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Performing Christmas music with iPhones and iPads

By | December 16, 2010, 9:00am PST

Summary: A fun video of Christmas music being played by an ensemble from North Point Community Church using borrowed iPhones and iPads (with app names).

A fun video of Christmas music being played by an ensemble from North Point Community Church using borrowed iPhones and iPads.

Gizmodo posted a list of the apps used in the video:

“Carol of the Bells”
SoundGrid
NLogFree
Melody Bell
Guitarist (Nylon String)
iGog (MoreVox Acoustic 1 sound)
Bassist
Guitarist (Electric)

“Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”
iGog
Bassist
Guitarist
Pocket Organ
Saxophone Musicofx
Percussions (Tambourine)

“Feliz Navidad”
Percussions
iGog (Rock Kit 1 sound)
Bassist
Guitarist
Bebot
Pianist
T-Pain

I especially dig Melody Bell ($0.99) and that cool guitar app, Guitarist ($3.99).

And while we’re at it, iCaroler (free) looks pretty fun when used in a choir (video).

Can it be long before iOS devices are used for Christmas caroling? Oh, wait.

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Jason D. O'Grady

Jason D. O'Grady developed an affinity for Apple computers after using the original Lisa, and this affinity turned into a bona-fide obsession when he got the original 128 KB Macintosh in 1984.

He started writing one of the first Web sites about Apple (O'Grady's PowerPage) in 1995 and is considered to be one of the fathers of blogging. He has been a frequent speaker at the Macworld Expo conference and a member of the conference faculty. He also co-founded the first dedicated PowerBook User Group (PPUG) in the United States.

After winning a major legal battle with Apple in 2006, he set the precedent that independent journalists are entitled to the same protections under the First Amendment as members of the mainstream media.

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When he's not writing about Apple for ZDNet at The Apple Core, he enjoys spending time with his family in New Jersey.

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RE: Performing Christmas music with iPhones and iPads
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RE: Performing Christmas music with iPhones and iPads
Grayson Peddie 16th Dec 2010
That has to be the funniest video I have ever seen!!! grin

Very cool. happy
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are they using the ifart apps to do this?
Ron Bergundy 16th Dec 2010
with so many fart apps to choose from it makes my head spin!!!
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Never miss an opportunity to insult, do you?
use_what_works_4_U 17th Dec 2010
@cyberspammer2
Come back when you have something substantive to add to the conversation.
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RE: Performing Christmas music with iPhones and iPads
Dada1111 17th Dec 2010
@cyberspammer2 sure does smell dont it?
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Fart apps again?!?!?
Pete "athynz" Athens 17th Dec 2010
@cyberspammer2 Dude you are a broken record with the fart apps... you DO know that every single mobile OS has a fart app or 30 written for it, right? You DO get out of the house on occasion, right?
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They missed the memo...
HCMarks 17th Dec 2010
...from the uneducated trolls that the iPad is only for consumption, not creation! wink
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Pretty cool!
jeff.fostermedia@... 17th Dec 2010
Only wish the video you posted was not flash based. wink
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RE: Performing Christmas music with iPhones and iPads
Dada1111 17th Dec 2010
damn christians never know when to stop
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Dada1111 17th Dec 2010
who gives a rats butt
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blackjack861@... 17th Dec 2010
In the words of the 2004 presidential contender, Howard Dean: Y-E-A-H!!!!!
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RE: Performing Christmas music with iPhones and iPads
gregnewm7 Updated - 17th Dec 2010
I love the Ipad and what it can but damn it when will Apple get wise and allow flash video to play on the device's web browsers that's why I am looking to buy other Tablet computers
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kimsanders01 27th Dec 2010
I enjoy reading web reviews about iPhones and iPads. I already have an iPad but still I want to know something about it's latest products.
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