I would like to know if anyone has played this Christmas song on an arranger. what style would you / did you use ?
It depends on if you’re doing a concert/performance or just playing dance music. If the latter, any 4/4 would fill the bill. Even a polka beat.
One day I realized no one in the audience ever really listens to the drum track....it’s the melody they hear.
How I make a 4/4 beat work is use the fills a lot, often for 4-8 measures, and....turn off the “auto-arranger start when you hit the left keys (I forgot what you call it)” I.e. set it so you bring the rhythm in only for as long as you hold the left keys down. Just jab at the left hand. I do that on the “release part of the song” on the 1st and 3rd beats….then eventually back to the steady rhythm on the A part of the song.