A Radiohead Christmas

// December 1st, 2009 // Music

Well, I’m still tracking some stuff for the EP i’m planning on releasing at some point. I decided on what key to play some of the songs in, tracked some scratch guitars, and tracked bass for one. I even remembered to tape myself playing the bass part so that I can possibly put together one of those “video song” things (don’t know what I’m talking about?).

Anyway, a couple of years ago, Matt and I were talking about recording a Christmas album to release to friends and family as a gift, and I still think it’s a fun idea. We had this pretty awesome version of some song going… but then my hard drive crashed. And now I can’t remember for the life of me what we were doing. So in an effort to recreate whatever we were working on, I started playing some different chords around “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.”

Then I realized the progression I was playing was very close to Karma Police by Radiohead, so I tried playing that chord progression on its own with the God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen melody over top. Worked surprisingly well… until the chorus. So maybe I’ll figure it out further, maybe I won’t. But it’s still kinda neat, so I taped it. Here’s Karma Police if you need reference.