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After playing a tribute quote to the Jingle Bells riff as an Intro (and paying tribute to the Jazz greats while doing so, echos of Charlie Christian, hints of Kenny Burrell's inimitable sparse use of 4ths and the tritone, etc.) and then plays those two-note stabs off of the melody.

--Mac




Played a Christmas gig the other day for a company dinner and the band wanted me to open Jingle Bell Rock with this intro lick. I had to beg off not really knowing it. When I got home I studied up and commited it to memory for the next time.