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A Chill Domains Christmas game
Jack’s Carols
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Play on the home row: A S D F G H J K L ; ' (each song uses the keys in the middle that it needs, and the letters are on the piano) · P pause · M sound. On a phone or tablet, tap the piano keys, and turn it sideways for more room. A MIDI keyboard works too.
A Christmas piano game
Jack’s Carols
Six carols, a piano and one very musical greyhound. Play each note as its bauble lands, and Jack sings along. Miss one and you’ll see his ears go back.
Runs entirely in your browser: nothing to install, no account, and your best scores stay on this device. Every carol here is out of copyright.
How to play
Pick a carol. Christmas baubles fall down a lane for each key of the piano at the bottom of the screen, and each key has a letter on it from the home row of your computer keyboard. Press the key just as its bauble reaches the gold line and the piano plays that note. Get them all and you’ve played the tune.
The closer you are, the more it scores: Perfect, Great or Good. Ten notes in a row doubles your points, twenty triples them and thirty makes it four times. A bauble with a ribbon behind it is a long note: keep the key down until the ribbon ends for bonus points. A note you miss stays silent, and pressing the wrong key while a note is due plays a wrong note, which ends your streak and counts against your accuracy.
Jack sits beside the piano and listens. Get a run going and he wags, then sings along, and on a long streak he howls. Miss notes and his ears go back; play a clanger and he winces. The Jack meter at the top shows how much he’s enjoying it. The song never stops, so you can always win him back.
The songs get harder as you go down the list, from five keys to eleven. If a song is too quick, switch to Relaxed speed, which plays everything a little slower; it keeps its own best scores.
The carols
All six tunes are long out of copyright. The melodies are the traditional ones, set in C so they only need the white keys; the bass, chords and sleigh bells are our own simple backing, made in your browser as you play.
- Jingle Bells (easy, 5 keys): by James Lord Pierpont, first published in 1857 as “One Horse Open Sleigh”. You play the chorus, twice.
- Good King Wenceslas (easy, 8 keys): the tune comes from Piae Cantiones, a songbook printed in 1582; John Mason Neale wrote the words in 1853.
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas (medium, 7 keys): a traditional English carol from the West Country, in waltz time. Three verses.
- Deck the Halls (medium, 7 keys): an old Welsh New Year tune, Nos Galan, with English words adapted from Thomas Oliphant (1862). We leave out the “Don we now our gay apparel” line, because it needs a black key.
- Joy to the World (hard, 8 keys): Isaac Watts wrote the words in 1719, and Lowell Mason arranged the tune in 1839. Two verses, with some quick runs.
- Silent Night (hard, 11 keys): composed by Franz Xaver Gruber in 1818, with words by Joseph Mohr. Slow and gentle, but it uses every key on the row.
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