Jingle Bells Midi Files Free Download
Yves Pottenburgh
Bogdan has created a great many styles by using OneManBand to extract the style from midi files. You'll find Bogdan's styles on his Gig Disk page. Here are 30 Christmas styles Bogdan extracted from various Christmas midi files.
Another interesting format is MIDI-karaoke. You can try to look for MIDI files of popular compositions in open sources. Midi-format does not contain any information about the timbre of sound played. Midi-files consists of events (such as Note On, Note Off, Aftertouch etc). MIDI is an interface and it has been originally designed to store and transfer commands, such as when and how loud key is pressed, MIDI does not contain any complex phicysal characteristics of real-word's sounds. MIDI supposes that you use so called software-hardware complex. Playing MIDI, hardware of sotware synth uses its embedded timbres to produce sounds. You're limited by quality or a number of timbers of your synth. MIDI is strictly depends on the hardware where it was created. If you ever changed your synth, there's no warranty that you'll get a great sound on your new synth with you old midi-sources!
These are not for commercial use. His e-mail address is listed if one wants to contact him about licensing. They were all recorded to midi by Doug McKenzie on a Yamaha P250. About 250 solo jazz piano files, mostly standards. (A very few appear to have a bass added that gets mixed in with the piano track by accident.)
You may also adjust the "tempo" of these tunes; many sound great when played quickly with spirit. Others are best when played slowly with feeling. Experiment and see what works for you. You can use the provided MIDI files to help you determine the proper tempo (many midi players let you adjust the speed).