Just catching up on several missed posts ( again! ) - I'll mention them as I go back through - 

@Mark - great stuff man - sounds good, I LIKE the shifting - pretty darned good and the nice extended closing vibrato !   Well done ! 

@SharonC - nice one ( as ever! ) - tune is ( - well, was until now! ) unknown to me. Very medieval sounding especially with the second voice (to my ear).  I liked it !  TY and well done

I *think* I have now caught up with most of the submissions to this party thread, and even if I've missed any, thanks to everyone for taking part !  Cool.

I have a couple of pieces lined-up - just need to get some free time - hopefully tonight or first thing tomorrow....  Out the many I could choose, I'm planning on Adeste Fideles (Oh, Come all ye Faithful) and Ding Dong Merrily on High - the one with the vocally repeated "glo-o-o-o-o-o-o(repeat ad infinitum LOL)... -ria" as it descends down the octave..... LOL it's all about knowing when to stop Hahahahaha... 

Ah, @stringy - always good to hear a take on a new tune ! Well done mate!

And, if we don't converse again on the forum prior to he 25th - may you and yours all have an enjoyable holiday !  

^5s, Bill

Finally.....

Here goes with "Adeste Fideles" ( Oh Come all ye Faithful ).   I have another couple to come, but they're much simpler than the day it took me to do this.

I took the time out today to do "several" takes of A.F. against a click track (well, the several was actually six in number).   A couple or so were - well let's say - not my best.... but 3 of them fitted the overall bar-by-bar timing pretty well.

So, I took the audio from all 3 "good-ish" takes into audacity and mixed them down, along with a backing track (church "pipe-organ") I had rapidly put together.

"Why bother doing that, Bill?" some might ask - well it has always intrigued me why solo violin can be so difficult to "sound right" ( from a hobbyist player's point of view I mean, not a pro player soloist ) - and yes - I do listen to a lot of orchestral music and enjoy it greatly - and I've always felt (well, known) why the sound of a strings section is SO MUCH MORE than that of one person playing ( and I' am not talking about different "harmonised parts" like Vln1, 2, 3, etc - just talking about it in general). 

The individual players (not the solo lead naturally) are probably not much better than me.  Between each one of several players, all playing the same part, there will be two obvious (and other lesser obvious) differences - being (a) Intonation (generally "close to each other, but NEVER EVER precisely the same" - maybe a few/several cents, randomly spread across the players) and (b) timing - yes overall if the tempo is say 90bpm, yup, they'll all end up "in synch, overall" - BUT - bar by bar and note-by-note there WILL be minor timing differences - maybe the odd 1/10th or so second.  I see THESE things as being what gives a string-section (even ALL playing the same part) that greater depth.-of-sound   Anyway - always wanted to do this, and I quite like the outcome, I'm happy - it's sort of "proved the point to myself"

Here you go, I enjoyed doing it - and yes - you can hear an occasional intonation and timing issue.  Cool - exactly what I expected.   Have, say another 3 takes added in, and yes, they will all have similar timing and intonation issues, BUT IN OTHER PLACES - and the final sound of the SIX would be better than the three I did !  

Anyways - here you are -