Cross-eyed Studio

A new presentation of an old hymn

Lily (13) just picked up the guitar a few months earlier, and she is self-taught so far. She had the idea we should play an instrumental duet of Silent Night for Christmas. So I charted out the framework, and we separately wrote our parts. This video is just shot on a cellphone and it's just us practicing, but it puts a smile on my face to hear what we made together! We will be performing it publicly at church for our Christmas dinner program. Merry Christmas!

This fun little song is meant to showcase a trick I discovered while playing around with my Volca Keys: Sequencing 8 measures of music per memory slot as opposed to the typical one measure sequence. I will create a tutorial to explain how you can do it too.

This performance demonstrates the Volca Sample's hidden secret ability to do time stretching to any sample. This allows for even more potential than what was explored here, such as re-slicing your existing loop files to match any tempo or swing setting on the Volca Sample. I'll be creating a tutorial video about how to do this yourself, so stay tuned!