Listen To The Jingles

As everybody knows, if you ever want to instantly evoke the sound of the holiday season, just add jingle bells! This delightful folk rock tune gives you a chance to replace or supplement that dashing old stand-by jingle song. This time, the sound of the bells themselves gets the spotlight. You can use as few or as many jingle bell players as you have. Because of the style of the song, you could let singers jingle, or separate your singers from your jinglers. Put a single bell stick (not a single bell though) in every performer's hand, or have clusters of jingle bells played by a few. Or a lot. We can only imagine the spectacle of having lots and lots of them jingling away to the beat!

The jingle bells play on beats 2 and 4, starting at the beginning. To help them out, we include a two measure count-off on the recording. The pattern continues similarly until the coda, when it becomes quarter notes. As with the song, "Chime In!," we have suggested allowing players to add "applause" at the end, but with jingle bells this time. Again, if you decide to let them, be sure to direct them.