nuance of the vocal inflections. Although, I may have taken some creative liberties with the note rhythms and choices to better a guitar-focused arrangement. There is some added a chorus effect on all of the leads, inspired by Mariah’s double-tracked vocals.
INTRO
At the beginning, you'll hear some harmonics – I went 12 frets higher and used my right hand to gently lay on the strings while plucking with my thumb. If anyone knows the exact name for this technique, please share! I thought it was fitting, considering the original uses chimes.
RHYTHM
The drums and bass stay pretty true to the original track, but I added some power chord chugging for a little extra energy.
ENDING
The studio version fades out, so I drew inspiration from some of the live performances I found to give it a proper finish.
Backing track MP3 and amplitube tone attached below.
Tone screenhots, backing track video and isolated track on Mrtabs.com!
Comments
Hi did you do a gp file for this thanks 👍
Chris Buz
2025-01-09 11:07:48 +0000 UTCMusicnotes link: https://www.musicnotes.com/l/gVxKq Get 50% off with the December promo code W4DDQVHZ9B
Patrick Dwyer
2024-12-24 14:35:39 +0000 UTCThat's weird! Will DM you something :)
Patrick Dwyer
2024-12-24 13:03:40 +0000 UTCThanks a lot. Wonderful arrangement. Will the gpro file be available? There is no pdf available for this song in musicnotes.
Fabrizio
2024-12-24 12:49:48 +0000 UTCThanks for sorting many thanks.
Ian Fleming
2024-12-23 17:52:40 +0000 UTCOpps, try this link Ian https://youtu.be/55au-GVXEaU
Patrick Dwyer
2024-12-23 16:52:47 +0000 UTCThe backing track has has "An error occurred. Please try again later" can you let me know if this is just me in the UK or is this a wider issue? many thanks.
Ian Fleming
2024-12-23 16:32:05 +0000 UTCStellar work. Thank you
Rick Congleton
2024-12-21 19:29:32 +0000 UTC
