Perry Brooks Nichols's video: O Holy Night by Adolphe Adam - Open D Major - fingerstyle w basso continuo - Larrivee PV3QM guitar

Merry Christmas in July!!! I hope you'll accept this late gift for your listening pleasure. My solo guitar arrangement of Adolphe Adam's Christmas classic is set in Open D major tuning and features a basso continuo throughout the entire piece. Originally, I was inspired by the arrangement in Cherry Lane Music Company's "Christmas Guitarist's Delight" book, which I performed for my "An American Primitive Christmas" set in 2019. However, this arrangement was lacking a continuous bass line in quite a few places and it was not distinctly melodic throughout. I expanded the song to a full 36 measures in 12/8 time by adding a few harmonic references to pop-fingerstyle hits in the extended chord progression to flush it out and delay the overall resolution. The performance was recorded with a Larrivee PV-03QM Parlor guitar using a Blue Hummingbird and WA-84 in a semi-ORTF configuration in January 2022. It was mastered with Izotope Ozone 9 Advanced with some touches of RX Elements to repair occasional clipping. The video was spliced from a series of takes using Vegas Pro 17, and Adobe AfterEffects to enhance the mood. The sheet music for my arrangement is available here: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/o-holy-night-arranged-for-solo-fingerstyle-guitar-in-open-d-tuning-digital-sheet-music/22161805 I have various renders (this is the "smoothest" one using Izotope Ozone's Spectral Shaper to tame the highs extensively) available for download: https://crowyote.bandcamp.com/track/o-holy-night-christmas-in-july-special and streamed free on soundcloud here: https://soundcloud.com/perrybrooksnicholsnylon/o-holy-night-open-d-major-w-basso-continuo-by-adolphe-adam-arranged-by-perry-brooks-nichols